The News Review:
- Cattle Decapitation rails against the human herd
- Free Vanity page 1 – Music – Phoenix New Times – Phoenix New Times
- MTV and Harmonix launch new music game
- Holiday harmony: Season brings a new batch of music from artists of…
Cattle Decapitation rails against the human herd
Denver Post – Nov 22, 2007
The San Diego death-metal quartet doesn’t make music for the faint of heart the weak of stomach or the easily offended. Calling themselves “Humans for human annihilation” the band writes macabre grindcore songs that spew hate and venom toward the human race in protest of the mistreatment of animals. These vegetarians are surely the hardest band ever to be interviewed by PETA and with album titles such as “Humanure” “Human Jerky” and “Karma. Karma” — their latest featuring a levitating six-armed knife-wielding cow crouching in the lotus position — the band has drawn its fair share of controversy.
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Phoenix New Times – Nov 22, 2007
But now with their profit margin shrinking faster than the polar icecaps they’d have been better served heeding marketing visionaries like tto D’Agnolo Valley record producer and owner of Chaton Recording Studio. Three years ago he wrote a book called The Music Industry is Burning Down — Thank God! In it D’Agnolo foretold the current scenario and how the artist would cut record companies out of the equation completely. Now he’s putting his theories about the future of music distribution into practice with a metal band he’s managing and producing called Vanity Tweak fronted by 17-year-old singer Carly Gasbara who adopted a name befitting a Bond villainess about a year ago. But here’s the weird part. In breaking this unknown act D’Agnolo plans to give away more than half a million Vanity Tweak CDs without any thought to seeing a penny from sales of the music. Initially bundled into the 2007 “Tempe 12: Girls of the Pac 10″ calendar this three-track giveaway is just the opening salvo of a campaign that will make all Vanity Tweak tracks free either bundled into sponsor-partnership swag bags or disseminated at any number of free concerts the group is doing. Is this any way to run a rock band anywhere but into the ground? And what’s D’Agnolo’s return on projected zero profits?D’Agnolo grins like a guy who’s obviously thought this over.
MTV and Harmonix launch new music game
Computer Business Review – Nov 22, 2007
Rock Band includes 58 tracks and spans a wide genre of rock ranging from alternative and classic rock to heavy metal and punk. The new game platform offers multiple instruments and selection of online and offline game modes with the ability to play as a band or individually. In addition to the 58 songs available on the game disc Harmonix and MTV Games claim to offer some new downloadable content for players including multi-song packs full albums and individual tracks from some of the rock’s biggest artists. The company has launched introductory bundle of the game is available at retail stores across America for the Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and Sony’s PlayStation3. It includes a Fender Stratocaster guitar controller an electronic drum kit real drum sticks a microphone and software… It includes a Fender Stratocaster guitar controller an electronic drum kit real drum sticks a microphone and software. MTV announced that Rock Band will be released on the PlayStation2 computer entertainment system on December 18 2007 in North America. The game will be initially available for $170 which is nearly twice as expensive as ‘Guitar Hero 3′ a competing music video game developed by Harmonix and published by Redctane for the PlayStation 2 video game console. Further MTV targets to ship more than a million units of Rock Band in 2007 compared to Guitar Hero 3 which sold 1. 4 million units in the first six days of its launch in ctober 2007. getElementById(hdnDivstatusID).
Holiday harmony: Season brings a new batch of music from artists of…
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Pittsburgh Post Gazette – Nov 22, 2007
(Mervis)Various Artists ‘Monster Ballads: Xmas’ (Razor & Tie). Do we really need an industrial metal version of “Silent Night”? The Dee Snider-Lita Ford debut on “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” and Queensryche’s “White Christmas” are enough to make Santa stay home and bolt the door. (Mervis)Carnie Wilson ‘Christmas with Carnie’ (Big3 Records). The arrangements are tiresome and the vocal work is hopelessly flat uninspired and stilted on many of the songs. The strongest cut from this disc is “I’ll Be Home for Christmas.