Microsoft is finally launching MSN Music, a music streaming and download service, nearly four months later than originally scheduled.
Source: The Telegraph
Tag Archive: Music
Unlike the play-along focus of the “Guitar Hero” and “Rock Band” franchises, “Brütal Legend” offers a comedic fantasy homage to the world of heavy metal. It stars Jack Black as roadie Eddie Riggs and features appearances by Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford, Motörhead’s Lemmy and Ozzy Osbourne. The game draws heavily on the imagery and lyrics of heavy metal albums at all levels — from plot to art direction to dialogue — and features a soundtrack of more than 100 songs.
Source: Billboard
From the award-winning documentary, “Playing For Change: Peace Through Music”, comes the first of many “songs around the world” being released independently. Featured is a cover of the Ben E. King classic by musicians around the world adding their part to the song as it travelled the globe.
Source: Playing for Change
Beth Ditto has spent three years as a celeb mag cover star, kooky fashion queen, and newspaper agony aunt. Now, finally, she’s ready to roll with a new Rick Rubin-produced Gossip album. ‘I’m still punk!’ she tells Rebecca Nicholson.
Source: The Guardian
“Breakdown” gives the band its second chart-topper, following 2004’s “American Idiot,” which debuted with 267,000 after a normal-length’s week of sales. Both “Breakdown” and “Idiot” were hampered by not being stocked in Wal-Mart stores, as the big box giant declines to stock albums that carry parental advisory stickers.
Source: Billboard
Make the Girl Dance is a french dance music group, and this is their video for the song “Baby Baby Baby”. Their are more videos with the similar concept, but this one combines the good idea with the a very nice sound.
The worldwide hit video game “Guitar Hero” could become a reality TV show and/or a real-life concert tour, people familiar with the discussions said Thursday.
Source: Billboard
This Is Spinal Tap (…) is a 1984 mock rockumentary directed by Rob Reiner and starring members of the fictional heavy-metal/hard rock band Spinal Tap. The film satirizes the wild personal behavior and musical pretensions of hard-rock and heavy-metal bands, as well as the hagiographic tendencies of rockumentaries of the time.
Source: Wikipedia
Singer-songwriter Cat Stevens agreed on Monday that the Coldplay song, “Viva La Vida,” sounds like one of his 1973 songs, but he stopped short of saying he would sue for plagiarism.
Source: Billboard
This is a video of tribute to one of the most famous portuguese singers. Amália was known all over the world for her unique voice and her music style. She sang “fado”, a original portuguese style of music. This project is a collaborative participation from elements of different bands and even styles. They are Sónia Tavares and Nuno Gonçalves from Gift, Fernando Ribeiro from Moonspell and Paulo Praça from Plaza.
