Music News

Music News June 2nd 2011

       1) A volunteer shop worker uncovered a aged manuscript from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. There is only one other copy of the edition in the world. The music is now expected to raise thousands of pounds for the charity when it goes under the hammer at Sotheby's next week.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1393516/Extremely-rare-score-written-Mozart-discovered-bundle-donated-charity-shop.html#ixzz1O8D32UGt
     2) Tom Morello's alter-ego the Nightwatchman is releasing his third studio LP, World Wide Rebel Songs, on August 30^{th.
          3) Adele has been forced to postpone a few North American shows after being diagnosed with laryngitis. The singer will reschedule performances planned for this week in Salt Lake City, Vancouver, Seattle and Portland, Oregon. As of now, the tour is set to resume on June 4th in San Francisco.
          4) The big name presenters for next week's CMT Music Awards include two first timers: Shania Twain and Justin Bieber as well as  American Idol winner Scotty McCreery and runner-up Lauren Alaina, Sheryl Crow, Train, Kristin Chenoweth, Luke Bryan and Sara Evans. The show will air live from Nashville on CMT, Wednesday,June 8 at 8 p.m. ET 
           5) Lady Gaga 's Born This Way album debuts at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart with 1,108,000 copies sold in the first week alone.  
       6) Matt Bellamy, singer and guitarist for Muse, will be taking some time off from his songwriting in order to be with his fiance, actress Kate Hudson, who's pregnant with their first child. Taking his place is bassist, Chris Wolstenholme
         7) Black eyes Peas have announced that Natasha Bedingfield, MC Hammer, Debbie Harry, LL Cool J and Carole King will be joining them onstage during their free concert in New York's Central Park on June 9th. The concert, which will benefit New York City's Robin Hood anti-poverty charity.
         8) NBC has announced that a special hour long episode of The Voice will air after the SuperBowl in February. The show, which is NBC's highest-rated program and the most popular new series of the 2010-11 season.}
    

Todays Music

May 25th 2011

 1) The Georgia Music Hall of Fame, will be shut down next month due to low attendance and budget cuts. Some of the Georgia Music Hall of Fame famers included James Brown, Little Richard and Otis Redding. The museum's governing board voted Tuesday to close the museum on June 12th and move its collection of memorabilia to the University of Georgia and other state colleges. The Georgia Legislature subsidized the museum but as of July 1 had planned to cut off all funding.
2) INXS have announced another tour, only they're not saying who their lead singer is going to be. Their last lead singer, J.D. Fortune, was found through a reality television show.  The band decided to let Fortune go after his coccaine addiction got out of hand.
3) 2 Live Crew's controversial frontman Luther Campbell will not be Miami/Dade's next mayor. Although running with extreme confidence, Campbell knew that it'd be an uphill struggle for him to win against 10 other people. Campbell finish 4th overall with 11% of the votes.
4) Jay Rock has announced that his Strange Music debut "Follow me Home"  will be released on July 26th. The album is currently available for pre-order on his website. Fans who purchase the LP ahead of schedule will receive an autographed copy of the CD, an unreleased bonus track, a limited edition XL shirt and a full-color Jay Rock sticker.
5) U2  drummer Larry Mullen Jr made his debut in a film, starring opposite Donald Sutherland in Man On The Train.  The film was released at the Cannes Film Festival.
6) Fly on Iceland Express Airlines,you may find Iron Maiden lead singer Bruce Dickinson in the pilot's seat. Dickinson will be at the helm of  a Boeing 757 leased from the U.K.'s Astraeus Airlines, as regular routes are expanded in the U.S. and Canada.

