Artist: Fade To Bluegrass
Genre(s):
Country
Discography:
The Bluegrass Tribute to Metallica
Year: 2003
Tracks: 10
Tuesday, 1 July 2008
Fade To Bluegrass
Artist: Fade To Bluegrass
Genre(s):
Country
Discography:
The Bluegrass Tribute to Metallica
Year: 2003
Tracks: 10
Thursday, 19 June 2008
Country singer Sara Evans marries former Alabama quarterback
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Country star Sara Evans has married former University of Alabama quarterback Jay Barker.
Lori Genes, the singer's publicist at Sony BMG Nashville, said Monday that Evans and Barker had married but didn't provide details of the wedding.
People magazine reported on its Web site that the outdoor ceremony took place Saturday on a farm in Franklin, Tennessee.
The 37-year-old singer filed for divorce from Craig Schelske in October 2006 after 13 years of marriage. The divorce was completed last September.
Barker led Alabama to a national championship in 1992 and hosts a radio show in Birmingham.
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Friday, 13 June 2008
Saturday, 7 June 2008
Free Music on Last.fm Boosts CD and Download Sales
Album and Track Purchases by Users of Social Music Network Grow 119% After
Launch of Free-On-Demand Service
NEW YORK and LONDON, April 9 -- Last.fm announced today
that its free-on-demand music service has had a direct and positive impact
on the music purchases of its users. Since the service launched in January,
overall CD and download sales through Last.fm's partnership with Amazon.com
have experienced a 119% increase.
Alongside an increase in visitors to Last.fm -- which has seen the
community grow massively since the site started offering free access to its
music catalogue in January -- this boost is also fueled by existing users
purchasing 66% more albums and tracks than they did prior to the launch of
free-on-demand.
According to Martin Stiksel, Last.fm Co-Founder, this demonstrates that
giving users free access to streaming songs encourages music purchasing.
"In just over two months it's become clear that people will buy CDs and
downloads if they get access to the kind of service we offer. No one else
can give music fans this amount of music for free -- but more importantly
also drive their discovery, as we do through our unique recommendation
engine. That's why people are sticking around on Last.fm -- minutes spent
on site are up 118% month-on-month -- and discovering new music to listen
to and buy."
Last.fm has affiliate deals with partners including iTunes, Amazon and
7Digital, allowing users to buy CDs and downloads from a catalogue that
includes all four major labels and thousands of independent labels and
artists. Affiliate links on the site's music players allow users to click
through from any song they're listening to and buy individual tracks or
full albums from any of those partners.
Since launching free-on-demand in January -- a service which currently
offers free access to over five million tracks for full-length streaming --
Last.fm has become the fastest growing free music Web site in the U.S.
About Last.fm
Founded in 2002, Last.fm is the largest global free music platform on
the Web. Last.fm can offer music fans millions of tracks in every genre for
free- on-demand streaming thanks to partnerships with Universal, EMI,
Warner Music Group, Sony BMG, CD Baby, independent aggregators The Orchard
and IODA, and more than 150,000 independent artists and labels -- without
the need to sign up or download any software. As well as being able to
access tracks for free - - a service which has seen Last.fm become the
fastest-growing free online music network in the U.S. -- music fans can
also share their music preferences by linking their media player to the
Last.fm database. As a result, Last.fm can intelligently recommend songs,
artists, local concerts and even other members based on their musical
tastes. Last.fm also supports unsigned artists by offering them an
unprecedented Artist Royalty program through which they can earn revenue
directly from Last.fm every time their music is streamed. Learn more about
Last.fm at http://www.last.fm.
Launch of Free-On-Demand Service
NEW YORK and LONDON, April 9 -- Last.fm announced today
that its free-on-demand music service has had a direct and positive impact
on the music purchases of its users. Since the service launched in January,
overall CD and download sales through Last.fm's partnership with Amazon.com
have experienced a 119% increase.
Alongside an increase in visitors to Last.fm -- which has seen the
community grow massively since the site started offering free access to its
music catalogue in January -- this boost is also fueled by existing users
purchasing 66% more albums and tracks than they did prior to the launch of
free-on-demand.
According to Martin Stiksel, Last.fm Co-Founder, this demonstrates that
giving users free access to streaming songs encourages music purchasing.
