The News Review:

- Enough with the heavy metal closers!
- Asia’s digital music free-for-all
- Viewer concerns addressed about music festival

Enough with the heavy metal closers!
ESPN – May 31, 2007
“I never even picked it — it was given to me” he said. “Jeff Bagwell picked it. As Wagner points out they don’t always choose their own music. ften the people deciding on the music are some guys up in the sound booth and they just copy each other. Hoffman and Rivera have heavy metal played so every other closer gets heavy metal too.

Asia’s digital music free-for-all
ZDNet Asia – May 31, 2007
In a region that boasts roughly 1 billion handsets and blisteringly fast wireless networks in richer markets such as Japan South Korea Taiwan and Hong Kong Asian teens and 20-somethings are “mashing up” music and video content from every imaginable source by integrating applications from their feature-laden mobile handsets personal computers and the Net. These kids love to download everything from J-Pop acts in Tokyo to Vedic heavy-metal bands out of Mumbai and New Delhi. There’s just one problem: They hate to pay for it. And what should be a dynamic market for the global music industry and all manner of online and mobile music sites is turning out to be a bedeviling one. Companies are casting about for the right business model to exploit the undeniable demand for digital music in a region where pirated CDs and illicit music and file-sharing sites are ubiquitous. Most vulnerable by far are the major music-recording labels… These kids love to download everything from J-Pop acts in Tokyo to Vedic heavy-metal bands out of Mumbai and New Delhi. There’s just one problem: They hate to pay for it. And what should be a dynamic market for the global music industry and all manner of online and mobile music sites is turning out to be a bedeviling one. Companies are casting about for the right business model to exploit the undeniable demand for digital music in a region where pirated CDs and illicit music and file-sharing sites are ubiquitous. Most vulnerable by far are the major music-recording labels. Legitimate physical sales of music (LPs cassettes CDs DVD audio and so on) have been falling or remaining stagnant this decade and the US$29. 3 billion in worldwide sales the industry raked in last year is expected to fall 61 percent to US$18 billion by 2009 according to a joint study by PricewaterhouseCoopers the global music trade group International Federation of the Phonographic Industry and Soundbuzz a Singapore-based digital music provider.

Viewer concerns addressed about music festival
WHI – May 31, 2007
AMEN sister!! You are S right!!Three Sisters Park would be smart to hold other large concerts there too but I doubt that will ever happen. I bet that something like that would bring in a pretty good size crowd of ALL ages!I can only wish though right?!?! Summer CampPosted by Emily Villhauer unknown – Thursday May 31 2007 at 10:56 a. This letter is in regards to the media coverage of the annual Summer Camp music festival. I have attended the festival for four years now and have yet to see a positive reaction to the event… I have attended the festival for four years now and have yet to see a positive reaction to the event. As a newer resident of the Peoria area a city that claims to promote the arts and diversity I can’t believe how closed-minded people are encouraged to be towards the attendees of the annual festival. This is a celebration of music art and creativity but none of that is shared with the general public by the media. For the vast majority of us in attendance Summer Camp is a weekend about MUSIC. Yes folks this is a MUSIC festival. ver 45 bands performed during the four days of Summer Camp several of them from the Peoria area. Why do we not focus on the success these bands have in performing for a national audience in their own backyard? Bands such as Brainchild and Waterstreet were lucky enough to be selected for the 2007 band line-up out of the hundreds who submitted applications to perform at Summer Camp.