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30
Jan 12

Singer-in-Chief boosts sales of Al Green song

Diane Alter – AHN News Reporter

Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – Singer Al Green’s online sales have soared since President Barack Obama performed an impromptu “cover” of “Let’s Stay Together” at the Apollo Theater Jan. 19.

Crooning just one line from the 1970s single, the president spurred a weekly sales increase of 490 percent for the track, Nielsen Soundscan reports.

In his surprise rendition, Obama began the tune with a bit of a vibrato in his voice, and hit all the high notes singing the lyrics “I’m so in love with you.” The brief melody garnered a rousing applause from the always tough and critical New York crowd.

Green’s soulful tune peaked in the early 70s, but after Obama’s performance, online downloads reached close to 16,000. Meanwhile, the YouTube video and other website views of the president’s performance has had more than 4 million hits.

Green told TMZ that the president’s performance was “terrific,” and he “nailed it.”

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24
Jan 12

Steven Tyler botches national anthem at AFC championship game

Diane Alter – AHN News Reporter

Foxborough, MA, United States (AHN) – If Americans had a vote, Steven Tyler might not be going to Hollywood.

The rocker became the latest celebrity to botch the National Anthem. Tyler had the honors of signing the anthem at Sunday’s NFL playoff game between the New England Patriots and the Baltimore Ravens.

The Aerosmith frontman and “American Idol” judge butchered the iconic song, missing some of the lyrics and plenty of the notes.

Dressed in a ratty looking coat, sparkling Patriots scarf and sunglasses, Tyler appeared to struggle through the song and squawked at the high notes.

Critics have not been kind in their critiques, with some putting it on par as “the worst pre-game performance ever.”

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25
Nov 11

Nickleback booed at Detroit Lions game

Diane Alter – AHN News Reporter

Detroit, MI, United States (AHN) – Nickelback’s performance at the halftime show of the Detroit Lions’ Thanksgiving Day game was heavily protested with an online petition garnering more than 55,000 signatures.

The group, which hails from Canada, was protested by critics who said the rock band doesn’t represent Detroit’s music heritage.

Nickelback’s introduction was greeted with some cheers and jeers, which the Detroit Free Press described as “tepid.” The Canadian rock group performed its new hit single “When We Stand Together,” a song about unity. Some fans applauded and stood with signs that read “Live United.”

Frontman Chad Kruger, wearing dark sunglasses, gave a hearty “Dee-troit” shout out near the end of the performance.

Despite the controversy, Nickelback fared better than American Idol 10th season runner-up Lauren Alaina, who opened the game with a rendition of the National Anthem. The 17-year-old forgot the words, and paused for an long three seconds before regaining her composure to finish the song.

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5
Sep 11

MIDI- A Guide to Music Composers

Composing diverse patterns of drum beats for entertainment appears to be a challenging task for music composers. Music lovers demand extra-ordinary piece of music and continue their search till they find music of their choice. The entertainment industry has countless number of musicians who are putting their best efforts to succeed in entertaining the global audience. If your career as a musician is going through tough competition and you are unable to find possible ways to regain your fan followings, then using MIDI files can help you to surpass the competition.

MIDI, an industry standard protocol will help you to create interesting drum beats as per the choice of your audiences. All you need to have is the MIDI-equipped electronic instruments including a synthesizer, a sequencer, a MIDI-enables keyboard and MIDI cable. MIDI enables communication of one instrument with another and you can easily control the digital messages transmitted over the instruments. The messages include certain details such as pitch, intensity, volume, vibrato, clock signals and lots more to create drum beats. The best thing about MIDI files is that each files have different channels to represents details about the different sets of music. You can choose the song segments arranged in loops and can enjoy combining the different parts of the songs into a single one.

In order to have handsome collection of MIDI drum loops, you can look for some companies who are known to provide drum loops to professional musicians and studio drummers. A few companies supplying MIDI files operate e-store to offer easy shopping opportunities. You can consider visiting online stores of MIDI drum loops to enjoy shopping of best products from your home or convenient locations. Besides taking advantage of online shopping, you can spare out sometime to review the feedback of other customers as well as compare the number of MIDI files available on different stores.

A few companies with online presence are known to provide samples of popular MIDI files for free of cost. Drum loops covering different style of music such as fusion, jazz, rock, pop etc are a few to name. If you come across such e-stores, then take benefit of trying out the samples before purchasing them for your professional use. After having better idea about MIDI technology, you can easily construct song segments in least possible time.

MIDI files will help you to create electrifying music in least possible time. Consider collecting some of the popular drum loops for your upcoming projects.

To learn more, please visit MIDI Beats and get the details about MIDI Files.
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29
Aug 11

Britney Spears reveals “Criminal” as new single

Anthony Jones – Celebrity News Service Reporter

Los Angeles, CA, United States (Celebrity News Service) – After coming off a major tribute at the MTV Video Music Awards and winning Best Pop Video, Britney Spears also announced what could be her next contender for an award nod or a Hot 100 entry.

