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Concord Continues Acquisition Spree with Fearless Records, Wind-Up Deals

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May 10, 2015

Concord Bicycle Music continues its acquisition spree by buying in separate deals Fearless Records and the rest of Wind-up Records, giving the company more than $140 million in annual revenue. Terms of the deals with the two rock labels were not disclosed.

The deals adds about 150 albums from Fearless and about 25-30 albums from Wind-up to the company’s portfolio that already consisted of about 10,000 albums and a music publishing catalog with 60,000 songs. In addition, the Fearless acquisition also includes Fearless Records’ Fearmore Music Publishing, which includes the evergreen copyright “Hey There Delilah,” along with the company’s highly successful in-house merchandise operation.

Last month, Concord acquired the Vanguard and Sugar Hill record catalogs.

Via Billboard

Get Ready to Rock. Get Ready to Roll. Get Ready For Meryl Streep.

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Get Ready to Rock. Get Ready to Roll. Get Ready For Meryl Streep.

Get Ready to Rock. Get Ready to Roll. Get Ready for Ricki. Watch and share the brand new trailer for Ricki And the Flash which rolls into theaters on August 7th. Jonathan Demme (Something Wild, Rachel Getting Married) directs, and it’s written by Diablo Cody. Meryl Streep is starring as a rocker in a band called The Flash. Let me repeat that. Meryl Streep is starring as a rocker in a band called The Flash. Awesome.
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Almost half of you spend half a concert or longer on your cell phones

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Almost half of you spend half a concert or longer on your cell phones

Tiny screens—and some not so tiny—have made their way into just about every corner of our lives, and live events are no exception. Like a band that’s blowing up the charts, smartphones are popping up at nearly every venue and live event out there.

It’s clear that mobile is permeating fans’ event-going experience before they even enter a venue or walk through the gates of a festival: Today, 35 percent of tickets sold by Ticketfly are purchased on mobile devices – a 40 percent increase from 2013 to 2014 – and 45 percent of Ticketfly’s traffic comes from smartphones.

But what happens once fans come through the doors? And how would event-goers use their phones if they could? Ticketfly commissioned Harris Poll to field a survey online among U.S. adults who have a smartphone and attend live events to determine how – and how much – they are using their phones during live events, and shed some light on what they will be doing in the future. Here’s what we found:

TOP FINDINGS

Thirty-one percent of 18-34 year olds are using their phones during half of an event or longer.
Forty percent of female smartphone owners 18-34 that attend live events say they use their phones to take pictures at events, compared to only 24 percent of males their age.
Females in the 18-34 age range are also more likely than their male counterparts to share their experiences via social media apps during the event (35 percent vs. 22 percent, respectively).
Seventy percent of smartphone owners age 18-34 who attend live events are interested in using their phone as their ticket to enter an event.
Two thirds (66 percent) of smartphone owners age 18-34 who attend live events are interested in using their phone to pay for food, beverages and merchandise.

Via Ticketfly

Marilyn Monroe on LIFE Magazine Covers, 1952-1962

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The “Footloose” warehouse scene without music is pretty great

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The “Footloose” warehouse scene without music is pretty great

Kevin Bacon delivers one of the most memorable dance scenes in movie history in the classic film Footloose. But take out the music and noise, you’re left with confusion, hunger and brilliance.

THIS is how you can be creative with a music video, animated with pins and thread

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THIS is how you can be creative with a music video, animated with pins and thread

I just finished doing a panel at Canadian Music Week on how labels and music streaming sites can work better together, and the panelists kept coming back to the same idea – you need to be creative with your playlists and promotions. Easier said than done, I know. But watch this to perhaps get a spark. The Made Shop created this music video for the song “Change Is Everything” by Son Lux. It’s an impressive work of stop-motion animation, and really good song, too.

“Live…For One Night Only…George Carlin and Richard Pryor” Might Soon Be Heard In Comedy Clubs

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“Live…For One Night Only…George Carlin and Richard Pryor” Might Soon Be Heard In Comedy Clubs

If you missed the chance to watch some of comedy’s greatest performers in their prime — whether because of scheduling conflicts, scarce tickets or the fact that you weren’t born yet — a new attraction in upstate New York wants to give you another chance to see them, at least in hologram form.

The National Comedy Center, which is scheduled to open next year in Jamestown, N.Y., is to unveil plans for a comedy club that will feature holograms of stand-ups and comic actors from various eras.

Tom Benson, the chairman of the National Comedy Center, described the project in a telephone interview as “a comedy club where folks can go back in time and witness a classic routine in a setting – God knows where it might have been – and experience that as if they were really there.”

The virtual comedians will be created by Hologram USA, the Beverly Hills, Calif.-based company that has also made or is working on similar representations of Buddy Holly, Liberace, Julian Assange and Jimmy Kimmel.

The club is hoping to spotlight comedians like Milton Berle, Bob Hope, George Carlin and Rodney Dangerfield, although Mr. Benson said deals with these artists’ families and estates were not set and an inaugural lineup could still change.

