Tool-Ænema In my opinon is our generations jam band.

From www.punknews.org 

Despite much doomsaying by analysts and trade groups, music sales are actually up by 10% as of the end of 2008. According to a report from Nielsen SoundScan, sales are up, but much of this growth can be attributed to vinyl and digital sales. The report notes that more than 1.5 billion songs were sold digitally in 2008, a 10% bump over 2007. However, vinyl sales were up by 89% over the previous year. That is a relatively small number (1.88 million) but not all retailers participate in SoundScan.

While it’s impossible to say, many of the smaller or independent retailers will not be reporting to SoundScan. Those retailers are often more likely to specialize in vinyl so it is difficult to be sure how much of those sales come from vinyl. The only bad news came for physical CDs which were down 14% from 2007.

It’s funny,” says Al Millio, the younger Knux brother (yes, they’re blood kin separated by 2 years), “Because people make such a big deal about the fact that we produce and play our own music, and that it sounds ‘different’ or whatever, but to us that’s more hip hop than making lame sh** that sounds like everybody else.”

For those of you who like to put things in boxes, it’s like this: The Knux are a self-produced group comprised of two brothers from New Orleans. They play all their own instrumentation and fight like The Kinks. Their debut album sounds like Outkast, Juvenile, Tha Pharcyde, and The Strokes concurrently blasting out of a drop-top Jag on Sunset Blvd. on a Saturday night in the summer. Wrap your head around that.

“When we made the album we refused to give the album to the label one song at a time,” says Krispy, who at 25 is the elder Knux brother. “We knew that they wouldn’t get it, they’d think we were buggin’ and they’d try to make us change things.” Instead, the two, who signed to Interscope in 2006 thanks to an incredible demo, “We played it for all the executives at once,” remembers Al, “And you could see in their faces they were all shocked to hear something like this from some new artists that they barely even knew were on the label.”

The band’s 12th album is finally finished and now we wait! Thier last album “How to dismantle an atomic bomb” was released in 2004. No news on a tour but knowing Bono and the gang they will make plans.

What the hell happned to Fergi!!!???

An American musician named Samuel Bartley Steele is suing the band for his (Steele) song “(Man I Really) Love This Team.” The song was used as an athem for the Boston Red Sox. GOOD LUCK STEELE AND SHARE THE WEALTH TO US POOR FOLKS!

1811 - The Juliana, 1st steam-powered ferryboat, begins operation 

1811 - The Juliana, 1st steam-powered ferryboat, begins operation

1960 - Radio-TV exec John Fetzer buys a controlling interest of Det Tigers
 

1967 - Yoko Plus Me art exhibit opens in London (the me is John Lennon)
 

1976 - 10th Country Music Assn Award: Mel Tillis wins
 

1981 - Unknown rocker Prince opens for Rolling Stones at LA Coliseum
 

1982 - 16th Country Music Assn Award: Willie Nelson and Ricky Skagg

Birthdays In Music on this day of history

1747 - Marian Paradeiser, composer
 

1788 - Simon Sechter, composer
 

1821 - Angelo Maurizio Gaspare Mariani, composer
 

1841 - Freidrich Hegar, composer
 

1863 - Xavier Henry Napoleon Leroux, composer
 

1869 - Gordon Frederic Norton, composer
 

1877 - John Parsons Beach, composer
 

1882 - Robert Nathaniel Dett, composer
 

1883 - Archibald T Davison, composer
 

1884 - Robert Muller-Hartmann, composer
 

1888 - Piero Coppola, composer
 

1894 - Albert Stoessel, composer
 

1897 - Arvo Hannikainen, composer
 

1901 - Emil Hlobil, composer
 

1908 - Armen Carapetyan, composer
 

1910 - Eugene John Weigel, composer
 

1917 - Thelonious Monk, jazz great, stroke
 

1917 - Franz Alphons Wolpert, composer
 

1919 - Art Blakey, Pitts PA, drummer (Billy Eckstine Band, Jazz Messengers)
 

1932 - Dottie West, Nashville Tenn, country singer (Here Comes My Baby)
 

1935 - Jan van Vlijmen, composer
 

1939 - Woiciech Wiesidlowski Lowski, dancer
 

1943 - Per-Gunnar Alldahl, composer
 

1943 - Gene Watson, Palestine Tx, country singer (Heartaches, Love and Stuff)
 

1943 - Frank Muyser, Dutch guitarist/saxophonist (Les Baroques)
 

1946 - Gary Mallaber, Buffalo NY, rocker (Steve Miller Band-Abracadbra)
 

1949 - Greg Douglas, rock guitarist/vocalist (Steve Miller Band-Abracadabra)
 

1950 - Andrew Woolfolk, US pop musician (Earth, Wind and Fire-Shining Star)
 

1951 - Wesley Magoogan, rocker
 

1957 - Blair Cunningham, Memphis Tn, rock drummer (Haircut 100)
 

1957 - Jon Moss, rock drummer (Culture Club)
 

1992 - Sarah Cannon, daughter of singer Amy Grant\

Deaths In Music On This Day In History

1837 - Samuel Wesley, composer (Exultate Deo), dies at 71
 

1896 - Anton Bruckner, Austr composer (Te Deum, Wagner Symphony), dies at 72
 

1897 - L‚on Bo‰lmann, French organist/composer (Suite Gothique), dies at 35
 

1942 - Leonid Vladimirovich Nikolayev, composer, dies at 64
 

1963 - Edith Piaf, French singer (No, I don’t regret anything), dies at 47
 

1970 - Anis Fuleihan, composer, dies at 69
 

1985 - Tex Williams, country-western singer, dies at 68 of cancer
 

1996 - Johnny Costa, jazz pianist (Mr Rogers), dies at 74

That’s right folks looks like Ms. Love has run out of drug money and has decided to sell 25% share of the groups publishing rights to Virgin Records G.M. Larry Mestel. After Kurt Cobain’s suicide, Love inherited 98 % of the catalogue leaving Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl with 2%.

Looks like The Foo Fighters have asked McCain and the gang to stop using thier hit song “My Hero.”  Past reports say that this isn’t the first time McCain has been told not to use other songs by soul legend Sam Moore, Heart, John Mellencamp and Jackson Browne (who also filed a lawsuit) have told McCain’s

From Rolling Stone click here for story. Looks like Wally World wants the record lables to cut down on thier prices or otherwise they will stop selling cds. At the moment they (Wal-Mart) are the nations number one music retailer while Itunes is holding the number two spot. In 2007 music sales went down 15%  and so far this year another 12% decrease. It may not look like a lot to you, but in the biz it’s millions of dollars gone. If the lables decide to cut thier prices and trust me they will, that means another 1,000 jobs will be lost.

Sad to say, but I really do miss the good old days of just going into a music store, getting want you want, paying for it, listening to what you bought and call it day. *sigh*