GRAMMY.COM Game Music Video October 16, 2013 Nick Krewen GRAMMY.COM Game on. With 2013’s fourth-quarter rollout of XBOX One and Playstation 4, the release of over 300 titles for a variety of platforms, including consoles, mobile and online play, and the record-setting pace of Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto V breaking the $1 billion sales barrier in just 72 hours, the current $66 billion global video-game industry shows…
Vince Degiorgio, whose songs have sold 30 million records, also introduced N Sync and Justin Timberlake to the world. Nick Krewen Music Published on Wed Oct 02 2013 One of the more surprising recent European music success stories has a local twist. A Dutch singer whose jazzy sound contains a sprinkle of hip-hop undertones, Caro Emerald exploded out of nowhere in 2009 to score two chart-topping hits in her native…
Chater, dead at 73, also helped Bryan Adams get his start Canadian music industry executive Brian Chater, who died Sept. 5 at the age of 73. By: Nick Krewen Music, Published on Tue Sep 10 2013 The man whose early belief in Bryan Adams helped the Kingston, Ont., native become one of the world’s biggest superstars has died at 73 after a long illness. Brian Chater, who died Thursday,…
Artists such as Julia Nunes, Amanda Palmer and Derek Webb are receiving big career boosts via Kickstarter, NoiseTrade and SoundCloud NICK KREWEN MAY 15, 2017 – 2:36 AM GRAMMY.com After freeing herself from a recording contract and financing sessions with her band the Grand Theft Orchestra, the Boston-based singer/songwriter Amanda Palmer launched a campaign on crowdfunding site Kickstarter to raise $100,000 to help promote and finance her new album, due…
NEWS Examining the trickle-down effect of concert cancellations, including insurance precautions and the impact on artists, promoters and crew members NICK KREWEN GRAMMYS MAY 15, 2017 GRAMMY.com When Lady Gaga was forced to cancel the remaining 22 dates of her Born This Way Ball tour in February due to a labral tear in her right hip, her fans weren’t the only ones inconvenienced by the decision. The trickle-down effect also…
