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Sónar 2010, the Festival of Advanced Music and Multimedia Art, which will be held simultaneously in Barcelona and A Coruña between 17th and 19th June, announces the first names in its line-up.

Sónar 2010 presents the French duo Air and New York’s LCD Soundsystem, two leading lights that have helped to redefine the relationship between pop, rock and electronic music over the past decade.

Air and LCD Soundsystem will be performing at Sónar Barcelona and Sónar Galicia.

The various types of tickets for Sónar Barcelona are now on sale at a special low price until 31st January 2010. Details of Sónar Galicia ticket sales will be announced soon.

Swedish pop icons Abba and rockers Genesis and The Stooges will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as part of the class of 2010.

The stars, along with Jamaican reggae artist Jimmy Cliff and 1960s rock group The Hollies, were unveiled as the latest honorees on Tuesday (15Dec09).

They will be inducted into the Cleveland, Ohio hall alongside record company executive David Geffen, and songwriters including Otis Blackwell and Jesse Stone.

The acts will be honoured at the 25th annual induction ceremony on 15 March (10) in New York.Nominations for the prestigious accolades were announced in September (09) – rockers KISS and the Red Hot Chili Peppers and rapper LL Cool J failed to make the cut.

Nick Jonas is used to performing in front of screaming fans who know all the words to their favorite Jonas Brothers songs.

Now his new band, Nick Jonas & The Administration, is getting ready to perform as the house band for the Critics’ Choice Movie Awards on Jan. 15 in Los Angeles. The band will be expected to not only entertain but also keep the pace of the show moving.

“I’m excited and honored. … We’ll be performing a lot of covers. Intros and outros to the commercials. I think we have about 25 songs to learn,” Jonas said in a recent interview.

The 17-year-old singer-musician calls his band a side project. They will record an album, Jonas said, but he will continue to record music with his brothers Kevin and Joe of the Jonas Brothers.

Since the awards show will be about movies, Jonas said his favorite film of 2009 was “The Invention of Lying,” which he described as “funny” and “fantastic.”

“I love Ricky Gervais,” he said.

He is also a big fan of George Clooney.

“I don’t know if he’ll be there (in the audience at the awards show) but I just saw `Up in the Air’ and thought it was great,” Jonas said.

The awards are presented by the Broadcast Film Critics Association.

The Irish band U2 and Sir Paul McCartney will vie for the Golden Globe for best original song, a category that compete with the tracks “Winter” (written for the film “Brothers”) and “I Want to Come Home” (for the film “Everybody’s fine”), respectively.

His rivals in that category are the topics “Cinema Italiano” with music and lyrics by Maury Yeston for the musical “Nine,” “I See You” by James Horner and Simon Franglen, for the film “Avatar” and “The Weary Kind “, with music and lyrics by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett, for” Crazy Heart “.

Nominations for best soundtrack went to “Up” by Michael Giacchino, “The snitch” by Marvin Hamlisch, “Avatar” from James Horner, “A Single Man” by Abel Korzeniowski; and “Where the Wild monsters “by Karen O and Carter Burwell.

The Foreign Press Association of Hollywood today shared nominations for Golden Globes, traditionally known for being the prelude to the Academy, from the Beverly Hilton, Los Angeles (California).

The ceremony of the 67th edition of the Golden Globes, which can be seen in 160 countries, will take place on 17 January and for the first time since 1995, will feature a presenter: British comedian Ricky Gervais, known for the series ” The Office “.

The most famous singer from the Disney factory is expelled from the list of Grammy nominees.

The Grammys are an irrefutable manner, the most important awards of the musical sphere. All great artists worldwide have one or more of these prized awards that is comparable to the Oscars of the music. The award ceremony will take place in Los Angeles on 31 January 2010.

