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NSDTCM:NEWS

SHADOW OF THE DAY - VIDEO AVAILABLE ON ITUNES The new Linkin Park video for Shadow of the Day is now available on iTunes! When you Click here and purchase the video, you will also receive the Making Of Shadow of the Day video for free! MUSIC FOR RELIEF: AID TO CALIFORNIA WILDFIRE VICTIMS MUSIC FOR RELIEF is seeking your help to raise money to aid the victims of wildfires in Southern California that began Sunday evening and are still burning. Sixteen wildfires have consumed over 420,000 acres from Santa Barbara to San Diego initiating the largest evacuation in the state's history with over 880,000 people evacuated, and 2,000 homes destroyed or damaged. Please join Linkin Park and Music for Relief in our effort to help those in need. Click here to make a donation to help the victims of the fires. Funds raised by Music for Relief will go to Direct Relief International during the immediate crisis followed by an ongoing effort to rebuild and reforest affected areas. Direct Relief International is helping Southern California neighborhood clinics, hospitals, and first responders meet the short-term medical material needs of vulnerable, affected residents recovering from the fires, as well as evaluating the long-term recovery needs of the affected communities. Specifically requested supplies that Direct Relief has been able to fulfill include particulate masks, wheelchairs, eye wash, inhalers, and personal care and hygiene items. Contributions will be used to make cash grants to community clinics, health centers, and other health-service organizations in the affected region to ensure they are able to maintain their service levels for low-income, uninsured patients. www.musicforrelief.org www.musicforrelief.org/donate www.directrelief.org

SOURCE:WARNER MUSIC

nsdtcm:networks:viacom:mtv

MTV tunes up lyrics search

Network to launch multiplatform initiative

By JOSEF ADALIAN

MTV Networks is launching a major multiplatform initiative tied to music lyrics -- just as publishers step up their efforts to thwart websites that illegally offer up the words to songs.

Key to the effort is a plan to begin offering extensive lyric search capabilities on the websites of all three major MTV music brands -- MTV, VH1 and CMT. MTV Nets also plans to offer mobile phone-based lyric searches and eventually extend the search function to older titles next year via VH1Classic.com.

Company has pacted with Gracenote, which has rights deals in place with most major publishers.

"The search for the lyric is just a path for the user to experience more content," MTVN Music Group exec VP of digital media Courtney Holt told Daily Variety.
source: Variety Headline News

newssourcedotcom:news: WIDGETMATE.COM

Widgetmate.com came up in May 2007 accidentally. We were making a News delivery widget for our website and thought that the same could be useful for a lot of people on their blogs and websites. Hence the Widgetmate News widget was born. The News widget is a web widget that gives the facility to site owners and bloggers to place customizable news widget on their respective blogs and sites. The Widget is available in many flavors and can be placed in your blog or site sidebar, header, footer or wherever you like. The biggest difference between other similar widgets is that our news widget is highly customizable and can be blended into the destination web page look and feel completely. Hence it looks like an integral part of the user’s page. The widget has been very successful till date with over 1000 regular users. The news is keyword driven and the user can select a combination of keywords for the news he or she wants on the page. One can change the color, font, size and other attributes of widget as per their requirements. All widgets are java script based and their PHP versions are also available. The widget is compatible in regular html, php pages, blogger, wordpress, typepad and pretty much any commercial or free hosting. The widget is absolutely free to use. There are no charges nor any strings attached.

Widgetmate has been covered earlier as well on some blogs. The widgetslab entry is here http://www.widgetslab.com/2007/08/03/widgetmatecom-cool-news-ticker-and-image-widgets/ . Widgetmate has been covered on the following blog posts:

http://www.nazmieski.com/2007/06/get-free-widget-news-from-widgetmate.html
http://ganaonthenet.blogspot.com/2007/10/web-widget-from-widgetmate-for-latest.html
http://complimenter.blogspot.com/2007/07/latest-news-from-widgetmate.html
http://totesprobsmaybs.blogspot.com/2007/08/news-widget-and-posters-widget-for-all.html

http://newssourcedotcom.blogspot.com/
(OCTOBER 27,2007)

source:HIMANSHU

SITE:http://www.widgetmate.com/

NSDTCM:LABEL :MUTE

MUSICIAN: DAVE GAHAN

ALBUM: HOURGLASS

SOURCE:MUTE RECORDS

NSDTCM:SCISSORS SISTERS

New Scissor Sisters single 'Lights' coming soon


As a big thank you to all you Scissor fans worldwide 'Lights' will be a totally free, fan-only release available only at scissorsisters.com while stocks last. Stay tuned for more details...

