T.E.A. Times                                                                                  Vol 12  Issue 1
 
 

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Paparazzi Arrested After Chasing Spears

LOS ANGELES - Four paparazzi have been arrested on suspicion of reckless driving while chasing Britney Spears' car in the San Fernando Valley, police said.Roberto Maciel, 31, Leandro Gomes, 30, Filipi Teixeira, 27, and Eduardo Ravalah, 34, were booked for investigation of reckless driving and released early Thursday on $5,000 bail each, said Officer Jason Lee, a police spokesman.

Attempts to find telephone listings for the photographers were not successful. It was immediately clear for whom they worked.

The incident began around 11:30 p.m. Wednesday when officers observed several cars following a white Mercedes-Benz in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Mission Hills, said police Lt. Mario Munoz.

The cars were following the Mercedes too closely, traveling at unsafe speed and making several unsafe lane changes, authorities said.

Munoz said officers stopped the Mercedes, interviewed Spears and released the 26-year-old pop star after verifying her driver's license.

New Deal Another Setback To EMI

The Rolling Stones have signed an exclusive recording agreement to release their next album through the Universal Music Group.

The one-album deal, for the soundtrack CD to Martin Scorsese's film Shine A Light, is due to be released in March.

It will be released both physically and digitally across Universal Music's labels around the world and will be released in the UK by Polydor Records.

However, British record label EMI - to which the band have been signed in the past - denied that the group had severed or was about to sever its links with the record label and shift to Universal.

A spokesman said: "The Rolling Stones have not signed to Universal and they have not left EMI."

The announcement marks a fresh blow for EMI. On Tuesday, the music giant's private equity owners announced a "revolutionary" overhaul to the business.

Up to a third of the workforce are to be axed under the proposals, which may also see corporate sponsorship for bands.

The Shine A Light movie, which is set for release in April, was filmed at The Rolling Stones' acclaimed performance at New York's Beacon Theatre in autumn 2006. It includes appearances by Buddy Guy, White Stripes' Jack White and Christine Aguilera, along with rarely-seen archival footage of the band.

A spokesman for The Rolling Stones said: "The band are looking forward to working with Universal Music and are excited about this new venture."

The deal comes on the back of the Stones' record-breaking A Bigger Bang World Tour, which ended at London's O2 Arena last August.

 

 

 

MUSIC REVIEWS: Bluegrass music releases

By KEITH LAWRENCE

Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer

IIIRD TYME OUT, "Footprints: A IIIrd Tyme Out Collection," Rounder. 15 tracks.

If any bluegrass group owned the 1990s, it was IIIrd Tyme Out, a band formed by former members of Doyle Lawson's Quicksilver and the Bluegrass Cardinals.

The band exploded on the scene in 1991 and captured vocal band of the year honors from the International Bluegrass Music Association for seven consecutive years - 1994 to 2000.

Last year, that streak was matched by Lawson, who has owned the category since 2001.

IIIrd Tyme Out's lead singer, Russell Moore, was the IBMA's top male vocalist in 1994 and 1997.

So, it's only fitting that Rounder Records, the band's label from 1995 to 2001, should release a "greatest hits" collection from those years.

"Footprints" includes such IIIrd Tyme Out classics as "Lovin' You Goin' Blind," "John And Mary," "Across The Miles," "Letter To Home" and "Only You (And You Alone.)"

The band's 1995 a capella version of The Platters' doo-wop classic, "Only You," brought half of the audience to its feet during a live performance at the IBMA awards show that year.

The album also includes an a capella version of "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" and a grassed-up version of James "Kokomo" Arnold's 1934 blues classic, "Milk Cow Blues," a 1955 hit for Elvis Presley.

Also included are previously unreleased covers of Bill Monroe's "Footprints in the Snow" and The Osborne Brothers' "One Kiss Away From Loneliness."

The album celebrates the classic lineup of Moore, Ray Deaton, Wayne Benson, Steve Dilling and Mike Hartgrove.

Moore, Benson and Dilling are still with the group today. But Edgar Loudermilk and Justen Haynes have replaced Deaton and Hartgrove.

The group's name, by the way, came from the fact that this was Moore, Deaton and Hartgrove's third professional band.

Can't find it in stores? Try www.rounder.com

Amazon and Pepsi Fizz for DRM Music

Are you one of the people whose ears prickle whenever you hear the word free? As in freebies? Well, who wouldn’t get excited about free things especially if the free item is an expensive or rare item! But rare or not, expensive or not, freebies just thrill us right? Here’s a freebie to get thrilled about. Amazon and Pepsi have joined forces in bringing free digital music to the world at large. Think it’s just like iTunes? Nope! Because the digital music from Amazon’s new online music store  is free of digital rights management software or the dreaded (DRM). This means that you can play it any digital music player! It’s your music entertainment anywhere.

So how are we going to access this free music? Just collect the specially marked bottle caps of Pepsi packages. These packages will contain certain points, so just collect them and your freebie will be based on the number of points you have accumulated. This new promo is named “Pepsi Stuff”. You’ll have to watch out for its revelation on a Super Bowl commercial that will also unveil Amazon’s new music service.

Some of the music labels   participating in the Pepsi Stuff promo are Sony, EMI and Warner Music Group. Free music for an enjoyable Pepsi fizz, I think that’s a pretty good deal already.

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