An evening with Elton John tour Sudbury tour
January 29, 2008
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An evening with Elton John tour Sudbury tour
An Evening With…
ELTON JOHN
SUDBURY ARENA
SUNDAY, MARCH 2, 2008
Doors: 7:00PM Show: 8:00PM
Tickets on sale Friday, February 1, 2008 @ 10am
Tickets available at all Ticketmaster outlets, Memorial Auditorium Complex Box Office, Centre In The Square Box Office
Charge by phone at 519-578-1570, 800-265-8977 or 416-870-8000
Order online at www.ticketmaster.ca
Tickets (incl. GST) $87.50 & $129.50; Reserved Seating
(plus FMF and service charges)
8 TICKET LIMIT
Elton John will be making a very special solo appearance at the Kitchener Memorial Auditorium Complex on March 3rd!!. This concert is part of the 2008 Tour: Rocket Man • Number Ones.
“We are excited and overwhelmed to have Sir Elton John performing at the Kitchener Auditorium,” said Kim Kugler, Manager of the Kitchener Memorial Auditorium Complex. “In the 58 years of The Auditorium’s history, this is the most renowned artist we have ever had on our stage,” said Kugler. “The Kitchener community is thrilled to welcome Elton John, and there is no doubt he will be received with open arms.”
Elton John has sold more than 200 million records and continues to add innovative work to his personal repertoire of 29 consecutive Top 40 hits, 35 gold and 25 platinum albums.
Rocket Man•Number Ones, just released in March 2007, debuted in the top 10 and features newly
compiled and digitally mastered greatest hits spanning the first three decades of the singer/songwriter’s career.
Calling all Zappa heads - please identify yourself! I am in need of a bio writer!
January 25, 2008
Calling all Zappa heads - please identify yourself! I am in need of a bio writer!
Calling all Zappa heads – I am in need of a fantastic writer for the bio for the new Zappa Plays Zappa DVD. Please email me if you are interested and able to complete in a short timeframe (7-10 days – eek!).
JOURNEY TOUR SCHEDULED TO OPEN VIRTUAL WORLD IN SECOND LIFE!
January 25, 2008
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Launch Major Summer Tour
January 25, 2008
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Launch Major Summer Tour
TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS LAUNCH MAJOR SUMMER TOUR ACROSS THE U.S. AND CANADA
TICKETS GO ON SALE FEBRUARY 4 FOLLOWING THE GROUP’S HIGHLY ANTICIPATED SUPER BOWL XLII HALFTIME SHOW
HIGHWAY COMPANIONS CLUB MEMBERS
GET ACCESS TO PRESALE TICKETS
TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS announce an upcoming summer tour that will take the band through the U.S. and Canada. The news comes as the Heartbreakers prepare for the biggest show in live entertainment, the SUPER BOWL XLII HALFTIME SHOW, broadcast live on FOX Sunday, February 3. All tour tickets, with a few exceptions (see below) will go on sale February 4th, the day after the Super Bowl festivities. Watched by nearly 140 million people in the U.S. and one billion in 230 countries and territories worldwide, the Halftime Show will give the world a preview of the legendary live act that will storm the U.S. and Canada in a few short months. This summer tour continues Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ tradition of great musical packages, with legend Steve Winwood opening every show. For more information, people can go to tompetty.com or simply pick up tickets at ticketmaster.com.
HIGHWAY COMPANIONS CLUB PRESALE, TICKET PACKAGES
Tickets for the Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers’ 2008 North American Tour go on sale soon, but fans will be able to jump to the front of the line and purchase tickets before the general public.
CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO ON TICKET PRESALES AND TICKET PACKAGES
2008 TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS TOUR WITH VERY SPECIAL GUEST STEVE WINWOOD
May 30- Van Andel Arena, Grand Rapids, MI
May 31- The Palace of Auburn Hills, Auburn Hills, MI
June 03- Air Canada Centre, Toronto, ON
June 05- Wachovia Center, Philadelphia, PA
June 08- Nissan Pavilion, Bristow, VA
June 10- Post-Gazette Pavilion, Burgettstown, PA
June 11- New England Dodge Music Center, Hartford, CT
June 13- TD Banknorth Garden, Boston, MA
June 17- Madison Square Garden, New York, NY
June 18- Prudential Center, Newark, NJ
June 21- Darien Lakes Performing Arts Center, Darien Center, NY
June 22- Blossom Music Center, Cuyahoga Falls, OH
June 25- Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, CA
July 02- United Center, Chicago, IL
July 03- Verizon Wireless Music Center, Noblesville, IN
July 08- Riverbend Music Center, Cincinnati, OH
July 09- Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre at Encore Park, Atlanta, GA ****
July 11- Charlotte Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre, Charlotte, NC
July 12- Walnut Creek Amphitheatre, Raleigh, NC
July 15- BankAtlantic Center, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
July 16- St. Pete Times Forum, Tampa, FL
July 19- TBD, Denver, CO ****
July 20- Quest Center Omaha, Omaha, NE
July 22- Sprint Center, Kansas City, MO
July 23- Target Center, Minneapolis, MN
August 07- Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre, Maryland Heights, MO