Meanwhile the countdown continues to the November 12th release of 'Hurrah - A Year of Ta-Dah'. The DVD is packed with an hour long documentary, behind the scenes footage, music videos and the Scissor Sisters show at London's O2 Arena in its entirety.

SOURCE: UMG UK

nsdtcm: VARIETY HEADLINE NEWSLETTER

Kevin Beisler adds to RCA duties

Exec charged with original music programming

By PHIL GALLO

Kevin Beisler, a J/Arista Records publicity VP, has been charged with conceptualizing and designing original music-based programming for television networks, as well as overseeing TV campaigns for the RCA Music Group roster.

A former entertainment producer for NBC's "Today," Beisler has been promoted to senior VP, special programming and publicity, RCA Music Group. He will be working on projects involving Alicia Keys, Whitney Houston, Jennifer Hudson, Barry Manilow and Aretha Franklin, among others.

He will continue to report to Mika El-Baz, senior veep of publicity, and Tom Corson, exec VP/general manager of RCA Music Group on special programming.

Beisler joined J Records in 2002 as senior director, publicity. Prior to his stint at NBC, he was a publicist at Buena Vista Pictures.

SOURCE:VARIETY.COM NEWSLETTER

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NSDTCM:NEW LABEL: FALLOUT RECORDINGS
NEW GROUP: EASTERN CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS

LINKS:

YOUTUBE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsCKY_WYZEU

MYSPACE
http://www.myspace.com/easternconferencechampions?

SOURCE:UMG UK (UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP UK)

NSDTCM:THE STROKES

Danny Goldberg teams with Wiz Kid

Duo pair up on new management venture

By PHIL GALLO

Longtime music exec Danny Goldberg has created a new management venture with the firm that handles the Strokes, Wiz Kid Management.

Goldberg's Gold Village Entertainment and Ryan Gentles' Wiz Kid Management have formed Gold Village/Wiz Kid (GVWK) to handle the projects they co-manage. Gold Village and Wiz Kid will also be sharing office space and some staff starting no later than January.

First GVWK joint clients are the rock band the Dead Trees (co-managing with Bryna Gootkind), Vincent Gallo for his musical endeavors and Sean Tillmann (aka Har Mar Superstar) for acting and writing as well as his musical career.

The goal of the union is the development of a mid-size management company focused on music artists.

Goldberg, who has run companies such as Atlantic Records and the Artemis label, formed Gold Village Entertainment in 2006 which manages the Hives, Steve Earle, Ben Lee, Allison Moorer, Ian Hunter, the Old 97s and the Actual.

Gentles, who was a booker at New York's Mercury Lounge, manages the Strokes.

SOURCE: VARIETY .COM NEWSLETTER

NEWSSOURCEDOTCOM

AT&T, Napster go wireless

Music available for download next month

By ASSOCIATED PRESS

SAN ANTONIO -- AT&T is making Napster's entire music catalog of more than 5 million songs available for wireless download starting early next month.

The service, which AT&T is unveiling today, will expand the company's over-the-air download offerings beyond the independent music it offered through eMusic.com and allow it to compete with offerings from rivals Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel Corp.

San Antonio-based AT&T has not yet announced which devices will work with the new music service, but it will not work with Apple's iPhone, which is tied to Apple's iTunes service.

"Where we're really focused is getting a broad set of music offerings for consumers,'' said Robert Hyatt, executive director of premium content for AT&T.

Songs will cost $1.99 each, or $7.49 for five per month. Users who download a song directly to their phones will automatically get an e-mail allowing them to put a second copy on their computers.

Customers who have songs through Napster already will be able to transfer them to their phones as well, Hyatt said.

AT&T plans to make more music content available exclusively for mobile download through deals reached directly with artists.

SOURCE:Variety Headline News/ AP

NEWSSOURCEDOTCOM: THE VERVE

The Verve Leak New Song Titles

After reuniting earlier this year The Verve have been creating new material. Now bassist Simon Jones has released the name of some of those tracks on his blog. Some of the new song names include “Sit and Wonder”, “Judas”, “Appalachian Springs”, “Mona Lisa” and “Rather Be”.

