Music - General http://www.ebroadcast.com.au/eblah/ http://www.eblah.com en Men at Work http://www.ebroadcast.com.au/eblah/m-1278375777/ http://www.ebroadcast.com.au/eblah/m-1278375777/#num1 Tough?  Not enough? Plain silly?  

Kookaburra gets last laugh in Men At Work case

Men At Work have been ordered to pay 5 per cent of royalties for plagiarising part of their 1980s hit Down Under.

In February the Federal Court ruled the iconic Aussie band plagiarised part of the song, which was penned in 1979 but only achieved worldwide success after a flute riff was introduced to the track two years later.

Larrikin Music said the band stole the riff from the children's song Kookaburra Sits In The Old Gum Tree.

Kookaburra Sits In The Old Gum Tree was written by Melbourne teacher Marion Sinclair for a Girl Guides jamboree in 1934 and has been sung by generations of Australian children ever since.

Larrikin owns the rights to the song and has been seeking compensation from Men At Work frontman Colin Hay and fellow songwriter Ron Strykert as well as Sony BMG and EMI.

At one point, Larrikin sought up to 60 per cent of the song's profits as compensation.

Today a judge described that request as "excessive".

Instead Men At Work has been ordered to pay Larrikin 5 per cent of future profits, as well as profits dating back to 2002.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/07/06/2945781.htm?section=justin]]> Tue, 6 Jul 2010 10:22:57 Paula SWITCHFOOT AUSTRALIAN APRIL TOUR 2010 http://www.ebroadcast.com.au/eblah/m-1271840706/ http://www.ebroadcast.com.au/eblah/m-1271840706/#num1
WED 21 - THE HI - FI BAR. BRISBANE
THU 22 - THE BILLBOARD, MELBOURNE
FRI 23 - THE FORUM, SYDNEY

Get your tickets from : http://www.redanttouring.com/current_tours_and_events_switchfoot.html




SWITCHFOOT TOUR RELEASE:
“The voice of Switchfoot front man Jon Foreman does sound more than a little like Bono’s” – PasteMagazine.com

“Switchfoot has much in common with arena-rocking peers like Coldplay and Snow Patrol.” – SputnickMusic.com

“The San Diego band offers high-voltage buzz-saw riffs and irresistible melodic hooks” – RollingStone.com
“The multi-platinum pop/rockers doing charity work with Bono, sound-tracking TV hot-tub scenes and surfing.” Music OMH


Ladies and Gentlemen, the wait is over, Switchfoot has added Australia to their world tour. The past few years have been somewhat of a coming-of-age story for San Diego quintet Switchfoot and as a happy ending to the tale, the band is heading to Australia to play their brand of familiar anthemic rock tunes that acknowledge life’s storms while managing to find an element of hope in them.

Whilst the boys have been closely compared to bands like Snow Patrol, their latest album Hello Hurricane, which was featured in USA Today’s Fall Pick for most awaited album, has a far more edgy vibe to it than their previous albums. Packed full of songs you want to die singing, Switchfoot are back with a fighting spirit while still retaining their moniker of hope and optimism.

Although Switchfoot have never fit any of the genre boxes, the band find that diversity is their strength and that they operate at their best during their infamous and energetic live shows. Expect a night of melodic crunch with densely layered sound featuring some electronic <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_music> experimentation, often driven by heart-pumping guitar riffs <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riff> , with a few softer ballads thrown in as well.


Watch:
Dare You To Move
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufYp9SHLQX0

Meant To Live
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbwY9yDL8WQ

Mess of Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et1vriu29Qk

Links:
http://www.redanttouring.com
http://www.myspace.com/switchfoot
http://www.switchfoot.com

Releases:
New Way To Be Human (1999)
Learning To Breathe (2000)
The Beautiful Letdown (2003)
Nothing Is Sound (2005)
Oh Gravity! (2006)
Hello Hurricane (2009)
]]> Wed, 21 Apr 2010 19:05:06 smiling assassin 2010 Brit Awards http://www.ebroadcast.com.au/eblah/m-1266370475/ http://www.ebroadcast.com.au/eblah/m-1266370475/#num1 Lady Gaga wins three BRIT Awards, Liam Gallagher loses the plot
BANG Showbiz From: NewsCore February 17, 2010 9:53am

LADY Gaga cleaned up at the BRIT Awards, scooping three awards.

The Poker Face singer took home trophies for International Album, International Breakthrough Act and International Female Solo Artist.

Show host Peter Kay quipped: "She's won every international awards apart from International Male!"

Accepting her first award, Gaga said: "Thank you so much, I love my fans, thank you so much for everything," before reeling off a list of people who she wanted to thank.

By the time she accepted her third award, for Best International Album, she was in tears.

