Last time I saw IVANO FOSSATI was the night of New Year's Eve of '04; I drive my car to Rome for 200 Km. to see him. He plays his best songs with Fiorella Mannoia, his great "Muse". Ivano Fossati is one of most considerated Italian musicist.
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Music has always been an excellent source of inspiration. Particularly if you are stuck with some problem you can't find a workaround for, a beautiful song can give you a new perspective, let you see the problem from a different angle.
Built from Skratch is the brand new hiphop lifestyle show on Myx. The show features in-depth interviews with today's top indie and major label acts, including mc's, dj's, and producers. You'll find elaborate features on hiphop clothing and fashion.
In his new video (Blue Magic from the American Gangster soundtrack), Jay-Z drives through the streets of Harlem flashing huge stacks of 500 Euro bills. Not dollars. Euros. Some commentators think it marks a cultural watershed:
There was a time when Headline News had the most descriptive motto of all twenty-four hour new channels: "A whole day's news every half-hour."This motto stated outright the content and purpose of the channel.
A little over 26 years ago MTV revolutionized the way we interact with music by using music videos as programming, not just promotion. Suddenly we went from merely listening to music on the radio to more fully experiencing it on TV.
Even though it's been years since the channel has shown the videos it honors, the MTV Video Music Awards persist...
Karrine "Superhead" Steffans is milking it for every dollar she can get. She now has written a follow-up book to "Confessions of a Video Vixen," that will tell more of her sexual exploits as a music video girl turn porn actress.
I'll often find myself throwing my iPod on, sitting back, and just listening to some Rilo Kiley or The New Pornographers and just imagine that Jenny Lewis or Neko Case was singing just to me right in my ear.
James Blunt's multimillion-selling ballad "You're Beautiful" has been voted the most irritating song of all time. Despite reaching number one in 11 countries and making the singer a star around the world, the track polled more votes than "Axel F" by Crazy Frog.
EMI has signed a deal with YouTube that will allow its users to access videos by EMI artists. It means all four of the world's major music firms are now YouTube partners.
Is it still worth it for music companies to spend all of the money that they do on music videos since there has been a decline in the air time that is dedicated to them?
Alright...We've delayed putting this up, but the delay stops NOW! A couple weeks back, Mikey and I got a swanky little invite to a local nightclub in Las Vegas named Tao.
It's late Friday afternoon... you're gearing up for Happy Hour and totally not into doing any more work. How about you zone out for 10 minutes and "pretend" to do some work? Here are 3 badical new videos from The Horrors, Bloc Party, and The Shins to kick off your weekend.
Middio is a new site, still in private beta, that's indexing music videos from YouTube and tagging them properly with the artist and song name.
JENNIFER HUDSON WINS THE SCREEN ACTORS GUILD AWARD
In the 80's, MTV created a new dimension to music - the visual element. (Even though it did not make any of the music videos, packaging them together was arguably one of the best TV models of our time - where >90% of the channel is produced by third parties / record labels).
Spaceman falling through the stratosphere, four freaks leapfrogging treadmills, a chorus line of communist dancing bears: The music videos of 2006 have left us laughing, wide-eyed, and wondering what new green-screen tricks these bands and late-night talk show hosts will dream up …
How nice. The blogger at IZ Reloaded has gathered as many of the videos that he could find on YouTube to help those interested relive the very first day that MTV began broadcasting, August 1, 1981. Might be worth a trip down memory lane.
Rap star Kanye West was named Best Hip Hop artist but still came off as a sore loser at the MTV Europe Music Awards.
From the article: YouTube and Warner Music Group Corp. will announce a deal Monday that will put thousands of Warner music videos on the video sharing site and allow user created videos to legally use Warner owned music.
Universal Music Group, the world's biggest record company, is stepping up pressure against popular online sites YouTube and MySpace, accusing them of infringing the copyrights of its artists' music videos.
A Collection of Music Videos from the 80s - 90s - Focused interest on a couple of groups - U2, Blondie, Duran Duran, Grace Jones, Metallica, Michael Jackson, Guns N Roses, Weird Al, will be adding more, enjoy :)
"We celebrate the magic of YouTube by sharing 100 of our favorite music promos; simply, dozens of clips that, for various reasons (because they're so good, because they're so bad, because they feature the Jacksons imagining themselves as gods sprinkling gold dust on humanity) w …