Metalocalypse: Texas Hippie Coalition
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- Metalocalypse: Texas Hippie Coalition
- A & R?: Teaching The Lost Art f Music Business’ Arts-And-Repertoire
- BELIEVER: New Album Title Announced – Jan. 12 2009
- Avoid the Winter Blahs with Bravo!’s DCFEST 2009 Beginning …
Metalocalypse: Texas Hippie Coalition
Houston Press TX
Before a band would be judged on whether they went gold or platinum [but] with free downloads and pirating a band today may only sell 500000 CDs where in the ’80s or ’90s they might have [gone] double platinum. M: Are the members of THC horror movie fans? And what are you most afraid of?BDR: Yes big horror movie fans. Especially blood and gore. My new favorite is Hatchet and of course we dig all the Saw movies.
A & R?: Teaching The Lost Art f Music Business’ Arts-And-Repertoire
Hartford Courant United States
Students are assigned to set up virtual record companies. They have to find a band they would like to sign (some use fellow MI instrumental or vocal music students; others recruit them from local clubs or the Internet) make a recording and then promote market and publicize it. Matthew Williams a 25-year-old heavy-metal singer who moved with his guitarist brother Jason from Minneapolis to. Both enrolled at MI to hone their chops and after a few quarters in the school’s guitar program the brothers’ aspiring metal group landed a song in a movie that’s due to be released next spring. Matthew Williams decided he needed to know more about the industry so he signed up for the two-quarter music business program in which students earn a certificate after 30 units of course work. It can be combined with one of the instrument or voice courses for an associate’s degree or taken independently.
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BELIEVER: New Album Title Announced – Jan. 12 2009
Blabbermouth.net NY
” Adds Howard Jones: “I have had a great relationship with Brian Slagel and Mike Faley for a long time and getting a chance to work with them and start up Cesspool Recordings was more than I could have asked for. Somehow I got lucky enough to stumble across a reactivated BELIEVER who has always been a band that got and still gets repeated listens from me. Great band and even better people and they truly bring a unique quality of musicianship back into the metal music genre. I’m truly excited to see them on stage again. ” Regarding the musical direction of the upcoming album Kurt Bachman recently told Decibel magazine “We think that fans will hear some of each record but the writing is a bit different. It’s still BELIEVER but we wanted to offer something new as we have in the past. Some people would like us to put out another ‘Sanity bscure’ or ‘Dimensions’ but we didn’t want to rehash the past.
Avoid the Winter Blahs with Bravo!’s DCFEST 2009 Beginning …
Channel Canada Canada
Produced in association with Bravo!Feb. 12 METAL: A HEADBANGER’S JURNEY BRAV! PREMIEREMETAL: A HEADBANGER’S JURNEY follows Canadian anthropologist and lifelong metal-head Sam Dunn as he examines the music history and sex of heavy metal. METAL uncovers the myths about heavy metal music and features interviews with Rush Black Sabbath Alice Cooper Rage Against the Machine and Twisted Sister. This Gemini Award-winning documentary is produced in association with Bravo!Feb. 19 GLENN GULD HEREAFTERGLENN GULD HEREAFTER explores the remarkable life of the gifted Canadian pianist using archival footage and interviews with Gould’s fans. Paris-based concert violinist writer and filmmaker Bruno Monsaingeon directs this illuminating tribute to the piano prodigy. Produced in association with Bravo!Feb.
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