In addition to the previously mentioned new songs, The Verve has other new tracks they intend to record early next year.

SOURCE: FILTER MAG .COM NEWSLETTER

NEWSSOURCEDOTCOM:APPLE

Apple lowers price of anti-copy songs

Move puts co. in line with rival offerings

By ASSOCIATED PRESS

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Apple is lowering the prices of songs it sells online without copy protection to 99¢ from $1.29, a company spokeswoman said Tuesday.

The reduction, which started appearing on songs Tuesday, puts Apple closer in line with rival offerings. Amazon.com, which opened its online music store in September, sells tracks without anti-copying software locks for 89¢ to 99¢.

Apple spokeswoman Natalie Kerris said the price cut was not in response to competition.

"It's been very popular with our customers and we're now making it available at an even more affordable price," Kerris said.

Apple dominates the music download market and became the third-largest overall music retailer in the United States in units sold earlier this year.

It began selling some songs in May without copy-protection software, known as digital rights management. The primary benefit of DRM-free music is that it can be played on any music player, not just Apple iPods.

Apple also charges 99¢ for copy-protected tracks.

SOURCE: A.P./VARIETY.COM

NEWSSOURCEDOTCOM

Sony makes music with MySpace

Social networking site to offer musicvideos

By PHIL GALLO

News Corp.'s MySpace and Sony BMG Music Entertainment have partnered to allow the streaming of musicvideos on the social networking website.

Sony BMG will license musicvids, select audio material and other content from its artist roster and will make the content available on its artists@MySpace profile pages.

MySpace and Sony BMG will share sponsorship and advertising revenues generated from the musicvideos and profile pages. MySpace will also work with Sony BMG to promote the music company’s artists throughout the site.

Sony BMG artists include Britney Spears, Beyonce, Bruce Springsteen and Justin Timberlake.

Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

While MySpace has been used as a promotional tool for millions of music acts, it has never been a revenue source for major music companies.

Chris DeWolfe, CEO and co-founder of MySpace, said streaming is part of the next generation of MySpace music services.

Besides content exclusives, MySpace has recently been the host of secret shows for Sony BMG bands such as Good Charlotte, Franz Ferdinand, Clipse, Tenacious D, Ray LaMontagne, Yung Joc and Slayer. Hey Play This! events have been held for Ben Folds and Velvet Revolver, and music content exclusives have featured acts such as Springsteen and Sean Kingston.

Last month, Warner Music Group and Lala.com experimented with selling music from James Blunt through his MySpace page.

SOURCE: VARIETY HEADLINE NEWS, VARIETY .COM

newssourcedotcom:linkin park

NEW VIDEO PREMIERE - SHADOW OF THE DAY

Linkin Park's new video for Shadow of the Day premiered exclusively on Clear Channel radio
websites on Monday, but you can catch the video on LinkinPark.com starting today,
Wednesday, October 17.

source: Warner Reprise

NEWSSOURCEDOTCOM:WEEZER:RIVERS CUOMO

Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo has announced via (what else now a days?) his personal Myspace, that he will release a collection of demos from 1992-2007 for an official CD release. Alone - The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo, will be released on December 11 courtesy of Geffen Records.

LINK:http://www.filter-mag.com/index.php?id=15637&c=1

nsdtcm:Far-less
label:tooth and nail

LISTEN TO THE ENTIRE NEW ALBUM ONLINE NOW

Though it won't be available until next Tuesday, October 23rd, you can get a preview of the new record, "A Toast To Bad Taste" in it's entirety right now. Swing by the Far-Less MySpace page in order to stream all the tracks from the new album

GET A FREE SONG DOWNLOAD OF "A TOAST TO BAD TASTE"

If you like what you hear over at MySpace, the title track from the new album, "A Toast To Bad Taste," is available as a FREE download over at AbsolutePunk.net