August 09- MTS Centre, Winnipeg, MB
August 11- Pengrowth Saddledome, Calgary, AB
August 12- Rexall Place, Edmonton, AB
August 15- The Gorge, George, WA
August 16- The Gorge, George, WA
August 20- Jobing.com Arena, Glendale, AZ ****
August 22- Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre, Irvine, CA
August 23- TBD, San Francisco, CA ****
August 26- Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre, Selma, TX
August 27- American Airlines Center, Dallas, TX
August 29- Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, Woodlands, TX
**** Tickets for these shows on sale TBA.
DEPRESSED DAVE GAHAN’S HOURGLASS ALBUM (FROM DEPECHE MODE) - REMIXES SCHEDULED FOR MARCH 11th
January 24, 2008
DEPRESSED DAVE GAHAN’S HOURGLASS ALBUM (FROM DEPECHE MODE) - REMIXES SCHEDULED FOR MARCH 11th
January 24, 2008
DAVE GAHAN’S HOURGLASS - REMIXES
SCHEDULED FOR MARCH 11th RELEASE
ON MUTE/VIRGIN RECORDS
DAVE GAHAN will follow 2007’s HOURGLASS with a vinyl collection of remixes of songs from the critically acclaimed album. HOURGLASS - REMIXES, scheduled for March 11th release via Mute/Virgin Records, features Juan Maclean, Booka Shade, Kap10Kurt, Maps, T. Raumschmiere, Digitalism, Onur Ozer and Sebastien Leger taking on tracks such as hit single “Kingdom,” (recently #1 on Billboard’s Singles chart and #5 on the Hot Dance Club Play chart), “Deeper & Deeper,” “Use You” and “Saw Something” plus “Love Will Leave,” a b-side from the HOURGLASS sessions. The collection will mark the first time many of these versions have been released physically in the United States; numerous selections that have been available only as imports until now.
HOURGLASS - REMIXES, which will include a free CD, will be available exclusively through thinkindie.com, which services the best independent music retailers in America with exclusive and rare items that are not available via major chain and big-box stores. The bonus CD includes all eight tracks from the vinyl plus three additional remixes. Visit thinkindie.com for a complete list of outlets.
With his second solo album, the Depeche Mode front man emerged as a gifted songwriter, masterfully capturing man’s race against — and fear of running out of - time. Filter’s “Good Music Guide” called the album “astonishingly brilliant…squaring off with everything from nihilism to the tyranny of humans. And all the while aching for something of real value and consequence” while Rolling Stone noted: “Hourglass goes all the way electro…Gahan broods over God and humanity and the bleakness of existence in ballads like ‘Kingdom’ and ‘Saw Something.’ But he gets off a fantastic sex-hound growl in ‘Use You,’ with a gospel vibe recalling Songs of Faith and Devotion.”
GAHAN’s LIVE FROM SOHO, recorded in October at the Apple Store in New York City, was released on iTunes on December 18th and he recently performed on NPR’s “World Café.”
The HOURGLASS - REMIXES track listing is as follows:
VINYL
Side A:
1. Deeper & Deeper - Juan Maclean Club Mix
2. Kingdom - Booka Shade Club Remix
3. Love Will Leave - Kap10Kurt mix
4. Use You - Maps Remix
Side B:
1. Deeper & Deeper - T. Raumschmiere Remix Extended
2. Kingdom - Digitalism Remix
3. Saw Something - Onur Ozer
4. Deeper & Deeper - Sebastien Leger Remix
FREE CD
1. Deeper & Deeper - Juan Maclean Club Mix
2. Kingdom - Booka Shade Club Remix
3. Love Will Leave - Kap10Kurt mix
4. Use You - Maps Remix
5. Deeper & Deeper - T. Raumschmiere Remix Extended
6. Kingdom - Digitalism Remix
7. Saw Something - Onur Ozer
8. Deeper & Deeper - Sebastien Leger Remix
9. Kingdom - Rosario’s Big Room Vocal
10. Saw Something - Skreamix
11. Deeper & Deeper - SHRUBBN!! FX Instrumental
COLLECTIVE SOUL AND JONAS JOIN FORCES FOR CANADIAN TOUR
January 24, 2008
Joe Jackson to Release “Rain” album January 29
January 17, 2008
Joe Jackson to Release “Rain” album January 29
R.E.M. ANNOUNCE RELEASE OF BRAND-NEW STUDIO ALBUM — ACCELERATE
January 14, 2008
ITUNES BEST SELLING MUSIC and CDS FOR 2007
December 13, 2007
Billy Atwell explains his wants for Xmas in interview
December 13, 2007
1. What do you need for Xmas?
New glasses.
2.
What are your party plans for News Years Eve? Going anywhere special?Playing to several thousand people at Seacrets in Ocean City, MD with my cover band Big Bang Baby. We will be shooting a DVD that night, too. Should be a blast!
