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Music News Websites ] Today The Who, in conjunction with fan management company UltraStar, launched the “Who Are You?” flyaway contest. Over the next two months (contest ends June 15), fans of The Who are encouraged to upload one photo, photo collage or personally created piece of art onto the contest site to theme of “Who Are You?” After reviewing all the entries that are uploaded to TheWhoTour.com, Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey will personally pick the grand prize winner.
Any fan of The Who can enter this contest, membership to the fan club is not necessary.
The grand prize winner (and a guest) will get front row tickets to The Who’s concert in Helsinki, Finland on July 9th, and a personal meeting with Roger and Pete. The grand prize also includes round-trip airfare to Helsinki, and three nights hotel stay.
The winning submission will be showcased on TheWhoTour.com, and a slideshow of all the entries will also be shown on the site.
More here http://thewhotour.com/flyaway/
Competition English Music News The Who Websites ] CMU claim that “Word has it Amazon’s previously reported MP3 based download service will launch next month. Word also has it that MP3s will be sold via the existing Amazon interface, rather than via some snazzy iTunes rip off. Which sounds like a damn good idea to me - I’ve never understood why so many retailers split their physical and digital sales platforms, like no one person would ever want to buy both a CD and an MP3. The final word on the matter is that Amazon will allow variable pricing (something the majors are increasingly pushing for) but that they are very committed to only selling in MP3 format, and are willing to wait for Universal, Warner and SonyBMG to catch up in that regard. Good for them.”
Hopefully they will be DRM free, we will have to hope, wait and see
Update. Looks like no DRM! Excellent
British CMU MP3 Music News SonyBMG Universal Warner Websites ] With current indications showing that the vinyl format may very well outlive the CD, a company called Index7 has just launched a new website dedicated to new 7″ vinyl releases. With many 7″ releases these days being of the limited edition variety, Index7 hopes to keep collectors up to date with releases so that users can get their hands on them before they all sell out.
Founder Nick Levine told CMU: “I started Index7 out of frustration more than anything. I’ve always collected 7″ singles but was getting very irritated at the lack of information available to people like me who wanted to buy them. I spoke to a lot of record companies and received very positive feedback about starting a dedicated 7″ single resource, so Index7 was born. It is a very easy platform to navigate and use and we already have over 30 labels signed up including the likes of Moshi Moshi, White Heat, City Rockers, Loog and Transgressive among others, with more joining every day.”
For the time being the site will provide news and leads rather than selling 7″ releases itself - links will be provided to independent retailers where users can order their copies.
City Rockers CMU Loog Moshi Moshi Music News Single Release Transgressive Websites White Heat ] It’s with great pleasure to announce that what might be two of the best all-female bands in the world today, amiina and Taxi Taxi! soon will release music on Rumraket.
First one up is amiina, in fact their new 3 track single Seoul is already available online at iTunes, eMusic and other sites! Very soon we will also release the single on 12″ vinyl with an extra special 4th track by Frakkur (www.last.fm/music/Frakkur)! The vinyl is expected late January/early February and we will do our best to make them widely available across Europe. amiina are known for their work with Sigur Ros. As a string quartet they have recorded on ( ) and Takk and also toured the world together with the Icelandic giants.
When amiina is amiina they make beautiful orchestrated chamber-pop music and it wont be long before there is no need to mention Sigur Ros when talking about amiina!
www.amiina.com / http://www.myspace.com/amiina
Later in the spring Rumraket will release the debut mini-album by the Swedish teenage duo Taxi Taxi! These two identical twin sisters are gifted from mother earth with the ability to write and perform fragile, almost magical small masterpieces of melancholy indie-pop and folk. Right now they are finishing the recordings together with producer Björn Yttling who is the Björn in Peter Björn and John! In February Taxi Taxi! will play at the annual By:Larm festival and a few months later their debut will be released!
Later in the spring Rumraket will release the debut mini-album by the Swedish teenage duo Taxi Taxi! These two identical twin sisters are gifted from mother earth with the ability to write and perform fragile, almost magical small masterpieces of melancholy indie-pop and folk. Right now they are finishing the recordings together with producer Björn Yttling who is the Björn in Peter Björn and John! In February Taxi Taxi! will play at the annual By:Larm festival and a few months later their debut will be released!
Have a listen to the magic at myspace.com/taxitaximusic
Visit Rumraket here - www.rumraket.net / www.posteverything.com/rumraket
amiina Music News Peter, Bjorn And John Rumraket Scandinavia Swedish Taxi Taxi! Websites ] Betweenplanets has had an update to a previous news story…
In the spirit of Christmas the !K7 Label Group – incorporating !K7 Records itself, Rapster and Ever Records – have all dug deep into their pockets and vaults this year to announce a special website
which will be online over the Christmas holidays.
All visitors to the website will be given the opportunity to download three tracks or videos from each label. These include exclusive tracks from new signings like Joakim (!K7) and an edit of Ewan Pearson’s epic 12 minute remix of Cortney Tidwell’s Don’t Let Stars Keep Us Tangled Up, which won’t be released until March 2007. Also included are downloads from Mark Ronson, Four Tet, up and coming Sami act Adjagas, Herbert and Five Deez.
All visitors to the site will also have the opportunity to enter a special Christmas competition giving them the opportunity to win a huge collection of swag from the !K7, Rapster and Ever Records archives, including signed albums and singles, T-shirts, jackets and even Princess Superstar dildos. Oh, and even the !K7 Office Stereo.
The website address is: http://ecards.k7-de.com/Christmas_2006/
The site will be online until the start of 2007.
Adjagas Boot / Mashup / remix British Competition Cortney Tidwell Download Ever Records Ewan Pearson Five Deez Four Tet Herbert Joakim Mark Ronson Music News Princess Superstar Rapster Sami Websites ] LONDON: Tuesday 19th December 2006.
