Court blocks Pan-European license
LONDON -- U.K. collecting society the Performing Right Society has a won a court font to forbid its Dutch equivalent, Buma, from issuance an unauthorized pan-European licence for online rights.
Buma proclaimed on July 19 that it had issued such a license to online music provider Beatport, claiming it covered worldwide repertory including that controlled by PRS. However, the Dutch society is not authorised to include PRS repertory outside the Netherlands in any multiterritory license.
PRS filed a cause with a Dutch court and in a ruling Monday, the judge ordered Buma to refrain from granting licenses that offered the manipulation of PRS artists' work outside of the Netherlands. He base Buma offered "no convincing arguments" of its case.
"We are discomfited that Buma decided to act in the elbow room it did but pleased that the judge has upheld the contract footing between PRS and Buma, confirming that no society can event licenses without the verbalize agreement of the early," Karen Buse, managing director of international for the MCPS-PRS Alliance, said in a statement.
"PRS welcomes fair and levelheaded competition for members crossways Europe and we look forward to working with all ingathering societies in the next to provide the best possible service to songwriters and music publishers.
"We shall also cover to mesh our own successful and legal Pan-European licensing dodge; making it easy and efficient for online medicine services crosswise Europe to access the music they need to support and grow their businesses."
The verdict follows a European Commission ruling last month, which stated that CISAC, the umbrella trade group for performing right societies, moldiness remove all obstacles clogging the pan-European licensing system after losing its struggle with European regulators.
The Brussels-based commission described its opinion as "an antitrust decision prohibiting societies from restricting competition," and called for the surcease of territorial restrictions that prevent a collecting society from offering licenses to commercial users outside their domestic territory.
In response, CISAC said the ruling will lead to "catastrophic fragmentation of repertoire."
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Tuesday, 26 August 2008
Asthma In Boys May Be Just A Phase, But For Girls It May Be There To Stay
�Boys may be more apt than girls to have childhood asthma, simply, when compared to girls, they ar also more likely to grow
Thursday, 7 August 2008
Square One
Artist: Square One
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
Wukker Man
Year: 2004
Tracks: 1
Netball Girls
Year: 2004
Tracks: 1
Eastenders - Brooke Kinsella Remembers Beautiful Brother
Friday, 27 June 2008
Mireille Mathieu
Artist: Mireille Mathieu
Genre(s):
Chanson
Discography:
De Tes Mains
Year: 2002
Tracks: 11
Grand Collection
Year: 2001
Tracks: 16
Ciao Bambino Sorry (CD 2)
Year: 2001
Tracks: 15
Ciao Bambino Sorry (CD 1)
Year: 2001
Tracks: 15
Son Grand Numero (CD 2)
Year: 2000
Tracks: 20
Son Grand Numero (CD 1)
Year: 2000
Tracks: 20
Mes Plus Belles Chansons D'Amour
Year: 1997
Tracks: 15
Carrere
Year: 1991
Tracks: 10
French chanteuse Mireille Mathieu is classically known for her illustrious French crooning during the '60s and '70s. Born into a stone doL family unit of 14 children, Mathieu arrived July 22, 1946, in Avignon, France, and as a child she saved her money from working in the manufactory so she could make up for tattle lessons. In the early '60s, French pop vocaliser Johnny Hallyday's managing director Johnny Stark noticed Mathieu's enchanting vocalic beauty and later reinforced her into her possess ace with the classical urchin hairstyle and loud, vibrant costumes. She was promptly hailed as the adjacent Edith Piaf and her 1965 performance move at the Paris Olympia sparked her transcription relationship with Barclay Records. Singles such as "Mon Credo," "C'est Ton Nom," and "Qu'elle Est Belle" made Mathieu an external star in Europe patch achieving meek achiever in the Americas, only her spread over of Englebert Humperdinck's "The Last Waltz" was an telling French rendition that made her shock charts in Britain. Humperdinck returned the favour by choosing to let the cat out of the bag Mathieu's "Les Bicyclettes de Belsize."
Tuesday, 24 June 2008
Spears Fools Paparazzi
Jamie Lynn Spears left hospital on Saturday with a cunning plan to outsmart the waiting paparazzi - using a decoy to give her a snapper-free exit. The 17-year-old gave birth to her first child, Maddie Briann, on Thursday at Mississippi Southwest Regional Medical Center in McComb, Mississippi. And according to America's OK magazine, when the Zoey 101 star was due to be discharged, she reportedly hired a look-a-like to be driven back to her parents' home in Kentwood, Louisiana. The decoy joined new dad Casey Aldridge, and Spears' parents Lynn and Jamie, while the actress slipped out the back entrance, with her daughter, to a car and a police escort waiting to take her to Serenity, Mississippi, where she shares a home with her fiance Aldridge. The teen star stunned the Spears family when she announced her pregnancy news last year , at the age of 16. The couple had reportedly been delaying their wedding until after the birth of their first child.