May 24th 2011 Day in Music

1) Released from prison in January after serving six years, Mystikal has been taking his time returning to the spotlight. The New Orleans rapper will release his comeback mixtape in June or July, with a studio album to follow shortly after.
2) Years after dropping his 2000 debut Life Story, the “Whoa!” rapper, Black Rob, is finally set to release his third album Game Tested, Street Approved on July 26^th, revealing that the LP will include references to his falling out with his former label. 
3) The Game had his newest single for Red Nation was banned by MTV and BET due to its gangsta background.  He released it on YouTube.com and received over 4 million hits.
4) The Darkness will undertake a full world tour in 2012, The Darkness play their first gigs since reuniting next month, headlining the Norwich Waterfront on June 5, the Leamington Spa Assembly on June 6 and London's O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire on June 8. These will act as a warm-up for their appearance at Download festival playing underneath headliners Def Leppard on June 10.
5) Amazon kicked off a price war in the US by slashing the price of many chart hits to almost half of what iTunes was selling them for, with tracks available for as low as 69 cents.
6) Tim McGraw  is counter suing against his long-time record company, Curb Records, after the company sued him earlier this month for breach of contract.
7)Dierks Bentley raised more than $143,000 in Columbus, Ohio on May 22 at his Miles & Music for Kids event.  Proceeds will benefit the Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus.
8) Bob Dylan turned 70 today.

Led Zeppelin/Jimmy Page

JIMMY PAGE
     The Beginning
       Jimmy Page, born James Patrick page, was born January 9th 1944.Page was born in the West London suburb of Heston, which today forms part of the London Borough of Hounslow.  His father was an industrial personnel manager and his mother was a doctor's secretary. He started playing guitar when he was 12 and took lessons nearby, but was mostly self-taught. Page states that his first guitar was a second-hand 1959 Futurama Grazioso.  It was left in a house his family had moved into at the time. 
       Page began his career as a studio session guitarist in London. He left school at around 14 years old and was discovered by by singer Neil Christian and asked to join his band The Crusaders. Page toured with Christian for approximately two years and later played on several of his records, including the November 1962 single, "The Road to Love". During his run with The Crusaders, he fell seriously ill with Glandular Fever and couldn't continue touring. While recovering, he decided to put his musical career on hold and concentrate on his other love, painting, and enrolled at Sutton Art College. Page contributed to The Kinks'  debut album, and he played six-string rhythm guitar on the sessions for The Who's first single "I Can't Explain". In 1965 Page was hired by Rolling Stones manager, Oldham, to act as house producer and A&R man for the newly-formed Immediate Records label, which also allowed him to play on and/or produce tracks by Eric Clapton and others. He decided shortly after this to move on from studio work,
          Let's Try the Band Thing
In 1966 Page attended a Yardbirds concert at Oxford. After the show he went backstage where band member Paul Samwell-Smith announced he was leaving the group.  Page offered to take the empty spot and was excepted my the group.  He was a member of The Yardbirds from 1966 to 1968. He initially played electric bass with the Yardbirds before finally switching to twin lead guitar when Chris Dreja moved to bass. In 1968, after the others band members departed the group, Page reconfigured the group with a new line-up to fulfill unfinished tour dates in Scandinavia. Page recruited vocalist Robert Plant and drummer John Bonham, and he was also contacted by John " Paul" Jones who asked to join during the Scandinavia Tour. During this time the new group appeared as "The New Yardbirds", but soon changed it "Led Zeppelin". Page has explained that he had a very specific idea in mind as to what he wanted Led Zeppelin to be from the very beginning. " I had a lot of ideas from my days with The Yardbirds. The Yardbirds allowed me to improvise a lot in live performance and I started building a textbook of ideas that I eventually used in Zeppelin. In addition to those ideas, I wanted to add acoustic textures. Ultimately, I wanted Zeppelin to be a marriage of blues, hard rock and acoustic music topped with heavy choruses -- a combination that had never been done before. Lots of light and shade in the music." has said Page.
even though, he has stated that his time as a session player served as extremely good schooling for his development as a musician.          
           History
In the early 1970's Page owned an occult bookshop and publishing house, "The Equinox Booksellers and Publishers" in London, eventually closing it as the increasing success of Led Zeppelin resulted in his having insufficient time to devote to it.  Page had relatonships with a number of rock groupies.French model, Charlotte Martin, was Page's partner from 1970 to about 1982. Page called her 'My Lady'. Together they have a daughter, Scarlet Page, born 1971 who is a photographer. From 1986 to 1995 Page was married to Patricia Ecker, a waitress turned model. They have a son, James Patrick Page III, born 1988.  Page later married Jimena Gómez-Paratcha, whom he met in Brazil on tour. He adopted her oldest daughter Jana, born in 1994,  and they have two children together Zofia Jade, born 1997 and Ashen Josan, born 1999.