She said: "I was really excited about winning the first two awards, but this one means more because I worked so hard on this album for so long, and when I think about all that I went through and all the years of struggling and my fans - they were the first ones to recognise my abilities."

Gaga also performed a song at the event - which she dedicated to recently deceased fashion designer Alexander McQueen.

British boyband JLS were the surprise winners of two awards, taking home British Single for their debut 'Beat Again' and British Breakthrough Act. In a triumph for hip hop, Bonkers rapper Dizzee Rascal was named the British Male Solo Artist.

Accepting his award, he thanked his record label, saying: "Whoa, it's about time! Big up to all the Dirtee Stank family, Big up to all the fans!"

Elsewhere, Florence and the Machine picked up the accolade for British Album, while Lily Allen was named British Female Solo Artist.

Accepting her award in a bright ginger wig, she said: "I wore an orange wig so it would make it harder for the cameramen to find me and see the look of disappointment on my face. But that backfired."

When urged to hurry her speech she replied: "No f**k off, I'm not leaving, f**k off," before thanking her family.
Oasis controversy

Liam Gallagher outraged the ceremony, throwing his trophy in the crowd and snubbing his brother.

The former Oasis singer appeared to collect the award for BRITS Album of 30 Years, a publicly voted accolade for the best album since the event started.

Liam appeared onstage briefly to collect the trophy, and thanked the band's line up - apart from his brother Noel, the band's main songwriter and second vocalist.

Referring to one of the group's hits, Liam said: "I'd like to thank Bonehead, Guigsy, Alan White.... the best bands in the f**king world live forever."

He then threw his microphone and the award into the audience and walked offstage.

Oasis split last year after a fallout between the volatile Gallagher brothers, and while Noel is recording a new solo album, Liam has formed a new band with the rest of the group's members.

Backstage at the event, he said: "I don't know if we deserved it because there has been loads of great albums over the last 30 years.

"But if they're gonna give it to us then I'll play the game and turn up and get it.

"Now can we go and take loads of Class A drugs?"

The missing microphone caused panic among the award organisers, and while the show was at an advert break, one of the stage team pleaded for its safe return.

He announced: "We need this mic back. Please, if you have the mic will you return it, as one of our artists will not be able to perform without it."

The microphone thrown by Liam was given back and the show went on.

Other performances at the event included rock band Kasabian, who performed their single Fire on a stage which was partially engulfed in flames. They later won the award for British Group.

Cheryl Cole - who is currently undergoing troubles in her marriage to footballer Ashley Cole, after he was caught sending lewd messages to other women - also performed her single Fight For This Love singing through what appeared to be gritted teeth as she did a dance routine reminiscent of Michael Jackson.

Full list of winners at the BRIT awards 2010
British Male Solo Artist - Dizzee Rascal
British Female Solo Artist - Lily Allen
British Breakthrough Act - JLS
British Group - Kasabian
British Album - Lungs, Florence and the Machine
British Single - Beat Again, JLS
BRITs performance of 30 years - Wannabe/Who Do You Think You Are, Spice Girls
International Male Solo Artist - Jay-Z
International Female Solo Artist - Lady Gaga
International Breakthrough Act - Lady Gaga
International Album - 'The Fame' Lady Gaga
BRITs Album of 30 Years - What's The Story (Morning Glory) - Oasis
Outstanding Contribution to Music - Robbie Williams

http://www.news.com.au/enterta.....frfn09-1225831245818]]> Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:34:35 SuziH 52nd Grammy Awards 2010 http://www.ebroadcast.com.au/eblah/m-1265015601/ http://www.ebroadcast.com.au/eblah/m-1265015601/#num1
http://www.news.com.au/gallery-e6frflv0-1225825362332?page=1


January 31, 2010

The 52nd Grammy Awards: Taylor Swift wins album of year

In another one of those Grammy shockers, Taylor Swift won the night’s biggest award – album of the year for “Fearless” -- after a nationally televised performance Sunday that pointed out how richly she didn't deserve it.

In the live face-off at the 52nd annual Grammy Awards between Swift and Beyonce, who took home six statues, Lady B was the clear winner with a raucous medley of her “If I Were a Boy” and Alanis Morissette’s “You Oughta Know.” Swift, in contrast, sounded woefully out of tune in a duet with Stevie Nicks, the latest in a string of underwhelming performances on national television.

Yet it was Swift who bested Beyonce for the prestigious best-album honors. Beyonce’s consolation prize was song of the year (“Single Ladies [Put a Ring on It]”). Kings of Leon took record of the year (“Use Somebody”) and the Zac Brown Band won best new artist. Also shut out in the major categories were Lady Gaga  and the Black Eyed Eyes. Gaga jumped into a pit of fire and the Peas danced with robots, but to no avail.