TOUR DATES

10/17/2007 Baton Rouge, LA - The Darkroom
10/19/2007 Birmingham, AL - Cave 9
10/20/2007 Douglasville, GA - The 7 Venue
10/21/2007 Chattanooga, TN - Cafe Miaroma
10/22/2007 Nashville, TN - The Anchor
10/23/2007 Johnson City, TN - The Hideaway
10/24/2007 Greensboro, NC - Greene Street
10/25/2007 Raleigh, NC - Berkley Cafe
10/26/2007 Blacksburg, VA - Crossroad's CD's - Acoustic In Store
10/26/2007 Blacksburg, VA - Attitudes
10/28/2007 Roanoke, VA - The Roanoke Dance Theater
11/01/2007 Memphis, TN - Dregs
11/02/2007 Louisville, KY - Uncle Pleasant's
11/03/2007 Kent, OH - The Barn
11/04/2007 Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg
11/06/2007 East Strowdsburg, PA - Penn Monster Factory
11/08/2007 Harrisonburg, VA - Guzmans
11/09/2007 Danville, VA - Plan B
11/10/2007 Arden, NC - Graffiti Music Hall
11/11/2007 Columbia, SC - New Brookland Tavern

source:tooth and nail

NSDTCM:ANBERLIN

Hey guys, we’re sitting on the bus right now headed up to Michigan to start our tour with Motion City Soundtrack! We start in Grand Rapids on Wednesday and it feels good to be back out on the road and to see all your lovely faces.
Here are the dates once again for the tour! It starts this week, so if you don’t already have your tix, please go get them and come sing along with us. This will be our last bit of touring for a few months so we can come home and rest up to hit it hard next year (lots of big things in store for 08). 10/17 - Grand Rapids, MI @ Orbit Room
10/19 - Duluth, MN @ Reif Center
10/20 - Omaha, NE @ Sokol Auditorium
10/21 - Kansas City, MO @Beaumont Club
10/23 - Houston, TX @ Verizon Theater
10/24 - Austin, TX @ Stubbs
10/26 - Dallas, TX @ House of Blues
10/28 - Tallahassee, FL @ the Beta Bar (headlining show)
10/29 - St.Pete FL @ Jannus Landing
10/30 - Ft. Lauderdale, FL @ Revolution
10/31 - Orlando, FL @House of Blues
11/02 - Atlanta, GA @ the Tabernacle
11/03 - Charlotte, NC @ Amos Southend
11/04 - Myrtle Beach, SC @ House of Blues
11/05 - Columbia, SC @ Headliner’s (headlining show)
11/06 - Norfolk, VA @ NorVa
11/07 - Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
11/09 - New York, NY @ Roseland Ballroom
11/10 - Sayreville, NJ @Starland Ballroom
11/11 - Worcester, MA @ Palladium
11/12 - Syracuse, NY @ New Renaissance Theatre (headlining show)
11/13 - Baltimore, MD @ Rams Head Live
11/14 - Philadelphia, PA @ Electric Factory
11/15 - Reading, PA @ Silo (headlining show)
11/17 - Buffalo, NY @ the Town Ballrrom
11/18 - Toronto, ON @ Koolhaus
11/20 - Columbus, OH @ Newport Music Hall
11/21 - Detroit, MI @ State Theatre
11/23 - Milwaukee, WI @ Eagles Ballroom
11/24 - Minneapolis, MN @ Myth
11/27 - Spokane, WA @ the Service Station (headlining show)
11/28 - Seattle, WA @ Showbox
11/29 - Portland, OR @ Roseland Ballroom
11/30 - San Francisco, CA @ the Warfield
12/01 - San Diego, CA @ SOMA
12/03 - Anaheim, CA @ House of Blues
12/04 - Los Angeles, CA @ Wiltern LG
12/05 - Phoenix, AZ @ Marquee Theater
12/06 - Las Vegas, NV @ House of Blues
12/08 - Salt Lake City, UT @ In The Venue
12/09 - Denver, CO @ Fillmore
12/11 - St. Louis, MO @ the Pageant
12/12 - Louisville, KY @ Headliners (headlining show)
12/13 - Cincinnati, OH @ Bogarts
12/14 - Cleveland, OH @ Agora Ballroom
12/15 - Chicago, IL @ House of Blues
12/16 - Chicago, IL @ House of Blues
Also be sure to check out our buzznet page and youtube pages! We will be posting frequent updates on those throughout the tour!
See you at the shows!
~Anberlin


http://www.anberlin.com
http://www.myspace.com/anberlin
http://www.purevolume.com/anberlin
http://www.buzznet.com/anberlin
http://www.anberlinmerch.com
http://www.makepovertyhistory.org
http://www.twloha.com/

SOURCE: TOOTH AND NAIL RECORDS

NSDTCM:LED ZEPPELIN

Led Zeppelin library goes digital

Band to make songs available on Nov. 13

By STUART LEVINE

One of the last of the megabands to hold out, Led Zeppelin will have its music available on digital platforms from all online retailers beginning Nov. 13.