3. What are your New Years Resolutions?
Increase business and expand my resources for teaching, recording, gigging, composing. The usual stuff. Certainly hope to spend more quality time with my family doing things that helps us remember the little things in the rat race of life.
For 2008:1. Any new tours or album details we should know about?
Not sure. I’ve been negligent composing my own stuff and focusing more on the role of producer and freelance drummer. I could get on a roll and come up with more stuff without even thinking about it. I threw a track on myspace the other day and referenced a hypothetical release in ‘09 called “Black Insect Jacket”. At least I have a title!
2.
How will your band change over the next year? Any different outlook?I’m going to start learning more about sequencing software and virtual synths to lean heavier on an electronica/abstract direction (pending of course that my clients are into it). Hopefully I’ll get better at managing deposits and things so that if?a project?takes longer than expected I don’t sell myself short or get hung up for weeks with no revenue because someone gets a chest infection and can’t sing. That type of stuff.
3.
What do you think illegal music downloaders should know about for 2008? How is it directly affecting you as an artist? If you could do something about it, what would it be?I’m not the guy to enlighten people who make a game of getting over on people and stealing their work on a daily basis. I can hear a nation of Beavis and Buttheads going, “Heh, heh, heh…I didn’t pay ANYTHING for it! Heh, heh, heh.” I just don’t agree with it. On the other hand there isn’t much to do about it because these aren’t the days of vinyl. Back then kids didn’t have a way to cut vinyl in their bedrooms?or convert it to a format to?carry on like?Johnny Tastemaker and the Nanosecond Attention Span All-Stars. Ah…the days of leaving the arm up on the turntable to listen to side one of Zeppelin’s “Houses Of The Holy”…Aerosmith’s “Rocks”…side two of Cheap Trick’s “Live At Budokan” over and over again…alas.
As far as effecting me it makes less sense to worry about it in terms of what my old friend Steve Taylor calls the “opportunist’s rescue fantasy on a grande scale”. In other words, I don’t really have to sit around and think about working with artists based on selling them to a record company for a five album deal and a big advance. Artists now have creative power unlike many years back and are really grasping at straws for anyone’s attention that’ll pony up and buy SOMETHING from them. I’m aiming at new talent, the unheard, the underdog and little guy…I’m trying to help them find a voice at a fraction of the cost and a minimal amount of paperwork. A modern day Sam Phillips if I may be so bold. The industry is such a crapshoot that all I can really hope to do is work like a paint contractor…?look at the house, talk about how to spruce it up, do it, get paid and offer a firm handshake. If they get a deal, great, maybe I’ll negotiate for a backend percentage for working as inexpensively as I do. However with more and more artists putting out their own stuff (outside of the clutching hands of the pop star/glossy/15-minutes-of-”fame” frying pan) we can get down to the work, create some lasting recordings and let the marketing details work themselves out. Post the tracks on?free streaming audio sites?to encourage gigs and a fanbase? Great. Release it in limited CD form to sell at shows and as digital downloads? Makes sense. Send it to radio stations for airplay? Awesome. License it in a major or independent film? Best option yet because that’s where the money is.
I’m not sure anything can be done about it at this point. The problem was always all the middle-men jacking up the retail price of a CD. Had the industry have taken note of a label like Dischord that made the packaging minimal but functional and touted the option to buy direct postage paid for a modest fee to be determined we probably wouldn’t have the backlash of copyright theft that we have now.?It was also pure folly to drop the ball on reinvesting profits into artist development rather than creating?new personas, cashing in and getting out. Disposable music for disposable palettes. I still buy CD’s. Depending on the artist, the release and my certainty in it’s longevity in my collection I may buy it used. I still like to look at artwork no matter how small it is.
Besides, mp3’s sound like ass most of the time.
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Out of all the positive things that the Internet can do for you as an artist, what has it been?It’s a great advertising medium. Direct marketing. Awesome. I don’t use robot hardware to try and sell stuff to people who are into stuff that might sound like my stuff. And I can’t stand artists who do. I’m either too lazy or just can’t be that phony. I’d like to think it’s the latter. It’s really cool to be able to actually compliment someone directly on their work or even have infrequent correspondence with them. I dont’ remember that stuff happening before the Internet save for the first wave of ’80’s American hardcore when DIY was in full swing. That seemed like a really vital underground scene. I’ll go out of my way to buy something new as a gesture to the industry: “Yes! SOMEONE actually likes this crazy s**t enough to pay retail for it! Let’s push it!!!”
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Are you more optimistic or pessimistic for 2008 compared to 2007?Bush getting out of office can only be a good thing. That’s enough and really is all that matters at this point. If we get another Republican president I’m going to have to consider alot of things all over again. Hopefully people are tired of doing without, being lied to and manipulated and being scared by fear mongers with secret agendas. So much of the world’s history and stabilization is hanging on next year’s election that I can’t really tell my what my full resolve will be until the results are in. And hopefully those won’t be manipulated by someone’s family that can shamelessly take care of “their own”.
Billy Atwell
Composer/Producer/Instrumentalist
www.billyatwell.com
www.ampaudio.net
Hoboken, NJ
