Directed by Erwin Georgi, the creation of these colorful art videos are meant to expand the emotional reach of the songs, without telling a story. "I don't like music videos because they make viewers loose their own interpretation of the lyrics" said Merlin Moon. We would like to know your comments and thoughts about this videos. Both of the songs, represent the evolution of MM sounds. Influenced by Bob Marley, Pink Floyd and minimal dance music, it wonderful how the colorful textures of MM music, expands the emotional horizon of the lyrics. "This is just an experiment, I am a... Continue reading

via www.hollywoodoutbreak.com Doesn’t this pic just capture the spirit of the holidays? The European rock band, Merlinmoon will release its new single, Empty Shell/Yesterday is Gone on Christmas Day. Merlinmoon founder, Alexander Pizzorni was born in Caracas, Venezuela before moving to Italy, Miami, Mexico City and New York before settling in Los Angeles. Pizzorni was an underground DJ in Caracas before becoming a musician and he claims to draws his creative stimulus a host of influences from ‘70s rock and electronica to Pink Floyd as well as a spiritual-based philosophy. And yet, the picture is so sad. Merry Christmas! Continue reading

Merlin Moon's releases new single after 30 months of growth. His sound is stronger than every with its peaceful yet intense emotional reality. When "Stoned by Dreams" was released on 2008, a special review stated "Rogers Waters would be proud" , well now he'll be surprized, with MM new single "Empty Shell" and the re-recorded version of "Yesterday is gone". Produced by Merlinmoon, at 19 Angeles studios (Hollywood, CA), mixed by Mark Needham at (Ballroom studio) and Mastered by Stephen Marcussen, the Hi fidelity of Empty Shell EP is superior in sound, composition, production than any other Merlin Moon release.... Continue reading

Beatles Sales On iTunes Top 450K The initial Beatles sales figures are in: More than 450,000 albums and 2 million individual songs were sold on iTunes worldwide, according to Apple, since the Beatles catalog was made available Tuesday (Nov. 16). In U.S. the best-selling album was "Abbey Road" and best-selling song was "Here Comes the Sun." Of that tally, U.S. album sales totaled 119,000 units, which included 13,000 digital box sets, while individual digital track sales reached 1.4 million, according to industry sources. Each digital box set included 13 studio albums, the two-volume “Past Masters” compilation and the “Live at... Continue reading

via www.vintageking.com My dream... Merlinmoon's future baby... I cannot believe that this is available to buy!!!.. EMI TG12345 Console is a legendary desk that went through four variations. Originally built to custom specifications in EMI’s own engineering facilities at Hayes, Middlesex, England, the TG12345 was the first solid-state recording console to be manufactured by EMI. By the late 60s, transistors and multi-track recorders had become the cutting edge of audio technology, and EMI spent considerable time designing and building a custom desk that could handle the larger number of inputs and outputs necessary for multi-tracking. The result was the TG12345... Continue reading

via www.markneedham.com Mark Needham, Massaging Merlinmoon's new release. Coming out on X mas day. Continue reading

Written by Nicole Sione. So, like the last recent note I just wrote- I'm writing because I got an all of a sudden, overwhelming sense of urgency that I need to share. For those of you who know me, know I'm in college. Yes I'm starting late, I'm 24- but my dream of being an actress was diminished when I saw the darkness of Hollywood, and I realized that knowledge, the experience of college- is more important. (at least for me) It's interesting to me- because my major is communications, and I absolutely love it. Specifically in my Journalism class,... Continue reading

Huge MISTAKE on "The last testament of George Harrison" documentary. Talking about the death of Paul McCartney of 1966, substituted by a double "William Campbell" to keep The Bealtes going and avoid a suicide among fans. Paul McCartney is alive, unless we have been fooled for half a century by the best rock band of all time. Its hard to believe and very confusing to accept whatever truth might be the one to believe. The Beatles symbolism on their album covers and backward messages on their music, was genius and represent the artistic minds of Lennon and Paul. After doing... Continue reading

via www.ft.com Something strange has happened to pop music since I began reviewing it in the late 1990s. In the past, how you listened to music played second fiddle to what it sounded like. Only finger-sniffing audiophiles cared whether you listened to Nirvana’s Nevermind in 1991 on vinyl, cassette or CD. To everyone else the point was the album itself. No longer. Nowadays the format of music, the way it’s sold or listened to, overshadows everything else. MP3 players, internet streaming services, MySpace, mobile phones: music is everywhere. Good news for listeners but perplexing for record companies, who are seeing... Continue reading

