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LIL WAYNE SUED OVER STONES COPY -------------------------------------------------- DMX PLEADS NOT GUILTY As previously reported, DMX, real name Earl Simmons, received treatment at the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Arizona, back in April and allegedly gave the name 'Troy Jones' in order to get out of paying his $7.5k bill. He said, or rather rapped, outside the court: "If and when you ever fall down, get back up. Drop something, stop fretting, pick that shit back up. Stand for something or fall for everything, wait for the right pitch or miss with every swing". DMX's next gig is set for 12 Aug. Well I assume it is, that's when he's next due in court. -------------------------------------------------- FORMER PUMPKINS SUE VIRGIN The lawsuit states: "To date, Virgin continues to engage in the exploitation of electronic transmissions of the band's recordings without plaintiffs' consent". This is the second time The Smashing Pumpkins have sued Virgin over digital licensing. Earlier this year, the band as a whole launched a lawsuit after the label gave tracks to a Pepsi and Amazon digital co-promotion without consent. At the time, Corgan told Rolling Stone: "We've been treated very poorly by [Virgin] as a label for years now. Even when we were going to put the band back together, we went to them for the umpteenth time and said, look, it's a natural thing to want to put out a best of, and they keep telling us nobody cares. And then to turn around and use us like this against our will obviously shows you how full of shit they are". -------------------------------------------------- HYPER ARRESTED IN HONG KONG He said: "I'd just started playing when 150 police showed up to shut down the party. I was asked to show my passport and because I didn't have an official work visa, was taken away with the promoters to the police station. I was locked up for the night, had all of my possessions confiscated and had to wait until midday the next day for a lawyer to turn up. I wasn't given water at one stage for nine hours. I was looking at three months inside on top of two months waiting for my case to come to court if they had followed through with the prosecution". Luckily he managed to get away with a day and a half before being released without charge. Hatfield's band, Hyper (completed by producer John Ross and former Prodigy guitarist Jim Davies) release their new single, 'Centre Attraction', on 18 Aug. -------------------------------------------------- DOHERTY PLEADS GUILTY TO SMASHING CAMERA -------------------------------------------------- CLUB NIGHT BECOMES RELIGION The club's website says: "Whilst Frenzy deems that this ruling is in fact un-enforcable by law due to the Human Rights Act of 1998, the clubnight does not wish to aggravate the council or set a precedent for other clubbing events to follow. Instead, Frenzy is taking the necessary steps to ensure that any flyering activities are kept within the boundaries of Bournemouth Borough Council's recent legislation. We are the 21st century's first rave cult". Under the commandments of the religion, members must pay their council tax, not drop litter, respect their neighbours and rave safely. The Church Of Frenzy invites anyone with an interest in this new faith to attend their first service at the Dusk Till Dawn nightclub in Bournemouth on 1 Aug. The sermon will be a lengthy one, beginning at 11pm and ending at 5am. -------------------------------------------------- BBC PREVIEWS ALBARN/HEWLETT OLYMPICS IDENT 'Monkey: A Journey To The West' is currently playing at the Royal Opera House in London until Saturday, before heading to the US. -------------------------------------------------- DR DRE ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM He said: "I'm just now, over the last couple months, starting to feel that it's going to be right and it's something I can be proud of, and everybody is going to love it. In a perfect world, I'm shooting for a November or December release". -------------------------------------------------- STROKES MAN ANNOUNCES SOLO PROJECT -------------------------------------------------- ALBUM REVIEW: Das Pop - Das Pop -------------------------------------------------- VESSELS ANNOUNCE UK TOUR Here are the dates: 3 Sep: London, Buffalo Bar -------------------------------------------------- COLD WAR KIDS UK TOUR DATES Tour dates: 11 Aug: London, Bloomsbury Ballroom -------------------------------------------------- FLEETWOOD MAC TO TOUR IN 2009 He said: "I think maybe there was even a sense that we would make a better album if we went out and hung out together first on the road ... Maybe even sowing some seeds musically that would get us more prepared to go in the studio rather than just going in cold. It takes the pressure [off] from having to go in and make something cold". He also said that Sheryl Crow's recent claims that she would be joining the band are false. He said: "I think with Stevie [Nicks] ... maybe to some degree there was a little too much testosterone on stage when we went out in 2003, and I think the band was looking to kind of balance that out a little bit, [but Sheryl's involvement] just kind of lost its momentum". Buckingham releases his latest solo album 'Gift Of Screws' on 16 Sep. -------------------------------------------------- CMU FESTIVAL WEATHER REPORT Ben & Jerry's Sundae On The Common, Clapham Common, London (Sat-Sun) Global Gathering, near Stratford-upon-Avon, Warks (Fri-Sat) The Secret Garden Party, near Huntingdon, Cambs (Fri-Sun) Wickerman Festival, near Kirkcudbright, Galloway (Fri-Sat) WOMAD, Malmesbury, Wiltshire (Fri-Sun) -------------------------------------------------- BRAGG BRANDS ISP LETTERS AS A WASTE OF TIME Writing on the Guardian website he said: "New technology has made it possible for people to acquire music without going through the