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Tom Waits had prepared some curious new material and those who are particularly interested to find out the details may visit his official website TomWaits.com. Practically, all of these peculiar details will be announced on August 23 unless Mr. Waits decides to change something or makes another move regarding his future plans. As the New Musical Express noted, it found an interesting prove to the above mentioned information, the online store Amazon is giving an opportunity to make pre-orders for the future record, merely in the form of MP3. Upcoming release is not going to be the full blown album, only a single record consisting of one song called “Bad As Me”. Amazon had already published a cover, which truly signified the real plans, the only thing that may upset fans is the whole notion of a single record. Real fans were possibly expecting something larger and longer, but even one single can be the sign of principal activities on the side of Tom Waits. This latest album came out in 2004 marking another page in musician’s long solo career; later release “Glitter and Doom Live” is a collection of live performances. Is he contemplating on inventing something else in a form of the new album remains to be unknown, but as soon as “Bad As Me” comes out people may learn way more about his “futuristic” agenda.

As it recently began to appear, Facebook is able to bring a lot of profits to those who are extensively use it in business purposes. Company’s assets, which in November 2009 were purchased by Bono’s firm Elevation Partners increased it’s worth fivefold, so this musician is definitely very happy right now, he proves do be a successful businessman after all. Today, as The Guardian noted, U2 leader’s portion is close to one million dollars of clear gains, something what he surely couldn’t really predict when buying the Facebook assets. The latter social net became the biggest place for investment on the side of Bono’s company and specialists from Elevation Partners didn’t miscalculate their financial prognosis too. Merely in 1/2 years Elevation Partners grew from nine to sixty five millions in total price, not the worst progress was made up and Bono had presumably known what was going on. According to Forbes Bono is one of the richest stars in music business today, for example, during the previous two years U2 was able to gain 900 million dollars; in concert which took place in Brazil this April the band made thirty three million dollars, something what practically no band can do right now. On the other hand Bono is not just gaining, but also spending a lot of his money on charities, fighting poverty and AIDS in Africa is probably the largest fields in which Bono is using his effort. In many ways he is not just a musician, but also a philanthropist, possibly the most successful one. People as him can’t just make money and later pose before cameras with top models, they usually get involved with something else, something what may bring true respect.

David Lynch is planning to switch from his stunning director’s career and currently gets involved with the music world, so his fans should soon see the solo record fully made up by him; “Crazy Clown Time” shall hit the stores on November 8, 2011, noted Pitchfork. The whole thing is going to be produced by the Sunday Best Records company. “Crazy Clown Time” is totally developed by Lynch, all performances and producing was done without serious external help. This curious album is presumably reflecting the electro-pop genre and was musically produced by Dean Hurley, who had also performed some drum and guitar parts. Besides Hurley the recording process included a vocalist from Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Karen O, her voice may be heard on a song “Pinky’s Dream”. Here is the full track list:

01 Pinky’s Dream (feat. Karen O)

02 Good Day Today

03 So Glad

04 Noah’s Ark

05 Football Game

06 I Know

07 Strange and Unproductive Thinking

08 The Night Bell With Lightning

09 Stone’s Gone Up

10 Crazy Clown Time

11 These Are My Friends

12 Speed Roadster

13 Movin’ On

14 She Rise Up

In December 2010 the Sunday Best issued two songs from this album “Good Day Today” and “I Know”.Who knew that Lynch is actually preparing the real album? Nothing was announced yet, but the label did print cover pages, so the future began to show up. David Lynch is a well known music fan, his regular involvement in preparation of the sound tracks to his movies is regarded as highly professional. He used to co-operate with Angelo Badalamenti and Julie Cruz, thus there are solid hopes to see something interesting in Lynch’s solo debut. Talented person is usually talented in everything, whether it’s going to be making of moves or music.

