Duran Duran Goes On Top

Duran Duran’s “A View To A Kill” is now considered to be the best ‘Bondiana’ headlining song. James Bond and Duran Duran, sounds very optimistic – for real. This information is supported by the results of questioning carried out by the Gigwise music portal. Surely it’s readers were not mistaken. “A View To A Kill” was written by Duran Duran together with John Barry as a theme for this movie back in 1985. The second place is taken by Shirley Bassey’s “Goldfinger” which was presented in 1964. The third spot was given to Sir Paul McCartney’s “Live and Let Die” – 1973. Until this day many viewers and critics believe that those musicians who are being presented in ‘Bondiana’ are the best. It cannot be reversed or changed because definitely they’re worth of it. Here is the full list of names:

1. Duran Duran – “A View To A Kill”

2. Shirley Bassey – “Goldfinger”

3. Paul McCartney – “Live And Let Die”

4. Carly Simon – “Nobody Does It Better”

5. Shirley Bassey – “Diamonds Are Forever”

6. Nancy Sinatra – “You Only Live Twice”

7. Matt Monro – “From Russia With Love”

8. Louis Armstrong – “We Have All The Time In The World”

9. Tina Turner – “GoldEye”

10. Alicia Keys and Jack White – “Another Way To Die”

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Top Thirteen

“The king of rock n’ roll” Elvis Presley was again proclaimed to be the richest dead celebrity, said Reuters. The list of richest dead stars is annually set up by the Forbes magazine, and it seems not to change a lot. From October 2007 to October 2008 his successors have received fifty two million dollars. Good pay for doing nothing! Most of these money came from Presley’s memorial mansion Graceland, and all kinds of projects like the program broadcasted by a Sirius Satellite Radio.

The second spot on this list was taken by Charles Schulz, an author of “Peanuts”. This infamous comics about Snoopy and Charlie Brown was able to pull out thirty three million dollars. Another group of lucky successors because right now it’s all about their success. The third place goes to Heath Ledger, and his achievemnt is mostly due to the last movie in which he played one of the major roles – “The Dark Knight”. It brought up twenty million dollars.

The rest of it looks like this:  4. Albert Einstein (due to Disney’s brand “Baby Einstein”), 5. Aaron Spelling, 6. Theodor Geisel, 7. John Lennon, 8. Andy Warhol, 9. Marilyn Monroe, 10. Steve McQueen, 11. Paul Newman, 12. James Dean, 13. Marvin Gaye.

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Punk Memorabilia

Christie’s is going to lead an auction in New York selling all kinds of things that are somehow connected to the punk culture, said AP. A major sale should take place on November 24 this year. Totally, it must include 120 lots! All sorts of objects, flyers and outfits that can trace their origin to Sex Pistols, Velvet Underground, Ramones, Smiths, Cure, Patty Smith, David Bowie and Blondie may be found in the process. Possibly, it will be more like a one-day museum instead of an auction, hence so many rare and historical possessions shall be observed. For example, there will be a flyer to one of the first Clash concerts, or some promo photographs signed by Sex Pistols. Christie’s representatives are saying that this auction is the biggest out of all the others which have ever concentrated within the punk music culture. It may also incorporate many things that are just part of this wider rock n’ roll agenda. Some rumours speak of John Lennon’s portative organ and Kurt Cobain’s first guitar that was heard on his original demo records.

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Led Zeppelin Shall Tour Without Plant

Led Zeppelin’s bass guitarist John Paul Johns has approved and confirmed some old information about the fact that his legendary band is about to start the world tour without Robert Plant, said Gigwise. After Zeppelin’s historical concert in London last year various rumours kept on giving hopes that Plant will return. However, a singer just denied everything by saying that nothing can be more funny than to think of his come back. Many fans thought that these denials are strange, unbelievable and even slightly rude. After all, why can’t this guy do something with his present in order to restore the past? Alison Kraus, a country singer with whom Plant was recently recording and touring is often blamed for his stubborn position – classical situation by the way.

Currently, the band is searching for someone else who will be able to replace this difficult going musician. Those may be, Miles Kennedy (Alter Bridge), Jack White (White Stripes) and possibly Steven Tyler (Aerosmith).

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Snoop Dogg Keeps On Balling With Massive Attack

Snoop Dogg has recorded a new song together with some members of a British trip-hop group Massive Attack Robert Del Naja (3D) and Grantley Marshall (Daddy G), said Pitchfork. This cool track was named “Calling Mumia” and will be included in Mark Evans’ documentary “In Prison My Whole Life”.  A joint project is called 100 Suns and inspires the whole variety of new hopes and dreams. Snoop plus Massive Attack! These types of combinations cannot stay away from those who worth something new and a little bit rebelious. Evans’ film was released in the UK during the last weekend (anyone can check it out – great piece of work, drama and reality), and “Calling Mumia” is now available on Massive Attack’s official website.

