Welcome back to an all new, all snazzy version of the News Release, I’m Daniels and lets do some news.
Studios Clampdown
The recording studio is slowly becoming the new Fort Knox. New security measures that were used, and were largely successful, preceding the release of Linkin Park’s Meteora are now being followed for many other bands.
New studio thieves don’t try to steal the album for themselves. They get the rough mixes, outtakes, and alternatives and, before you can say download, the versions appear on Kazaa. Traditionally, the masters have been handled loosely because, honestly, how much damage could be done? In this day and age, though, an album out on the Internet before opens up a brand new excuse for poor album sales. Blame the Internet, dammit!
Each copy has it’s own digital signature, old versions of master copies are destroyed, if an mp3 is leaked online, it is traceable back to the person who signed it out. Things are locked, and double-locked, and stored away… so if a new track leaks online before the release date, someone did a lot of work to get it out there.
So, folks, download more… and when you do, thank that mysterious stranger who risked his job to get you your music ahead of time.
And while you’re at it, do it on Kazaa 2.4… now with Masked IP addresses for handy dandy lack of tracing!!!
New Releases Today
Kiss Alive 4. This is their LAST tour… really, they promise. For Real this time.
Voice of Frank Sinatra. Boys, if ya want to get laid. This is the disc for you.
New From Chevelle
Chevelle will head back into the studio come September. The tentative title will be Wonder What’s Next and will be released off Epic Records.
According to drummer Sam Loeffler: [it’s] “actually pretty heavy. We’re a melodic band, because we like melody, but we also listen to a lot of heavy music, and that’s what we’ve been into.”
He also wanted the fans to know that success isn’t changing them at all. According to him: Everything is almost anti-climactic, because you work so hard, and when things do hit, you want them to last. “We’re writing the music we want to write, and not changing it for anyone. We’re not letting the success influence our lifestyles, either.
Steven Tyler gets pissed.
According to the New York Daily News: AEROSMITH frontman Steven Tyler was being followed by a female paparazzo on Thursday night (July 17) near Cafe Habana on Prince St. when suddenly he turned around. An onlooker says Tyler then “took her camera. He’s shouting at her, and grabs her by the wrist, saying, ‘Let’s see how you like it.'” The rocker then said, “‘You’re going to stand there until I tell you not to.’ The girl is standing there completely humiliated, and he’s taking pictures and pictures, and all the bystanders were laughing their ass off,” the spy revealed.
Tyler will probably get sued over this and it’s really too bad… since the f*cking camera stalkers get to do whatever they want and whenever someone snaps back, it costs them six figures. Love the lawyers baby… they make the world go ‘round.
A little more Life Of Agony
The band who is definitely NOT playing together again after their next reunion tour has announced a European tour during October and November. For any of you across the pond who dig on Life of Agony, you have a chance to see them on the following dates:
Oct. 18 – Antwerp, BEL – Hof Ter Lo
Oct. 19 – Offenbach, GER – Capitol
Oct. 21 – Dortmund, GER – Soundgarden
Oct. 22 – Hamburg, GER – Docks
Oct. 23 – Berlin, GER – Columbia Halle
Oct. 24 – Leipzig, GER – Werk 2
Oct. 25 – Wien, AUT – Planet Music
Oct. 27 РK̦ln, GER РLive Music Hall
Oct. 28 – Stuttgart, GER – Longhorn
Oct. 30 – München, GER – Elserhalle
Oct. 31 – Salzburg, AUT – Rockhouse
Nov. 01 – Zürich, SWI – Abart
Nov. 03 – Luxemburg, LUX – Kulturfabrik
Nov. 04 – Paris, FRA – Elysee Montmartre
Nov. 05 – Tilburg, NETH – O13
River Runs Again: 2003 is set to be released in September, along with a DVD set, River Runs Again: Complete.
Subpoenas filed
Nope, they’re going through with it. The RIAA has filed 871 Subpoenas against outlets for online file sharing, with up to 75 being added daily. All this is part of the evidence gathering process which will eventually be used to sue everyday folks like me and you, for using their computers.
Some of the first to get the subpoenas are various college campuses and internet providers.
This should not surprise anyone. Filing information subpoenas is part of the evidence-gathering process that we announced a few weeks ago in anticipation of the lawsuits that we will be filing against people who illegally make copyrighted music available on P2P networks. We’re doing exactly what we said we’d do.”
And the PR nightmare continues, as they refuse to see that they’re part of the problem, not the solution. Someone at the RIAA might want to look up the clinical definition of “mob mentality.†When sixty million people around you are doing something wrong, it then makes you think that it’s ok cuz everyone else is doing it… and it will be much harder to get caught.
Finally, there has been a voice of reason in the Senate as well. Senator John McCain of Arizona said: I would not support criminal penalties for the person who just shares music files. If there’s some kind of organized and orchestrated organization that does this as a profession to make a profit, then that probably would be appropriate. Look, these artists deserve a return for their talents and their abilities; we’ve got to try and make that happen. But to throw people in jail because they file-share, in my view, is a terrible overreach.
A republican even Eric S can love.
In Other Reading
Evocator reviews Don McLean. American Pie: The Remixes.
Jeff Fernandez gives us The Dirty Dozen Strip Club songs. For all y’all who ain’t been to a strip club yet… ya ain’t missing much.
Aaron Cameron, Because I Can. Also he’s got Bad Boys II. Which was a fabulous move by the way.
In conclusion
It’s late and I need sleep. Seeya next week.
Some changes going on in the music zone this week. Stay tuned to find out who.
