Social network Facebook banned Project Playlist on Tuesday, just days after MySpace also removed the fast-growing music-sharing startup over a copyright infringement scare.
Facebook has removed the Project Playlist app from Facebook and all embedded playlists from user profiles. The company said in a statement that it hopes Project Playlist can come to an agreement with the labels so the app can return to the website.
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Arcade Fire has written the score for Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly’s new film The Box.
Frontman Win Butler told Pitchfork: “It’s kind of Hitchcocky, movie, orchestral, Mellotron stuff. It’s instrumental music. No songs. It’s interesting.”
Read more...“We didn’t really think we were going to do the whole thing, and then it just kind of was easier once we got in… It has so much to do with the editing, and your job is just to help the director. It’s a very different experience.”
On Saturday, Warner Music Group ordered Google, the present owner of YouTube, to remove from its site all music videos by its artists, after licensing negotiations broke down the previous day.
Continue reading...Warner said: “We simply cannot accept terms that fail to appropriately and fairly compensate recording artists, songwriters, labels and publishers for the value they provide,” reports Reuters.
Alice Cooper, Iggy Pop and Moby are among the musicians set to star in a new vampire film called ‘Suck’, reports The Guardian.
Slated to be a vehicle for comparison between the music industry and blood-sucking, the movie also is rumored to be ridiculous. Moby plays character Beef Bellows, lead singer for the band Secretaries Of Steak, and has 45 “important” words before getting eaten.
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