“I don’t know if I’m at liberty to tell but um I will anyway,” Spears told MTV backstage at the Video Music Awards. “It’s ‘Criminal.’”

“Criminal,” the fourth single off “Femme Fatale,” was produced by Max Martin and Shellback, the same hitmakers behind her biggest radio hit, “I Wanna Go.”

“The song when I first heard it…it’s really different. It’s nothing I’ve heard like before,” Spears said about the fan favorite, which was voted their top choice for her next single via online poll.

Of course, the Video Vanguard award winner, responsible for her video concepts from “..Baby One More Time” to now, already has the idea for the video.

“I really wanted to deliver this song and I was thinking of a cool concept for the video just to make it interesting,” Spears teased. “You’ll have to see.”

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25
Aug 11

Pitbull responds to Lindsay Lohan lawsuit, says lyrics were misinterpreted

Anthony Jones – Celebrity News Service Reporter

Los Angeles, CA, United States (Celebrity News Service) – Lindsay Lohan hit rapper Pitbull with a lawsuit over a line in his #1 single “Give Me Everything” with Ne-Yo. But he says he had no intentions of hurting her whatsoever and, in fact, was hoping to keep her relevant.

“I was very surprised when I found out about the lawsuit,” Pitbull said. “To me it was very ironic, to be honest with you. At first I read it and I thought, ‘It’s gotta be a joke.’ [But] come to find out that’s it’s very realistic.”

Pitbull sat down for an interview with his official website, PlanetPit.com, where he stressed that the line in question, where he raps “I got it locked up like Lindsay Lohan,” was misinterpreted.

“When I was mentioning Lindsay Lohan on the record, it was a positive message,” Pitbull says. “When I say got it locked up like Lindsay Lohan, it means you run that area.”

That might be a bit of a stretch but Pitbull says he’s all about the positivity on his work and he’s supported Lindsay throughout her career and even her hard times. He also thought mentioning her in a song, which shot all the way to the top of the charts and sold millions of singles, might even help. Instead, Lohan cited mental anguish and irreparable harm in the lawsuit.

“In no way shape or form would I want to bring that on anybody and I didn’t look to defamate, degrade, or hurt someone’s career,” Pitbull added. “For me mentioning it on a No. 1 record around the world, I thought it would be helping someone’s career and also keeping them relevant.”

Pitbull will perform the song live at this Sunday’s Video Music Awards on MTV and even extends an invitation for Lindsay to join him.

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19
Aug 11

Lindsay Lohan sues rapper Pitbull over “Give Me Everything”

Anthony Jones – Celebrity News Service Reporter

Los Angeles, CA, United States (Celebrity News Service) – Lindsay Lohan is doing some damage control on her image and she’s not letting a damaging reference to her on a hit song slide. She’s suing rapper Pitbull over his #1 single “Give Me Everything.”

According to TMZ, Lohan is suing over the line where Pitbull references her legal troubles, rapping, “I got it locked up like Lindsay Lohan.”

Lohan claims in the lawsuit that “the lyrics, by virtue of its wide appeal, condemnation, excoriation, disparaging or defamatory statements by the defendants about the plaintiff are destined to do irreparable harm to the plaintiff.”

The song was released back in March and topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart in June. It’s remained in the top 10 since and has sold over 2 million copies.

“Give Me Everything” also features Ne-Yo and Afrojack, who are also named defendants in the lawsuit.

Lindsay isn’t exactly asking Pitbull to “Give Me Everything” as far as money goes. She just wants to stop all broadcasting of the song, which will definitely be hard to do. It’s currently one of the biggest songs at radio and Pitbull and Ne-Yo are even scheduled to perform the track at next week’s MTV “Video Music Awards.”

In the lawsuit, filed by Stephanie Ovadia (who also helped with the Linsday’s E*TRADE ad lawsuit), Lindsay says she’s “suing under the New York civil rights laws, which protects people from having their name exploited for commercial purposes.”

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5
Aug 11

Looking For Free Music Downloads Through Best Hindi Songs Sites

They understand the reason because of which people are attracted towards music downloads and provide the advantage from buying CD’s and cassettes from the market which is a costly affair as downloading is free when a person can access every song sitting at home or office and resting having a laptop and an internet connection. They provide the facility of downloading any kind of latest music like hip-hop, jazz, bollywood, hollywood songs, sung by any of the singers and of any album and in any language like tamil, chinese, French, Malayalam etc. They provide people with thousands of free downloading sites with thousands of downloaded Hindi songs as most of the people prefer free downloading from their site. They donot have any liability of doing registration and pay small or large amount of fees. Favourite songs can be downloaded directly to computer, mobile, ipod, laptop. They make every song of the world to rest in the pocket and just a hand set can take the rhythm of favorite music to your heart through ears at own wish. They fulfill the need of the music downloads in this high era. They guide about the some of the paid songs and tells to consider pricing, quality, music format in mind. They also provide the facility of retro songs.