The most recent album produced by Snoop Dogg “Ego Trippin” was released in March 2008. Lots of fans are waiting for his new stuff to come out sometime in the beginning of 2009. On the other hand Massive Attack is more silent these days; their collection of hits “Collected” saw the light in 2006.

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Bono Is About To Write!

In 2009 the leader of U2 Bono is planning to work as a columnist for The New York Times, said Rolling Stone. As the editor in chief Andrew Rosenthal says a musician shall write up to six/ten pieces of material on various topics including everything from poverty in Africa to Frank Sinatra. Rosenthal also noted that Bono has agreed to work for them for free. Isn’t it amazing? However, Bono is doing great and his charity activities are just awesome. It seems that Bono is about to write all these articles at the peak of his touring activity which is dedicated to the release of his band’s 12th studio album. A name and the release date is not known so far. In addition to this, The New York Times is not going to stop there, and shall invite Queen’s guitar player Brian May as well. Brian May will be a perfect choice too – that guy is a scientist after all.

Just for the reminder, Bono is not trying himself in journalism for the first time. Back in 2006 the leader of U2 had edited The Independent newspaper issues once in a while, and in 2007 – Vanity Fair. In September this year he wrote for The Financial Times about the latest UN summit.

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Linkin Park And CSI

Linkin Park is about to popularize it’s new single “Leave Out All The Rest” with the help of CSI series, said Rolling Stone. This song belongs to the band’s latest studio album “Minutes to Midnight”, and will be played in one of the episodes (possibly more than once). Premiere of the new episode shall begin on November 6. Also, the episode where this new single will be played should be named after it, so nobody can miss this event. However, Linkin Park is not the only band which is trying to use CSI as it’s ‘popularity pusher’. The Who and maybe some others are planning to present themselves in the new episode of CSI as well. More information shall be available soon. 

“Leave Out All The Rest” is the fifth and probably the last single from “Minutes to Midnight” album, which was released in 2007. Currently it stands on the eleventh position according to the Billboard Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart.

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LCD Soundsystem

The leader of LCD Soundsystem James Murphy had created the side project, said New Musical Express. Besides him it will include a former musicians from Hockey Night Paul Sprangers and Scott Wells, plus the LCD’s drummer Pat Maloney.  This new band is still staying without a name. James added, “We’ve gone back and forth for months, there’s no way to say what the band name is. Pat and I are the drummer and the bass player”.  He also noted that while writing a new material they’ve been trying to stay with the traditional rock sound.  Murphy is planning to release the new album sometime during the following year, and let’s hope it shall happen! DFA record label’s representatives are proving this information by saying that it shall be out in the first half of 2009. It is simple, more side projects they will create, more fun their fans shall have in the future.

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R.E.M.

R.E.M. is re-releasing it’s first album “Murmur” which is exactly twenty five years old this year. As it was said by Pitchfork the album shall be made on two disks (I.R.S./UMe record label) on November 25. The first CD will include a new remastered version, and the second one an unknown 1983 performance in Toronto. During that concert besides playing songs from “Murmur” they’ve performed Velvet Underground’s song “There She Goes Again”, and some songs from their mini-album “Chronic Town”. Also, this release will be accompanied with the album producer’s interviews – Mitch Easter and Don Dixon. Many bands are trying to make their old stuff going and going… Of course it’s very cool, but some critics believe that the biggest purpose is to make more money off the old records, plus instead of kicking twenty five years old albums it will be much better to use the same energy on producing the new bands. Who knows?

“Murmur” is being re-released for the second time so far. The first time it happened back in 1993 in dedication to it’s tenth anniversary. Currently, R.E.M. is in the midst of their world tour supporting the new studio album “Accelerate”.

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Eminem Is Preparing Something New

Eminem had announced a wish to rename his new album, which is about to be released quite soon. It’s going to be called “Relapse”, said Billboard. Sirius radio station was the first one to hear and broadcast this news during Eminem’s presentation of his book “The Way I Am”. Also, he had exposed a new song from the upcoming album - “I’m Having a Relapse”. Previously it was said that rapper’s new work will be named “King Mathers”.  Nevertheless, he didn’t identify the exact release date, so most likely it’s going to appear in stores sometime in the beginning of 2009, but some people expect to see it in December. Haven’t heard from this guy in a long time and let’s check out what he is getting prepared this time. Shall his new work be less rebelious and more knowledgeable? 

