"In his near 40-year career as rock'n'roll's greatest guitar gunslinger, Keith Richards has been addicted to many substances. One can only imagine the unholy reaction should you cross him and make a dash for that bulging, dangerous stash from under his twitching nostrils. Well, today it has emerged that there is one thing he is more protective over than the many forms of dope still shooting around his system. Namely, shepherds pie." - Yahoo
"Hennessy, the world's No. 1 cognac, announced today its Lady Hennessy Tour, a national circuit that will showcase the brand through six celebrity ambassadors, each bearing the title "Lady Hennessy": #music video superstars Dollicia Bryan and Angelica Curves, actresses Melyssa Ford and Reagan Gomez, pop singer Miss Issa, and top model Toccara Jones. From March through June, the Ladies Hennessy will visit clubs and retailers in urban markets across the country to promote the iconic cognac brand at exclusive meet-and-greet opportunities for fans. Making special solo appearances, the Ladies will be on hand at each location to promote Hennessy and be available to fans for autographs and pictures."
Oscar-winning French composer Maurice Jarre, who wrote the #music for films including "Doctor Zhivago" and "Lawrence of Arabia," has died in Los Angeles at the age of 84, media in France reported on Monday. Jarre, whose lush orchestral scores gained him Academy Awards for "Lawrence of Arabia," "Doctor Zhivago" and "A Passage to India," had more than 150 credits to his name. He was the father of electronic music composer and producer Jean-Michel Jarre and had lived in Los Angeles for many years - Yahoo
The Essence #Music Festival celebrates its 15th anniversary this year with a fabulous all-star lineup featuring everyone from Beyonce, Ne-Yo, and Maxwell to Keri Hilson, Salt N Pepa, and Al Green. The three-day R&B, soul, and hip-hop extravaganza kicks off on July 3 in New Orleans. Tickets go on sale today, with prices ranging from $51-$200 and weekend packages running $153-$545
Presenting the second Mile High #Music Festival. For two days, music superstars will descend upon the Denver area, blanketing the Rocky Mountain landscape with great music. Mark your calendars for July 18 and 19 so you can be a part of a tremendous musical experience. The Festival features established touring powerhouses, some of the hottest up-and-coming performers as well as a number of vibrant local acts. Five stages, including two main stages and two tented stages, will keep the music going. Mile High Music Festival is one of the biggest music events in the country. Tickets go on sale Friday, April 3, 2009, 10 a.m. MST
"When Gustav Mahler's niece greeted new arrivals at a Nazi death camp, she knew that any woman who stepped off the train with a musical instrument had a chance to live. Women in Alma Rose's orchestra were forced to entertain SS officers at the Birkenau concentration camp. All the women survived - except Rose. Now, an American chorus and orchestra is paying tribute to those musicians with concerts in the U.S. and Germany titled "Music in Desperate Times: Remembering The Women's Orchestra of Birkenau." On Saturday, Ars Choralis will play at Manhattan's Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, whose Episcopal bishop had spoken against the persecution of Jews in Europe already in 1933" AP
Drummer Uriel Jones, the last surviving member of the Motown session band the Funk Brothers, has died in Michigan. The drummer, 74, passed away in hospital after suffering complications from a heart attack. His sister-in-law Leslie Coleman said the drummer's health had recently been improving since he was taken ill in February. Jones was perhaps best known for his work with Marvin Gaye and The Temptations, with whom him recorded the tracks 'I Can't Get Next To You' and 'Cloud Nine'. The Funk Brothers' Motown sounds lead them to tour the world together. The band also received two Grammy awards. Jones is survived by his wife and three children - Gigwise
Doug Johnstone is a writer, journalist and #musician based in Edinburgh. He's had two novels published, Tombstoning and The Ossians, which received acclaim from Ian Rankin, Irvine Welsh and Christopher Brookmyre. Doug's band, Northern Alliance, have released four albums, and he also released music as The Ossians to tie in with the novel.