They provide the quality downloading of songs. They impress their clients in one go. There are many things to reduce stress but songs can do it in a small time. They give the benefit of downloading songs from one place instad of copying from Cds. The most important benefit provided by Hindi songs is that it is the biggest way by which tension and stress can be easily . Now-a-days, people are quite busy in their life and they have no time to relax. They are running like cats and dogs in order to earn their livelihood and they are so busy with their own stuff that they do not have much time for their hobbies also. They do take care of people who prefer extensive online music download. They also fascilitate people with video songs downloading. They also offer free online listening of the song, go through the clarity and quality of the song, have glance on the music format demanded, read the reviews posted by the previous users to get clear cut picture of the site. They allow to easily use the facility of music downloads by using Internet as all sorts of music downloads are available on the internet. They provide songs which have a soothing affect on the mind, body and soul as it can be heard while doing any activity at home or outside. They provide users with a wealth of songs on various types of music.

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Gogrumogru is one of the best site with which people can easily work and there is no need for any sort of qualification to access this site. A layman can even access the site and download songs. Hindi songs of any sort can be downloaded from their site. Even the old songs that are not available easily can be downloaded at the same time.  
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4
Aug 11

What Makes A Professional Drummer.

The ability to play drums is something that most of us can learn with enough time and effort but to be classified as a truly talented and gifted drummer you have to possess several other skills and natural abilities. First off the primary job of any drummer is to keep as perfect time as possible in every song under all situations. This alone is will filter out 80% of drummers from this list. A perfect meter (time) is something that only the finest and most naturally skilled drummers possess. If you can keep perfect or close to perfect time without a click track you are something special. At the end of the day the primary job of a drummer in any band is to keep the time and move the music. Next is the ability to play for the song and not for yourself. Most drummers have a difficult time not overplaying in certain situations. Unless you’re playing Dream Theater or Rush your job is to move the music, provide the groove and of course keep the tempo consistent.

Making your fills and grooves tasteful and appropriate for the song is extremely important. Overplaying can result in a sloppy and overly busy sounding performance. A songs feel and impact on the audience can be greatly influenced by tastfulness of the drummers goove and feel and appropriatness of his or her fills. Next would the ability of the drummer to understand the music they are playing. The ability to read and write music is very important to a drummers overall understanding a how songs are phrased and structured. Your marketability will also increase if you have the ability to read music. Many gigs require the ability to read and possibly write music such as variety bands, cruise ship bands, theater, etc. Lastly has to do with the drummer’s personality. How well does he work with get along with his peers and band mates? The finest drummers are humble and give praise to their fellow musicians and well as they receive it.

Egos can severely hurt some drummer’s ability to work effectively within a band. Once you’ve created a reputation being cocky and egoistic it may be difficult to find consistent work as a drummer so it’s important to be professional and courteous to all of your band mates and music associates at all times. When you put together these elements of natural talent, time keeping skills, groove and feel, playing for the song, not show boating, music education and personality you’ve got a great drummer who can play any type of music very well and work effectively with any other musician. The best professional drummers out there today poses these traits and for any drummer looking to move to the next level in their career these are important things to remember.

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Written by Scott Hutton owner of Cymbalism Music at http://www.cymbalismmusic.com. Cymbalism Music carries a wide array of hand made cymbals, drums and guitars at the lowest prices.
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28
Jul 11

Why You Should Participate in a Songwriting Contest?

A songwriting contest offers a great platform for budding songwriters. Nowadays, there are online song contests that present immense scope to these song writers. Moreover, these song contests can be a great way to enter the music world.

Depending on the size and sponsor of the music contest, there are several prizes to be won by the winner. Moreover, it is not that the winner takes it all. Even the top scorers get to attend feedback sessions with the musical maestros. These song contests are judged by music experts, who often offer music record deals to the top scorers. From a holistic point of view, a song contest offers an opportunity to test ones’ capability, talent and how the music world accepts the song of an applicant. Whether you make it to the top or not, it is very important to analyze the feedback of the judges and the reaction of the audience. Accordingly, you can work on your skills for future contests. Through music contests, you will gain exposure, experience and recognition in the music industry.

Since the web world is full of options, it is up to you to choose a contest according to the kind of music you like. If you prefer country music song, choose a contest that is promoting such kind of music. As far as choosing a specific kind of music is concerned, submit your best songs. Read the terms and conditions of the contests carefully and then submit your song. Some contests ask for a nominal entry fee, whereas others are free songwriting contest that can provide equal opportunity as compared to the paid ones. These free song contests often allow the community members to present their opinion about a song. Opinion of the members can help you to present a better song in further contests that you apply for.

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The California Song Contest is an international songwriting contest open to amateur and professional songwriters alike. We are open through the entire year and are always accepting your songs.So enter your Songs into the California Song Contest Today.
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