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If music doesn’t affect your emotional state of being it’s questionable whether one should call it music. Let’s welcome Dawm Lanten originally from UK now residing in NYC. Lanten is hugely inspired by T.Rex, Hall and Oats, Lennon, and Jess Roden. The track On High is about Lanten seeking spiritual truth, while the dark and gloomy Blow Me Down refers to the long walk of a holy man. Lanten is less serious on Hell Is A Tomb Mind as he speaks of over indulgence and the rock and roll lifestyle. The fact is, true songwring still exists and few are able to channel thoughts above and beyond this world filled with distractions. ‘Email info

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Q Prime, an old school management firm that handles Metallica and The Red Hot Chili Peppers will launch a record label called Mom & Pop music company. “Our ambition is not to be ‘indie’ or ‘major.” Instead, we are striving toward what would now be considered a boutique label, taking our inspiration from great historical music companies like A&M, Chrysalis, Sire, and Island – labels that maintained the best balance of cultural importance and commercial appeal, ” says Q Prime’s Cliff Burnstein.

Myspace Music, originally set to launch yesterday has been delayed until next week. Myspace Music has yet to find a CEO to helm the ship.

Warner Music: FOX columnist Roger Friedman is taking stabs at the Warner leadership. Edgar Bronfman Jr. promoted Lyor Cohen from head bounder to chief bounder. “Believe it or not, the reward for doing nothing but selling out your company is a promotion at Warner M. Group,” says Friedman. Cohen’s most decisive move in the last year? Selling off more than $6 million in stock to buy a tear-down house in the Hamptons. “WMG stock finished at $7.97 Tuesday. A year ago it was over $10. That was before Madonna and Nickelback left. This week, the company released what most people expect to be the final album by Metallica before that group moves on. …

This Week Sales:

Metallica ‘Death Magnetic’- 489,889
Kid Rock ‘Rock N Roll Jesus’ – 74,947
Slipknot ‘All Hope Is Gone’ – 51,773
Staind ‘Illusion of Progress’ – 18,308
Journety ‘Revelation’ – 12,919
3 Doors Down – Self Titled – 10,620
Hollywood Undead ‘ Swan Songs’ – 8,446
Shinedown ‘Sound Of Madness’ – 6,859
Rehab ‘ Graffiti The World’ – 5,374
Secondhand Serenade ‘Twist My Story’ – 5,302
Death Cab For Cutie ‘Narros Stairs’ – 4,908

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Total Request Live the series on MTV that features popular music videos will soon shut down after 10 years on the air. TRL was used as a promotion tool used by musicians, actors, and other celebrities to promote their newest works to the teen demographic.

MTV pulled the plug because the popularity of music videos perished along with the TRL artists including Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, N’Sync, Eminem, The Backstreet Boys, Blink-182, and Jessica Simpson.

The writing was on the wall at this year Video Music Awards when the German boy band Tokio Hotel walked on stage and grabbed the moon man trophy for Best New Artist. Long gone are the days when N’Sync was as popular as Sarah Palin, instead it’s Tokio Who?

Today’s Best New Artist is the artist no one knows about.

“The show spent ten years cycling the worst of pop music into daily rotation. And while you’d think that a decade in the biz would confer some legitimacy onto the show, you’d be wrong: Its Nielsen score actually peaked in 1999, after a mere year on the air”. (Wired)

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Don Henley gives virtual chat with Star-Telegram pop music critic
Preston Jones.

“The record labels have always stolen from artists; now, music consumers are doing it, too. The only way for a musician to make a living anymore is on the road, because the Internet has just about succeeded in killing copyright”.

“We came up in an era when bands actually tried to avoid publicity except for what was absolutely necessary. Our generation of musicians also considered the visual media as something to be avoided in most instances. We tried to maintain an air of mystery, a little aloofness. We would hole up and write our songs, record them, reluctantly do a photo session, give a couple of interviews and then hit the road”.

“The live performance was the thing and FM radio was king. There wasn’t all this silly celebrity culture, all these tabloid TV shows and rabid packs of paparazzi roaming the streets. There was no YouTube, no MySpace, no TMZ. In the ‘60s and early ‘70s, most artists weren’t willing to “ho” to get their fifteen minutes of fame”.

“Back in the day, there was no MTV or VH-1. That was the beginning of the end, I think — MTV. It forcibly turned an aural medium into a visual medium and, in doing so, killed the opportunity for the listener to use his imagination. Bob Pittman, the inventor of MTV, said: “Young Americans are TV babies. If you got their emotions going, forget their logic, you’ve got ’em”.

“He went on to convince the struggling, major labels that MTV was the ultimate promotional tool — and, for a time, it was, enabling the majors to sell trainloads of absolute crap. During the MTV era, the number of one-hit wonders grew exponentially, and the music business has never recovered. As the song says, “Video killed the radio star,” and now the Internet is finishing the job”.

I don’t know if we would have made it in today’s climate. I’m not sure that we would have wanted to.”

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Embracing The Online World: Music labels are pumping up promotions in the online world. MySpace will launch a site this month that will assist music companies manage their catalogs online while Universal Music’s Polydor Records will distribute Snow Patrol’s upcoming album as an Apple iPhone application. Regardless, many labels are still stunned by complicated technology. Read the full article from Forbes titled ‘Record Biz Pumps It Up‘.

Death Magnetic Released Days Ahead: The release date September 12th flew out the window. Metallica’s UK label Vertigo has soft released “Death Magnetic’ after a slew of retailers put it on sale earlier this week. The entire record can be streamed here.

New Study: The latest AMS Radio Index shows that 64 percent of American adults listen to the radio at least once a day and the survey showed that radio remains the number one source for Americans to learn about new music. Internet radio is also on the rise which increased 39%, up from 23% six months ago. Radio is the top source for new music? Hmmmm…

Recommended Reading: The Guardian UK says the indie labels are the new mavericks that define trends and launch careers. “Record labels that are also fueled by the passion for music rather than money are becoming more successful”.

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