       For some time Page refused to touch a guitar out of sadness for the loss of his friend Bonham, whom had died in 1980,  but he eventually made a return to the stage at a Jeff Beck show in March 1981 at the Hammersmith Odeon. In 1982 Page collaborated with director Micheal Winner  to record the Death Wish II soundtrack. This, and several subsequent Page recordings including Death Wish III soundtrack (1985), were recorded and produced at his own recording studio, The Sol in Cockham. Also in 1984 he recorded with former Led Zeppelin vocalist Robert Plant andHoneydippers on the album The Honeydipper's Volume I, and with John Paul Jones on the film soundtrack Sream for Help. Page released a solo album , Outrider, in 1988 which featured contributions from Robert Plant, with Page contributing in turn to Plant's solo album Now and Zen, which was released the same year. In 2010, Jimmy Page was ranked #2 in Gibson's list of "Top 50 Guitarists of All Time".  He has been inducted into the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame twice; once in 1992, as a member of The Yardbirds and once as a member of  Led Zeppelin in 1995.  No future plans to reunite Led Zeppelin are in the works as of now and it doesn't look like they ever will be again.

Music News May 23rd 2011

1) U2 is set to perform on the final episode of American Idol this Wednesday.
2) Primal Scream's "Screamadelica" CD/DVD to be Released on 31st of this month
3) Mark Anthony will kick off his nine-date US tour on September 1st at the State Fair Grounds in Minneapolis.
4) David Cook, season 7 American Idol winner,  released the new music video for his first single "The Last Goodbye" on iTunes today.
5) Taylor Swift will debut her new video, "The Story of US" tomorrow, the 24th, at 7:53 pm on MTV and 8pm on MTV.com.
6) Selena Gomez will release her new album on June 28th titled "When the Sun goes Down"
7) The1st Annual 2011 GLEE THE MUSIC AWARDS hosted by celebrity blogger Perez Hilton will take place live on Tuesday, May 31st at 8 PM ET on Fox Network and will be broadcast on PerezHilton.com via LiveStream and will feature a special appearance from GLEE's very own Jacob Ben-Israel AKA "Jew-Fro!" 
8) Dolly Parton will release a new album, "Better Day", on June 28 on her own label, Dolly Records. She will debut the album's first single, "Together You & I," on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on Friday, May 27th.
9) Brad Paisley released his new album "This is Country Music", today. The record includes his latest single, "Old Alabama," with a guest appearance by the band Alabama.
10) Katy Perry and Russell Brand are putting their LA home up for sale, According to E! Online, the house has four bedrooms and five bathrooms, and will run you right around 3.4 million bucks.  Learn more at EOnline.com.
11) Kings of Leon will be on tour in Europe this spring and will be returning to the States for shows this simmer starting July 26th.
12) According to People.com, Nick Jonas was spotted holding hands with, 26yr old, Australian pop star Delta Goodrem over the weekend.  The two were seen at a Hollywood movie theater on Sunday.

Tribute band of the week

LED ZEPPELIN




The band is made up of four members:
John “Bonzo” Bonham born May 31, 1948, died September 25, 1980, Drums
John Paul Jones  born January 3, 1946, Bass and Keyboards
Jimmy Page born January 9, 1944, Guitar
Robert Plant born August 20, 1948, Vocals

Passion is the word....It was a very passionate band, and that’s really what comes through



