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Acclaimed Drummer Martin Atkins to Release New Book, “Memories – My Five Years In and Out of Public Image Ltd. (1979-1985)”

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Acclaimed Drummer Martin Atkins to Release New Book, “Memories – My Five Years In and Out of Public Image Ltd. (1979-1985)”

“For a large chunk of my time with PiL, we were the most dangerous band on the planet – no one knew what we were going to do next – (least of all us) – it was special and crazy and awesome as fuck,” begins acclaimed drummer Martin Atkins in his PledgeMusic campaign for his upcoming book, Memories – My Five Years In and Out of Public Image Ltd. (1979-1985). Atkins made his major debut in the late 1970’s as the on-again-off-again drummer for John Lydon’s (more commonly known by his stage name Johnny Rotten) post-Sex Pistols’ experimental project, Public Image Ltd., and he has tales to tell.

As of now Martin Atkins has made his PledgeMusic campaign the sole way of pre-ordering the book. In conjunction with the pre-order, many special items are available via PledgeMusic, including a rare 1979 cardboard lyric print that can be autographed by request, a signed drumhead, signed drumsticks, a live drum session, and more.

Martin Atkins is the definition of entrepreneurial activity in cultural arts endeavors. His 35+ years in the music business spans across genres and borders and industries. He was a member of Public Image Ltd. and Killing Joke. He founded industrial supergroup Pigface, The Damage Manual, and Murder Inc., and has contributed to Nine Inch Nails (for which he has a Grammy) and Ministry. He is the owner of Invisible Records and Mattress Factory Recording Studios (est. 1988). He is the author of Tour:Smart, Welcome To The Music Business….You’re F*cked!” Band:Smart, the new Music Industries Coordinator at Millikin University in Decatur Illinois. Martin is a producer, drummer, documentary filmmaker, DJ, and father of four. Whatever the future of entrepreneurial music business education is, you can pretty much bet that he’ll be in the middle of it.

The PledgeMusic site also includes a personal video filmed by Martin Atkins discussing the book. There are only 40 days left to take part in the campaign, so act fast! See here for all contribution items and the video: https://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/martin-atkins-memories

“If there is one thing that has changed over that time it has been my understanding that different people really do see things differently – hence the title Memories. I do very much care about the sum of the parts and the parts that make up the sum,” says Martin Atkins. “This isn’t my book in the same way that PiL back then wasn’t just John’s. It was all of ours. And as much as I might prefer to not be called a twat by Keith Levene – his – or anyone else’s exclusion from this book seems incorrect. There is more to be learned from seeing other people’s points of view than by slamming the door. So, I’ve been careful to talk to a lot of people that were around us. You might call this the companion book to the first part of The Public Image Is Rotten documentary. My memories are intense and when that fails, I have my diaries!

This is a journey for me too – I’ve already experienced a few things that have surprised me, stretched myself in ways that I am proud of and I’m excited to continue this journey of discovery and documentation with you.”

To pre-order your copy of Memories – My Five Years In and Out of Public Image Ltd. (1979-1985) and for more information, visit the PledgeMusic campaign page.

Listen to Paul McCartney’s New Single, “Fuh You”

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Listen to Paul McCartney’s New Single, “Fuh You”

Paul has announced the next stop on the journey to Egypt Station: ‘Fuh You,’ the newest single from the forthcoming record is now available on all digital and streaming platforms.

Egypt Station’s estimated time of arrival is September 7, 2018 by way of Capitol Records.

Sharing a title with one of Paul’s own paintings, Egypt Station is the first full album of all-new McCartney music since 2013’s international chart-topping NEW. Preceded by two of its tracks just released as double A-sides–plaintive ballad ‘I Don’t Know’ and raucous stomper ‘Come On To Me’ — Egypt Station was recorded between Los Angeles, London and Sussex, and produced by Greg Kurstin (Adele, Beck, Foo Fighters) — with the exception of the newly available ‘Fuh You,’ which was produced by Ryan Tedder.

