The News Review:
- Mozart to Metallica: Chicago violinist connects classics to …
- Metal men make it to ECMA ‘loud’ category
- Hollywood’s Musicians Institute teaches the endangered art of A & R
- Rock Ruled Music In 2008: Biggest Sellers Revealed
- The Kingdom Come
- Waiting for the Jobs-less Macworld keynote
Mozart to Metallica: Chicago violinist connects classics to …
El Paso Times TX
She will perform on an 18th-century violin without amplication “to show how intense that can be. I don’t need to plug in to give it that edge” she said. The idea is to open people’s minds to the possibilities of the music Pine has been playing since she was a tot by using some of the metal music she started listening to as a pre-teen. “A lot of people think they know what ‘classical’ is. They heard Pachelbel’s Canon and think it’s slow sleepy music — pretty but boring the stuff you hear in the dentist’s waiting room or a hotel lobby or the soaring strings on a movie soundtrack” she said from Chi-town. That is not what Pine considers an accurate picture of a divergent body of music created over centuries by absorbing sounds from its ethnic folk roots and turned them into “high art.
Metal men make it to ECMA ‘loud’ category
Kings County Record Canada
” Crawford said he has been into metal since he was five or six years old and is a fan of many types of music. He said the music he plays can be called heavy metal but there are many genres of metal. “Doom rock” is another name given to their style of music Formed in 2001 Gallactus was influenced by classic metal bands like Black Sabbath and Motorhead. Shaun Crawford is in the unique position of being nominated for an ECMA twice-in the same category. His other band Iron Giant is also in the running for Loud Recording of the Year. “I thought it was kind of cool” he said of the double honour. “That's kind of odd.
Hollywood’s Musicians Institute teaches the endangered art of A & R
Los Angeles Times CA
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 Los Angeles a couple of years ago didn’t have to look far to find a project. 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. At any one time 100 to 150 students are enrolled in the program.
Rock Ruled Music In 2008: Biggest Sellers Revealed
antiMUSIC.com CA
Rap took a nose dive of almost 20% in 2008 with sales of 33410 million units compare that to the 50476 million metal albums sold. R&B which dominates Top 40 radio only managed sales of 77014 million (a drop of almost 20% from 2007). Country music was the worst hit in sales decline falling 24% in 2008 to end up BEHIND metal in sales at 47657 million. While all genres saw a drop in sales in 2008 it was the rock related ones that declined the least. Alternative CD sales fell -8. 7% with 80919 million units sold.
The Kingdom Come
U Weekly H
The title track alone was so ambitious that it needed to be split into two parts: “Kingdom of Might (The Eclipse)” and “Kingdom of Might (Dawn in the Darkness)” respectively. These two tracks take the listener to uncharted musical territories and speak to the eternal battle between good and evil the dark and the light. These tracks are two of the most majestic pieces of metal music I’ve ever heard with its combination of acoustic guitar of “The Eclipse” leading into the ethereal riffs on “Dawn in the Darkness”. In the track “Kingdom of Might (The Eclipse)” Catanzaro screams about angelic trumpeters blaring “a new song of transformation from the old”. That phrase describes Woe of Tyrants’ music to the fullest. ld school metal fans will find a lot on this album to sink their teeth into. Aside from having kickass metal titles like “Break the Fangs of the Wicked” Kingdom of Might represents a seamless synthesis of old and new metal elements.
Waiting for the Jobs-less Macworld keynote
San Francisco Chronicle USA
88 million were sold two-thirds of them by independent music stores. The top-selling album in 2008 was Tha Carter III by Lil Wayne and the top selling song was Leona Lewis’s Bleeding Love. Classical record albums suffered the steepest decline while metal albums held up the best. More music sales does not mean more money for music producers according to Bloomberg which said 2008 revenue for the industry declined because single tracks of music are cheaper than entire albums.
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