The True American Idol, Corgan Speaks Out On Pumpkins Suit, and New Music..
Posted March 26, 2008 — in Music News
Fleetwood Mac surprised by Sheryl Crow claim: Sheryl Crow’s recent claim that she would be working with Fleetwood Mac surprised a lot of people — including the members of the classic rock group according to Reuters. Crow told Spinner.com that she and the band “definitely have plans for collaborating in the future, and we’ll see what happens.” “I think we were all a little surprised (Crow) was announcing that to the world with such certainty,” Fleetwood Mac principal Lindsey Buckingham said with a laugh. Sheryl Crow has turned into a fame junkie always trying to claw her way into the press and back on the radio charts. She even tried to barge herself into the White House. Her new music is void of emotion and soul, I wonder how she sells a record these days…
The True American Idol: Forget about Underwood or Daughtry, it’s Simon Cowell who roars up in his $1million supercar to view his $8million mansion. A total rockstar to say the least..
Its Time: 3 Doors Down new single ‘It’s Not My Time’ has become the fastest moving song at Active Rock radio in the past five years. ‘The early radio success of ‘It’s Not My Time’ is an incredible indication of more great things to come from this band and this album,’ stated Monte Lipman, President & CEO of Universal Republic Records.
Clear Channel Buyout Collapsing: A flurry of reports now suggest that the near-$20 billion acquisition is edging towards collapse, thanks to tightening credit markets and reluctant lenders says Digital Music News.
Corgan Speaks Out On Pumpkins Suit: Corgan says he has been feuding for years with Virgin over the handling of the Pumpkins’ back catalog, but that the Pepsi/Amazon.com promotion crosses the Rubicon. Corgan insists the group has veto power over such deals and has turned them down several times in the past. I believe the Pumpkins surrounded themselves with money hungry lawyers that convinced them they could squeeze out some money from Virgin.
Sony BMG plans online music subscription service: Sony plans to launch a subscription plan to give clients unlimited access to its digital catalogue, chief executive Rolf Schmidt-Holtz said. ‘The simplest option would be a flat rate under which a monthly payment would provide access to our entire music catalogue for all digital players, including Apple’s Ipod,’ he added.
New Music: Listen to “Where’d All The Scene Girls Go” by
The Crash Moderns. The NYC band is influenced by The Kinks, The Clash, Kiss, Squeeze and have been been featured on Fearless Music TV (Fox) and in Time Out NY.
“Sheryl Crow *has* turned…” ???!
Always been.
Though I am curious to hear her new project with Bill Bottrell.
Last thing I liked by her was when Kevin Gilbert rescued her from the bowels of her label’s Artists-Whose-Debuts-Suck-So-Bad-The-Public-Shall-Never-Hear-Them bin by bringing her to the Tuesday Night Music Club he and Bottrell were part of.
You may remember her gratitude being abundant. Not.
Comment by Daniel Holter — March 26, 2008 @ 7:07 am
Sony article:
“‘It is even possible that clients could conserve some songs indefinitely, that they would own them even after the subscription expired,’ he said.”
That would be great if it came about, but somehow I doubt it.
Comment by Universal Indie Records — March 26, 2008 @ 8:22 am
The rumor of her replacing Christine has been floating around for months… I heard it sometime last year. I get the impression that it was something she & Stevie had been talking about for a while now & that she genuinely understood and was excited that she’d be working with them. I, personally, wouldn’t want to hear anyone I was already so familiar with singing those parts… it just seems really awkward to me. But I don’t hold it against her. Maybe I’m just not looking hard enough for reasons to hate artists?
Maybe she is a fame junkie, but what great rock star is perfectly well adjusted? What about Axl Rose? Iggy Pop? I’d rather her not be, honestly. I think she’s put out some of the best sounding pop music of the last decade… I think If It Makes You Happy & My Favorite Mistake both sound incredible, & if not for that god-forsaken drum loop Soak Up the Sun would be up there, too. And I think the new single is great, it reminds me a lot of that first record, which was one of the few great records on the radio when I was growing up.
I don’t know how you can accuse her of having no emotion or soul & then you post “Where’d All the Scene Girls Go?” directly afterward. I mean… that’s just ridiculous.
Comment by Jon Cole — March 26, 2008 @ 10:08 am
Jeez. I just listened to The Crash Moderns (based on their claimed influences), and I must say I hear none of that whatsoever in the rather vapid and lame “Where’d All the Scene Girls Go”.
I’m pretty sure the “influences” are the work of a publicist.
Comment by Mondogarage — March 27, 2008 @ 10:23 am
Jon, like I always say, music is subjective. The taste in music is usually an extension of ones personality. I find Sheryl Crow music as bland as an insurance seminar. If you think her new single that works perfectly for an AT&T commercial exciting, then you are a sheltered child my friend. Nothing wrong with being sheltered though. As far as the crash moderns, they are a developing artist never meant to be compared with someone who had a break through album in the nineties.
Sheryl Crow to me is a fame junkie. She is in her mid 40’s going out on stage in a bikini praying someone snaps a shot of her. Like every other fame junkie, she hops on the global warming bandwagon linking toilet paper to ice caps melting. She bashes republican Karl Rove because he found her argument juvenile with no scientific backing and politely asked her to stop talking to him.
Again, im not a crow fan, her music is as dull as the cold war kids. But hey, if your a fan, go buy her music…
Comment by koar — March 27, 2008 @ 11:34 am
I think she looked great in the swimsuit, personally. In most shots, at least. And I think the prank war between her & Mayer showed a lot of personality on both ends… you know he had come onstage during her set in a bear suit earlier in the tour.
What I fear is that in this era of blogs and Best Week Ever, everyone will soon be afraid to do anything out of the ordinary. If you have one ounce of renown, if you find yourself to be a common point of reference to any group of people, large or small, all of the sudden every blogger, disc jockey, & VH1 “comedian” has you in their sights, hoping to showcase their brilliant whit at your expense. Could you imagine what would be said of Bonham riding through a hotel in a motorcycle? Or Rick Allen rejoining Def Leppard? Rock stars are supposed to be outrageous, but you can’t be a rock star anymore because rock stars are no longer untouchable. Everyone wants to generate their own fame, they want to steal the renown of the rock star.
That’s a huge can of worms, of course, which we can entertain or not, but if Sheryl Crow is a fame whore, what does that make all of the pseudo-pundits who are raking in the cash at her expense? You know perezhilton.com is valued @ $48m according to 24/7 Wall Street.
Personally, I think everyone’s just trying to twist everything she does into the most humiliating thing possible.
As for the Crash Moderns, can you develop emotion & soul? Do we take the artists who look good & maybe have a catchy hook & throw them in a room with a great producer & a Bob Dylan record & hope for the best? I think it’s perfectly reasonable to take their song & compare it to not only Sheryl Crow’s first record, but Bob Dylan’s first record & the Beatles’ first record & the Who’s first record. And, in my personal subjective opinion, they don’t compare.
Comment by Jon Cole — March 27, 2008 @ 1:32 pm