We are digging the Oregon rock act The Day The Nights. Full self produced album coming out at the end of February and will be shooting a video for the track ‘Her Name is Alice’ which is also featured in the Oscar nominated movie “The Wrestler”. The members see themselves as a rock n’ roll band with attitude. For fans of Queens of the Stone Age, Foo Fighters, and Quicksand.
Our favorite track is ‘Her Name is Alice‘
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Check out these tracks from singer songwriter Amanda Ghost who hails from London. In fact, Ghost has now become the new head of Sony’s Epic Records, replacing Charlie Walk. Ghost will based in NYC and will join the company effective February 16, 2009 and will oversee management and the creative direction.
Ghost is a pop princess and grammy-nominated songwriter, penning songs for James Blunt “You’re Beautiful”, Beyoncé & Shakira “Beautiful Liar†and Jordin Sparks ‘Tattoo.
Ghost released her debut album “Ghost Stories” on Warner Bros. in 2000 and later went on to release records in the UK on her own record label, Plan A records which was distributed through Universal Records.
Ghost says:
“I’m not a conventional choice as an executive in the music business, but it is testament to the new mood at Sony where content is now king and the music business is being put back in the hands of creative talent such as myself. I’m here to draw on my experiences as an artist, songwriter and producer to make the new and existing artists signed to Epic as brilliant and successful as possible,” she continued.
Let’s welcome Phil Marshall who hails from Hull, Northeast United Kingdom but spends alot of time touring in the states. Phil has recorded four solo albums, two of which at Abbey Road Studios in London, making him only one of a handful independent artist that have ever been allowed to record there. Phil has performed live for crowds up to 24,000 at the Kingston Communication Stadium in Yorkshire. In May of 2007, Phil released a new EP titled ‘One Week‘, which features six singles that he wrote within a week, one song per day. Phil is finishing up new demos. Phil was name-checked by David Cook in the upcoming Feb 2009 Issue of Glamour Mag.
“I told her ‘Touchdown!'” Minor told The Associated Press after the performance.
Minor insisted that Hudson and Faith Hill, who sang “America the Beautiful” before the national anthem, use the tracks the NFL requires them to submit a week before the game. “That’s the right way to do it,” Minor said. “There’s too many variables to go live. I would never recommend any artist go live because the slightest glitch would devastate the performance.”
Is there something wrong with this story? I’m more confused with the fact Hudson asking ‘How did I do?”. Maybe she was referring to if her lip movements matched with her voice. I understand that we are living in superficial times and that lip-synching in many instances is required from a production standpoint to ensure quality for broadcast. I just hope that Hudson and her management team were aware before taking the gig that lip synching is frowned upon for obvious reasons, hence, expect the negative press.
Chris Brown didn’t have it easy in the beginning after myspace shut his page down when rapper Chris Brown became famous. Instead, Chris now goes by the name of Tofer Brown and it seems to be working as he sings with passion and the songwriting is excellent. Tofer wrote a recent song with Bleu (Aware Records) who has written for the Jonas Brothers, Jon Mclaughlin, and Green River Ordinance. Editor of Spin, Doug Brod says this:
“Now this is impressive! You’ve got that delicate, vulnerable thoroughly engaging voice (nice falsetto!), memorable songs, busy but not fussy production. Sure, some would say this is middle of the road (and we already have enough Keanes and Frays in this world), but I say this is the sound of classic pop. Take a bow!”
Currently meeting with labels and publishers.
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