via www.rttnews.com (RTTNews) - Following the buying out of their former label BMG Music, Coldplay have signed a lucrative publishing deal with Universal Music Publishing, though no one from either party is divulging any details. Universal is one of the biggest companies in the music business and signing one of the giants of contemporary music surely cost them a pretty penny. Rumors are already swirling online about the details of the contract, with one reporter for 411mania calling it "one of the biggest publishing contracts in music history." The U.K.'s the Sun figures the contract to be worth millions for... Continue reading

via www.bbc.co.uk A massive traffic jam in China has slowed vehicles to a crawl for a ninth day near Beijing, local media say. Vehicles, mostly lorries bound for Beijing, are backed up for about 100km (62 miles) because of heavy traffic, road works and break-downs. The drivers have complained that locals are over-charging them for food and drink while they are stuck. There has been a boom in road building in China in recent years but vehicle use has soared at the same time. The stalled traffic stretches between Jining in Inner Mongolia and Huai'an in Hebei province, north-west of... Continue reading

via newsroom.mtv.com As though he predicted that MTV News' James Montgomery would bump his band from the top of the "Best Band in the World" list in favor of Arcade Fire, Thom Yorke went ahead and threw the gauntlet down by unveiling a brand new Radiohead song during a solo gig at the Big Chill Festival in Eastnor, England last week. Yorke spent most of his time at the piano, playing a mix of Radiohead tunes and other entries from his 2006 solo album The Eraser, but he stepped away and picked up an acoustic guitar for a song called... Continue reading

Merlinmoon purchases his dream console to record his new album. "I love the sound of Germanium Neve preamps, its so smooth!" Alternatively there is a vintage Neve with 1060 modules [same as 1061 but with alternative eq] in California today, which would go very nicely in the the studio next to the one in the previous post CLASSIC GERMANIUM NEVE MIXING CONSOLE, ORIGINALLY BUILT IN 1969. CONTAINS 24 NEVE 1060 INPUT MODULES. HAS A CUSTOM MADE PRODUCERS DESK WHICH HOLDS THE TT PATCH BAY. THE ENIRE CONSOLE IS WIRED TO ELCO CONNECTORS, AND DOES COME WITH SOME BREAKOUT CABLES THAT... Continue reading

via www.billboard.com People are talking about the Coachella Music and Arts Festival that happened this past weekend in Indio, Calif., and reviews have been positively glowing. Performances included Jay-Z and Beyoncé, Muse, Thom Yorke, LCD Soundsystem and Sleigh Bells. According a report in the UK tabloid The Sun, John Lennon's old LSD has been found. Those digging up the garden at an old home of Lennon's found a leather pouch containing what fans say is a long-lost stash of acid. Jack Johnson's Kokua Festival kicks off on Friday (April 23) in Honolulu, Hawaii, with Ziggy Marley and Johnson is raising... Continue reading

via www.timesonline.co.uk Tibetan monks chanted prayers and lit giant funeral pyres to cremate the bodies of hundreds of victims of last week’s earthquake in western China. With the official death toll reaching 1,144, and the figure expected to rise sharply with hundreds more still unaccounted for, the crimson-clad monks were forced to abandon their traditional funeral tradition of “sky burials”, in which bodies are left to be devoured by vultures. “There are not enough vultures for all these bodies,” said a monk at the mass cremation on a mountainside outside Jiegu, the hardest hit town. Rescue workers continued to pick... Continue reading

via www.reuters.com Ash production had fallen and Iceland's coast guard and scientists prepared to fly over the volcano in search of signs its crater was now producing lava, which could indicate the nature of the eruption was changing. "The situation is definitely better than it was particularly on Saturday, which was a difficult day for us due to heavy ash fall just south of the volcano," said Urdur Gudmundsdottir, a spokeswoman at the foreign ministry. The appearance of lava could suggest the eruption was moving into a less explosive phase, possibly a good sign for thousands of travelers who have... Continue reading

via www.cbsnews.com While the eruption of an Icelandic volcano appears to primarily affect airlines and passengers waiting for flights in and out of Europe to resume, the U.S. Travel Association estimates that the ash cloud produced by the eruption has cost the U.S. economy $650 million, approximately $130 million per day. That kind of loss to the economy affects the cashflow to fund about 6,000 American jobs, the association said. Every international flight bound for the U.S. is worth an average of $450,000 in spending from travelers, which the association says pays for five jobs per flight. "While safety must... Continue reading

