Amazon offers discount promotions on albums
DENVER -- The cost of digital music is rising, and falling, depending on where you shop online these days. Amazon introduced two new discount promotions on select digital albums as part of an ongoing variable pricing strategy.
The company's Daily Deals effort will feature a new album every day, sold at a discounted price that will vary by title. Both new and catalog releases will be included. For instance, to support the new Coldplay album "Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends," Amazon will feature each of the band's past four albums for $2, with "Brothers and Sisters" going for only $1.
The Friday Five promotion, meanwhile, will feature five albums for $5 each. Both are existing promotions that Amazon is only now publicizing outside of the digital store itself.
Meanwhile, eMusic is raising prices on the indie-focused music subscription service. Starting July 17, its entry-level pricing plan will jump from $10 a month for 30 downloads to $12 a month. Existing subscribers of the basic plan will be given an additional 10 downloads a month, while new subscribers will be limited to 30.
eMusic's bundled pricing strategy has been a source of concern for a handful of indie labels, some of which have let their agreements expire over the lower price-per-track gained from eMusic compared to other digital music retailers. It's unclear at this time whether increasing the lowest-level pricing tier will alleviate those concerns (let alone whether it was implemented to address them) considering that the highest service plans are those causing the most distress.
eMusic's Premium plan, for instance, is $20 a month for 75 songs, or about 26 cents a track. The new basic plan for incoming subscribers works out to 40 cents a track, while existing subscribers actually get more for their money, to 30 cents a track from the 33 cents a track under the old plan.
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Signum feat. Scott Mac
Artist: Signum feat. Scott Mac
Genre(s):
Trance
Discography:
Coming on strong incl dj tiesto remix CDM
Year: 1999
Tracks: 5
Monday 9 June 2008
Elvin Bishop
Artist: Elvin Bishop
Genre(s):
Blues
Discography:
Gettin' My Groove Back
Year: 2005
Tracks: 1
Ace in the Hole
Year: 1995
Tracks: 13
Let It Flow
Year: 1974
Tracks: 11
Don't Let The Bossman Get You Down!
Year:
Tracks: 12
Elvin Bishop was natural in Glendale, CA, on October 21, 1942. He grew up on a farm in Iowa with no electricity and no running water. His folk stirred to Oklahoma when he was ten. Raised in an all-White community of interests, he had no exposure to Blacks or their music demur though the radio where he would hear to sounds from far aside Mexico and blues stations in Shreveport, LA, in special, the piercing levelheaded of Jimmy Reed's mouth harp got his attention. Bishop says it was like a crossword puzzle teaser that he had to number out. What is this music? Who makes it? Where and how do Black hoi polloi live? What is this music all around? He assign the pieces together.
Just it was not until he won a National Merit Scholarship to the University of Chicago in 1959 that he launch the real answers to his questions. Suddenly, there he was correct in the bosom of the Chicago blues scene. Live. It was a dream come true. "The low gear thing I did when I got there was to pull in friends with the mordant guys working in the cafeteria. They took me to all the clubs. I washed-up myself wholly in the vapours life as ready as I could," says Bishop.
After two age of college, he simply dropped extinct and was into euphony full meter. Howlin' Wolf guitarist Smokey Smothers befriended Bishop and taught him the basics of blues guitar. In the early '60s he met and teamed up with Paul Butterfield to become the essence of the Butterfield Blues Band. Although only playing guitar for a few eld, he practiced day and dark on the blues music that he loved. He and Butterfield played together in exactly about every place possible -- campuses, houses, parks, and clubs. They began to become well known in 1963 when they took a job at Big John's on Chicago's North Side and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band was born. Bishop helped to create and played on the number one several Butterfield albums. (The Pigboy Crabshaw is Bishop's countryfied role referred to in the title of the third base Butterfield album.)
When he left the Butterfield isthmus subsequently the In My Own Dream album (1968), Bishop relocated to and settled in the San Francisco area where he appeared often at the Filmore with artists care Eric Clapton, B. B. King, and Jimi Hendrix. He recorded for Epic (quatern albums) and subsequently sign-language with Capricorn in 1974. His recording of "Travel Shoes" (from the album Let It Flow) hit the charts, simply he scored big with the endearing melody "Fooled Around and Fell in Love" (from his album Struttin' My Stuff) in 1976. He was (and is) illustrious for having fun on leg (putt on a swell demonstrate) and letting the good times roll up. Over the next few age the Elvin Bishop Group dissolved. He released his album Best Of in 1979, and was not heard from practically until he gestural with Alligator in 1988.