As if a staggering 1003 nominations in 109 categories weren’t enough, here are a few categories of our own:
Censors working overtime: Lil Wayne, Eminem and Drake – can’t recall a more intense hip-hop performance on this most staid of awards shows. Too bad most of it was inaudible, as the foul-mouthed trio gave the guardians of public decency a migraine while huge chunks of their performance were muted. Not saying we needed to hear explicit language on prime-time TV, but it does point out how ultimately unsatisfying most live music performances on television are because of such restrictions.


Beck-ola! Jeff Beck paid homage to the late guitar great Les Paul by dancing on the strings while covering the old Les Paul-Mary Ford hit “How High the Moon” with vocalist Imelda May. She sounded heavily processed, but Beck was the real deal. If that doesn’t inspire any aspiring ax-man to junk “Guitar Hero” and pick up a real guitar, nothing will.

Best fashion choice: On a night when outrageousness was the rule, Maxwell stood out by going classic. Dark suit, tie, Marvin Gaye-like smoothness, right down to a Tammi Terrell-style duet with Roberta Flack on “Where is the Love.”

When the song isn’t very good … add lots of strings, a marching band, dance badly. Dave Matthews did all of the above in an attempt to salvage “You & Me.”

She never saw it coming: Bet when Mary J. Blige was clawing her way out of Yonkers, N.Y., in the late ‘80s she didn’t expect to find herself next to Andrea Bocelli singing a Simon and Garfunkel song on the Grammys. Chalk it up to another one of those odd Grammy programming decisions: The opera singer and the queen of hip-hop soul both looked a little awkward.

Were You Holding Your Breath …  about which song Bon Jovi was going to play in fan voting? Did anyone think it wasn’t going to be “Livin’ on a Prayer”?


Back from the dead, in 3-D: The Michael Jackson tribute was one of the set pieces scheduled for his aborted London residency. It resurfaced as one of those Grammy gimmicks that must’ve sounded good in some music exec’s glass office, but fell strangely flat in execution – especially without access to the 3-D glasses handed out to audience members at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Celine Dion, Usher, Carrie Underwood, Jennifer Hudson and Smokey Robinson took turns belting out lines alongside a recording of Jackson’s voice on "Earth Song." But the blustery anthem is not one of Jackson’s finest moments: “What about apathy?” everybody! Jackson’s children, Prince and Paris, then took the stage, and their simple, direct eloquence made all that preceded it seem like so much overkill. Fighting through his nerves, Prince Jackson said it best about his father: “Through all his songs, his message was simple: Love.”



Pitch-corrector must not have been working: Taylor Swift sounded flat, especially when she jumped in to sing “Rhiannon” with Stevie Nicks, who also sounded off. Swift looked more confident than she has on past nationally televised awards shows, but her vocals suggested otherwise.

Comeback kid: Less than a month after brain surgery, Leon Russell banged the keys with the Zac Brown Band, a refreshing throwback to a time when bearded, potbellied Southern guys played roots rock like their lives depended on it.

How do you spell train wreck? A-U-T-O-T-U-N-E. That chaotic Jamie Foxx/T-Pain collision, which started out as mocking opera, then segued into Auto-Tune overkill. (Could someone please kill Auto-Tune now? Didn’t Jay-Z already pronounce it dead?) Not even a Slash guitar solo could save it.

Naughty, naughty? Sure sounded to me like the audio dropped out during Fergie’s rap as the futuristic Black Eyed Peas got all sci-fi on us. Actually, the censors did us all a favor, because as MC’s go, Fergie has got flow issues.

Cirque du Soleil goes Pink: She’s been doing the acrobatics in concert for years. But as she twirled slowly in midair while sending water from her drenched body cascading down on the well-coifed audience, all the while managing to sing (could she have been lip-synching?), Pink surely was the talk of the TV show’s first hour with her high-flying performance.



Her night? Sensing that she just might run the table on her 10 nominations early on, Beyonce came out with a performance that was all windblown fury and overkill, slamming together her “If I Were a Boy” (grabbing her junk in the process) with Alanis Morissette’s “You Oughta Know.” Unusually aggressive by Lady B standards, especially coming off her classy Etta James moves in “Cadillac Records.”



Makeup! Someone get me makeup! What was with the runny facepaint on Lady Gaga and Elton John in their piano duet? Pretty cool opening set by Gaga, but somebody should’ve reconsidered that hideous makeup job. Yeah, yeah, I get that she got thrown into a "fire" and came out "charred." Just looked cheap.  I really like that she's willing not to play the traditional dance-pop diva role, but this was distracting.

Savior of the music industry: Susan Boyle sold a ton of records, but she was no-show, in part because her debut was released too late for Grammy consideration. Still, in a year where the Grammys swung hard toward younger performers, it was a “48-year-old housewife in cat shoes,” as host Stephen Colbert called her, who gave the sagging industry a late sales uplift.