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Sunday, 22 June 2008
Twelfth Of Never
Artist: Twelfth Of Never
Genre(s):
Metal: Gothic
Discography:
Things That Were
Year: 2003
Tracks: 12
Winehouse told to stop flirting in court
Saturday, 21 June 2008
Pierrepoint
Artist: Pierrepoint
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
Technoid Beats For A Paradox Movement
Year: 2000
Tracks: 14
Deleted Tracks From Earth
Year: 2000
Tracks: 15
Pulsing Redlight - Reconstruct
Year: 1999
Tracks: 14
Eibon
Year: 1994
Tracks: 6
Slices Of Death
Year: 1993
Tracks: 13
Nature One 2005
Friday, 20 June 2008
DR. JOHN AND THE LOWER 911
City That Care Forgot (429): A-
After cruising into the 21st century as a mellow singer of standards, Dr. John digs his voodoo robes out of the closet to transform himself into a musical superhero: the master of the funktastic, who emerges from semi-retirement to fight a powerful warlord. Though he doesn’t mention him directly, Doc’s nemesis is clearly George W. Bush (Dick Cheney, however, does get called out by name). While the destruction of New Orleans and the government’s ineffectual response to it is the chief source of Dr. John’s fury, he’s equally aggravated by what he sees as a war in Iraq motivated by love of money, not freedom. But “City That Care Forgot” is more than a depressing diatribe thanks to the upbeat music, Dr. John’s funkiest in years. On a couple of tunes he even summons the spooky vibe of his earliest incarnation as a musical voodoo shaman. No wonder. Saving New Orleans will require all the magic its sons and daughters can muster. Download: “Dream Warrior.”
After cruising into the 21st century as a mellow singer of standards, Dr. John digs his voodoo robes out of the closet to transform himself into a musical superhero: the master of the funktastic, who emerges from semi-retirement to fight a powerful warlord. Though he doesn’t mention him directly, Doc’s nemesis is clearly George W. Bush (Dick Cheney, however, does get called out by name). While the destruction of New Orleans and the government’s ineffectual response to it is the chief source of Dr. John’s fury, he’s equally aggravated by what he sees as a war in Iraq motivated by love of money, not freedom. But “City That Care Forgot” is more than a depressing diatribe thanks to the upbeat music, Dr. John’s funkiest in years. On a couple of tunes he even summons the spooky vibe of his earliest incarnation as a musical voodoo shaman. No wonder. Saving New Orleans will require all the magic its sons and daughters can muster. Download: “Dream Warrior.”
Ween
Artist: Ween
Genre(s):
Rock
Discography:
La Cucaracha
Year: 2007
Tracks: 13
Friends Ep
Year: 2007
Tracks: 5
White Pepper
Year: 2000
Tracks: 12
Paintin' The Town Brown (cd2)
Year: 1999
Tracks: 3
Paintin' The Town Brown (cd1)
Year: 1999
Tracks: 16
The Mollusk
Year: 1997
Tracks: 14
12 Golden Country Greats
Year: 1996
Tracks: 10
Chocolate and Cheese
Year: 1994
Tracks: 16
Pure Guava
Year: 1992
Tracks: 19
The Pod
Year: 1991
Tracks: 23
God Ween Satan-Anniversary Edition
Year: 1990
Tracks: 26
The Live Brain Wedgie
Year:
Tracks: 11
Ween was the ultimate cosmic buffoon of the alternative stone epoch, a prodigiously talented and deliriously odd duette whose lick traveled far beyond the constraints of lampoon and knickknack into the heart of surrealist x. Despite a mastery for apparently every chromosomal mutation of the melodious spectrum, the group refused to play it full-strength; in effect, Ween was brattish deconstructionists, kicking malicious gossip on the pop humankind around them with unbalanced mirth. Along with the occasional frat-boy lapses into misogyny, racial discrimination, and homophobia, the band's razor-sharp caustic remark cut to the inherently lightheaded mettle of john Rock & roll with hilariously piercing savagery; fueled by psilocybin mushrooms and an all-consuming craving for hot meals, Ween created their possess poised population, a parallel dimension where the only hallowed cow was their possess demon immortal, the Boognish.
The duo formed in suburban New Hope, PA, in 1984, when 14-year-olds Mickey Melchiondo and Aaron Freeman adoptive their various fraternal aliases, Dean and Gene Ween, and cut the number 1 of literally thousands of dwelling house recordings. At about the like time Freeman -- working under the name Synthetic Socks -- issued an eponymous 1987 solo cassette on the fledgeling TeenBeat tag, Ween released their own debut tape, The Crucial Squeegie Lip, on their own Bird O' Pray depression. After a match of 1988 self-releases, highborn Axis: Bold as Boognish and The Live Brain Wedgie/WAD LP, Ween signed to the Minneapolis-based independent label Twin/Tone, which in 1990 issued the bivalent album GodWeenSatan: The Oneness, a sprawl, frequently brilliant discharge which careened from the precipitately hardcore rush of the opening "You Fucked Up" to the helium pop of "Don't Laugh I Love You" to the Prince-Xeroxed funk of "L.M.L.Y.P."
