NME is reporting that Michael Jackson has bought a stake in the back catalogs of Beck, Bjork, Shakira & Eminem amongst others.
The official statement reads: “This is a milestone event for Sony/ATV Music Publishing.
The diverse collection of songs in this catalogue range from timeless classics to contemporary hits, and I am pleased to add the acquisition of Famous Music to Sony/ ATV.”
Thoughts? Yay, nay or indifferent?
NME is reporting that Michael Jackson has bought a stake in the back catalogs of Beck, Bjork, Shakira & Eminem amongst others.
The official statement reads: “This is a milestone event for Sony/ATV Music Publishing.
The diverse collection of songs in this catalogue range from timeless classics to contemporary hits, and I am pleased to add the acquisition of Famous Music to Sony/ ATV.”
Thoughts? Yay, nay or indifferent?
NME is reporting that Michael Jackson has bought a stake in the back catalogs of Beck, Bjork, Shakira & Eminem amongst others.
The official statement reads: “This is a milestone event for Sony/ATV Music Publishing.
The diverse collection of songs in this catalogue range from timeless classics to contemporary hits, and I am pleased to add the acquisition of Famous Music to Sony/ ATV.”
Thoughts? Yay, nay or indifferent?
That’s what some Japanese superfans are paying today to hang out with the former King Of Pop at an exclusive party thrown by Michael, himself.
Yahoo! has more on the event: At the VIP party, guests paying $3,500 will get to mingle with Jackson and spend 30 seconds to one minute each of exclusive face time with the Gloved One, according to organizers. It was unclear whether the star will perform any songs. While in Tokyo, the star will also host a fan art contest for Japanese who cannot afford VIP tickets, organizers Davis, Bain and Associates said in an e-mail. Three winning artists chosen by Jackson will have brunch with the star and their picture taken together.
$3500 and you don’t even get to hear a song! L.A.M.E! Read the entire story here. In related news, it’s still unclear if Michael will make his rumored comeback this summer at a Vegas theater, originally built for Celine Dion (whose 3-year run is now finally over).
Like you missed it on, you know, everywhere…. Micheal Jackson (BBC, NY Times, Guardian, NME.com) turns out not to be guilty after all. Wonder if he’s going to start issuing libel lawsuits against people like liquidgeneration.com?
In other news, Green Day are asking fans to star in a DVD. If you have .bittorrent, then you’re probably better off (legally, I think!) downloading this DVD of Green Day’s MTV Storytellers performance (American Idiot in its entirety – registration required).
Download this week’s Tartan Podcast. Go oooon, you know you want to.
The Guardian appreciate Malcolm Middleton’s apparently ‘odd combination of summer sounds and wrist-slashing words [which] initially sounds like a poet of doom at the karaoke’. I am going buy this album. And the Moaners’ record too, that sounds awesome, yeah!
Mogwai are recording a new record. Yippee! I was listening to Come On Die Young the other night, and realised that I’d forgotten just how great this band is, with their quiet, mathematical noodling and MIND SHATTERINGLY LOUD BITS. What a combo.
Oh, and tickets for live8 in Edinburgh are available via a text lottery now. What’s the link? I’m not telling you, I want them for myself… now to text for the 78th time…
A late addition – blatantly stolen from the largehearted boy, but good enough I thought to share…a link to the White Stripes performance at Atlanta’s Music Midtown…
