New Led Zeppelin double-DVD and triple-CD set due in May
Led Zeppelin fans can look forward to the May 27 release of “Led Zeppelin DVD,” a two-DVD set that houses almost five-and-a-half hours of live performances, television appearances, interviews, behind-the-scenes footage and more. Also due out the same day is a live, three-disc collection titled “How the West Was Won.”
Led Zeppelin fans can look forward to the May 27 release of “Led Zeppelin DVD,” a two-DVD set that houses almost five-and-a-half hours of live performances, television appearances, interviews, behind-the-scenes footage and more. Also due out the same day is a live, three-disc collection titled “How the West Was Won.”
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Backstreet Boys plan fall release for new album
The Backstreet Boys are heading into the studio soon to begin work on a new album that the group expects to deliver this fall, Billboard.com reports. The set follows the group’s 2000 release, “Black and Blue,” which has sold more than 5 million copies in the U.S.
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New technology gets artists, not labels, paid for online swapping
A Dutch Internet company claims to have developed software that could be used to pay musicians whose songs are traded over the Internet, while cutting out entirely the record labels that have spent recent years trying to plug up the flow of online file sharing, Reuters reports.
The founder of the firm that created the software told Reuters that the recording industry has been “quite hostile” toward the initiative.
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Death toll grows to 99 in Rhode Island club fire
Mitchell Shubert, 39, a Florida resident who had been hospitalized since the fast-moving Feb. 20 fire at The Station nightclub in West Warwick, R.I., died of his injuries on Thursday, the Associated Press reports. Shubert, a construction superintendent, is the fire’s 99th death.
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Rock Hall inductees profiled
Rollingstone.com has a nice online feature that looks at this year’s class of inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. AC/DC, The Clash, Elvis Costello, The Police and The Righteous Brothers officially join the Rock Hall on March 10.
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Cat Stevens: Peace. Skynyrd guitarist: Let’s have a war.
Yusuf Islam--who used to be known as Cat Stevens--has recorded two songs to express his opposition to war in Iraq, http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/entertainment/5341025.htm >the AP reports. One is a rerecording of his ‘70s hit “Peace Train;” the other, “Angel of War,” is a reworking of “Lady D’Arbanville.”
Meanwhile, Launch.com reports that Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Rickey Medlocke has released a statement saying that “[t]he time has come for us to speak up in support of our government and our troops.” Adds the member of a band whose concerts attract more than a few Confederate flags: “So far, the only message that has been broadcast to Americans, to our allies, and to our enemies is one of peace at all costs. Those of us who do not agree with pacifism have a responsibility to speak up and be heard just as loud.”
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