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Tap Management’s Ed Millet and Ben Mawson give their views on the ever-changing modern music business The post ‘Artists have the best chance of success when they get things rolling themselves.’ appeared first on Music Business Worldwide.

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Paul Simon announced plans earlier this week to wrap up his farewell concert on September 22nd with a massive outdoor show at Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens, New York. Simon grew up in the borough and has lived in the city for much of his adult life. “It seems more like fate than coincidence that…

via Flashback: Paul Simon Plays ‘The Boxer’ at His 1991 Central Park Show — Rolling Stone Yahoo Music Feed

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Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon joined Dead & Company as a surprise guest Saturday night during the group’s concert at East Troy, Wisconsin’s Alpine Valley; The 22, A Million singer is a native of Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Vernon joined the jam supergroup for the last three songs of the band’s first set, “Black Muddy River,” “Friend…

via Watch Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon Join Dead & Company in Wisconsin — Rolling Stone Yahoo Music Feed

Troy is a 2004 epic film that is a (greatly abbreviated) adaptation of the Illiad (which tells the story of the Trojan War). The film features a star-studded cast: Brad Pitt: Achilles Sean Bean: Odysseus Brian Cox: Agamemnon Peter O’Toole: King Priam Eric Bana: Hector Orlando Bloom: Paris Diane Kruger: Helen While not perfect, Troy […]

via Remembering James Horner: Troy (2004) — Film Music Central

One of Vinnie Paul’s bandmates in the metal supergroup Hellyeah penned a tribute to the drummer Saturday morning following news of Paul’s death.”Just so broken hearted and in shock. I’m struggling to write this but we want to thank you all for your kind words and support in this tragic time,” Hellyeah guitarist Tom Maxwell…

via Hellyeah on Vinnie Paul’s Death: ‘Sadness, Shock, Confusion, Anger, Despair’ — Rolling Stone Yahoo Music Feed

“At that point in time, we truly were an army,” the late Vinnie Paul recalled to Rolling Stone in 2012, while looking back on the 1992 release of Pantera’s massively influential Vulgar Display of Power, which landed at number 10 on RS’ Greatest Metal Albums of All Time list. “We pulled the very best out…

via How Vinnie Paul and Pantera Revolutionized the Art of Metal — Rolling Stone Yahoo Music Feed

You won’t find Capezzio Disco Bar in reggaeton history books — rarely do traditional timelines stop off in the Mexican port town Veracruz — but in 1990, it became the national epicenter of the explicit party music when it changed its soundtrack from salsa to reggaeton. Capezzio was among the first Mexican venues for touring…

via A beginner’s guide to the history and hybridity of reggaeton — FACT Magazine: Music News, New Music.

In 1992, music-industry legend Irving Azoff went out for ice cream with Gunter Ford, manager of the Florida death-metal band Morbid Angel, to discuss a possible signing. “The actual negotiations took 10 minutes,” Ford told author Albert Mudrian in the extreme-metal history Choosing Death. “Irving asked me what kind of ice cream I wanted and…

via Morbid Angel’s ‘Covenant’: How the Band’s Major Label Debut Raised the Bar for Extreme Metal — Rolling Stone Yahoo Music Feed