Album: Dancing Shoes Genre: Dance Writers: jonas von der Burg, Niklas von der Burg, Anoo Bhagavan Released: March,2009 Support This Artist. Download Her Music Now!!! This song was first listened in Sweden during 2007 however, it is going to be officially released next Monday in UK. The song had an edition from its original version. The new CD track listing [...]
Album: Greatest Hits Genre: Dance Pop Writers: Enrique Iglesias, Ciara Released: March, 2009 Support This Artist. Download His Music Now!!! Takin’ Back My Love is included on the Greatist Hits Album of Enrique Iglesias. It is featuring Ciara, and it was produced by Red One. The song is the new number fifty-nine on UK 100 Singles Chart. The music video [...]
Album: Simple Plan Genre: Alternative Rock Released: 2008 Support The Band. Download Their Music Now!!! For this week, No Love Song has reached the peak position at # 86 on Canadian Hot 100 Chart. The one has been included into the third studio album of Simple Plan. The single is the track number ten. This material is available since [...]
A Los Angeles jury says the record company doesn't have to pay producers more for songs sold online, upholding the music industry's business model.
A federal jury in Los Angeles ruled Friday that Eminem's music royalties don't change just because a song has been sold online.
The decision prevents, at least for now, an upending of the music industry that could have greatly changed the financial relationship between record labels and artists, in which labels have long commanded most of the proceeds from album sales.
The Detroit music producers who were involved in the rapper's early works, including his 1999 Grammy-winning album, "The Slim Shady LP," sued Universal Music Group's Interscope Records, accusing the music label of shortchanging them on royalty payments for music downloads and cellphone ring tones
Mark and Jeff Bass, brothers who own F.B.T. Productions, said their contract entitled them to 50% of the proceeds for songs sold through online stores including Apple Inc.'s iTunes or by cellphone operators such as Sprint.
They argued that the songs Universal provided to online and mobile services amounted to music "masters," from which infinite digital copies could be produced. As such, F.B.T. said it was entitled to a higher royalty rate than the 12% they would otherwise receive on the sale of a song or music CD.
The jury sided with the music company's interpretation that a song purchased online is no different from one bought in a store.
"It's saying that the digital download is the modern version of a record sale," said music attorney Fred Davis, founder of law firm Davis, Shapiro, Lewit, Montone & Hayes in New York, who was not involved in the lawsuit. "And the economics to the artist are the same for a digital download as they were for the sale of a single, back in the glory years."
Davis said the ruling would have had enormous implications if it had favored the Bass brothers, because it would have forced an already struggling music industry to share a much higher percentage of proceeds from sales with artists.
Although federal district court rulings do not establish a legal precedent, they can influence judges weighing similar disputes. Eminem was not a party to the suit.
Richard S. Busch, an attorney representing the Basses, said his clients were considering their legal options.
"We are very surprised by the jury's verdict," Busch said. "We don't understand it, and the fight's not over."
A Universal Music spokesman hailed the decision, saying, "We are pleased with the jury's verdict."
The jury did award F.B.T. $159,000 owed from underpaid royalties
Check out this HOT new keyboard from Asus featuring a its own little monitor. The 5-inch touchscreen will let you access your files without a monitor and you can hook it up to a TV if you wanted to watch movies through its USB, VGA and HDMI ports. $400 wired, $600 for the Bluetooth cool ass wireless version.
1. Flo Rida - Right Round feat. Ke$ha 2. T.I. - Dead and Gone feat. Justin Timberlake 3. Lady GaGa - Poker Face 4. Soulja Boy - Kiss Me Thru the Phone feat. Sammie 5. The All-American Rejects - Gives You Hell 6. Kanye West - Heartless 7. Lady GaGa - Just Dance feat. Colby O'Donis 8. Eminem - Crack a Bottle feat. Dr. Dre & 50 Cent 9. Taylor Swift - Love Story 10. Kelly Clarkson - My Life Would Suck Without You
These days everyone's trying to get the biggest bang for their buck, especially when it comes to buying pricey new electronics. Which is why the Touch Book laptop from Always Innovating should be your next purchase. Weighing in at a mere two-pounds, the Touch Book sports a 9-inch, crystal-clear 1024×600 screen, internal USB ports (unlike many netbooks, which have awkward dongles), built-in WiFi and Bluetooth and an easily upgradeable 8GB micro SD card for storage.
