The News Review:
- Hitting the right note: Music favourite pastime in UK
- King Kenny coming to Odyssey
- How one Southern church forges unity through voice
- Off the dial
- East Bay Express | Movies | I’ma Stranger Here Myself
- Believe Out Loud | HoustonBelief.com
- Verizon Wireless Motorola Announce Availability of MOTO W755
Hitting the right note: Music favourite pastime in UK
Economic Times – May 28, 2008
?Music is such a complicated fieldit is not like cutting a sports deal. ? The study examined the valuesassociated with indie music pop rock MTV the Brit Awards festivals Madonnaand Coldplay to help the agencies better advise advertisers about whichproperties best fit their brand. Farrow suggests that an outdoor brand such asTimberland might consider linking up with metal music which has?rugged? values. ?I?m not saying that Timberland shouldrush out and sponsor Metallica just that brands need to open their eyes?he says. More obvioussynergies are those between Coldplay and people with a strong social conscienceand between Madonna and those with materialistic values. For electronics companyLG argues Farrow Madonna?s image-conscious positioning might be a goodfit but it might not be so appropriate for a brand with customers who craveindividuality.
King Kenny coming to Odyssey
Belfast Telegraph – May 28, 2008
The 69-year-old star who played at King’s Hall back in 2006 will be performing at the Odyssey Arena on Wednesday March 25. Kenny is best know for classics such as Lucille The Gambler Lady and Ruby Don’t Take Your Love to Town. He has more than 70 hit singles across various music genres and hundreds of awards including American Music Awards Grammy Awards Academy of Country Music Awards and Country Music Association Awards. Tickets for the show are £40 and £45. With a gig in Belfast tonight (May 29) The CT caught up with New York acoustic blues singer Eric Bibb for a quick chat. The artist whose father Leon was a familiar face on the 60s music scene and his uncle was the legendary jazz pianist and composer John Lewis will be playing at the Errigle Inn. The 56-year-old is excited about his Belfast show and said: “I have been in Belfast and played in the Errigle Inn and it is always good to play there… Tickets are priced at £8. Glam metal band Ratt are to play a gig in Belfast this weekend as part of their 25th Anniversary Tour. The American group who are most notable for their hit singles Round and Round and Wanted Man will be performing at Spring & Airbrake on Sunday. The band has sold an estimated 18 million albums worldwide. Tickets are priced at £18. Tickets for Kenny Rogers are available from all Ticketmaster outlets.
How one Southern church forges unity through voice
Christian Science Monitor – May 28, 2008
Not unlike that at times of life itself. Voices rise and fall in the breeze audible long before you see the simple wooden church resting beneath a canopy of hundred-year-old oaks. The doors and windows are open and music pours out across the desolate landscape winding through the trees and lifting through billowing white clouds to a heaven of clear blue sky. The music is Sacred Harp a nondenominational form of choral singing that encourages community participation. Despite suggestions that the tradition is dying there are singings from Chicago to San Francisco and even the United Kingdom every week some attracting as many as 1000 participants. Slick CDs are being produced and professors from around the world are hunching over atlases and MapQuest directions trying to find their way to churches like Liberty Grove hoping to study a culture that has become synonymous with the rural South but began in the singing schools of colonial England. Today fans of the music face a steep challenge ? how to bolster the momentum of Sacred Harp and continue to make an ancient folk tradition relevant in today’s modern world… The church interior is unadorned. Plain metal fans and naked bulbs dotting the pine ceiling. Feet keep time as well. Everything here is about time. Man’s journey through life.
Off the dial
NEWS.com.au – May 28, 2008
"The experience in the US reveals identical format listening habits on dedicated internet radio stations as their terrestrial cousins. " Getting technical SO WHAT is internet radio’s sound quality like? Well it varies widely but internet radio generally sounds better than AM but not quite as good as FM. Unlike downloading music for listening later internet radio is delivered as a constant transfer of data. That’s called streaming. If that stream of data is interrupted as a result of internet traffic congestion so is the music. During such unwanted breaks which can last several seconds and recur with annoying regularity you may see a message such as "Buffering… As the name suggests streaming from these stations doesn’t count towards your monthly download quota. I NTERNODE has an even more extensive selection of internet radio stations which it "re-broadcasts" for its customers to provide more reliable audio streaming. These selections range from Melbourne community stations such as 3CR and Joy FM to ChroniX Grit (heavy metal) RantRadio (punk) and Life FM (Christian). But if you want to explore offerings beyond your ISP’s free selection and are worried about blowing your usage allowance make sure to do the megabyte sums and keep a close eye on your volume usage. If you develop a taste for streamed content switch to a better broadband plan. Compare options at website.
East Bay Express | Movies | I’ma Stranger Here Myself
East Bay Express – May 28, 2008
Just when the going gets especially rough the needle-drop changes from soft rock to Merle Haggard’s country oldie “Mama Tried. ” What a bracingly bizarre choice. It’s as “wrong” for the Gillian-Welch-fan yuppie couple as the killers’ thrash metal was for their classical-music-worshipping victims in Funny Games. If you want to make these characters and their audience nervous hit them in the face with unfamiliar music. Maybe something by Aerosmith. A further nice touch: the two Mormon kids who ask “Are you a sinner?”.
Now, perhaps you need to do education papers, and Comparison Essay and mathematics papers.
Believe Out Loud | HoustonBelief.com
Houston Chronicle – May 28, 2008
I was never into the whole theme early on – and the harder stuff irritated me as I could rarely make out the words. A lot of heavy metal just seemed like raw anger. And hadn’t picked up a guitar at the time. The purists hate them but hey.
Verizon Wireless Motorola Announce Availability of MOTO W755
IT News Online – May 28, 2008
com and in Verizon Wireless Communications Stores including those in Circuit City. The MOTO W755 is a slim new clamshell that supports all the features and capabilities offered by Verizon Wireless. The device is said to advance the design standard for affordable handsets with its premium soft touch and polished vacuum metal finishes. 68-inch thick phone is available in two distinct color options – Black Slate and Purple… com and in Verizon Wireless Communications Stores including those in Circuit City. The MOTO W755 is a slim new clamshell that supports all the features and capabilities offered by Verizon Wireless. The device is said to advance the design standard for affordable handsets with its premium soft touch and polished vacuum metal finishes. 68-inch thick phone is available in two distinct color options – Black Slate and Purple.