Video games provide the latest medium for exposing artists to new audiences GRAMMY.com Nick Krewen April 16, 2007 When Green Day was on the verge of recording their epic American Idiot in the spring of 2004 and facing any number of deadlines, one of the first people they called was Steve Schnur. “The guys in Green Day had asked us to come to the studio,” recalls Schnur, worldwide executive of…
Concertgoers endure a brave new world of ticket bidding wars and ultimate VIP packages Nick Krewen GRAMMY.com April 5, 2007 Christina Aguilera may be going “Back To Basics” on her 2007 35-date North American tour, but that philosophy isn’t being applied to her legions of concert-attending fans. Where once they stood in line, made phone calls or surfed the Net to instantaneously obtain the best available seating for shows…
Native Musicians’ Influence Dates To Early Jazz August 7, 2006 Encyclopedia Of Native Music contains 1,800 entries on Native American musicians GRAMMY.com Nick Krewen She discovered Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby, mentored jazz legend Billie Holiday, influenced Tony Bennett and was one of the first female singers to professionally perform with an orchestra. But one of the truly obscure facts about jazz singer Mildred Bailey — known as “Mrs….
January 13, 2006 Major labels have put catalog mining into the hands of specialized divisions GRAMMY.com Nick Krewen If you’re a Ray Charles fan, Christmas has come early. To celebrate what would have been his 75th birthday, Rhino Entertainment recently issued a pair of Ray Charles albums — a posthumous duets project called Genius & Friends and the more elaborate Pure Genius: The Complete Atlantic Recordings (1952-1959), an eight-disc set…
Internet Weaves Web Of Spontaneity Nick Krewen GRAMMY.com September 2005 When Nathan Meckel wants to write a song with his musical partner Pam Reswick, he no longer hops on a plane to Los Angeles and drives to her home studio, guitar in hand. Instead, Meckel walks down the stairs to his own Nashville studio, flicks on his computer and turns on the camera. Then he and Reswick create beautiful…