But the Touch Book's real magic is in it's innovative design, which allows the screen to detach from the keyboard and function as a fully-operational touchscreen tablet! This also allows the screen to be used as an e-book reader or portable gaming platform. It also has a freakin' magnet in the back, so it can attach to the refrigerator and act as a kitchen video monitor. On top of that, it has 10-15 hour battery life - significantly longer than any other netbook on the market, and it only costs $300.
The only possible downsides are in the open source operating system, which requires a bit more tinkering than Windows or Apple (but can also be much more flexible and powerful, if you know what you're doing or learn). And it's probably not best used as your primary computer. But so what? This thing is badass.
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Today, I will breakdown the beef between K-Solo & DMX over who originated the "Spellbound" style. It all started in the late 80's when K-Solo & DMX served their jail time. DMX & K-Solo supposedly were friends and battled each other one-time during a 60-minute break. I heard rumors that K-Solo was stunned by DMX style and talked to DMX after the battle. In 1990, K-Solo released his breakdown hit "Spellbound." About a year later, DMX appeared in the unsigned hype column of The Source which you can see above. He claimed that K-Solo had stole his style and that he was the real author of "Spellbound." Right after that, DMX decided to release his own basement version of "Spellbound." A trivia fact is that he is known to have won a few spelling bees when he was a kid.
I don't think K-Solo really cared about DMX's version as he never replied until 2001. For the second installment of the Beef DVD series, K-Solo took a lie detector test to prove that he was the original writer of "Spellbound." He passed the whole test except one question which was just doubtful when he was asked if DMX co-wrote "Spellbound." DMX never really used that style after he recorded his version of Spellbound but years later he became a multi-platinum selling artist while K-Solo never really made an impact after his second solo album "Time's Up". Did DMX tried to gain fame by using the spellbound style? We will never know... I just suggest that you listen to both versions and decide for yourself
K-Solo - Spellbound (1990)
DMX The Great - Spellbound (The Original) (1991?)
DMX Unsigned Hype Article appears courtesy of THIMK
One of the hardest ... EPs to find information on? Absolutely. Recently, a denizen of the T.R.O.Y. Forum named Fak uploaded this seven track vinyl EP, which is for sale here and appears to have been released in 2005 on the equally elusive Drive-By Pimp Slap label (DBPS2-1). But confusion ensued in the thread - fellow blogger Markshot, among others, had come across an album of the same title but with eight tracks, two of which, "Back Up Off Me" and "Less Work," are similarly titled to songs on the vinyl version, but no exactly. Major WTF here.
Google Blog Search was not immediately helpful in this case, but with a little bit of sleuthing I was able to put the puzzle pieces together. A blog post from December 2006 that is now in 404 limbo proclaims that Saafir's One Of The Hardest EP is a limited edition: "saafir returns! 8 unreleased tracks (not on any other release) recorded between 1997-2002. hella limited. look out for a new album in the near forseeable future." This post apparently included a tracklist but the blurb visible in the search result only shows "1.less work 2.bad b*tch 3.touch somebody (feat. xzibit)," which matches the first three selections from Markshot's tracklist. That plus the "hella" suggested some pure west coast authenticity to me.
Further in the past, back in August 2005, SergDun from We Eat So Many Shrimpblogged about a Saafir concert he attended, in which the Saucee Nomad insisted on performing some brand new material which included songs called "Crispy" and "Cash Me Out." Now we're on to something! Afterwards, SergDun purchased a CD titled, you guessed it One Of The Hardest, which he described as "archived material from '97-'02." He then goes on to four of the songs that appear on his eight track CD, all of which appear on Markshot's playlist. Good then. Inspection of both files suggests that "Back Up" and "Back Up Off Me" are in fact the same songs with the same Ras Kass and Xzibit guest verses. Ditto for "Left Work" and "Less Work." Or at least the beats and lyrics are the same - they could be different takes for all I know, as the recording quality is much greater on the CD versions.
In any event, the music on these EPs falls far short of the bar Saafir set on Boxcar Sessions, but you probably knew that already. Even if you're of the belief that Saafir's more accessible reinvention beginning with Trigonometry was a step in the right direction (and this argument admittedly has some merit) these EPs are not essential unless you're a completist. Saafir has rhymed better over iller beats elsewhere, point blank. But this is Saafir, so the EPs are filled with those sublime moments where he just goes the fuck off and says something totally unexpected in his trademark anxious robotic freestyle way. For some this will be reason enough to collect these semi-rarities.
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