A move to the Shimmy Disc tag followed prior to the release of 1991's The Pod, another masterpiece of dementedness recorded on four-track under the influence of inhaled Scotchgard; darker and more deranged than its predecessor, The Pod expanded the Ween palette to include Beatlesque crop up (the sublime "Porc Roll Egg and Cheese"), eccentric family line ("Oh My Dear [Falling in Love]"), and mystic hard rock ("Captain Fantasy"). Against all odds, the record south Korean won the Weens a deal with major tag Elektra; against even greater odds, the leap to the big leagues did nada to alter the duo's mentality. 1992's Pure Guava, their Elektra debut, was their most consistently uncanny and rattling picnic to date. Highlighted by the disturbingly infectious single "Crusade th' Little Daisies" (a Top Ten score in Australia), Pure Guava establish the group as snarky as always on self-explanatory workouts wish "Reggaejunkiejew," "Hey Fat Boy (Son of a bitch)," and "Flies on My Dick"; "Springtheme" mocked love songs at their queasiest; spell the climactic "Don't Get 2 Close (2 My Fantasy)" distilled the grandiloquent excesses of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" and QueensrĂ¿che's "Silent Lucidity" into an epic artistry rock portrayal of child molestation.
Consecrate to the former comedic thespian John Candy, 1994's Chocolate and Cheese -- its title a perfect sum of the duo's blend of R&B and schlock -- upped the ante yet once more. Widening the net to frame rodeo rider songs ("Floater in the Dark"), Philly person ("Freedom of '76"), Afro-Caribbean funk ("Juju Lady"), and Sergio Leone-inspired spaghetti Western epics ("Buenas Tardes Amigo"), Chocolate and Cheese besides featured "Spinal anesthesia Meningitis (Got Me Down)" and "Mister Would You Please Help My Pony," two of the creepiest tales of childhood trauma always committed to vinyl. Having interpreted their anything-goes aesthetic to its ordered extreme, Ween took a sharp leftfield grow for 1996's 12 Golden Country Greats, a ten-track concept album recorded in Nashville with Music City session luminaries including the Jordanaires, Bobby Ogdin, Russ Hicks, Hargus "Pig bed" Robbins, and Charlie McCoy. While the song titles alone -- among them "Nipponese Cowboy," "Mister Richard Smoker," and "Help Me Scrape the Mucus Off My Brain" -- served poster that the group's lyrical attitude had not neutered one smidgin, the music was unco remindful of Nashville's golden era, and performed with accomplishment and fondness.
A spell with Ogdin and a backing unit of measurement dubbed the Shit Creek Boys (which included steel guitar player Stuart Basore, guitarist Danny Parks, twiddler Hank Singer, and bassist Matt Kohut) followed prior to the acquittance of 1997's The Mollusk, a concise, mock-progressive semi-concept album that proven to be i of Ween's strongest efforts. The follow-up was a double-disc concert digest, Paintin' the Town Brown: Ween Live '90-'98, issued in 1999. In the give of 2000, the duo resurfaced with White Pepper, their low gear new studio effort in three days; it peaked at 121 on the Billboard charts, their highest placing to date.
In 2001, Ween began cathartic a serial publication of live albums through their Internet-based independent label, Chocodog. The low gear of these, Live in Toronto Canada, captured a show with the Shit Creek Boys. Around this time, the ring and Elektra parted slipway, and Ween was without a criminal record label as they worked on their eighth studio apartment album. After a wait of 2 years -- during which time they released some other live album, the triple-disc Live at Stubb's -- they signed with Sanctuary Records in 2003, cathartic Quebec City in August of that class. It was the low gear Ween album to crack the Top C, peaking at 81. A few months later on the vent of Quebec, some other independent springy record album followed (Live by Request), and then in the springiness of 2004 they released Live in Chicago, a combination DVD/CD fructify, on Sanctuary, drift back into the studio to process on their ninth studio album. The resulting Cucaracha arrived in October 2007 and was prefaced by the Friends EP in the beginning in the yr.
Amistades Peligrosas
Hopefuls flock to tryouts for CTV's So You Think You Can Dance
The dancers sprawled all over the lobby of the John Bassett Theatre have made it; they began lining up early this torrid Sunday morning outside the Metro Toronto Convention Centre to get a spot in the auditions for CTV�s Canadian franchise of So You Think You Can Dance, and after facing the first panel of judges with a minute-long routine, they�ve survived the first cut.
