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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 A 17 year old artist better known as Hannah Montana will have withdrawn the nomination for a Grammy as “Best Soundtrack”.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.”

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.”

X Factor not only launched Susan Boyle. Leona Lewis also became a star thanks to winning the third edition of the British competition. After dispatching four million records with her debut album, Spirit, the girl has just released his second job: Echo. But apparently it is not enough.

According to the Daily Mirror, Leona wants to become a fashion designer. At least, the girl dresses better than other ‘designers / pop divas’ (Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera or Mariah Carey are just an example).

The British seem to have the intention of being counseled by a major designer: Stella McCartney, daughter of the leader of the Beatles. Both of them could undertake the design of an eco-friendly line. The truth is that the two have much in common: they are both vegetarians and fighting for the non-use of fur.

The first album by Susan Boyle, the 48 years old Scottish who shot to worldwide fame last April after her participation in a talent competition on British television, has become the most successful launch of the year in sales figures in the United Kingdom.

The Official Charts reported today that the album “I Dreamed A Dream” sold on Monday, first day of the sale, 130,000 copies, a figure which is higher than all the other four best-selling albums.

It seems that the work of Boyle easily surpass the record in the first week on sale, which Leona Lewis stablished two years ago, with 375,872 copies sold.

Even before it was in the stores, the disc (Sony Music Entertainment) had already broken records at Amazon, the Internet sales site, which has never before received such a high number of purchase orders prior to the sale of an album.

“I Dreamed a Dream” is the title of the album and song from the musical “Les Miserables” which made Boyle became an international celebrity last April.

Then, she was a 48-year unemployed with a privileged voice, who performed the song on “Britain is got talent,” mesmerized the competition jury and the tens of millions of people around the world within days that saw the video on YouTube, which also broke records.

As noted last week Julian Monaghan, the head of music sales from Amazon.co.uk, “just eight months ago, nobody knew the talents of Susan Boyle.

“Now, has generated more pre-orders for a CD purchase globally than any other artist. It is an incredible achievement and is a sign that has captured the hearts of people across the UK, USA and the rest of the world “said Monaghan

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Almost without realizing it’s been 10 years of that debate. Do you remember? The end of the millennium, beginning on 1 January 2000 or 2001? 10 years with its 10 summers, its 10 winters (in terms of spring and fall we have some doubts because of climate change) and. the 10 lists of best albums of the year. It must be that, as the years are met, the decades to “shorten” why I do not think the same time elapse between Nirvana’s Nevermind and the Is This It the Strokes and between this and the Monster version of The Fame Lady Gaga which goes on sale next week.

The fact is that we are at the gates of December and not in any December. Last December the decade or more, no less. If every December scorches us with lists of the best of the year in the Arabian categories this year promises to come loaded with as many of what the petó during the decade now ending. The NME have opened fire with his 50 best albums of the decade.

The English do not wake up. Several years ago the Q, which has a perspective on the world of pop music very similar to the weekly NME, it listed the 100 best albums of music history. With a pair. If I remember correctly in the 44 or so, put the K of Kula Shaker, a record that, as years passed since the truth is that a beautiful façade was designed by Dave Gibbons (the Watchmen) and a pair of good topics revival inspired by Hindu mysticism. Man, I acknowledge the enthusiasm of the journalist at the time, but K has not been the 44th best record of history or for relatives of Crispin Mills. Never. Never. 4 or 5 years later, in the late nineties, based on advertising its new list, the Top 100 Albums of the twentieth century, the possibility of amending such barbarity “You think that remains the 44th best record in history ? Rectifying is wise.

Is this it’s great for New Yorkers Strokes a top the list published in this week’s issue and that hurts the absence of Scots Franz Ferdinand. At first glance the only player missing is questionable, regardless of personal tastes, the list box which shows the great honor Up the Bracket by The Libertines and Primal Scream XTRMNTR. The rest of the list, which are twice the band Radiohead and Carl Barat and Pete Doherty, and which strangely only sings in English you can find the following:

1. The Strokes - ‘Is This It’
2. The Libertines - ‘Up The Bracket’
3. Primal Scream - ‘XTRMNTR’
4. Arctic Monkeys - ‘Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not’
5. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - ‘Fever To Tell’
6. PJ Harvey - “Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea ‘
7. Arcade Fire - ‘Funeral’
8. Interpol - ‘Turn On The Bright Lights’
9. The Streets - ‘Original Pirate Material’
10. Radiohead - ‘In Rainbows’
11. At The Drive In - ‘Relationship Of Command’
12. LCD Soundsystem - ‘Sound Of Silver’
13. The Shins - ‘Wincing The Night Away’
14. Radiohead - ‘Kid A’
15. Queens Of The Stone Age - ‘Songs For The Deaf’
16. The Streets - ‘A Grand Do not Come For Free’
17. Sufjan Stevens - “Illinois’
18. The White Stripes - ‘Elephant’
19. The White Stripes - ‘White Blood Cells’
20. Blur - ‘Think Tank’
21. The Coral - ‘The Coral’
22. Jay-Z - ‘The Blueprint’
23. Klaxons - ‘Myths Of The Near Future’
24. The Libertines - ‘The Libertines’
25. The Rapture - ‘Echoes’
26. Dizzee Rascal - ‘Boy in Da Corner’
27. Amy Winehouse - ‘Back To Black’
28. Johnny Cash - ‘The Man Comes Around’
29. Super Furry Animals - ‘Rings Around The World’
30. Elbow - ‘Asleep In The Back’
31. Bright Eyes - ‘I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning’
32. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - ‘Show Your Bones’
33. Arcade Fire - ‘Neon Bible’
34. Grandaddy - ‘The Sophtware Slump’
35. Babyshambles - ‘Down In Albion’
36. Spirtualized - ‘Let It Come Down’
37. The Knife - ‘Silent Shout’
38. Bloc Party - ‘Silent Alarm’
39. Crystal Castles - ‘Crystal Castles’
40. Ryan Adams - ‘Gold’
41. Wild Beasts - ‘Two Dancers’
42. Vampire Weekend - ‘Vampire Weekend’
43. Wilco - ‘Yankee Hotel Foxtrot’
44. Outkast - ‘Speakerboxxx / The Love Below
45. Avalanches - ‘Since I Left You’
46. The Delgados - ‘The Great Eastern’
47. Brendan Benson - ‘Lapalco’
48. The Walkmen - “Bows and Arrows’
49. Muse - ‘Absolution’
50. MIA - ‘Arular’

Surprisingly the presence of Blur’s Think Thank, a record that detracts compared with the rest of their discography and parallel projects Albarn (Gorillaz or GBQ) and the inclusion of more complicated album The Shins, Wincing the Night Away.

After all the rumors of dissolution, the group confirms the contrary, there is no end of band and are working on their next album

Red Hot Chili Peppers is a funk-rock band formed in Los Angeles (California) in 1983 which followed the post-grunge movement. During most of their career, the group has been formed by singer Anthony Kiedis, guitarist John Frusciante, bassist Michael ‘Flea’ Balzary, and drummer Chad Smith. The band has fused its style different musical genres from rock and funk to rap, punk-rock, psychedelic rock and hard rock, thereby achieving success within reach of a few: having sold 70 million records.

Chad Smith, drummer of the band said: “We are taking a break, relaxing. We’ve been touring for a year and a half, now it’s time to be with family and recharge to get back to create more music together.”

Recently, Anthony Kiedis said to the “Rolling Stone” magazine that for the moment, and throughout 2009, you would not hear about the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and has been so far. He added that his hiatus as a band would last this year alone.

“Right now we are no longer a band,” says Kiedis. “It took a long time to make ‘Stadium Arcadium’ (published in 2006). It was tough, it was a big effort joined to previous two pulls very long as ‘Californication’ and ‘By The Way’” he said.

“I really do not ever stop until the tour ended last year. We were emotionally and mentally burnt after that effort,” continued Kiedis, and then quipped: “Then, after talking all together, the final decision was” Do not do anything related to Red Hot Chili Peppers for a year or more. Let us endeavor to live, breathe, eat and learn new things. ”

Regarding what is going to spend your free time, Kiedis said that for now only stay at home: “I’m sticking to my youngest son, learn to surf … But the bug is starting to bite that says wouldn´t it be nice to think of new songs and to compose some pieces. But they are just that, pieces.

In an interview with Chad Smith in the British magazine Q, the drummer gave back in hopes of a return to the fans, making it clear: “No, we haven´t broken up” he said. “We’re not playing now, but damn!, We played a lot. It was just time to grab a little break and live life. We are not machines!”.

However, Smith confirmed: “We make music when we feel it is right. You can not force someone to do something. If they’re feeling, then why do it? Better do something else, then return with more energy.

On September 25, 2009 The Red Hot Chili Peppers were nominated for the Walk of Fame Rock along to ABBA, The Chantels, Jimmy Cliff, Kiss, Darlene Love, The Stooges and Donna Summer, among others.

Nowadays the Red Hot Chili Peppers are already in the studio since last October. Their next album will not appear until autumn 2010. So far we only know that will address a more electronic point than the last one.