Paul recalls the process behind the new single: “With this one I was in the studio with Ryan Tedder whereas the rest of the album has been made with Greg Kurstin… We were just thinking of ideas and little pieces of melody and chords and the song just came together bit by bit. And then I would try and make some kind of sense of the story. So it was like ‘Come on baby now. Talk about yourself. Tell the truth, let me get to know you’ and basically I wanna know how you feel, you make me wanna go out and steal. I just want it for you. So that was the basic idea and it developed from there… sort of a love song, but a raunchy love song. There you go – fuh you.”

Check out the brand new lyric video below…

A Music-Publishing CEO: “It is a difficult time for songwriters who aren’t writing massive hit songs”

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Jody Gerson arrived at Universal Music Publishing Group as chairman and CEO in 2015, just as streaming became key to the music industry’s viability. The second-largest music publisher’s revenue has risen 30% since then. But Ms. Gerson wants to push that number higher—by getting streaming services to pay songwriters more to license their music.

I think it is a difficult time for songwriters who aren’t writing massive hit songs. When I first came into the industry, you could write a cut on a big album, like for Whitney Houston, and it would sell a lot of records, and you could make a lot of money as a songwriter. But unless you’re writing hit singles or you have pieces of songs on enormous numbers of streamed product, it is very difficult right now….

A lot of people are relying on data today. I don’t go in that direction. I judge music based on what I feel. Does it move me? Is that a lyric that articulates a feeling that I have better than I can articulate it? Is there a driving beat that makes me want to move? Is there a melody that makes me want to sing along? I have found in my career anytime that I have trusted my instinct, I’m right….

What everybody’s missing is the role of the record company. There’s talk about whether artists need to be signed to a record company. I would like you to show me one streaming platform that has broken an artist, made a major investment in breaking an artist. It is not easy.

Just because a song is on a digital platform doesn’t mean you’re breaking that artist. The companies that put the most into the development of artists are still record companies. The investment in breaking artists still is something that we can’t underestimate, and platforms do not do that.

Hit artists, superstars, are never flukes. It just doesn’t happen that way. It takes a village to break an artist.

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So…What IS Mastering, Anyway? Check Out This Short Film For Your Answer.

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So…What IS Mastering, Anyway? Check Out This Short Film For Your Answer.

Watch The Vinyl Factory’s short film in the art of vinyl mastering, featuring Rashad Becker of Dubplates and Mastering, Andreas ‘Lupo’ Lubich of Calyx Mastering and Noel Summerville of 3345 Mastering.

Bruno Mars 24K Magic World Tour Announces New Special Guests Boyz II Men, Charlie Wilson, Ciara, and Ella Mai

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Bruno Mars 24K Magic World Tour Announces New Special Guests Boyz II Men, Charlie Wilson, Ciara, and Ella Mai

Bruno Mars announced special guests Boyz II Men, Charlie Wilson, Ciara, and Ella Mai will join upcoming U.S. dates as part of his 24K Magic World Tour this fall.

Mars, who is currently nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Direction for his TV special “24K Magic: Live At The Apollo,” recently announced that his international outing will close with a trio of homecoming performances in Honolulu, Hawaii. The three dates at Aloha Stadium are a record-breaker for the venue, with no other artist in its history to have booked that number of successive dates.

Produced by Live Nation, Bruno Mars’ 24K Magic World Tour has traveled the globe since 2017, and will have made over 135 stops across North America, Latin America, Europe, and the U.K once wrapped this November. The massively successful outing by the multiple-GRAMMY Award winner has sold out stadiums and arenas around the world, and was credited with selling 1 million tickets in a single day.

The 24K Magic World Tour celebrates Mars’ multiple GRAMMY Award-winning, 2x RIAA Platinum-certified album, 24K Magic, released in November 2016 via Atlantic Records. The 24K Magic World Tour has been Mars’ first full-length tour since his hugely successful Moonshine Jungle World Tour in 2013, an international blockbuster that sold 2 million tickets worldwide across 155 sold-out dates.