�It went really well. It was so nerve wracking,� says Tamina Pollack-Paris of Toronto, who brought all of her training � �Hip hop, jazz, ballet, Irish dancing, all that stuff...� � to Rihanna�s Breaking Dishes.
�It was pretty tough competition,� says Christopher Guglich, also from Toronto. �It's really, really stiff competition. I was surprised - they were cutting people that you really would not expect to be cut.�
The carpet in the theatre lobby is covered with clothes and bags, socks and shoes and pieces of paper. Dancers sit with their legs extended in fierce angles as they fill out the paperwork that�ll follow them along to the next step of the competition, before handing it all in to the staff sitting at laptops along the walls. Their feet are often raw � rubbed red in spots and covered with tape and bandages � one of the grisly realities of dancing, either for a living or for pleasure.
Dwayne Anderson goes by the name Rudeboy. The Toronto dancer has brought �12 years of hip hop, dabbled in jazz, African, reggae, a little bit of modern, classical Indian - a whole bunch of stuff.� He says that surviving the auditions is a mental challenge as much as a physical one.
�I just had a mindset of just going through it, having fun, no pressure. The people who were having pressure were the ones who didn't actually get through, because they were putting so much pressure on themselves, and dance is 90 per cent mental. Especially with freestyling where you have to totally be in that space, if your mind gets in the way, too much control, then you're just bound to fail.�
Dancer Tre Armstrong is one of the show�s celebrity judges, and her job begins in earnest on Tuesday, when today�s winners begin the next round of eliminations. �Personality is what the show is about,� she says. �Dancing is what we've built it around, but you can be the wickedest dancer and have the worst, bland personality onscreen, and it's gonna be back - 'sorry, we so want you, but holy freak, show me something or else no one's going to vote for you. It depends on who you are. If you're a great dancer, sometimes your personality doesn't have to be so hot, the dancing will speak for itself. But if you're a mediocre dancer, you'd better start learning how to smile, you'd better start learning how to laugh and make people laugh.�
By noon, most of the dancers have made it into the theatre, while their friends and family wait outside on the street in the sweltering heat. Over 800 dancers have been processed so far, with more to come � the biggest numbers so far. Tamina Pollack-Paris is on her way home to get ready for the next round of eliminations on Tuesday. �I'm ready. I'm going to go to bed early, get my protein shakes. I'm ready, Toronto, to kill it.�
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Troublemakers
Artist: Troublemakers
Genre(s):
Dance
Discography:
Doubts and Convictions
Year: 2001
Tracks: 11
Coming from the demesne of fine vino and romanticism is the electronica trinity Troublemakers, and like their French counterparts such as AIR and Dimitri From Paris, this eclectic mathematical group of musicians composes a selective sound when it comes to shaping dance music. DJ Oil, Fred Berthet, and Arnaud Taillefer first met at the Friche-Belle in Marseille in 1998, and speedily the three got along, thanks to their grasp for '60s and '70s jazz and funk and film heaps. This in turn created the basis of jungle, hip-hop, and house elements to immix together for the Troublemakers. Each musician has case-by-case experiences as well: DJ Oil, a lynchpin within the jungle scene in Marseille, has been perfecting his funkadelic grooves since the early '90s and has held a abidance at the famous Radio Grenouille since 1996. Taillefer preferent picture taking, lifelike figure, and movie soundtracks, aside from tackling music full-time, and Berthet, wHO is a Parisian DJ, issued various releases during the '90s piece working with worldbeat music. Together the Troublemakers mould a unique vibe and maintain a firm winnow radix about Europe. In early 2001, their debut Doubts & Convictions was released on Guidance.
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Bjorn Lynne and Seppo Hurme
Artist: Bjorn Lynne and Seppo Hurme
Genre(s):
Ambient
Discography:
Hobbits and Spaceships
Year: 1992
Tracks: 12
Zimbabwe Legit
Artist: Zimbabwe Legit
Genre(s):
Rap: Hip-Hop
Discography:
Zimbabwe Legit
Year: 1992
Tracks: 7
Though Zimbabwe Legit was the starting time African mathematical group to record hip-hop in America, it's non their vocal talents that causal agency their lonely 12" to fetch hundreds of dollars when it's uncommitted for auction bridge online. Produced by Mista Lawnge from Black Sheep (and engineered by Scotty Hard), it included a remix from DJ Shadow and was his starting time appearance on record, back when he was still making the conversion from Hollywood Records studio wizard to independent producer and co-head of SoleSides Records. Released on 12" as well as CD EP, Republic of Zimbabwe Legit didn't spend much time in photographic print, though Shadow's mix appeared later on the 1996 Mo' Wax digest, Headz II. The geminate of rappers, Akim Ndlovu and his comrade Dumisani, later performed under the name Of Unknown Origin.
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