Posts Tagged ‘music’
Electronic-pop project Owl City currently has the #1 song on Billboard.com’s Digital Songs chart for the fourth week in a row. The song “Fireflies” first charted on the Digital Songs chart on September 9, 2009 and its strong digital sales has helped the band’s overall album sales. Chart position made its biggest jump from week [...]
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Mr. Jackson’s Final Curtain Call
In September, I wrote about This is It, the documentary chronicling the rehearsals for Michael Jackson’s 50-show comeback at London’s o2 Arena, which sadly never came to be due to his untimely death in June. The month has now passed and one of the most-anticipated films of the year has hit theaters, and is sure [...]
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The television genre of musical comedy is hardly new. For me, it started with a 2000 made-for-MTV movie called 2Gether, which documented the creation of a fictional boy band, back when the real things were hot in the day. Not only did the movie give way to a spin-off series, two albums, and music videos, [...]
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Tags: 2gether, concerts, glee, high school musical, music, television, world series
Every summer, the top ten finalists on American Idol go on a 50-city nationwide tour and since last year, I’ve embarked on a journey to Rochester, NY to present each performer with a gift – an online megaproject from the posters of IdolForums.com, entitled the American Idol Yearbook. In return for all the contributions made [...]
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Tags: adam lambert, american idol, audio story, concerts, danny gokey, kris allen, lil rounds, matt giraud, megan joy, michael sarver, music
There are always going to be ways to memorialize Michael Jackson, who as we all know suddenly passed away at the age of 50 this past June. One of these ways? Condense the 100+ hours of rehearsal footage of Jackson’s This is It show (that was to be performed in 50 dates at London’s o2 [...]
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Tags: album release, michael jackson, movie, music, preview, this is it
