Social music site Last.fm has been bought by US media giant CBS Corporation for $280m (£140m), the largest-ever UK Web 2.0 acquisition.
Last.fm founding member Martin Stiksel said it was an “exciting opportunity”.
He continued:
“This move will really support us to get every track ever recorded and every music video ever made onto Last.fm.
“With a strong partner like CBS, this is now within our reach.”
Glastonbury fans will be asked to make a difference to climate change by reducing their carbon footprint at the festival this year.
Those attending the event will be asked to join the 1 count campaign as well as eating organic food, showering in carbon neutral showers and will be supplied with recycled toilet paper.
Festival organiser Michael Eavis explained: “We’ve put a lot of effort into focusing Glastonbury on the environment and climate change this year.
“We hope to see at least 100,000 new supporters sign up to the I Count campaign – and I’ll be the first to put my name down.”
A band of pensioners are to launch an attack on the UK single chart this week as they release a cover of The Who song, My Generation.
The band were put together by BBC documentary maker Tim Samuels as part of a BBC Two TV show.
The band’s lead singer is 90-year-old Londoner Alf Carretta.
“I can’t believe this is happening. For me to have recorded a song in the same studio as the Beatles is just so exciting,” he said. Read more & comment »
Jack Bruce, former bassist for the 60s band Cream, has hinted at a recent show that the band may be reuniting for a concert later this year.
He told the Associated Press: “It came up we’re doing something if I wanted to. Obviously, I’m not going to be the one to say no.”
The band originally split in 1968 after public arguments between ruce and drummer, Ginger Baker.
Hmmm. You know when you’ve got a cracker idea for a music video, but you haven’t got a song to play behind it? That’s what Groove Armada’s Get Down is – a backing track to a funky video.
I mean, if you turn the sound off on your TV, the video for Get Down is actually pretty entertaining. You’ve got a bunch of bunny rabbits dancing in the video, but they pop off to the lav for a bit of nookie and then…suddenly there’s more rabbits. So the rabbits keep copulating and multiplying and before you know it…well, you get the idea.
The problem is, you’ve got a passable song. Not a great tune. Groove Armada are capable of better than this. And that vocal (presumably by Stush?) – I’m not even sure what language she’s singing in.
Seriously.
Verdict? Crap. A music video that’s better without the music.
Your Love Alone Is Not Enough is the first single to be released from the new Manics album, Send Away the Tigers. The song features a bizarre alliance with Nina Persson of The Cardigans.
Do you know, with the resurgence of 90’s bands at the moment, it’s like 90’s nostalgia has already started. The problem is, when you get a wave of nostalgia, you get bands reforming to cash in. In the case of the 90’s, most of the bands haven’t even broken up yet. It’s like they were hibernating or something….
Amerie. An artist with a deadly fear of wearing trousers. She looks a bit like Myleene Klass, doesn’t she? I sometimes like to imagine she’s from a parallel universe where Myleene had a music career instead of doing the lad’s mag circuit and taking cold showers in the jungle. Still, both girls run around in their pants a lot.
HelloGoodbye. Hands up if you’re a serious artist….
I beg to differ. Any band who decides to use a vocoder these days is stupid. I hope I’m not understating that fact.
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Due to unprecedented demand, BBC Radio 1 confirmed today, that they will add an extra 5,000 tickets across the two days for Radio 1’s Big Weekend.
The event takes place in Preston, Moor Park on Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 May and promises to be the biggest in Radio 1’s history.
Application levels for Radio 1’s Big Weekend have been the highest ever, with almost half a million people registering for free tickets to date. The station has received such an overwhelming response that it has taken the decision to increase the amount of tickets, allowing as many people as possible to attend. Read more & comment »
Music legend, Prince is to play for a week in London’s new O2 Arena this summer, as part of his recently announced 21 London gigs.
Tickets will cost £31.21, a reference to his album 3121. Though he will also be playing at much smaller venues to make it “affordable for everybody”.
At a recent press launch Prince exclaimed:
“I love London,” he explained at a press launch. “I’ve had some of my favourite shows here.”
He added that he hoped to be joined in some of the gigs by Amy Winehouse.