Zeppelin's Start
           Led Zeppelin's music was a hard rock sound mixed with British folk music. They were as influential as the Beatles were in their time. Led Zeppelin are widely considered to be one of the most successful, innovative and influential bands in the history of rock music  The group formed in 1968 from the ashes of The Yardbirds, for which guitarist Jimmy Page had served as lead guitarist after Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck. The group’s use of familiar blues-rock forms mixed with exotic flavors found favor among their rock audience. Led Zeppelin. The band has released 9 studio albums and by 1973, they had sold more albums than any other band worldwide with over 200 million albums sold.  The epic "Stairway to Heaven," is the most played song in the history of radio. The very thing Zeppelin was about was that there were absolutely no limits,” explained bassist Jones. “We all had ideas, and we’d use everything we came across, whether it was folk, country music, blues, Indian, Arabic."
         September 1968 the group began recording their first album, Led Zeppelin, which was recorded and mixed in nine days, with all costs covered by Page himself. The band officially declared they were changing their name to Led Zeppelin on 14 October 1968, after a previous run as clean up with Page's former band The Yardbirds. Grant, their Manager, also secured for the band an advance deal of $200,000 from Atlantic Records in November 1968, which was then one of biggest deals of its kind for a new band. Atlantic, at the time, was a label known for a catalogue of blues, soul and jazz artists, but in the late 1960s it began to take an interest in progressive, british rock acts, and signed Led Zeppelin without having ever seen them.  
        Their first show, under the new name Led Zeppelin, took place on October 25th 1968.  This followed with their first U.S. debut on December 26th 1968.  Led Zeppelin was released in the states offically on January 12th 1969 and in the UK on March 31st 1969.  In their first year, Led Zeppelin managed to complete four U.S. and four UK heavy concert tours, and also released their second album, entitled Led Zeppelin II, recorded almost entirely on the road at various North American recording studios.  The second album was an even greater success and reached the number one chart position in the US and the UK. Following the album's release, Led Zeppelin completed several more U.S. tours. They started out as many did playing in clubs and ballrooms, then in larger type aduitoriums as their popularity grew.Some early shows lasted more than four hours.  The band further developed ideas established on their debut album, creating a work which became even more widely acclaimed and more influential.  For the composition of their third album, Led Zeppelin III, Page and Plant retired to a remote cottage in Wales in 1970. The result was a more acoustic sound which was strongly influenced by Celtic and Folk music. 
           Led Zeppelin's fourth album, non-titled, was released on November 8th 1971.  The band decided not to put a album name on the cover to prove that the music could sell itself by giving no indication of who they were. Although many names derived over time such as Led Zeppelin IV and Zoso.   It is one of the best-selling albums in history and its massive popularity cemented Led Zeppelin's super-stardom in the 1970's. Led Zeppelin's next album, House of the Holy was released in 1973. It featured further experimentation, with expanded use of synthesisers and orchestration. broke records for attendance, as they consistently filled large auditoriums and stadiums. .  

