Love Me Now, When I'm Gone, Love Me None By Taylor K. Long For an emotional R&B singing moniker, Christopher Breaux aka Frank Ocean couldn't have done much better. Writers often use water metaphors – an ocean, in particular – to represent feelings, emotions, and hidden...
Body Transformation 190 Pounds to 145 Pounds Weight Loss Before and After side by side weight loss. Kinda choppy. Music : Earthquakey People by Steve Aoki. I don't own. www.lauramustloseweight.com - diet, exercise plan, faq, etc Twitter: @lauralostweight Facebook: lauramustloseweight
Fantastic compilation of so-called "doom" music.
I will not be sorry to see 2011 go. I am, by nature, an optimist, but there are limits on what a man can take and still wake up smiling. And it got pretty close on more than one occasion. To be sure, highlights abounded, but in the win-loss columns of life, I'm leaning towards the latter for this one. I do have high hopes for 2012, however. It's not every day you get to witness the end of the
Spotify is on a roll, but it's coming at a cost. The company reported a 2010 loss of $41.5 million after taxes, compared to a loss of $26 million in 2009. The loss comes despite a 458% increase in year over year revenue to $98.8 million in 2010. Ad revenues grew from $7 million to $28 million in that period, while its subscription revenue s increased from $10.6 million to $70.5 million. The numbers, first reported by Music Ally , come from financial results [...]
Meghan O'Rourke's The Long Goodbye is a touching memoir regarding her mother's death. The New York poet wraps the raw emotion of such a somber subject in graceful and eloquent prose. Meghan shares the various intense emotions she experienced during her mother's battle with cancer and the agonizing void left in her mother's absence. As [...]
Our thoughts go out to our readers overseas, just as they have gone there over the past few days: It's been difficult to focus exclusively on music news while London has experienced these socially catastrophic riots. And honestly, we haven't. But while there's no just or easy way to compartmentalize the events' devastation, an event last night did bring some unfortunate repercussions pointedly to the music community. The NY Times reports that late on Monday, Sony's 215,000 sq. ft. warehouse in Enfield was set ablaze. In addition to being Sony property, the warehouse "was [...]
Warner Brothers had to announce its current quarterly sales this week, the company's first since it was purchased by Access Industries. And apparently, the company is losing less money than it did in this time frame last year: The company posted $46 million in losses this quarter as opposed to $55 million this time last year. Apparently a lot of the gained revenue wasn't from increased sales, it was from the LimeWire settlement that the four majors scored against LimeWire, and for taking part in Spotify, and other streaming services. So, that's probably not as good news for artists on [...]
In its first earnings call since acquisition by Access Industries, Warner Music Group reported narrowing losses of $46 million for the fiscal third quarter, compared to a $55 million loss a year ago. Revenue declined 1% on a constant currency basis. During the call, CEO Edgar Bronfman said 50% of revenue came from "areas of the business that did not exist in 2004". 60% of currently signed WMG artists are signed to 360 or expanded rights deals, according to Bronfman. DIGITAL REVENUE, SPOTIFY & LIMEWIRE: [...]
Runaround Kids , Wakefield's emerging indie-rock trio, are set to make first and lasting impressions in the summer of 2011 with their debut album Linked Arms out on August 8, 2011. The record shouts and shakes unadulterated, gloriously crafted DIY. Their first offering Cut Yr Losses is an exclusive free download for the readership of The 405. Be sure to also listen to their first single released Can't Lose Lover released July 18, 2011.
Before the quibbling starts: I didn't include YOB's Atma because it isn't out until August. It would be way up there. I've also been listening to Dragged Into Sunlight's Hatred For Mankind quite a bit, but since it has an original release date of '09 before Prosthetic's 2011 reissue, I didn't include that either. On the other side of things, I've recently started listening pretty intensely to Servile Sect's Trvth (Handmade Birds), a collection that feels like it'll stick around for awhile. Otherwise, this is what I've found myself returning to [...]
I'm going to be brutally honest and tell all of you that my experience in the realm of "funeral doom" is quite limited, but I will do my best to write this review from the standpoint of someone who appreciates all forms of metal. Though I do indulge in many acts whose work feed off of despair when inspired to write, never have I come across a band who embrace and envelop such an overwhelming
From NatGeo : "Are chimpanzees mourning the deaths of a nine-year-old male and infant? Researchers have released never-before-seen video of a chimp community in Zambia reacting to the deaths. Though the scientists hesitate to use the word "mourning," at least one imagines the footage will make people think for a moment what might be possible in the minds of other primates."
Live Nation has pared losses in the first quarter of 2011, reporting upticks in ticket sales for concerts and sporting events, driven by lower ticket prices. Overall, Live Nation's net loss for the quarter was down to $48.5 million compared to $122 million in Q1 2010. Revenue grew by 17% to $849 million against $723 million in the same quarter from last year. Concert ticket sales were up by almost 13% and sports ticketing improving by 17% against the previous year. The increases were driven by more [...]
MySpace Losses Continue - In a new News Corp earnings report, the "other" group that includes MySpace reported losses of $165 million "primarily due to increased losses at Myspace, stemming largely from lower advertising and search revenues partially offset by lower operating expenses." ( MediaMemo ) Sony is blaming hackers Anonymous for the two week shutdown of their network: "We discovered that the intruders had planted a file on one of our Sony Online Entertainment servers named "Anonymous" with the words: We are Legion." [...]
by BBG DOWNLOAD: Loss - "An Ill Body Seats My Sinking Sight" (MP3) Sabbath Assembly at Roadburn 2011 ( more by Stefan Raduta ) The previously discussed Ghost show at The Studio at Webster Hall (on June 1) gets more impressive with the addition of Sabbath Assembly and Natur to the bill. Tickets are on sale . Sabbath Assembly features [...]
We North American metallers are used to getting boned when it comes to metal festivals. Yeah, we've got a handful of great fests, but the events are almost always pretty small and localized (barring the mighty Maryland Death Fest, which routinely attracts diehards from all over the world). The North American idea of a "metal [...]
Hypebot publishes a morning roundup of music industry news every weekday morning prior to 11AM ET and when warranted will add a PM Update edition around 4:30PM ET. AllMusic , the database that provides bios and other info for iTunes, Pandora, Spotify and almost every other digital music store appears to be getting a big makeover as owner Rovi opens a combined music, firm and tv service and destination AllRovi.com [...]
Just got this news through on the electronic mailer. Ben Westbeech has a new album coming out April of next year with a single set for release February kind of time. If you don't know Ben then you should get on it. He has a soulful distinctive voice and dabbles in just about every music genre going he has collaborated with the likes of Rusko, Jazzanova and Kero One. Sounds as though this album he has taken a turn for the dark and broody and has worked with producers including Mj Cole, Henrik Schwartz, and Motor [...]
This morning, at around 8:30 am, a nice Asian man told me that I was going to die. A while back, I was driving around with my wife and newborn baby girl, when a car cut me off, forcing me to brake suddenly. I was so upset, I saw red. I floored our car, causing all six cylinders of fury to respond with glee. I pulled alongside the offending vehicle, rolled down my wife's window, and yelled across to the hapless driver, "DO YOU WANT TO DIE? 'CAUSE I WILL F%#*ING END YOU!" The other driver [...]
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