The Devil’s Radio
By MrZ • June 15th, 2008Talkin’ about what he don’t know,,,
According to US, Steven Tyler has checked in to the same rehab where Dr. Drew did his show from. The band had currently been promoting the guitar hero game that’s named after them.
Rules Of Hell, a box set of Dio’s on again, of again years with Black Sabbath is in production stage. Dio and Tony Iommi are the architects and it wiil be four remastered discs of the appropiate Sabbath albums. Live Evil is a double disc. The two are also working on a brand new album which is not due till some time in ‘09. The two will also be touring with the Metal Masters in August, along with Judas Priest, Testament and Motorhead.
Ozzy is doing one lone fest this year. It takes place at The Pizza Hut Park in Dallas. Other performers include Jonathan Davis, Hellyeah, Seven Dust, Serj Tankian and Shadows Fall.As of today, a ticket price has not been announced but they will be available on ozzfest.com on the 31st.
CC and CBS have not taken the success of online radio without notice. By the end of the summer they will have matched or surpassed their rivals. CC is also interested in expanding the Pandora model.
A recent poll showed that 21% prefer internet listening due to the greater variety. 17% like it for the simple reason that many of the aufio choices, besides music, are simply not available anywhere else. 14% liked the greater access to music.
In online file sharing, the soap opera with no name, a concencus appears to heve been reached. From Australia to the UK(they’ll be dancng in the streets). Some of the governmental opposition includes not spying on consumers. France is considering a three strike proposal, Israel has blocked it’s citizens from connecting to servers outside of their country. Hmm, I thought Israel kind of had larger problems, but that’s just me. The cat is so far out of the bag that there is really no point in governments waisting time and money on the issue. I’ve heard other people express a similar sentiment to this:I’ve been enjoying from Montreal for a number of years and I finally purchased one the Cd’s yesterday. I’ve done that many times with groups and singers who I otherwise wouldn’t have ever had the occasion to hear. While it’s not of zero concern to artists, their main revenue is from merchandising and concerts. How else could you explain Foghat still being round?
It’s amazing how some bands that haven’t had airplay in easily 30 years, are still around. Before Greg Lake was in ELP, he was in King Crimson. You might say they are a grandparent to bands like Dream Theater. Their songs were often so long that an album would only have five songs. All their releases have a common theme, story or idea that ties the whole thing together. I went through a very long period of not liking what I considered artsy, fartsy music. I’m glad I got past that because it’s entertaining and educational at the same time. While I was searching around for some modern day equivalents, I ran across Ayreon and Symphony X, you might like them if you enjoy that type of music, originally considered progressive rock.
If not a grandfather, then certainly a great uncle of grunge has a new release available. Mudhoney’s new one is called, The Lucky Ones. I haven’t heard the group Islands yet but they sound interesting and have a new release out which BB kind of gives a mixed review to.
Darkside Of The Moon remains in the top 50 of the pop chart after all these years. Pop, meaning anything that continues to sale light years beyond most records.
Starbucks has all but eliminated it’s musical venture. The one time forty employee strong division has dwindled to less than a dozen. No doubt the economy is having an effect on fancy coffee and shit music.
The Police will be doing their final(?)reunion show this summer in NY. They will be donating one million for trees in in NYC.
Motley Crue will be touring from July 1st till Aug.31st. STP began May 17th and will keep going till October 26th, barring some unforeseen incident.
Until next time, I’ve been Mr Z, and this is what passes for a column on the internet.
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