via blogs.laweekly.com By Dennis Romero, Monday, Apr. 12 2010 @ 2:49PM Thumbnail image for quake crack sized.png polyvf via Twipic: http://tweetphoto.com/17203656 ​It started innocently enough: We received an email from a friend, who said it came from another friend, warning of an imminent earthquake in Los Angeles. "My buddy's wife works at the seismology dept. in L.A. and they called everyone in today and said get your kids out of school and stock up on water because there is going to be a major quake within 24 hours," the original text states. The only problem is there is no "seismology... Continue reading

via www.aandronline.com Jeff Blue is VP of A&R at Warner California. Linkin Park, Beautiful Creatures and Impur are some of the rock acts for whom he is A&R. He previously worked at Zomba Music Publishing, where he signed Limp Bizkit, Korn, Macy Gray, and Linkin Park. Read about how he finds new talent, what he looks for in an artist and much more. HQ: How did you get started in music biz and what has been the route to becoming an A&R? I started out as a drummer. I went to UCLA for my undergraduate studies and was in a... Continue reading

Following a prestigious festival run, WHEN YOU’RE STRANGE: A FILM ABOUT THE DOORS will receive a theatrical release in select markets on Friday, April 9. The crowd-pleasing documentary has been featured at the Sundance, Berlin, Deauville and San Sebastian Film Festivals and most recently played to sold-out shows at the Santa Barbara Film Festival. Produced by Wolf Films/Strange Pictures, in association with Rhino Entertainment, and released by Abramorama, the 90-minute film is the first feature documentary about The Doors. “They say if you remember the ‘60s you weren’t there,” said producer Dick Wolf. “I can state definitively that one of... Continue reading

via yesbuthowever.com WASHINGTON, D.C. (YBH.ME) – During the premier broadcast tonight of Robin Williams’ new HBO special, the franticly quick-witted comic referred to Pope Benedict XVI as a Nazi. The show, entitled “Weapons of Self Destruction,” was filmed in Washington, D.C. in November. The remark came at around the 1:12 mark of the ninety minute performance. Mr. Williams was doing a bit about the selection of a new Pope after Pope John Paul II died in 2005 and flatly referred to the current Pope as a Nazi. Mr. Williams went on to talk about pedophilia within the church and likened... Continue reading

via www.examiner.com Sexy 'Twilight' hunk Robert Pattinson has made no secret of his love for music. But will the musical Brit being portraying one of the most influential musicians of all time? Rumors are buzzing around the Internet today after a Star Magazine report that Pattinson, 23, is in talks with with director Robert Zemeckis to play legendary Beatle John Lennon in Disney's 3-D remake of the classic cartoon 'Yellow Submarine.' This could be a huge step for Robert Pattinson who is already establishing a name for himself by playing Edward Cullen in one of the highest grossing movie franchises... Continue reading

via www.gigwise.com Sigur Ros singer Jonsi Thor Birgisson has unveiled details of his debut solo album. Simply titled 'Go', the album is released through Parlophone Records on March 22 and is being billed as markedly different to the 2009 instrumental record with his boyfriend Alex Somers 'The Riceboy Sleeps'. Every track features vocals and the majority is sung entirely in English in what is described as “a bold stride beyond the career-redefining pop of ‘Hoppipolla’ and even the explosive percussive assault of the last album’s ‘Gobbledigook’.” The nine-track record was co-produced by Jonsi, Alex Somers and Interpol producer Peter Katis... Continue reading

via www.universetoday.com Have you enjoyed our lunar studies together this year? We hope you’ve taken the time to follow the phases and to appreciate what you see. Although it would be wonderful to end our this year's time together viewing the distant cosmos, something very cool is about to happen… In 1982, a second full Moon of the month was visible. Known as a ‘‘Blue Moon,’’ the name does not refer to the Moon’s color but reflects the rarity of the event and gives rise to the expression, ‘‘once in a blue moon.’’ The Blue Moon of 1982 was even... Continue reading

via www.rttnews.com (RTTNews) - Not even four decades of experience as a live performer could keep Bruce Springsteen from making a rookie rock star mistake. At a concert at Michigan's Auburn Hills Palace, the Boss yelled out "Hello, Ohio!" He continued to refer to the wrong state several times over the next half hour, until E Street Band guitarist Steven Van Zandt whispered to the singer where they were actually playing. "That's every frontman's nightmare," Springsteen said to the crowd, before going on with the three-hour concert, which included a complete performance of the Born to Run album. There has... Continue reading