"In just over two months it's become clear that people will buy CDs and
downloads if they get access to the kind of service we offer. No one else
can give music fans this amount of music for free -- but more importantly
also drive their discovery, as we do through our unique recommendation
engine. That's why people are sticking around on Last.fm -- minutes spent
on site are up 118% month-on-month -- and discovering new music to listen
to and buy."
Last.fm has affiliate deals with partners including iTunes, Amazon and
7Digital, allowing users to buy CDs and downloads from a catalogue that
includes all four major labels and thousands of independent labels and
artists. Affiliate links on the site's music players allow users to click
through from any song they're listening to and buy individual tracks or
full albums from any of those partners.
Since launching free-on-demand in January -- a service which currently
offers free access to over five million tracks for full-length streaming --
Last.fm has become the fastest growing free music Web site in the U.S.
About Last.fm
Founded in 2002, Last.fm is the largest global free music platform on
the Web. Last.fm can offer music fans millions of tracks in every genre for
free- on-demand streaming thanks to partnerships with Universal, EMI,
Warner Music Group, Sony BMG, CD Baby, independent aggregators The Orchard
and IODA, and more than 150,000 independent artists and labels -- without
the need to sign up or download any software. As well as being able to
access tracks for free - - a service which has seen Last.fm become the
fastest-growing free online music network in the U.S. -- music fans can
also share their music preferences by linking their media player to the
Last.fm database. As a result, Last.fm can intelligently recommend songs,
artists, local concerts and even other members based on their musical
tastes. Last.fm also supports unsigned artists by offering them an
unprecedented Artist Royalty program through which they can earn revenue
directly from Last.fm every time their music is streamed. Learn more about
Last.fm at http://www.last.fm.
Friday, 6 June 2008
Fall Of The Leafe
Artist: Fall Of The Leafe
Genre(s):
Metal: Gothic
Metal: Death,Black
Rock
Rock: Sympho
Discography:
Volvere
Year: 2003
Tracks: 11
Fermina
Year: 2002
Tracks: 9
August Wernicke
Year: 2000
Tracks: 10
Evanescent, Everfading
Year: 1998
Tracks: 9
On their 1998 debut album, Evanescent, Everfading, Fall of the Leafe displayed the distinctive qualities of Finnish heavy metal: a bevy of Scandinavian expiry and designate metal tricks spliced with tribe music and laden with grandiose vocal titles. Formed in the town of Turku iI old age earlier by singer Jani Lindström, guitarists Jussi Hänninen and Kaj Gustafsson, bassist Juha Kouhi, and drummer Marko Hyytiä, the chemical group had issued a identification number of demos leading up to their first base contract with bantam independent label Defiled, just they were clear noneffervescent probing for a comfortable direction to pursue. Enter new vocaliser Tuomas Tuominen and keyboardist Petri Hannuniemi, world Health Organization helped flesh out the band's sound with mediaeval overtones for the sophomore Lordly Wernicke in 2000. Recorded with returning guitar player Gustafsson (he'd been temporarily replaced by Mika Rostedt on the said L.P), 2002's Fermina showed even more improvement while bringing Fall of the Leafe closer to the more conventional, if still somewhat skew, style of hard stone made popular by Finnish headliners Amorphis. This direction was farther explored by 2004's Volvere (introducing unexampled drummer Matias Aaltonen), which was Fall of the Leafe's first recording for English independent Rage of Achilles Records.
Frank Sinatra - Sinatra Letter To Be Auctioned
An angry letter FRANK SINATRA sent to a Catholic priest attacking the men who were jailed for kidnapping his son is expected to fetch $36,000 (GBP18,000) at auction.
The late crooner fired off the type-written missive in 1964 to Federal Bureau of Prisons Chaplain Roger Schmit, after Schmit had asked him to forgive the men who snatched Frank Sinatra Jr the previous year, when he was 19.
He also addresses rumours his son was in on the plot, writing, "You have had no prior relationship to the Sinatra family. It is presumptuous for you to ask us to forgive them... Up to this time I have remained silent about the harm done to my son by the claim of 'hoax', but your letter, written in the name of God, has caused me to break the silence."
Memorabilia collectors can bid on Momentsintime.com.
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