Miley Cyrus probably will not attend. What remedy? A 17 year old artist better known as Hannah Montana will have withdrawn the nomination for a Grammy as “Best Soundtrack”. The lists came about a month ago and chose Miley for that prize along with other composers of film music. Well, this Friday, and totally by surprise, the jury decided to disqualify the Grammys and they have released this past weekend.

The problem is, according to the jury, which is a totally insurmountable standard that the song in question, in this case ‘The Climb’, had been composed exclusively for the soundtrack of the film “Hannah Montana: The Movie “and, apparently, did not. In a statement sent by the American Academy of Music adds that these “mistakes” do not usually happen, because there is a very thorough and full control of filter candidates before they become official, but in such cases should be proceed with a change of nominee.

The new lucky is Karen O, who has composed the soundtrack of an audiovisual jewel that is currently in the charts of our country, “Where the Wild” by Spike Jonze. The soundtrack has been praised across America a few weeks of the premiere of the movie and now opts for a Grammy.

But Karen O does not have it all won because we have such worthy competitors such as Grammy Bruce Springsteen for the song ‘The Wrestler’ for Aronofsky film “The Wrestler” and Jai Ho, who won an Oscar for the song central “Slumdog Millionaire.”

Alicia Keys has the support of the sexy singer Beyoncé on a theme of her new work.

“The Element Of Freedom” is the fourth studio album by American soul and rhythm and blues singer Alicia Keys. The artist has sold worldwide over 28 million albums and won numerous awards, including 12 Grammys, 17 Billboard Awards and three American Music Awards. Their debut album “Songs In A Minor won five Grammys in one night, a record he shares with Lauryn Hill (1999), Norah Jones (2003), Beyoncé (2004) and Amy Winehouse (2008).

Precisely one of her rivals at the Grammys and most awards ceremonies musical is U.S. singer Beyonce. Her latest album “I Am .. Sasha Fierce” is sweeping and promotion is almost an entire year, and her latest singles, like ‘Halo’, still sound like great news on the radio worldwide.

Well, if we discovered a few weeks ago to a Beyoncé sexier than ever in the video for the song ‘Video Phone’ in which she collaborates with the recently released diva Lady GaGa, today surprised us a new duet, this time with Alicia Keys.

The song chosen for this occasion is’ Put It In A Love Song ‘and belongs to the Keys’ album “The Element Of Freedom”. It’s a very poppy song-time and the voices of the two artists blend perfectly creating a soul and a rate only at your sophisticated voices. You can enjoy this musical track on the website YouTube. Now there is only little doubt if the two stars will join together to shoot the clip in such a good topic.

The singer’s song ‘A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall’ has been chosen as the anthem of the climate summit in Copenhagen.

The UN will launch a live version of Dylan’s song after the convention. Also, include pictures taken by the environmentalist photographer Mark Edwards, who has inspired many of the lyrics to the songs of the singer.

The editor of the major publication Rolling Stone, David Fricke, said that the election is only a sample of the importance of the lyrics of Bob Dylan.

The song was released in 1962 just days before the missile crisis in Cuba in the Cold War, so it is said the song was inspired by the event. However, the letter, which speaks of the war, destruction and injustice still continues and becomes more and more sense with the destruction of the planet.

EMI Music reported today that they added part of its audiovisual content to the portal Vevo music, which tomorrow launches in YouTube in the U.S. and Canada, which has been created by the Internet video site in conjunction with record labels such as Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment.

The decision of the known record label, which has among its catalog artists including The Beatles, Coldplay, Depeche Mode or Kylie Minogue, allow Vevo issue and other audiovisual clips officers of these artists in the new digital platform.

“Vevo offers the value of a powerful new environment where our artists can showcase their work and create a deeper relationship with their fans,” said a statement by the CEO of EMI, Elio Leoni-Sceti.

The agreement with EMI will allow Vevo, which besides Universal and Sony also has signed with CBS Interactive Music Group, includes among its offer of audiovisual content to the creations of different brands in the group between the label and that include Capitol, Virgin, Blue Note and Astralwerks.