Christmas on the Internet is a time for lewd humor, kitsch, nostalgia and musical whimsy. At any rate, that’s the conclusion to be drawn from this year’s top 10 most viral Christmas videos, according to Web chart company ViralVideoChart.com.
Justin Timberlake’s SNL skit has beaten Larry the Cable Guy and the cast of Scrubs to this year’s top spot. Timberlake’s lewd musical skit, offering tips on a homemade Christmas gift, trumped both Daniel Whitney’s set of redneck carols and the surreal Charlie Brown mashup, produced for a Scrubs cast Christmas party three years ago.
At number four is a slick depiction of the secret and violent life of Gangsta Santa, leaving dead kids and ponies’ heads in his wake, while number five sees animated Indian popstar Boymongoose take on Bollywood hunks, corrupt sports stars, nosey inlaws and a totally insufficient dowry in a satirical version of the Twelve Days of Christmas.
Number six is the well-loved Christmas Lights Gone Wild. In December 2004. Carson Williams, an electrical engineer from Mason, Ohio, spent several weeks sequencing 88 Light-O-Rama channels to control 16,000 Christmas lights. Two years later the video of this holiday lighting spectacular has been viewed over a million times on YouTube.
The final four videos on the chart are all musical numbers. Billy Idol musters a restrained version of White Christmas, Mariah Carey and Wham! entertain with their seasonal standards, while supermodel Heidi Klum goes all out for a kitsch winter wonderland.
Scott Button, CEO, ViralVideoChart.com says: “Large quantities of extended family plus a goodly measure of alcohol can make Christmas a stressful time. We all need a release, and YouTube’s top Christmas clips have been providing relief to millions.”
Boymongoose Daniel Whitney Heidi Klum Justin Timberlake Mariah Carey Music News Video Stream Websites Wham! ] It’s been all go in Good Shoes land of late, as I’m sure you’ve noticed. Things are hotting for the four young scamps from Morden, and with the release date of their new single ‘The Photos On My Wall’ edging ever nearer (Xmas day!), the band have unleashed the official video to the single, which you can check out here:
The Photos On My Wall (directed by Dan Lowe)
QUICKTIME
http://cissme.com/streaming/motion/qt/brille/GB-T29-06-00007_High.mov
http://cissme.com/streaming/motion/qt/brille/GB-T29-06-00007_Medium.mov
http://cissme.com/streaming/motion/qt/brille/GB-T29-06-00007_Low.mov
WINDOWS MEDIA
http://cissme.com/streaming/motion/wm/brille/GB-T29-06-00007_High.asx
http://cissme.com/streaming/motion/wm/brille/GB-T29-06-00007_Medium.asx
http://cissme.com/streaming/motion/wm/brille/GB-T29-06-00007_Low.asx
REAL
http://cissme.com/streaming/motion/rm/brille/GB-T29-06-00007_High.ram
http://cissme.com/streaming/motion/rm/brille/GB-T29-06-00007_Medium.ram
http://cissme.com/streaming/motion/rm/brille/GB-T29-06-00007_Low.ram
New web site
And the excitement continues as Good Shoes today unveil their brand new web site!
The web site reveals for the first time the winners of the ‘The Photos On My Wall’ competition, where fans were asked to submit their photos to a mini-site, with the winners being selected for inclusion on the forthcoming single artwork.
Christmas tour
Coinciding with the release of ‘The Photos On My Wall’ on Christmas Day, Good Shoes will be playing a series of exclusive invite-only gigs in association with independent Chain With No Name record stores between Christmas and New Year. This is a ‘money can’t buy’ tour – the only way to get hold of a ticket will be to go to one of the stores listed below and be very nice to the person on the other side of the counter.
Dates are as follows:
December 27th - Pressure Point, Brighton (http://www.resident-music.com)
December 28th - The Peel, Kingston (http://www.banquetrecords.com/goodshoes)
December 29th - The Social, Nottingham (http://www.selectadisc.co.uk/news_display.asp?newsid=35)
December 30th - Pure Groove In-store, London (http://www.puregroove.co.uk)
Tickets for the band’s live show at the Mean Fiddler on 29th March 2007 are also on sale now.
MORE ON GOOD SHOES
http://www.goodshoes.co.uk/
http://www.myspace.com/goodshoes
Good Shoes Instore Music News Quicktime Real Media Tour News Video Stream Websites Windows Media ] The people behind an internet radio station established in the memory of John Peel have announced they will be continuing Peel’s traditional Festive Fifty this year.
Organisers of Dandelion Radio explain: “John Peel started the Festive Fifty in 1976 as a listeners’ poll of the best tracks of the year. It wasn’t held the next year, resumed by popular demand in 1978, and has been held every year since, with an extra ‘All Time Festive 50′ in 1999. Radio One has decided not to continue with it this year, but some of John Peel’s old programme team, feeling that the tradition should be kept alive, have asked internet station Dandelion Radio to take over the sleigh reins and keep it going. So this year, the Festive 50 continues on www.dandelionradio.com”.
Anyone can vote in the poll by visiting the below page on the station’s website
http://www.dandelionradio.com/pages/festive50_poll_form.html
British CMU John Peel Music News Radio News Websites ] Japanese trainer brand Onitsuka Tiger are backing a new website which explores up and coming Anglo-Japanese talent from both the music and wider cultural worlds. The site is called Found In Translation (foundintranslation.co.uk) and includes features on the crossover between British and Japanese music, art, fashion, film and animation. Plans are also afoot to expand the website into physical exhibitions in the Onitsuka Tiger store in London.
Japanese Press Release Websites ] 