Monday, January 18, 2010
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Mo'Nique surprises with speech after Golden Globe win
Mo’Nique wins the Best-Supporting Actress award at the 2010 Golden Globe Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on Sunday (January 17) in Beverly Hills, Calif.
The 42-year-old Precious actress gave a heartfelt acceptance speech for her role in playing an abusive mother.
“I celebrate this award with all the Preciouses, with all the Marys,” Mo’Nique said as she held her award. “I celebrate this award with every person that’s ever been touched. It’s now time to tell.”
Read more: http://justjared.buzznet.com/2010/01/17/monique-wins-golden-globe-for-precious/#ixzz0cwI1wnIG
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Beyonce taking break for 1/2 year
Beyonce is taking a break from the music business for a half a year. The singer stated, “I’d like to take about six months and not go into the studio. I need to just live life, to be inspired by things again.”
She has already made plans on what she will be doing during that time including visiting certain restaurants and taking some classes before starting a new album. Beyonce has been spending the last year promoting her 2008 release “I Am,” presenting at many major awards, and working on a new Nintendo video game.
Sometimes we forget that pop stars need time to rest and rejuvenate like the rest of us. I can’t wait to see what new music she’ll pop out after 6 months of new experiences.
Google & Viacom fight it out over Youtube
In a Manhattan courthouse, Google and Viacom have squared off for three years, corporate media giants fighting over YouTube. Viacom has the money to scream for many more years about the 62,000 plus and counting copyrighted video streams that are posted on YouTube and passed along by Google. Didn’t that nastiness with music file sharing and Napster eventually get resolved? Alas, Google isn’t Napster and is no pushover. Google makes the rules. How millions of folks do their YouTube business and shoot video clips around the internet is at stake here. No more says Viacom.
One thing already is clear. In taking years to process important claims, the law and the courts will fall hopelessly behind technology advances. Judicial decisions will weigh in far too late to control the continuing struggle between the quest for free content, and the need to pay people for their creative work. In Court papers filed this week, Google and Viacom each claim that the case should be decided as a matter of law in its favor. Both have a hard time pretending to represent the common folk
Mo'Nique wins Critic Choice Award
Last night Monique won “Best Supporting Actress” at the Broadcast Film Critics Association’s Critics’ Choice Movie Awards. She has not shown up to ,certain events however. this a video explaining exactly why she hasn"t.
Friday, January 15, 2010
Mobile Phones To Overtake PCs By 2013
Paying bills, sending money transfers, talking via video, downloading music, editing pictures and videos, streaming television programs, watching major sporting events, all on a cellular phone? Sound like something from the far off future, think again, the cellular digital age is upon us now.
Mobile phones will overtake PCs as the most-used device to access the Web by 2013, according to a report from research firm Gartner. The use of smartphones and browser-equipped phones will exceed 1.82 billion units in 2013, while the number of PCs in use will reach 1.78 billion units. Additionally, the report predicts Facebook will become a central hub for social network integration and Web socialization by 2012.
Digital To Overtake Physical In 2010
I've been preaching this concept for the last 10 years, give or take a few years. The digital age is here, and there is nothing to slow down this juggernaut! For far too long distributors, labels, and artists have been behind the consumer. Consumers have been right at the edge of watching this technology grow, while others waited in the wings ignoring it, hoping that it would pass them by, and they could pick up "business as usual".
Yes, it is a fact, that digital downloading and technology pirates have plundered the coffers of the industry, but I can only blame the media providers who didn't see an advantage of keeping up with the changing tide in this business. It is time that these companies caught up with the rest of us, and begin launching new digital formats or they will be left in the dust and wake of the revolution that already has begun. Some have already tried to be on the cutting edge, but they need to do more, or the industry as we know it, will die a slow and painful death.
Music sales are predicted to total $6.5 billion in 2010, 52.2 percent of which will be digital sales, according to a report by research firm eMarketer. Digital sales are expected to increase at an annual growth rate of 11 percent over the next four years and are predicted to total $4.56 billion by 2013, up from an estimated $3 billion in 2009.