Eminem’s last album “Encore” was released back in 2004 and sold 5,1 million copies worldwide. In 2005 he just collected his best stuff under the title “Curtain Call: The Hits”.

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"Tonight"

Franz Ferdinand announces the release of it’s third album, said New Musical Express. This new work is going to be called “Tonight” and is about to hit European stores on January 26, 2009. North American release shall take place on the following day. Also, due to some traditional pre-release information leaks (and often mp3 stealings) NME quickly found the upcoming album’s track list. It will include twelve songs (most of them were produced by Dan Carey). Some of them were already played by the band during it’s recent concerts. This group shows creative productivity again and again – three great albums in four years.

1. ‘Ulysses’

2. ‘Turn It On’

3. ‘Kiss Me’

4. ‘Twilight Omens’

5. ‘Send Him Away’

6. ‘Live Alone’

7. ‘Bite Hard’

8. ‘What She Came For’

9. ‘Cant’t Stop Feeling’

10. ‘Lucid Dreams’

11. ‘Dream Again’

12. ‘Katherine Kiss Me’

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Jack White Is In Denial Too

The White Stripes and The Raconteurs leader Jack White has denied rumours about his plans to replace Robert Plant during the upcoming Led Zeppelin’s world tour, said Gigwise. On White’s opinion Led Zeppelin without Plant simply cannot exist as a group. “I do not believe you can have a band called Led Zeppelin, singing Zeppelin songs, without Plant”, he noted.

After Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Johns and Jason Bonham have performed in London last December all kinds of people are making up all kinds of rumours about this band’s reunion. Some say that Plant will perform with them during the world tour, some are just placing other singers on his place, and no one was correct in these contemplations so far. Robert Plant has denied all of these talks by saying that it’s “frustrating and ridiculous” and that he “will not be touring or recording with Led Zeppelin”. However, everyone is sure that there will be more rumours and talks, probably until the end of time.

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Nine Inch Nails Go Through Changes

Nine Inch Nails drummer Josh Freese is leaving the band, said Gigwise. Following the band’s leader’s words (Trent Reznor), Josh who is playing with them since 2005 will say goodbuy to his collegues during the North American tour, which is going to start on October 18 and shall last until the midst of December. Everybody is contemplating on various reasons for Freese to leave this band, but Reznor has underlined the fact that he still remains to be good a friend. Who should become the next drummer is not known so far. Trent has specifically noted, “Josh Freese fans, be sure to check out a show on the upcoming North American leg of the tour, as sadly they will be the last ones he’s playing with us.”

In the beginning of summer they’ve already made some changes in the lineup. The bassist Rich Fauns was replaced by Justin Meldal-Johnsen who previously has played with Beck and Garbage. The only constant participant is Trent Reznor himself who is practically representing the band. Everyone else comes and goes all the time.

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EMI Follows Everybody Else

EMI record label is planning to start it’s own online music service by the end of this year. It shall also include some free music content, said Reuters. It seems that all kinds of record companies are slowly, but surely try to explore the Internet as a source for selling music. CD days are fading away, and it becomes more obvious every year. Mp3 revolution is simply unstoppable. This new service will be located at their official website, which is currently used only to post news articles and all sorts of the relevant information about music industry. Company’s representatives are calling this project “experimental laboratory”, and everyone can only say good luck to them. It means all kinds of things and possibly the major one is to try something what everybody is doing these days –  the online distribution of music versus CDs.   

By now EMI is participating in a number of similar projects. For example, the biggest one so far is Comes With Music (Nokia). Buying an expensive cell phone gives it’s owners a free access to their music catalogue during one year. They also work together with YouTube and MySpace Music.

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McCartney Makes It Fast

Sir Paul McCartney’s new single “Nothing Too Much, Just Out Of Sight” is now available online for free. This song is going to be the part of his new project “The Fireman”, and it is now accessible on the New Musical Expresse’s web site. “The Fireman” also includes Martin Glover, the bassist from Killing Joke who is better known under his nickname Youth. On November 24 musicians are planning to release the album “Electric Arguments” which is going to be “The Fireman’s” third studio album. It’s going to incorporate thirteen electronic tracks. The best part about it is the fact that each track was written and recorded in one day. One of these songs – “Lifelong Passion (Sail Away)” was already presented on McCartney’s personal web site. McCartney thinks that this record turned to be so unusual and strange that it may change his music career forever.