Bishop then released Big Fun (1988) and Don't Let the Bossman Get You Down (1991), which were well standard. He as well participated in Alligator's 1992 twentieth Anniversary cross-country tour. His up-to-the-minute release is Ace in the Hole (1995). Over the age, Bishop has graced the albums of many great bluesmen including Clifton Chenier and John Lee Hooker. He toured with B.B. King in 1995. Bishop is known for his sense of sense of humour, his unique way of slide guitar, and fusion of blues, creed, R&B, and country flavors. He lives with his wife and household in the San Francisco area, is a colossal gardener, and continues to meet dates in the U.S. and afield, issue The Skin I'm In in 1998. The following year saw the passing of Hometown Boy Makes Good and That's My Partner in 2000. After a basketball team year hiatus, Bishop released Gettin' My Groove Back in 2005 on Blind Pig Records.
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Sunday 1 June 2008
New Releases, May 27: Usher, Cyndi Lauper, Return to Forever
Plus: 'Sex and the City,' Al Green [ tickets ], more* * *Usher [ tickets ]"Here I Stand"(Jive)Usher Raymond IV--better known in the entertainment business as just "Usher"--will release his new album a month earlier than initially announced. "Here I Stand" follows 2004's chart-topper "Confessions," which sold some 1.1 million copies during its first week on shelves.For the new set, Usher worked with some big-name writers and producers, including Jermaine Dupre and Dr. Dre, and called in such guest stars as Beyonce and Jay Z. The first single from "Here I Stand" is "Love in the Club," which is already a radio hit.* * *Cyndi Lauper [ tickets ]"Bring Ya to the Brink"(Epic)Lauper--the original girl who just wants to have fun--returns with a follow-up to 2005's "The Body Acoustic," a work that contained acoustic renditions of past hits. "Bring Ya to the Brink" features the single "Set Your Heart."The quirky vocalist will also hit the road this summer, leading another edition of the True Colors tour to support the gay-and-lesbian advocacy group Human Rights Campaign. The tour, which also features The B-52's, Rosie O'Donnell and other acts, kicks off May 31 in Boston.* * *Return to Forever [ tickets ]"The Anthology"(Concord)The jazz-rock fusion supergroup made headlines when it announced that it was reuniting for its first tour in 25 years. Return to Forever--featuring keyboardist Chick Corea, bassist Stanley Clarke, guitarist Al Di Meola and drummer Lenny White--will kick off its tour May 29 with the first of two shows in Austin, TX. From there, it will hit more than 30 other North American cities.The Grammy-winning band will also have something to sell at these shows--this "Anthology" set. The collection features remixed and remastered tracks from the albums "Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy," "Where Have I Known You Before," "No Mystery" and "Romantic Warrior." * * *Various artists"Sex and the City: Music From the Original Motion Picture"(New Line)HBO's hit comedy TV series is getting a big-screen makeover: "Sex and the City," the motion picture, hits theaters this week. In connection with that highly anticipated film comes this soundtrack, which features tracks by such artists as The Weepies, Jennifer Hudson and Fergie. It also includes some interesting collaborations, such as Al Green teaming with Joss Stone on "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?"* * *Al Green"Lay It Down"(Blue Note)The R&B legend is set to drop his highly anticipated new studio album. Green has already been active on the road this spring, playing a few select festivals such as the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage and the Sonoma Jazz +. He'll kick off his headlining tour in earnest with a June 19 show in Toronto.* * *More new releases:The Browns, "The Complete Hits" (Collector's Choice)The Byrds, "Live at Royal Albert Hall 1971" (Sundazed)Eliza Gilkyson, "Beautiful World" (Red House)Buddy Guy, "Breaking Out" (JSP)John Hiatt, "Same Old Man" (New West)Ihsahn, "Angl" (Candlelight)Kataklysm, "Prevail" (Nuclear Blast)Sam Phillips, "Don't Do Anything" (Nonesuch)Jenny Scheinman, "Jenny Scheinman" (Koch)The Smithereens, "Live in Concert--Greatest Hits and More" (Koch)36 Crazyfists, "The Tide and Its Takers" (Ferret)Tobymac, "Alive and Transported" (Forefront)Various artists, "Nigeria 70: Lagos Jump" (Strut)Soundtracks and scores:"A Catered Affair (Original Broadway Cast Recording)" (P.S. Classics)"Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific" (Sony)
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