“Our agreement with EMI Music is a milestone in our mission to offer music lovers the best music video programming in the world”, he said, for his part, President and CEO of Vevo, Rio Caraeff, in the same statement as saying that the portal is “much more than high quality video clips”.

For Caraeff, Vevo is “a truly interactive platform” that is based on “original programming” and it strengthens “the connection between artists and their followers through a dynamic and engaging experience that will have access to whenever they want and from where want.”

Vevo makers say the portal will offer starting tomorrow, “the largest selection of high quality music content” can be found online through the issue of “hundreds of millions of videos produced by professionals who reflect a wide range of the most successful artists of the moment “.

The company, which will purchase songs via download, as well as promotional products and concert tickets, is in talks with Warner Music to reach an agreement similar to that closed with the other major labels, and making share with them a part of the revenue it gets from advertising.

The band will issue an EP in May with eight songs entitled “The Night Train”. It shall contain collaborations.

After the worldwide success of his album “Perfect Symmetry,” Keane announces a new EP which will go on sale on 10 May and a British tour. The EP’s title comes from the shape of the band’s favorite travel during her tour and night train.

In the songs, they wanted to include important partnerships, such as the Somali-Canadian rapper K’Naan and Japanese singer-songwriter Tigarah. In the songs ‘Stop For A Minute’ and ‘Looking Back’ rapper collaborates, and ‘Ishin Denshin (You’ve Got To Help Yourself)’ involving the Japanese.

The launch is scheduled for May next year, specifically for the 10th, and on its website www.keanemusic.com and you can buy tickets for the tour in England June 2010. In addition, the store will find discounts of up to 40% in the clothes of the band.

The dates that confirmed by the group for their summer tour in June 2010 are:

10 Thetford Forest, Suffolk
11 Bedgebury Pinetum, Kent
18 Westonbirt Arboretum, Gloucestershire
19 Sherwood Pines Forest, Nottinghamshire
25 Dalby Forest, North Yorkshire
26 Cannock Chase Forest, Staffordshire

The singer-songwriter Norah Jones publishes her fourth studio album “The Fall” with Blue Note Records - EMI. She wrote all the songs in the past two years since finishing her tour with the album Not Too Late in 2007.

Loved by her fans thanks to her seductive voice and her compositions based pop jazz, Norah Jones takes a new direction on her new album in experimenting with different sounds and working with new partners: Jacquire King, a prominent producer who has worked with Kings of Leon, Tom Waits and Modest Mouse among others. Norah Jones also has joined with Ryan Adams, Will Sheff (Okkervil River) and her regular partner Jesse Harris for the compositions.

“I knew I wanted to try something different on this album” says Norah. “I’ve been playing with the same musicians for a long time. We still hold our relationship and hope to play with them again, but it seems an opportune time to work with new people and experiment with different sounds. “As a producer, wanted someone who could get me out of my state of comfort and finding suitable musicians reflect what we wanted to do with these songs. Jacquire contacted because he was the engineer of one of my favorite records ever, “Mule Variations” by Tom Waits. He liked the idea and connected great, which is important. ”

Jacquire King helped Norah Jones to reunite her new musicians for the album, as is the case of batteries Joey Waronker (Beck, REM) and James Gadson (Bill Withers), James Poyser on keyboards (Erykah Badu, Al Green) and guitarists Marc Ribot (Tom Waits, Elvis Costello) and Smokey Hormel (Johnny Cash, Joe Strummer).

Norah Jones Jacquire and King put the songs up for the strength of the musicians: “I think the album sounds different because of the variety of musicians in the recording we had,” says Norah Jones. “I knew I wanted to play with more pace than in my previous albums. Some of the new songs lend themselves to background torrential rhythms. ”

Another notable change in the disc is mainly played guitar. “Actually I write more on guitar than piano,” she says. “I just have felt more natural playing it in these songs.”