The proof is evident as Ke$ha's debut album Animal debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with sales of 152,000 units, according to Nielsen SoundScan. A total of 76 percent of the album's first-week sales came via digital retailers, the largest weekly digital percentage for a No. 1 album in the chart's history. (1/14)
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Teddy Pendergrass dies in Philadelphia at 59
I can remember getting in trouble for sneaking into my parents record collection and listening to "Turn Off The Lights". It's amazing with all the derogatory music out today, that they thought Teddy's song was too racy for a young boy. I laugh now, because compared to music today, the lyrics of that song were borderline explicit, but not as rough and raunchy as male r&b singers of this generation.
Pendergrass gained popularity first as a member of Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes on songs including "If You Don't Know Me by Now," but it was his solo hits that brought him his greatest fame. With songs such as "Love T.K.O.," "Close the Door" and "I Don't Love You Anymore," he came to define a new era of black male singers with his powerful, aggressive vocals that spoke to virility, not vulnerability
Teddy Pendergrass, who became R&B's reigning sex symbol in the 1970s and '80s with his forceful, masculine voice and passionate love ballads and later became an inspirational figure after suffering a devastating car accident that left him paralyzed, died Wednesday at age 59.
The singer's son, Teddy Pendergrass II, said his father died at Bryn Mawr Hospital in suburban Philadelphia. The singer underwent colon cancer surgery eight months ago and had "a difficult recovery," his son said.
"To all his fans who loved his music, thank you," his son said. "He will live on through his music."
Haiti Earthquake: International Aid Begins to Arrive
The destructiion in Haiti is insurmountable, and the outpuring of assitance from the worldwide community is unbelievable. Numerous organization, celebrities, politicians, banking firms, media moguls, etc., have all came out to offer their help, and it is about time.
There was no estimate on how many people were killed by Tuesday's magnitude-7 quake. Haitian President Rene Preval said the toll could be in the thousands. Leading Sen. Youri Latortue told The Associated Press the number could be 500,000, but conceded that nobody really knew.
President Obama, along with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Thursday that the administration will provide long-term assistance to help Haiti recover.
"This is going to be a long-term effort," Clinton said on NBC's Today show. "We have the immediate crisis of trying to save those lives that can be saved, to deal with the injured... to try to provide food, water, medical supplies, some semblance of shelter."
Why did it it take such a disastrous event for the world to finally show it's concern for this impoverished nation? Haiti fought for and won it's freedom some 61 years before American would end the plight of slavery on it's soil, in 1804. They had started a revolution that would last from the 1790's on to the date they were declared a free nation. Since this time, they have been grossly overlooked by the world community as a whole.
Haiti is in a precarious geographical location that has wrought numerous disasters on this tiny little nation no bigger than the state of Maryland. They are in direct line with the hurricane lane, it is situated in an unstable tectonic locale, and the single most reason this nation goes through so much hardship during these disasters is because of it's poverty and the poor infrastructure. They were always a nation attempting to thrive, and now they are just trying to survive. This earthquake took everyone by surprise, and it showed that the people of this nation were ill prepared for a disaster of this proportion.
I am taken back by some of the comments by so called Christian zealots as Pat Robertson, and other Conservative politicians. It is shameful to say the least that these men of distinction can't even have dignity to respect the people of this nation. It seems that the same attitude applied for New Orleans when hurricane Katrina struck here in the United States. It is time to put away this behavior and begin to act like human beings. I abhor the thought of anything happening in this country that would match the proportions of destruction now seen in Haiti. Would this same attitude then apply to our citizens?
The Haitian Revolution (1791–1804) is the period of violent conflict in the French colony of Saint-Domingue, leading to the elimination of slavery and the establishment of Haiti as the first republic ruled by blacks. Although hundreds of rebellions occurred during the slave era, only the revolt on Saint-Domingue, beginning in 1791, was successful in permanently abolishing slavery. The Haitian Revolution is the only successful slave revolt in human history, [1] and, as such, is regarded as a defining moment in the history of Africans in the new world
I donated yesterday by texting Yele to 501501, which is Wyclef Jeans's organization. I suggest those reading this do the same of at least find an organization that can assure that the help you give is going directly to aid the people of Haiti.