Friday, September 7, 2018	Denver, CO*	Pepsi Center
Saturday, September 8, 2018	Denver, CO*	Pepsi Center
Tuesday, September 11, 2018 Wednesday, September 12, 2018	St. Paul, MN^ St. Paul, MN^	Xcel Energy Center Xcel Energy Center
Saturday, September 15, 2018 Sunday, September 16, 2018	Detroit, MI^ Detroit, MI^	Little Caesars Arena Little Caesars Arena
Wednesday, September 19, 2018	Philadelphia, PA*	Wells Fargo Center
Thursday, September 20, 2018	Philadelphia, PA*	Wells Fargo Center
Saturday, September 22, 2018	Toronto, ON**	Scotiabank Arena
Sunday, September 23, 2018	Toronto, ON**	Scotiabank Arena
Thursday, September 27, 2018	Boston, MA**	TD Garden
Friday, September 28, 2018	Boston, MA**	TD Garden
Monday, October 1, 2018	Newark, NJ**	Prudential Center
Tuesday, October 2, 2018	Newark, NJ**	Prudential Center
Thursday, October 4, 2018	Brooklyn, NY^^	Barclays Center
Friday, October 5, 2018	Brooklyn, NY^^	Barclays Center
Sunday, October 7, 2018 Monday, October 8, 2018	Nashville, TN^^ Nashville, TN^^	Bridgestone Arena Bridgestone Arena
Thursday, October 11, 2018 Friday, October 12, 2018	Tulsa, OK^^ Tulsa, OK^^	BOK Center BOK Center
Sunday, October 14, 2018	Dallas, TX^	American Airlines Center
Monday, October 15, 2018	Dallas, TX^	American Airlines Center
Tuesday, October 23, 2018	Los Angeles, CA*	STAPLES Center
Wednesday, October 24, 2018	Los Angeles, CA**	STAPLES Center
Friday, October 26, 2018	Los Angeles, CA^^	STAPLES Center
Saturday, October 27, 2018 Thursday, November 8, 2018 Saturday, November 10, 2018 Sunday, November 11, 2018	Los Angeles, CA^ Honolulu, HI Honolulu, HI% Honolulu, HI%	STAPLES Center Aloha Stadium Aloha Stadium Aloha Stadium

*Boyz II Men
^Charlie Wilson
**Ciara
^^Ella Mai
%The Green & Common Kings

StarLicks Master Sessions with Joe Walsh Is Awesome

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StarLicks Master Sessions with Joe Walsh Is Awesome

In a career spanning more than forty years, Joe Walsh has been a member of five successful rock bands: James Gang, Barnstorm, Eagles, the Party Boys, and Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band. Walsh admits to having struggled with alcohol and drug addictions for most of his early career and has been in recovery since 1993. He once told a story that in 1994 he woke up after blacking out on an airplane to Paris. When he arrived, he had his passport, but did not remember getting on the plane. That was his turning point, and he has been sober ever since.

But a year before that, he created a how-to video on guitar playing that is bizarre, entertaining and strange to watch, even if you’re not a musician. He would likely hate it, though, for obvious reasons.

Phil Collins On Getting THAT Drum Sound. You Know The One.

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How clearly do you remember establishing the drum sound on “Intruder” for Peter Gabriel?
Phil Collins: Like it was yesterday. That was at a time when Peter didn’t really have a band since he couldn’t afford an American band full time. I was at a loose end and going through a divorce. I think I’d done most of my demos for Face Value and said, “If you need a drummer, man, I’m around. I’m free.” He took me up on the offer and I went down to his house in Bath along with a couple of other people. [Bassist] John Giblin was one and [guitarist] Jo Partridge was the other. We just kind of lived there for month and played every day and helped him prepare some of these songs that were going to be on the third album.

Steve Lillywhite wasn’t convinced by me, I don’t think. He wanted to audition me. Anyway, that happened at a rehearsal room near London Bridge. I turned up at the town house in London, Shepherd’s Bush, and we started routining some of these songs that we’d been working on in Bath. The first thing happened when I got here is that Peter said, “Take away the cymbals. I don’t want any metal on the record.” I thought that was a little stubborn on his part, but it’s his album.