Via The New York Times

Canadian Music Week Congratulates the 2015 Canadian Radio Music Award Winners

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Canadian Music Week Congratulates the 2015 Canadian Radio Music Award Winners

Canadian Music Week is pleased to announce the winners of the 18th annual Canadian Radio Music Awards. Among those honoured were up and coming talents Kiesza and MAGIC!, and Canadian rock radio favourites Hedley. This year’s award show took place earlier this evening at the Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel. Sponsored by Bell Media, the Canadian Radio Music Awards celebrated first-time charted artists and recognized the performers who have released some of the most-played songs on Canadian radio in the past year.

Tonight’s show featured performances by MAGIC!, Kiesza, Dear Rouge, Andee, Virginia to Vegas and Jess Moskaluke.

This year’s award categories included: AC, Rock, CHR, and Country as well as SOCAN Song of the Year and Fans’ Choice.

Nominees included artists who hit the Canadian charts for the first time and achieved top airplay in different formats based on radio “spins”, as recorded by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems (BDS) in 2014. Votes cast by program directors, music directors, and on-air personalities determined the winners. Radio listeners from across the country also voted online for the Fans’ Choice Award at www.cmw.net.

Three additional non-voting awards were also presented at this year’s ceremony: The FACTOR Breakthrough Award, for top airplay for new FACTOR-supported artists, went to Virginia to Vegas; the Sennheiser Chart Topper Award for top overall airplay was awarded to Hedley, and the Heatseeker award was presented to Toronto native Francesco Yates. See the full list of winners below.

BEST NEW GROUP OR SOLO ARTIST: AC

MAGIC! – RUDE

BEST NEW GROUP OR SOLO ARTIST: CHR

KIESZA – HIDEAWAY

BEST NEW GROUP OR SOLO ARTIST: ROCK

DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979 – TRAINWRECK 1979

BEST NEW GROUP OR SOLO ARTIST: COUNTRY

JESS MOSKALUKE – CHEAP WINE & CIGARETTES

SOCAN SONG OF THE YEAR

MAGIC! – RUDE (written by M. Pellizzer, A. Messinger, N. Atweh, B. Spivak, A. Tanas)

FANS CHOICE

MAGIC!

Canadian Music Week is Canada’s leading annual entertainment event dedicated to the expression and growth of the country’s music, media and entertainment industries. Combining three information-intensive conferences; a trade exposition; a film festival; a comedy festival; four awards shows and the nation’s largest new music festival, CMW spans a ten-day period from May 1 to May 10, 2015 at the Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel and over 60 downtown Toronto venues, attracting participants from across the globe. For more information, visit www.cmw.net.

How Many ’80s Teen Flicks Can You Name In This Supercut Soundtracked To ‘Don’t You (Forget About Me)’

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Cy Curnin from The Fixx, Bryan Ferry and Billy Idol to record the song, but all three declined; Idol later performed a cover of it on his 2001 compilation album Greatest Hits. Schiff then suggested Forsey ask Simple Minds who, after refusing as well, agreed under the encouragement of their label, A&M. According to one account, the band”rearranged and recorded ‘Don’t You (Forget About Me)’ in three hours in a north London studio and promptly forgot about it.

Classic song then and now. See you can name all the teen flicks in this supercut.

https://youtu.be/kYJgCp_9h48

The Breakfast Club
16 Candles
Adventures in Babysitting
An American Werewolf in London
Back to School
Back to the Future
Better off Dead
Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure
Dirty Dancing
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Flashdance
Footloose (1984)
Heathers
The Karate Kid (1984)
The Lost Boys
One Crazy Summer
Pretty in Pink
Real Genius
Revenge of the Nerds
Risky Business
Say Anything
Some Kind of Wonderful
Stand by Me
Summer School
Teen Wolf
The Goonies
Weird Science

The Best 43 ABBA Album Covers And The Reason For Their Wild Clothes – Revealed!

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ABBA were a massive Swedish pop group formed in Stockholm in 1972, comprising Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad. ABBA is an acronym of the first letters of the band members’ first names and is sometimes stylized as the registered trademark ᗅᗺᗷᗅ. The band became one of the most commercially successful acts in the history of popular music, topping the charts worldwide from 1975 to 1982. They also won the Eurovision Song Contest 1974 at the Dome in Brighton, UK, giving Sweden its first triumph in the history of the contest and being the most successful group ever to take part in the competition. Ulvaeus and Andersson are also known for writing the Broadway musical “Chess” in 1980.

ABBA has sold over 380 million albums and singles worldwide, which makes them one of the best-selling music artists of all time, and the second best-selling music group of all time. ABBA was the first group to come from a non-English-speaking country that enjoyed consistent success in the charts of English-speaking countries, including the UK, Ireland, the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.

After ABBA broke up in late 1982, Andersson and Ulvaeus achieved success writing music for the stage while Lyngstad and Fältskog pursued solo careers with mixed success. ABBA’s music declined in popularity until several films, notably Muriel’s Wedding and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, revived interest in the group and the spawning of several tribute bands. In 1999, ABBA’s music was adapted into the successful musical Mamma Mia! that toured worldwide. A film of the same name, released in 2008, became the highest-grossing film in the United Kingdom that year. The group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on 15 March 2010.

ABBA was widely noted for the colourful and trend-setting costumes its members wore. The reason for the wild costumes was Swedish tax law – The clothes could be deductible only if they could not be worn other than for performances.[