Better late than never? Neil Young won his first Grammy award, for box-set packaging (“Neil Young Archives Vol. 1 [1963-1972]”). As the LA times pointed out, that ties him with Britney Spears. Seriously.

Second City flop: Tough night for artists with Chicago connections. Kurt Elling won for best jazz vocal album (“Kurt Elling Sings The Music Of Coltrane And Hartman”); Kanye West for best rap song (“Run This Town”). But nominees such as Common, Wilco, Neko Case and Mavis Staples went home empty.

greg@gregkot.com

Posted at 07:24:38 PM in Grammy Awards, Grammy Awards 2010

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]]> Mon, 1 Feb 2010 20:13:21 SuziH Mumford and Sons http://www.ebroadcast.com.au/eblah/m-1256458322/ http://www.ebroadcast.com.au/eblah/m-1256458322/#num1 Mumford and Sons and their new album Sigh No More.

Their new single is Little Lion Man. Very, very good!  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lk1wkbWI6I
]]> Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:12:02 lurveit Will Alexander Rule The World? http://www.ebroadcast.com.au/eblah/m-1243085864/ http://www.ebroadcast.com.au/eblah/m-1243085864/#num1
Quoted Text
Winning the Eurovision Song Contest provides a unique opportunity for the winning artist(s) to capitalise on their success and surrounding publicity by launching or furthering their international career. However, throughout the history of the Contest relatively few names have gone on to be huge international stars. The most notable winning Eurovision artists whose career was directly launched into the spotlight following their win were ABBA, who won the Contest for Sweden in 1974 with their song "Waterloo". ABBA went on to be one of the most successful bands of their time. Another notable winner who subsequently achieved international fame and success was Céline Dion, who won the Contest for Switzerland in 1988 with the song "Ne partez pas sans moi", though her international singing career came some years later and is not generally directly associated to her winning the contest.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_winners

]]> Sat, 23 May 2009 23:37:44 122 YouTube Premium - Vevo http://www.ebroadcast.com.au/eblah/m-1239625536/ http://www.ebroadcast.com.au/eblah/m-1239625536/#num1
YouTube plans premium music site
Reuters http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/2327983/YouTube-plans-premium-music-site
09:32 10/04/2009


Google's YouTube and Universal Music Group, the world's largest music company, will launch a premium music video website as they bid to increase revenue from YouTube's huge usage.

The new site will be called Vevo and is expected to launch in coming months, the companies said. Plans for Vevo come in addition to the renewal and extension of YouTube's rights deal to feature video content from Universal artists such as U2, 50 Cent and Kanye West.

Universal Music is owned by French media group Vivendi.

Vevo will be a premium online music video hub designed to offer higher-quality videos, as opposed to the typical grainy and often user-generated videos on YouTube. The idea is for Vevo to attract more big-name advertisers and other content owner partners.

Universal and YouTube will share advertising revenue generated by the site. Both sides will be betting that building a premium site will help increase advertising rates. Many big brand owners have avoided advertising alongside YouTube's mix of user-generated videos.

Vevo will also serve as a syndication platform as YouTube and Universal expand the reach of the Vevo brand, the companies said.]]> Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:25:36 122 YouTube to block music videos in UK http://www.ebroadcast.com.au/eblah/m-1236642414/ http://www.ebroadcast.com.au/eblah/m-1236642414/#num1
credit: http://www.digitalspy.co.uk
YouTube to block music videos in UK

Monday, March 9 2009, 21:19 GMT
By Sarah Rollo, Entertainment Reporter





Music videos will reportedly be blocked for British YouTube users because of "prohibitive" licensing fees.
Google Inc took the decision after being unable to reach a rights deal with the songwriters's collection society PRS, according to Reuters.
Representatives for the video sharing site said that PRS was asking it to pay much more than its previous licensing agreement.
"The costs are simply prohibitive for us - under PRS's proposed terms we would lose significant amounts of money with every playback," the company said in a blog.
In December, Warner Music pulled its material from the site following a breakdown in negotiations over payment.
Warner was reportedly unhappy with the amount of money being offered and was demanding better royalties and more competitive advertising rates.]]> Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:46:54 union jack fall out boy http://www.ebroadcast.com.au/eblah/m-1234162803/ http://www.ebroadcast.com.au/eblah/m-1234162803/#num1 Mon, 9 Feb 2009 18:00:03 medicine Cassie Davis http://www.ebroadcast.com.au/eblah/m-1228458839/ http://www.ebroadcast.com.au/eblah/m-1228458839/#num1 myspace page the other day, seems like she has quite the online following. she has a cure cover up which sounds rocking, plus when i went to her youtube channel i found this video where fergie gives her a plug!

anyway, if you're into pop music with a bit of an edge to it then she might be up your alley! worth checking out. ]]> Fri, 5 Dec 2008 17:33:59 medicine