Infamous guitarist Tony Iommi had denied all the information regarding the sudden reunion of his legendary Black Sabbath, the band in which he was participating for years. As Iommi said, sometime in June this year he met with a journalist from Birmingham and answered on a number of questions about various issues that deal with music. Tony was contemplating on the fact that Black Sabbath could hypothetically get back together, however, the whole idea was not clear and did not discuss any details. Anyway, the above mentioned journalist had published some material, which is definitely proving Iommi’s words about the band’s reunion; as always everything began to spread all over the Internet and many people started to believe. In his website Iommi had underlined that this journalist did enjoy a minute of fame, but for the next time nothing is going to happen. Musicians don’t like such rumors, especially if they move around without any agreements. On the other hand journalists and any media servants always try to hunt for sensations even if they have no clarity whatsoever. Black Sabbath was formed way back in 1969 and is now considered to be totally legendary for it’s influence on the future of music, particularly hard rock and heavy metal. The band’s line-up was shifting back and forth, but Iommi was the only unchanging member of it. Since the late 90’s Black Sabbath is getting back together during the Ozzfest events in the UK and US, and actually it will be awesome if this cool band decides to reunite not only on stage, but also in the real life.

Way back in 2010 the British band Suede had declared it’s willingness to return for the concert activity and record another album; this news was originally received from the band’s leader Brett Anderson in an interview to the Xfm radio-station. As Anderson had said, him and his colleagues should start working in the studio as soon as all sorts of activities dedicated to the release of his solo album become finally clear. Suede’s frontman had explained his decision to continue producing with the band by his wishes not to stand on the same place and strives to be involved in music. Most likely he just wants to keep on with the band and his friends, maybe without Anderson’s presence Suede loses it’s traditional face. Anderson’s fourth solo work, which is titled “Black Rainbows” will come out on September 26, and right after it’s release musician is planning to start a small tour in order to present it all, the first show should take place in Belgium on October 5. Suede’s last full studio album came out in 2002 and even though “A New Morning” couldn’t get to the highest chart spots, it was warmly welcomed by critics and fans. In 2010 the band produced a collection of the most successful songs “The Best of Suede”. The band was created in 1989 and lasted until 2003, in 2010 they’ve suddenly decided to reunite just for the sake of touring, however, it may result in the production of another new work. Despite all the new information listed above nobody knows for sure when they can make another work or even when the whole recording process can start.

Frontman of the American band Maroon 5 Adam Levine began to sue the company Activision for using his image in the computer game Band Hero, wrote Gamasutra. A singer came to the conclusion that this firm had violated an agreement after allowing it’s users to handle his personality for performing songs of other bands and musicians; the whole thing was taken to the court in Los Angeles. It was noted, Levine was actually involved in the creation of the above mentioned game, but his agreement included merely one Maroon’s song called “She Will Be Loved”. According to his claim, which was discussed by the Warp, particular anger on the side of musician was caused by the fact that his avatar in the game is capable of singing with a female voice. Also, Levine had underlined that he received way less money than was signed in the contract, others who worked on the development acquired way more. Notably, it’s not the first court hearing related to Band Hero, in 2009 the same reasons caused musicians from No Doubt to get offended, and practically win the case. The Band Hero project was released in 2009 and is literally related to a series of Guitar Hero games, the meaning of the latter game, which is broadening players’ vocal possibilities turned to be extremely popular among people all around the world. A punk rock band Maroon 5 was founded in Los Angeles in 1995, and it’s original title was Kara’s Flower. To this days the band had released three studio albums and among them the latest one came out in 2010; totally all their releases sold nearly fifteen million copies worldwide.

Curious track which was recorded by Amy Winehouse and an infamous American singer Tony Bennett in March this year will be released as the charity single, noted MTV. This news is talking about a classical song “Body and Soul” (originally it was recorded way back in 1930) and its new version Winehouse and Bennett have recorded at the Abbey Road studio in London; as Bennett said, this is the last song which was fully completed by Winehouse. Sadly, very talented people often leave this world too fast, and so much remains to be behind the scene. All the financial gains from the release of “Body and Soul” should be given to the foundation, which was founded by Amy’s father, it’s specialization is focused on helping drug and alcohol addicts. This song will also be included into Bennett’s album “Duets II”, which is going to hit the stores on September 20 this year. The same release also includes such musicians as Andrea Bocelli, Norah Jones, Michael Buble, Sheryl Crow, Lady Gaga and many others. Amy Winehouse was not singing with modernity, it was rediscovered from the past and through that became even more unique. Countless performers simply lack the right voice in order to sing, but still they sell out millions of copies, music business simply pushes them on. Winehouse was surely not one of them, and her historical voice will always be remembered among those who worth real talents.

