PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Boston Rock Academy Debuts on North Shore Rock Band Instruction for Teens and Tweens WAKEFIELD, MA Monday, October 6, 2008 — Boston Rock Academy is ready to rock and seeks students in grades 6-12 from Wakefield, Melrose, Lynnfield, Burlington, Stoneham and surrounding communities looking to do the same. Founded by Melrose natives Scott Feldman and Julie...
Rick Wright – RIP
LONDON, England (AP) — Richard Wright, a founding member of the rock group Pink Floyd, died Monday. He was 65. Pink Floyd’s spokesman Doug Wright, who is not related to the artist, said Wright died after a battle with cancer at his home in Britain. He says the band member’s family did not want to give more details about his death. Wright met Pink Floyd members Roger Waters and...
Happy Birthday Mae West
Today would have been Mae West’s 115th Birthday. Though, she would’ve passed for a young, err, 80? Mae’s Words of Wisdom A dame that knows the ropes isn’t likely to get tied up. A hard man is good to find. A man in the house is worth two in the street. An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises. Any time you’ve got nothing to do and lots of time to do it...
What aren’t you telling me?
I’ve noticed a growing trend in online music sites. They’re free, FREE, FREEEEEE for everyone, and they’re gonna make all kinds of money for artists. How is this possible, and if it’s such a great deal, why aren’t musicians making millions of dollars? Here’s the common example (taken from an actual website called jamendo): Can the Artists earn money with...
Goodbye Shaft…
Isaac Lee Hayes, Jr. was an American soul and funk singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, arranger, composer and actor. Hayes was one of the main creative forces behind southern soul music label Stax Records, where he served as both an in-house songwriter and producer with partner David Porter during the mid-1960s. In the late 1960s, Hayes became a recording artist, and recorded successful...
So how much for an iTunes download…?
HARARE, Zimbabwe (CNN) — Zimbabwe’s troubled central bank introduced $100 billion banknotes Saturday in a desperate bid to ease the recurrent cash shortages plaguing the inflation-ravaged economy. The bills officially come into circulation Monday, although they were on the foreign currency dealers market Saturday. As high as they are, though, the bills still aren’t enough to buy...
What would you do for a billion dollars?
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – All four members of supergroup ABBA appeared together on Friday at the Swedish premiere of the film “Mamma Mia!”, delighting fans with their first public showing for years. Benny Andersson, Bjorn Ulvaeus, Anni-Frid Lyngstad — known as Frida — and Agnetha Faltskog walked down the red carpet at a Stockholm movie theatre to the cheers of several...
4th o’ July!
What better way to celebrate the birthday of America than by a clip featuring both excessive drinking -and- a great American. Below is a clip of one of America’s greatest filmmakers – Orson Welles. In his later years, hard up for cash and low on integrity, he made a series of (infamous) commercials for winemaker Paul Masson. Apparently he sampled the product liberally before filming...