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Music on Oscar's Mind
Some insights into the way Academy members vote. Is there a formula for winning a music Oscar? Are there certain guideposts or telling patterns that can correctly predict a win for song or score? This awards season, Variety set out to find the answer, examining half a century of Oscar history and talking to Academy veterans ...
Universal in Tune with Mike Knobloch
Film-music veteran Mike Knobloch has been named president, Film Music and Publishing, for Universal Pictures, Universal Pictures co-chairman Donna Langley and vice chairman and COO Rick Finkelstein announced Wednesday. Knobloch, until recently exec VP of Film Music at 20th Century-Fox and Fox Music Inc., will be responsible for all creative and production aspects of Universal films' ...
Musicians Slowly Migrate to Mobile
In an effort not to get left behind in the next digital shift from desktop to mobile (like they almost were in the shift from CD to MP3), musicians are starting to proactively look at ways to get onto cell phones. MySpaces iLike built tools for artists to easily design their own iPhone apps. The concept ...
Artists Behind Oscar-Nominated Songs Won't Perform
Some of Oscar's most memorable moments have come during performances of nominated songs. Among them: rap group Three 6 Mafia surrounded by streetwalkers as they performed “It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp" from “Hustle & Flow" in 2006, and Celine Dion's resplendent performance of the “Titanic" hit, “My Heart Will Go On," in 1998. Don't ...
2010 Blues Hall of Fame Inductees
The Blues Foundation has announced the artists that it will be inducting into its Hall of Fame this year, and they've really done a great job with their choices--much better, in my humble estimation, than the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation has done lately with their inductions. Chaired by publisher Jim O'Neal, founding editor ...
Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton and the Way of the Guitar
Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton have never done a joint interview until now. On the eve of their historic first-ever co-headlining tour, Rolling Stones David Fricke sits in with the two guitar legends as they discuss old rivalries, blues heroes and the secrets of their craft in our new issue, on sale at newsstands today. The ...
New Orleans French Quarter Costumed Mardi Gras 2010
Mardi Gras 2010 in New Orleans was a celebration to remember. Throngs of fun-seekers gathered in the French Quarter under as sunny skies and cool winds. The day was just what the city needed--a time to soak in the suds of the NFL World Championship Saints NFL Super Bowl victory. Mardi Gras energy trumps Mother Nature's ...
Saxophonist Alonzo Holliday Interviewed At AAJ
Frank Turek's dream: he is in a smoky bar where jazz floats in the background. Coming up to sit down next to him is a hip, old cat who begins to tell him stories of playing sax in bands in the early '40s. He introduces himself as Alonzo Holliday. Back to waking life, in the '90s: ...
Abbey Road Studios for Sale: EMI Seeks Buyer for Beatles' Studio
The long and winding road of Beatles history has taken a new twist. Cash-strapped music company EMI Group Ltd. is seeking a buyer for Abbey Road, the London studio where the Fab Four recorded some of their most famous songs, a person familiar with the situation said Tuesday. The person said talks had been going on ...
Doug Fieger the Knack Lead Singer Dies
Doug Fieger, leader of the power pop band The Knack who sang on the 1979 hit “My Sharona," died Sunday. He was 57. Fieger, a Detroit-area native, died at his home in Woodland Hills near Los Angeles after battling cancer, according to The Knack's manager, Jake Hooker. Fieger formed The Knack in Los Angeles 1978, and ...