We started putting tom-toms up where there would be cymbals and I started to play around the drums, getting comfortable. [Engineer] Hugh Padgham started getting a sound. I had asked Hue, as I usually did when I was working with an engineer, to let me hear what they were doing in the headphones. I heard this sound being achieved and I started playing with the sound that I was hearing. And so I started to play like a John Bonham type thing [imitates the “Intruder” drum pattern with his voice]. And Peter said, “What is that you’re playing?” I said, “I’m just playing with the sound.” He said, “I like that. Give me that for 10 minutes.”

So I did. At the end of it I said, “What are you going to do with it?” He said, “I don’t know yet.” So I said, “Can I have a copy of it?” because I felt part ownership. I got a copy and when it turned out he was going to adapt one of his songs to fit the drum part I said, “Can I have a credit, at least? If I can’t use the thing, I’d like to have a credit.” He agreed to that and I started my very strong friendship with Hugh Padgham and we went from there to do my records and Genesis records. The rest is sonic history.

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Lindsey Buckingham Announces Solo North American Tour

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Lindsey Buckingham Announces Solo North American Tour

Lindsey Buckingham is widely considered one of the greatest guitarists and songwriters and musical expressionists of our time. A Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee and 3 time GRAMMY winner, Buckingham is best known as the producer, guitarist, vocalist and chief songwriter for Fleetwood Mac and as a widely celebrated solo artist. His forthcoming Solo Anthology – The Best of Lindsey Buckingham is a comprehensive record of this illustrious career. Out October 5th on Rhino Records, Buckingham’s Solo Anthology will be released as a 3-disc set on CD and digitally and will also be available as a single disc abridged release. A 6-LP vinyl release is slated for November 23rd.

This fall Lindsey Buckingham will head out on a North American Tour in support of his Solo Anthology. The tour kicks off at Revolution Hall in Portland, OR on October 7th and highlights include the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles on October 12th and Town Hall in New York on December 4th. His November 16 date in Kitchener is the only Canadian date. Tickets go on sale Saturday, August 18th here. Every ticket purchased online for the Lindsey Buckingham tour includes a CD or digital copy of the single-disc version of the new Anthology. Fans will receive instructions via email on how to redeem the album after ticket
purchase.

Billy Corgan on the Realities of Being a Rockstar

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Billy Corgan on the Realities of Being a Rockstar

Joe Rogan asks Billy Corgan about what is the reality of being a rockstar.

New Order Celebrates 4 Decades Of Music With…”Decades” Music Doc

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New Order Celebrates 4 Decades Of Music With…”Decades” Music Doc

Almost forty years to the day of Joy Division’s TV debut, “New Order: Decades” which will air on Saturday 22nd September at 9pm on Sky Arts is a unique and timely feature-length film about one of the UK’s most original and truly iconic bands.

Part concert, part documentary, this film follows the band’s preparations in the re-staging of their acclaimed collaboration So It Goes.. with the artist Liam Gillick and the 12-piece synthesiser orchestra that spectacularly captured the headlines during Manchester International Festival 2017. The complexities extend beyond the technical and logistical: this is a band that rarely looks backwards, yet for this project they had to reflect on – and de-construct – the band’s history, in order to create something very new.

With full access to New Order and their collaborators, this film is an unprecedented and intimate celebration of their story and their music. Through personal interviews with the band members and close collaborators including Gillick and art director Peter Saville, ‘New Order: Decades’ offers a rare chance to enter the band’s private world, understand the visual philosophy of their aesthetic and design, and witness their collaborative, creative processes first hand. The full-length New Order and Joy Division song performances featured in the film – captured from the spectacular concert, designed by Gillick and augmented by the synth orchestra – look and sound simply incredible. They also serve as a perfect cross section of the musical journey the band have undertaken in their incredible career over the last four decades, and the perfect soundtrack to this very special film.