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The News Review:
- Music reporter BBC News
- Last Night: New Year’s Eve at Sea of Dreams and Eclectic Fever
- For Apple 2008 Was a Very Good Year
- Music finds a new game plan
- 2008’s Top Music
- Hello ‘WallE!’
Music reporter BBC News
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But will the electro sound really catch on?The polished robopop of stars like Madonna Kylie Britney and Girls Aloud has enjoyed phenomenal success among young fans who shape the charts. Those acts have been moulded by the commercial pop machine with all the meticulous songwriting and styling that involves. But – unlike in the 1980s – newer cooler electronic acts often struggle for major success. And what does the future hold for guitar music?Bands like Kings of Leon Coldplay asis The Killers and Elbow all enjoyed a phenomenal year in 2008. But others suffered disappointing returns. The Kaiser Chiefs Razorlight The Kooks Keane The Fratellis and The Pigeon Detectives all failed to make it into the top 40 albums of the year.
Last Night: New Year’s Eve at Sea of Dreams and Eclectic Fever
SF Weekly Blogs CA
Probably best described as a fusion of electronic music hip-hop and performance art the band – assisted by dancers acrobats and some guy in a mechanic’s uniform who swung across the stage on a rope which descended from the ceiling – had extremely high energy a point not lost on the equally energetic (and possibly chemically-enhanced) crowd. Mutaytor was so compelling it was easy to forget there were two other stages going off simultaneously. Weaving through the crowd we made our way to the main stage where Thievery Corporation was playng their first NYE live show ever (according to co-founder Eric Hilton). Thievery in concert was somewhat like a global musical revue; Hilton hung in the back playing keyboards and the other TC principal Rob Garza strummed on a guitar complemented by a drums bass percussion additional guitar and a constantly revolving bunch of vocalists.
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For Apple 2008 Was a Very Good Year
PC World
1 music retailer in the world ousting Wal-Mart from the top spot. That’s big news for a couple of reasons. First it demonstrates that the market for electronic music sales is much bigger than many music execs want to admit. It also illustrates that to be successful an electronic music store must be well balanced and dynamic easy to use integrated with music devices — in this case the iPod and iPhone — that are an established part of the popular culture and filled with as broad a catalog of music as possible. A store also has to navigate the competing needs of recording companies and users as well as the laws of any country in which it operates. The success of the iTunes Store shows that even if Apple hasn’t concocted the perfect formula it’s the best of the various options offered so far. ITunes — the application not the store — gained a lot of new features over the course of 2008.
Music finds a new game plan
Emirates Business 24/7 United Arab Emirates
"The kind of exposure that artists can get through the Guitar Hero platform is huge" says Huang who remains Redctane’s president after the company and the Guitar Hero franchise were taken over by Activision Blizzard Inc. Rock Band meanwhile is made by Viacom Inc’s MTV Games and distributed by Electronic Arts Inc. Though Warner Music Group Corp Chief Executive Edgar Bronfman Jr bemoaned the "very paltry" licensing fees record labels get from game makers in August the labels haven’t stopped sending their music to game makers. This is partly because they lack leverage. Even the largest label ? Universal Music Group ? controls just a third of the US market says Wedbush Morgan entertainment analyst Michael Pachter. "There are literally probably two million songs out there and fewer than a 1000 were used in these two games combined in these past two years" Pachter says.
2008’s Top Music
Northwest Herald IL
Mike Cooley’s story of a threesome gone wrong (“3 Dimes Down”) is a boogie-rock classic and Patterson Hood’s sunset postcard to John Ford (“The Monument Valley”) is the deliverance this album deserves. David Byrne and Brian Eno “Everything That Happens Will Happen Today”Miles away from their experimental 1981 album “My Life in the Bush of Ghosts” Byrne and Eno’s second proper collaboration is a winning mix of pop folk gospel electronic music and R&B. There’s a little bit of everything on “Everything” an endlessly effervescent recording that glides on the ex-Talking Head’s dulcet vocals. Taking inspiration from Eno’s gospel-influenced demos Byrne wrote some blissfully hopeful songs – from the brassy tribute to love “Life is Long” to the patient prayer for better times “ne Fine Day. ”The Runners-upkkervil River “The Stand-Ins”Kathleen Edwards “Asking for Flowers”The Hold Steady “Stay Positive”Fleet Foxes “Fleet Foxes”Lil’ Wayne “Tha Carter III”Los Campesinos! “Hold on Now Youngster”The Raconteurs “Consolers of the Lonely”Al Green “Lay It Down”John Hiatt “Same ld Man”Kings of Leon “nly By the Night”—The Year’s Best Songs“White Winter Hymnal” Fleet FoxesThis choral folk song of irrepressible beauty discovers what the Beach Boys would sound like if they grew up in Appalachia. “Ready for the Floor” Hot ChipA nerdy come-on (with a lyric stolen from “Batman”) joins an 8-bit groove to form the sweetest of club anthems.
Hello ‘WallE!’
Chicago Tribune United States
” “First Date” “Define Dancing” “It nly Takes a Moment. ” A great start to our compilation is the exuberant snippet of the show tune from “Hello Dolly” that leads off this animated delight about the Little Robot Who Could. Newman’s score runs the gamut from electronic musical squeaks burps and bleeps to ’60s-flavored. Fittingly the little-known love duet from “Dolly” between.
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