AMES TO HEAD EMI NORTH AMERICA
Executive fills slot formerly held by Munns
Music distrib EMI has tapped Roger Ames as head of North America operations, reporting to EMI Group chief exec Eric Nicoli.
Ames, who ran Warner Music when it was in the Time Warner family, will oversee EMI's recorded music operations in the U.S. and Canada.
SOURCE:VARIETY HEADLINE NEWS
NEWSSOURCEDOTCOM:NEWS:LABEL:4AD: BLONDE REDHEAD
The new album '23' out now!!!
Blonde Redhead's last album - 'Misery Is A Butterfly' - established them once and for all as one of the most distinctive and precious bands of their generation.
Blonde Redhead
2007 sees them return with something even more spellbinding, '23'. Recorded and produced by the band in New York City during the second half of last year, they drafted in Chris Coady (Yeah Yeah Yeahs, TV On The Radio) to engineer it while mixing duties were shared by Alan Moulder (My Bloody Valentine, Killers, Nine Inch Nails) and Rich Costey (Franz Ferdinand, Muse, Bloc Party).
The resulting album is as rich and densely-layered as the last one, but the overall mood of wistfulness, melancholy and regret has been replaced by one of mystical wonder and renewed energy.
Blonde Redhead played the 4AD showcase last month at SXSW alongside label mates Beirut, Emma Pollock, The Mountain Goats and Wolf & Cub. They're now touring in the US and reach Europe in June...
"Blonde Redhead shock us with their most accessibly perfect disc ever, 23"
Rolling Stone
"With 23, Blonde Redhead has made an album that seems to be before, of, and beyond its time."
Amplifier
"Their seventh LP unfolds like a vivid dream...It's an enthralling listen proving once and for all that they deserve the wide success of fellow travelers like Radiohead and Sonic Youth"
Entertainment Weekly
"An impressive set from a band who, 14 years into their career, plainly still have fire in their belly."
Q
"A smouldering, perfumed opiate that's chilling and delightful."
Metro 4/5
"this is what you need to know: 23 is the next record you have to buy."
Drowned In Sound
SOURCE:WWW.4AD.COM