  
Zeppelin in the years to follow
        In 1974, Led Zeppelin took a break from touring and launched their own record label. Swan Song.  In addition to using Swan Song as a vehicle to promote their own albums, the band expanded the label's roster, signing artists such as Bad Company ,Maggie Bell, Dave Edmunds, Midnight Flyer, Sad Cafe' and Wildlife. The label was successful while Led Zeppelin existed, but folded less than three years after they disbanded.
            In 1975 Led Zeppelin released the double album, Phyiscal Graffiti, which was their first release on the Swan Song label. It consisted of fifteen songs, eight of which were recorded  in 1974, the remainder being tracks previously recorded but not released on earlier albums.  Shortly after the release of Physical Graffiti, all previous Led Zeppelin albums simultaneously re-entered the top-200 album chart, and the band embarked on another North American Tour, again playing to record-breaking crowds. In May 1975, Led Zeppelin played five sold-out nights at the Earls Court Arean in London, at the time the largest arena in Britain. Shortly after that, Led Zeppelin took a break and planned a series of outdoor summer concerts in America, scheduled to open with two dates in San Francisco.  These plans were shattered in August of 1975 when Robert Plant and his wife Maureen were involved in a serious car crash while on holiday in Greece. Robert suffered a broken ankle and Maureen was badly injured; a blood transfusion saved her life. Unable to tour, Plant headed to the Jersey to spend August and September recuperating, with Bonham and Page in tow. It was during this forced hiatus that much of the material for their next album was written. In March 1976, Led Zeppelin released their Fifth album, Presence, which marked a change in the  Zeppelin sound towards more straightforward, guitar-based jams, departing from the acoustic ballads and intricate arrangements featured on their previous albums. In 1977 Led Zeppelin set out on another North American Tour where the band set another attendance record, with 76,229 people attending their Pontiac Silverdome concert in April of 1977.  It was said to be the largest attendance to date for a single act show. In 1978 the band started on their Sixth Album in Stolkholm, Sweden.  The album,  In Through the Out Door,   easily  reached #1 in the UK and US in it's second week on the billboard charts.  As a result of this album's release, Led Zeppelin's entire catalogue made the Billboard Top 200 between the weeks of 27 October and 3 November 1979.  In August of 1979, Led Zeppelin headlined two concerts at the Knebworth Music Festival where crowds of close to 120,000 witnessed the return of the band.  By this time, Led Zeppelin were the world's number one rock attraction, having outsold most bands of the time, including The Rolling Stones.
Zeppelin's Final Course
        By this time in their careers, Plant was not eager to tour full-time again, and even considered leaving Led Zeppelin.  He was persuaded to stay by Peter Grant. After that, Zeppelin embarked on a brief, low-key European Tour that took place in June and July of 1980, featuring a stripped-down set without the usual lengthy jams and solos.  At a show on June 27th 1980, in Germany, the concert came to an abrupt halt in the middle of the third song when John Bonham collapsed on stage and was rushed to a hospital. The press stated it was from all the drugs and alcohol Bonham was involved in, but the band said it was from pure heat exhaustion and countinued.  was picked up by Led Zeppelin assistant Rex King to attend rehearsals for an upcoming North American tour, the band's first since 1977, scheduled to start on October 17th. During the journey Bonham had asked to stop for breakfast, where he downed four quadruple vodkas (450 ml), and a ham roll. After taking a bite of the ham roll he said to his assistant, "Breakfast". He continued to drink heavily when he arrived at the studio. A halt was called to the rehearsals late in the evening and the band retired to Page's house. After midnight, Bonham had fallen asleep and was taken to bed and placed on his side. At 1:45 pm the next day Benji LeFevre, band's tour manager at the time, and John Paul Jones found him dead. The cause of death was asphyxiation from vomit, and a verdict of accidental death was returned at an inquest held on 27 October. An autopsy found no other drugs in Bonham's body. Bonham was cremated on October 10th 1980, and his ashes buried at Rushock parish church in Droitrich, Worcestershire. Despite rumors of replacements for the iconic drummer, the remaining members decided to disband after Bonham's death. They band released a press statement on December 4th 1980, confirming that the band would not continue without Bonham. The statement said, "We wish it to be known that the loss of our dear friend, and the deep sense of undivided harmony felt by ourselves and our manager, have led us to decide that we could not continue as we were," and was simply signed "Led Zeppelin". In 1982, the surviving members of the group released a collection of out-takes from various sessions during Led Zeppelin's career, entitled Coda. This was Zeppelin's final and 9th album. It featured a 1976 John Bonham drum instrumental with electronic effects added by Jimmy Page, called "Bonzo's Montreux".


Led Zeppelin's Albums
- Led Zeppelin released 1969.  - Led Zeppelin II released 1969
- Led Zeppelin III released 1970
- Led Zeppelin IV, or Untitled
- House of the Holy released 1973
- Physical Graffiti released 1975
- Presence released 1976
- In Through the Out Door released 1979
- Coda released 1982 

May 21st News in Music

 1) Beyonce is set to release her fourth album on Monday, June 27th in the UK.  Beyonce also released her new single Run the World  video this past week on American Idol and her website.
 2) BET gives 6 nominations to singer Chris Brown. BET awards are in June.
 3) Martin Carthy, a leading light of the 1960s folk revival, turns 70 this weekend
 4) Mick Jagger has formed a new supergroup with Dave Stewart and Damian Marley. The name of the band at the moment is "Super Heavy."
 5) Chaka Khan unveiled the newest Hollywood Walk of Fame star on Thursday, hers.  She was given the 2,440th star.
 6) The "Rockefeller Skank" hitmaker, Fatboy Slim, will play hits and spin records during afternoon shows on the rooftop of the Marquee Day Club in Las Vegas this summer.
 7) Nicki Minaj acted as principal for the day at Collins Academy High School in Chicago, IL.
 8) Lady Gaga and Justin Timberlake to star in SNL May 21st season finale.
 9) Bruno Mars auctions off concert memorabilia to raise funds for victims of the US tornadoes.
10) Blondie have announced that they are to release their ninth studio album later this year.
11) Justin Bieber has announced that he will donate "a portion" of the proceeds from two concerts in Japan to the country's relief efforts.
12) Cake is joining forces with the US Scholastic Band Association for "The Federal Funding March, " a nationwide contest among high school and college marching band.