traditional route of buying objects in a shop. Rather than fighting this trend, the industry itself needs to find new methods of collecting royalties. What needs to happen is for the industry to reverse its priorities, put artists to the fore and pay them a larger share of the price in return for their support in the transition to new business models". He uses the UK radio system as an example of possible new ways to earn money from music, both through ad-funding and licence fees. He concludes: "In an ideal world, such royalties or the blanket licence fee would not be paid to music companies themselves but to an independent collection agency that would pay the money directly to artists. The music industry treats the internet as a threat, whereas for artists it gives us an opportunity to get closer to our audience than ever before. We must be very, very careful that we don't alienate those fans and make it impossible for the next generation of singer-songwriters to have viable careers". -------------------------------------------------- SOME QUOTABLE QUOTES FROM MR MCBRIDE As previously reported, the event was called 'Meet The Millennials', and saw Terry McBride, the boss of Canadian music firm Nettwerk, and a panel of other industry types, advise aspiring singer songwriter, James Yuill on how to build and engage with his audience, and how to make money out of his music making. Here, for those that missed the session, here are of McBride's most quotable quotes... On the role of the album in the digital age: "The way consumers consume music - they don't consume it as groups of ten or twelve songs on a piece of plastic, they consume it as songs". On staggering releases around the world: "The minute a piece of music is released now it is a worldwide release, so holding back on releasing it in, say Japan, even if you want to coincide the release with a tour there is, frankly, not commonsensical. It's already in Japan. The minute you release it, it is public property and you cannot control it. What you can have fun with though is all the pieces you haven't released yet and when and how you release them". On using your fans as one big focus group: "Start asking your fans questions like 'hey I'm thinking of doing this, what do you think?' Just post it on your MySpace, and you will get load of ideas back... you'll get a brainstorming session with 3000, 4000, maybe 5000 people. That's invaluable". Take note people. Yuill - at whom the advice was specifically aimed - certainly has. His manager Amul Batra told CMU this week: "For James, the event was as near to a total success as possible. Following from all of Terry's advice, James has already set up an mp3 blog, has added Google Analytics, we are in the process of crowd sourcing live visuals and we are working on a plan to get fans to vote for each of the remixes for 'No Pins Allowed'. We are just getting up to speed again after Latitude and will be having a team meeting in the next week or so to properly digest and make some concrete plans". -------------------------------------------------- UNIVERSAL REVENUE DOWN, SORT OF -------------------------------------------------- NAPSTER REVENUES UP Napster Europe Sales & Marketing VP Thorsten Schliesche is quoted thus: "Napster is demonstrating strong traction and growth in Europe reflecting a very dynamic market for digital and mobile music. The Napster brand is exceptionally well-known across Europe, and our fiscal 2008 growth rates mark an exciting time for the company and digital music in Europe as a whole. We plan to continue expanding into Europe both by growth in existing markets and by opening up new territories to broaden Napster's reach". -------------------------------------------------- A FOX IS BREAKFAST KING OF THE CAPITAL (NOT CAPITAL) Capital - who, of course, chose Vaughan for their breakfast show in favour of Fox, who was with them at the time the position became vacant - had to make do with third place in the breakfast show race, despite the high profile and expensive recruitment of Denise Van Outen as Vaughan's co-host, bringing Johnny and Denise back together in the breakfast slot for the first time since the 'Big Breakfast'. RAJAR measure shows' success in various ways - including reach and audience share - and Fox won on all counts. He told reporters yesterday: "I couldn't be more chuffed, this is probably the greatest RAJAR result of my career. London is such a competitive market and the breakfast show is such a coveted crown to be gained. We are number one on reach and on share. Bloody amazing. This is the tip of the iceberg. We are in a good place right now". It was good news all round for the Bauer owned Magic, they retaining their position as the most listened to commercial station in London. Heart was second and Capital third - though at least Capital beat Bauer's Kiss this time, the yoof station having beaten it in the RAJARs. In the wider breakfast show race, Terry Wogan's Radio 2 breakfast programme remains the most listened to nationwide. -------------------------------------------------- SINGLE REVIEW: Late of The Pier - Hearbeat (EMI/Parlophone) -------------------------------------------------- NO JESSICA SIMPSON SEX TAPE FOR YOU -------------------------------------------------- KAISER CHIEFS TOLD NOT TO PLAY PUB -------------------------------------------------- PLANT ANGRY AT PAGE A source told The Sun: "Robert was really disappointed that he didn't merit a mention. The award was for the band's performance, so he thought he should have at least been thanked". Perhaps, given that the award was indeed for the band's performance, Page thought it would have been weird to go around thanking the people who were being given it. He might as well have thanked himself, in that case. -------------------------------------------------- ESTELLE THINKS SHE'S JAY-Z |
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