Songs from all of the eight original albums, which include "Houses of the Holy," "Led Zeppelin," "Led Zeppelin II" and "Physical Graffiti," will be accessible. The band has also made a deal with Verizon to have its songs available as ringtones. Including retrospective collections, Led Zeppelin has sold more than 300 million albums worldwide.

The remaining members of the band — Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones — are regrouping for a concert Nov. 26 in London as a benefit performance for an educational charity of Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun.

Two weeks earlier, "Mothership," a 24-track double-CD release of the band’s biggest hits, will be released by Atlantic and Rhino.

"We are pleased that the complete Led Zeppelin catalog will now be available digitally," said Page in a statement. "The addition of the digital option will better enable fans to obtain their music in whichever manner they prefer."

SOURCE: VARIETY.COM

Prefuse 73: Preparations

Out: 15/10/2007

Label: Warp Records

NEWSSOURCEDOTCOM: LABEL: WARP

Guillermo Scott Herron has four different personalities (last time I checked, anyway; there may be more) and I wonder how, with each one, he can sound so unique. Prefuse 73, Savath Y Savalas, Piano Overlord and Delarosa and Asora. How does he keep these musical personas separate? Is he actually able to do so, or do they blur for him? On his new Prefuse 73 release, certain similarities in tone are noticeable to his recent Golden Pollen offering, under the Savath y Savalas guise. It seems like these organics are blurring into the more computerized stylings of the Preparations LP, and I really like it.

Still, it’s a long way from the natural and assuredly cultural sounds Herron has constructed elsewhere, under other guises. There’s a strange electronic sense of tension on a track like ‘Aborted Hugs’; it’s pushed along by pixels, the odd wail of a saxophone, layers upon layers of dense sonic carpet. It’s a little prickly, but like most of the album, it’s coated with a fuzziness that’s appealingly warm.

As is usual with Prefuse 73 albums past, Preparations is fairly relentless. A certain tension and tone carry through the album, and while there isn’t much deviation from this aesthetic, it’s an aesthetic well and truly his and his alone. He delves far, far into the murk, with headphones firmly clamped to his ears. There’s not much room to breath, blank spaces filled with samples or beats, or any type of sound. There are a variety of instruments weaving in and out, more so than ever before so far as Prefuse 73 LPs are concerned.

Listening to Preparations, thankfully, is not an entirely mechanical affair; in fact, it’s very clear just how from the heart it is. That’s how it sounds, at least. While striking these emotions, it also raises questions: is this hip-hop? What is instrumental hip-hop? Just hip-hop without words?

Vocals are scant on Preparations, and if they do appear, they’re of the sampled variety. Could it be ‘glitch-hop’? Is that how it works? Because his sounds contain a whole lot more than what’s typically classified as being of a glitch nature. I can't help but feel he's breaking boundaries, especially with earlier stuff like One Word Extinguisher. Questions aside, it sounds badass; dope, even, like any good hip-hop record should.

Each of his individual works come across as a collage, filled with different instruments and sounds and samples. Whatever genre this is, it's one of the best things around, and one of the more palpably forward-thinking sounds around. Preparations reasserts this, even if it doesn’t move in any hugely bold new direction, for him, at least. It’s most interesting on the textural side of things. There’s no one else that weaves these digital blankets, especially ones that feel so real.

So, our Guillermo Scott Herron is certainly prolific, and he takes a lot of risks with each project. It pays off: when he hits, it's really worthwhile, and even on the misses there is plenty to find interest in. Such cut-up music begs the question of how exactly it's made; where does he get all these sounds, how does he go about pasting them all together? To various degrees, Preparations raises the old notion of electronic music exhibiting a very real and human heart – there’s feeling to these glitches and blips and bloops. And, along with it, a strange and beguiling sense of humanity.

Words: Richard MacFarlane

SOURCE: DROWNED IN SOUND.COM