The British government is going to lift off limits that were imposed over the digital copying of music, noted Sky News. Eventually authorities had decided to revise the whole “archaic” system, which was imposed on the discussed process. Supporters of this reform believe that people who are copying music from CDs and DVDs for a long time (onto their computers or players) are actually living in totally different time in comparison to the copyright owners that keep on limiting them. Currently copying of the media content from  the original carriers is officially considered to be illegal, thus millions of people are regularly violating something without being afraid of the punishment. As the Daily Telegraph said, by allowing of the copying process, the government is hoping to bring millions of pounds by means of encouraging the release of the legal media services; in other words the whole trick of allowance is one big encouragement. Similar projects were already planned by such infamous corporations as Amazon and Google. Even though the law shall experience some radical changes, free spreading of movies and music over the Internet will remain illegal, these changes may touch only personal usage of the copied content. Critics of this reform are represented by two groups: one is saying that this new law is going against musicians  and their copyrights, others believe that this initiative is too late and can’t be effective whatsoever. Nevertheless, time will show what is about to happen next.

Frontman of the infamous Icelandic band Sigur Ros is planning to prepare the soundtrack for the new Cameron Crowe’s movie “We Bought Zoo”, noted Twitch Film website relating it to the blog led by the A.V. Club’s workers; the latter issue is concentrating on the entertainment. Currently there is no information whether Jonsi is going to write more music for this movie or represent something else from his old material; also, there is nothing on the fact that someone else will work on the movie’s soundtrack besides him. This upcoming film will show the British family, which spent all of it’s savings on restoration of the Zoo. Head of the family Benjamin Mea will be acted by Matt Damon, and such well known actors as Scarlet Johansson and El Fanning should also participate in the whole filming process. Cameron is working as a director, producer and co-author of the scenario, this movie should be released sometime in December, but there is no actual prove if all of it may take place that quickly. Previously, Cameron Crowe used to work on such movies as “Jerry McGuire”, “Almost Famous” and “Vinyl Skies”, notably, the latter movie’s soundtracks did incorporate music from Sigur Ros, so this director is holding to some degree of loyalty to the previous colleagues. Many if not all directors keep on producing with those whom they already know, joint artistic activities can’t really be exchanged or replaced in any possible direction. Moreover, Jonsi is surely standing within those, who know how to write soundtracks, thus his music goes everywhere.

Rock musician Meat Loaf is about to record an album with infamous rappers Chuck D and Lil Jon, noted Billboard. If following his own words he is currently working with three brand new releases, however, rappers will be represented merely on one of them. Meat Loaf met with Lil Jon during the recent spring, both performers had participated in The Celebrity Apprentice show, and eventually became interested in doing something exclusive, not what many others would like to do. Chuck D is the well known leader of the hip-hop group Public Enemy was introduced to Meat Loaf by the latter’s brother in law, Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian Rosenfeld. On the other had, Public Enemy and Anthrax had co-operated way back in 1991 marking the turning point in a relationship between two genres. Twenty years ago both bands had recorded a song “Bring the Noise”, and started the joint concert tour. The most recent studio album produced by Meat Load is “Hang Cool Teddy Bear”, which hit the stores in April 2010. According to numerous critics and points of view on the side of the fan base his best album is 1993’s “Bad Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell”, this release was able to reach number one on the British national hits chart and the Billboard 200. The album did include one of his most popular songs “I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That)”. Mixing of genres is maybe not the easiest things to do because the fan base is often not welcoming any sorts of experiments, they usually wish to see what they’ve used see. Many musicians try to be as careful as possible not to spoil previous successes at any cost.