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Foo Fighters Got Angry

Foo Fighters have shown their dissatisfaction with the fact that John McCain had used their song “My Hero” during one of his public speeches, said Billboard. Definitely this presidential candidate doesn’t know this song and most likely barely knows who Foo Fighters are, but his organizers shoud’ve be more conscious about it. “It’s frustrating and infuriating that someone who claims to speak for the American people would repeatedly show such little respect for creativity and intellectual property,” the band said in their official announcement. They’ve also added, “The saddest thing about this is that ‘My Hero’ was written as a celebration of the common man and his extraordinary potential. To have it appropriated without our knowledge and used in a manner that perverts the original sentiment of the lyric just tarnishes the song.”

Previously, the band Heat got quite angry with Sarah Palin who used their song “Barracuda” without any legal agreement. Jackson Brown even took the legal action against McCain when this presidential candidate incorporated his song “Running on Empty” into a speech. So, Foo Fighters are not the first ones to get mad at these political people.

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Limited YouTube

YouTube users will be able to download any song or track they’ve liked without leaving the web server’s video hosting, said The New York Times. Apple iTunes and Amazon became Google’s (Google owns YouTube) business partners. If the track is available for purchasing there will be a special Amazon’ or iTunes’ icon underneath it. All you may need is just to make a click. However, it’s not for free anyway…  Currently, YouTube allows purchasing only those tracks that belong to EMI and Universal Music. Later in time Google is planning to extend the amount of stuff that will be available on the YouTube service. Nevertheless, this new thing is accessible only in the US so far, and it’s not known when exactly this service will start working everywhere else.

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MySpace Grows Big

MySpace Music users have downloaded and listened up to one billion songs after this service became available just a few days ago, said TechCrunch. The most popular online music store iTunes needed almost three years to sell the same amount of songs! New rivals on the block shall make it big. MySpace representatives have approved this information, but without making it clear on how many of these tracks were actually downloaded or just heard online. MySpace Music was launched in the end of September this year allowing it’s users not only download their music, but also listen to it online. Also, it makes possible to buy concert tickets and other corresponding goods. Universal Music Group, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group and EMI Music became their business partners.

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Glastonbury - 2009

The first day of a Glastonbury ticket sale turned to be unbelievably successful, said France Presse. 68750 out of 137500 were sold out fantastically and unexpectedly quickly thus proving the raising popularity of this great music festival. The following year promises to be powerful! This ticket sale is going to last for only four more days, and will start again on April 5. The price jumps up to one hundred seventy five pounds, but those who would like to pre-order it should pay fifty pounds more. As FP is noticing, Glastonbury’s organizers are using a new method of selling tickets, which simply means that before purchasing a ticket one should register on the festival’s website. They think that this trick shall protect their sale from all kinds of cheaters.

This year’s event included Jay-Z, Amy Winehouse, Leonard Cohen and The Verve. The upcoming bash shall welcome Coldplay, Radiohead, Led Zeppelin and Stevie Wonder.  

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iTunes Is The Winner

iTunes won another legal battle with the online music stores, said Rolling Stone. The American Copyright Royalty Board had ruled that the amount of commission that iTunes traditionally pays to the Internet music distributors shall not increase. National Music Publishers’ Association was demanding to raise royalties from nine to fifteen cents – 66 % higher. Such demands were not put out for the first time. During the last year Apple was saying that if commission goes up they will close their iTunes Store once and for all. The Copyright Royalty Board’s decision was made up five years ago and since then it faces all kinds of complaints from the NMPA. If these royalties stayed as high as the NMPA always wanted, then iTunes could’ve loose up to three hundred million dollars during the last five years. Apple’s opponents keep on saying that this company gets most of it’s money by selling iPod players, and of course Apple denies it.

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Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel Support Obama

Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel are planning to make the joint concert for the first time in their musical careers, said AP. All the profit from this performance shall support Barack Obama’s campaign. Again since 1992 rock musicians and not only them are seeking to help the Democratic party to win.  Springsteen has already spoken about his political views in March when Obama was going against Clinton. This concert will take place on October 16 in New York, and most likely shall be attended by Obama himself. In order to get there people should pay up to five hundred dollars, but the biggest price may jump to ten thousand. Historical events that are planned in advance can never be cheap. On the day before the show Obama and McCain will go through the last public debates in this presidential race.

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Kevin Costner Goes Country

Kevin Costner and his band Modern West is about to release the album “Untold Truth”, said Reuters. This is the country style record which is going to appear in music stores on November 11. In the meantime, the first song on the album “Long Hot Night” is already available on the Internet. Don’t miss it if you like the country music. Totally, this album includes not only his songs, but also those ones that were written by the other band members during the last two decades. By the end of 2008 Modern West is planning to go on tour in support of this record. “Hard work is involved in everything I do and I’ve enjoyed working on writing songs and performing music. If it ever stops being fun, I’ll be just as happy going back to playing guitar and singing in my living room”, he noted. It is always good to see an actor who is trying something else.

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