#music - "Asking fans for $75,000 to fund your next record takes a lot of chutzpah. Getting them to meet the goal in 53 days takes a lot of charm. Singer-songwriter Jill Sobule has both in spades. Before Katy Perry topped the charts with her sassy single, "I Kissed a Girl," Sobule scored a Top 20 hit with a song of the same name back in 1995. Since then, she's been on four record labels and has seen some modest success -- mostly recently as a songwriter/composer for the Nickelodeon series, "Unfabulous." These days, Sobule is a free agent. Translated, that means the 40-something entertainer must now think of creative ways to make ends meet and pay for her artistic endeavors" - CNN
Download Music Notes is a sheet #music library. "You can listen the MIDI files free of charge and buy scores for only $1.99 In our database there are currently around 15,000 scores ready for download. Here are listed mostly classical music and folk songs"
Record the Radio enables you to listen to and classify online radio stations. You can record those stations and convert them to MP3 files
As a young boy, Clash guitarist Mick Jones would chase his football idols all over London for autographs. Then he discovered #music and dropped the autograph book but not his manic collecting. Over the years, the 53 year-old co-founder of one of Punk's biggest bands has amassed a mammoth collection of books, magazines, records, posters alongside artwork, recording gear, stage clothes and song lyrics from his time with The Clash and his other bands Big Audio Dynamite and Carbon/Silicon. Jones is finally showing this personal archive of popular culture at London's Chelsea Space gallery in an exhibit called the "Rock and Roll Public Library" that runs until April 18. - Reuters
The British Library's Archival Sound Recordings project now has 1,000 classical music recordings online. The recordings include previously unheard concertos and sinfoniettas from composers such as Bach, as well as orchestral suites and concerti by Haydn, Beethoven, Mozart and Brahms. The recordings are available to visitors to the British Library reading rooms and can also be accessed by the public at home. However, music can only be streamed rather than downloaded. Celia Duffy, head of research at the National Centre for Research in the Performing Arts, Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama said: 'Digital collections, such as Archival Sound Recordings, have enormous potential for researchers and students. By placing previously inaccessible archives online, they create the potential for new fields of cross-disciplinary research, reflecting the social, cultural, technological and political changes that have shaped contemporary society.'
On Saturday, March 14, the 2009 Independent Music Award winners from Canada's Annual International Music Convention were announced. They celebrates the best in independent #music. Nominees are selected by committees of industry professionals from all areas of the music scene and winners are decided by a combination of public and industry voting
The Verizon Wireless BamaJam Music and Arts Festival is a 3-day / 3-night music extravaganza on June 4-6, 2009 created to celebrate the human spirit through music and arts and to provide financial support to help serve the needs of the people of Coffee County and the surrounding area. The centerpiece of BamaJam will be Bama Village with booths, displays and activities
Beatpick have launched a new website that aims to make it easier to explore their diverse catalog, showcasing improved search features and an easy way to find music to be used in commercial contexts. Their entire catalog remains released broadly under a CC BY-NC-SA license, making it shareable and remixable as long as the artists are credited, any derivative works are released under the same license, and any sharing or reuse is noncommercial in intent.
"Apple have unveiled their new iPod Shuffle. A new feature means that the MP3 player can talk to the user in 14 languages, telling them the artist and title of the song they are listening to. The revamped iPod Shuffle, which measures around 46mm by 8mm, is the smallest ever made, and weighs only 10.7 grams. Controls are mounted on the headphone lead for the first time, rather than on the body of the player. The third generation iPod Shuffle, which comes in only silver or black, can store 4GB of music or 1,000 songs. It talks to you because there's no screen. It could be the beginning of an Apple virtual DJ. The player, the entry level in Apple's range, was originally launched in January 2005."
World renowned Pickens County blues musician Willie King died of a heart attack Sunday near his home in Old Memphis. He was 65. King, whose Freedom Creek Festival has attracted top blues musicians and bands since 1997 when he started the two day festival on his farm near the Mississippi state line, first came to prominence outside West Alabama with his critically-acclaimed 2000 CD 'Freedom Creek' on the Rooster Blues Record. With a voice reminiscent at times of Howlin' Wolf and a style similar to John Lee Hooker's, King also brought an understanding of history and contemporary subject matter to the forefront with songs like 'Second Coming,' which invoked both abolitionist John Brown and Civil Rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King.
"Outside of seeing music live, music fans and bands are limited to a one-dimensional and flat experience. Many times a fan's only method of interacting with a band is to read an interview that has been reinterpreted by a writer/interviewer. On Uncensored Interview, your favorite bands and artists speak directly to you via candid conversations that cover everything from the topical to the personal to the frivolous and absurd. UI is there to direct the conversation down interesting topical paths that reflect its mission to find out what really makes musicians tick. We produce the videos that bridge the gap between bands and their audience."
It's official: The Beatles will come together digitally this September for their much anticipated Rock Band debut. MTV Games has announced a September 9 launch date for the worldwide release of the Fab Four's interactive adventure, to be titled The Beatles: Rock Band. Originally announced in October, the game will be offered for the Xbox 360, Playstation 3, and Nintendo Wii for about $60. The offical site for The Beatles Rock Band is here
The behind-the-scenes, intimate and unguarded shots, have been unearthed after spending 45 years in a duffel bag of The Beatles and Rolling Stone's former tour manager