HOW TO HELP:
Action Against Hunger, 877-777-1420
Agape Flights, 941-584-8078
American Red Cross, 800-733-2767
American Jewish World Service, 212-792-2900
AmeriCares, 800-486-4357
Beyond Borders, 866-424-8403
CARE, 800-521-2273
CarmaFoundation
Catholic Relief Services, 800-736-3467
Childcare Worldwide, 800-553-2328
Concern Worldwide, 212-557-8000
Cross International, 800-391-8545
Direct Relief International, 805-964-4767
Doctors Without Borders, 888-392-0392
Feed My Starving Children, 763-504-2919
Food for the Poor, 800-427-9104
Friends of WFP, 866-929-1694
Haiti Children, 877-424-8454
Haiti Foundation Against Poverty
Haiti Marycare, 203-675-4770
Haitian Health Foundation, 860-886-4357
Hope for Haiti, 239-434-7183
International Medical Corps, 800-481-4462
International Rescue Committee, 877-733-8433
International Relief Teams, 619-284-7979
Lutheran World Relief, 800-597-5972
Medical Teams International, 800-959-4325
Meds and Food for Kids, 314-420-1634
Mennonite Central Committee, 888-563-4676
Mercy Corps, 888-256-1900
Operation Blessing, 800-730-2537
Operation USA, 800-678-7255
Oxfam, 800-776-9326
Partners in Health, 617-432-5298
Rural Haiti Project, 347-405-5552
The Salvation Army, 800-725-2769
Samaritan's Purse, 828-262-1980
Save the Children, 800-728-3843
UN Central Emergency Response Fund
UNICEF, 800-367-5437
World Concern, 800-755-5022
World Hope International, 888-466-4673
World Relief, 800-535-5433
World Vision, 888-511-6548
Yele Haiti, 212-352-0552
Wyclef Jean's grassroots org
Text Yele to 501 501 to donate $5 via your cellphone
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Industry Executives To Watch In 2010
This inaugural list of Hypebot's New Music Industry Executives To Watch In 2010 covers a wide variety of movers, shakers and trend setters. Many have either recently launched potentially game changing companies or products or are scheduled to in the coming months. For all of them, 2010 will be a year that reveals if the bets they are placing now are winners both for themselves and for the broader music industry. In no particular order:
Rio Caraeff, Vevo
Bill Nguyen, Lala/Apple
Ian Rogers, TopSpin Media
Daniel Ek, Spotify
Owen Van Natta and Courtney Holt, MySpace
Ge Wang, Smule
Alexander Ljung, SoundCloud
Emily White, Whitesmith, CASH Music
David Hyman, MOG
Michael Rapino, Live Nation
Bart Decrem, Tapulous
Denzyl Feigelson, AWAL
Peter Gelb, Metropolitan Opera
Adam Driscoll, Brian Message and Terry McBride, Polyphonic
Steve Purdham, We7
Rob Stone and Jon Cohen, Cornerstone
Illegal Downloads Don't Decrease Under Spotity's Format
Perhaps the most persuasive argument for labels and artists taking smaller payments from Spotify and other ad supported music services, was the belief that it was a substitute for illegal downloading. But a new study suggests that might not be the case.
A survey by The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) showed that 1 in 3 people are using illegal sites. More than 3,000 consumers between 16 to 54 years old took part in the online poll. When questioned about the future, users of unauthoriazed services reported that they actually intended to increase their illegal activities in the next 6 months. Use of newer web-based, or non-peer-to-peer sites, has grown in the last half year; while torrent site traffic remains level
Pirates will always find new ways to illegally get content as the technology changes, all the content providers can do is try to stay one step ahead of them.
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