Here's a Vietnamese national band festival I found.
National Bands’ Festival: a competition for all genres of music
A good way to combine your love of travelling with performing.
[Resource http://www.nhandan.com.vn/english/culture/220706/culture_na.htm]
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Warner Music inks indie distribution deal
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"Warner Music Group's indie distributor has just struck a deal with dance music label Ultra Records as part of an on going effort to build up the alternative and independent side of its music business and attract new talent."
[Resource http://newyorkbusiness.com/news.cms?id=14253]
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Goodbye Michael Jackson. Remember the 1983 video for 'Thriller'? That went for 13minutes which is the current record for the longest video.
Well not for much longer.
Hey, how long did the video for David Bowie's 'Blue Jean' go for? I'm pretty sure it was for 'Blue Jean' that included a short movie before the actual video began.
Anyway, back to what I was talking about.
Mike Skinner (The Streets) is teaming up with MTV to make a 20 minute 'promo' to celebrate MTV's 25th birthday.
"An MTV spokesman said it was a "truly unique project"."
Look out for it's first airing 1st August.
[Resource http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/5208576.stm]
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Can't give away a million dollars! This is one consequence of 'speaking your mind'.
The infamous Dixie Chicks remark from 2003 is still making news. That's some publicity mileage!
"The fallout from Natalie Maines' now infamous remarks in 2003 bashing George Bush is well documented: radio boycott, CDs publicly destroyed, a sharp decline in sales, death threats, and ridicule from the country-music industry. But what bothers Maines the most, she says, is that the American RedCross refused a $1 million donation from the Dixie Chicks in 2003."
[Resource ]http://www.projo.com/music/content/projo_20060723_chicks.11f8b5e.html
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"HIS heartfelt anthems evoke the windswept prairies of the American Midwest and the cotton fields of the deep south.
However, Bob Dylan’s debt to the hills and glens of the Scottish Highlands has been revealed in the first encyclopedia of the celebrated singer.
Dylan, 65, admitted recently that his most famous protest anthem, The Times They Are A-Changin’, was inspired by a Scottish folk tune."
Click on the article title to keep reading.
[Resource http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2090-2281957,00.html]
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