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'Hipper' Helen welcome at music awards
Prime Minister Helen Clark had always been warmly welcomed at music award events, Parliament was told yesterday when National tried to take over pop icon Neil Finn's criticism of her.
FINN BLASTS CLARK'S SUPPORT OF MUSIC INDUSTRY
Finn, who was made an OBE in 1993, said in Real Groove magazine "it sort of makes me sick to see Helen Clark getting up at the music awards and taking the bows".
Miss Clark declined to comment, saying she was not going to get into a personal row with Finn, but National MP Chris Finlayson took the issue to Parliament at question time.
Miss Clark was not there and Associate Arts and Culture Minister Judith Tizard answered for her when Mr Finlayson wanted to know why the Government was interfering with the arts and why Miss Clark made "self-serving speeches" at music awards.
"The Government has never interfered in the art of music or into the business of music," Ms Tizard said.
"I think what people do at music awards is often try to look hip and I have to say the prime minister looked rather hipper than Don Brash ever did and was very warmly welcomed," she said.
Mr Finlayson suggested Miss Clark had been causing a fraction too much friction.
"I'm pleased the member knows a few 1970s and '80s song titles and suggest he comes up to speed," said Ms Tizard.
Source : http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4046982a4500.html
JUSTIN: I WANT TO WRITE COUNTRY MUSIC
The boy from Tennessee has claimed he is keen to write country music and hip hop, which could prove to be a bizarre mix of styles.
According to the Sun, Justin, 26, told a US interviewer: "I've had a good share of the spotlight. I don't feel like I need too much of it right now.
"I want to write country music, because that's where I grew up - Tennessee. Soul music... I want to be involved in hip hop."
But Justin is currently doing anything but shunning said limelight, as he is appearing as a voice artist in the hotly anticipated SHREK THE THIRD as well as his movie acting debut in ALPHA DOG.
Nevertheless, it seems the now single singer, who has been linked to SCARLETT JOHANSSON and JESSICA BIEL, is hoping to concentrate on himself for a while and mix some hip hop and country tunes.
He added: "Sometimes I feel the only way to really express all those different sides, even just for myself, is through different people.
"To write for myself, I definitely have to recharge my battery."
Source : http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/justin%20i%20want%20to%20write%20country%20music_1029881
Protesters March For Decency In Music
Hundreds of people marched in Midtown Thursday evening, calling for decency in music.
The march was led by the Reverend Al Sharpton and the children of the late James Brown.
On the Godfather of Soul’s birthday, protesters called on the music industry to put a code of conduct in place for lyrics, to eliminate sexist, racist, and homophobic language.
“The message is that we want to call on three words: nigger, ho, and bitch to be removed from records,” said Sharpton. “Just like you can’t make records against gays, you can’t make records against Italians or Jews, why do we allow those records?”
“As a female, I feel like I’m being disrespected,” said another protester. “Every other song I’m being called the H-word or the B-word, and as a black woman, I’m being called the N-word. So today is very important; it’s crucial for us in the community.”
The march kicked off in front of Sony Music's Midtown office, continued to Warner Music, and Universal, and then protesters ended with a rally at Columbus Circle in front of Time Warner, the parent company of NY1.
"I’m not totally against the B-word, the N-word, because I understand where they’re coming from,” said a third protester. “But we as a people got to get to the next level somehow and someway.”
“Well we want to stop all of this negative press that the rap industry has been sending out, and try to re-erect ourselves” said another rally attendee.
In a statement, Time Warner says it has no ownership part in Warner Music. As for Universal Music Group, it put out a statement saying that artists have a right to express themselves, even if it doesn’t appeal to all listeners. The company also says it puts warning labels on its music and complies with broadcast standards, as well.
The rally comes on the heels of the major uproar against shock jock Don Imus' remarks against the Rutgers women’s basketball team. After days of protest and ad buyer pulling off his show, Imus was fired by CBS.
Source : http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=1&aid=69361
Making Music out of Genes
A UCLA graduate student creates melodies out of genetic and protein sequences, allowing us to "listen" to DNA.
Thursday, May 03, 2007By David Ewing Duncan
Listen to this.
It's the music created by the human protein thymidylate synthase A (ThyA). Really. At least, it's the notes created to "play" the music of this string of amino acids, with each amino acid assigned a chord.
Rie Takahashi, a graduate student at UCLA, dreamed up the idea of making music out of proteins when she read about a blind meteorology student at Cornell who converted the colors of a contoured weather map into tones corresponding to different hues.
Takahashi hopes her creation will help disabled geneticists "read" sequences using sound, she writes in a report in Genome Biology. "We wanted to be able to move away from a two-dimensional string of letters across a sheet of paper, and to see if adding another dimension--sound--would help," Takahashi told Nature.com.
Helping blind biologists "hear" DNA is laudable, but I'm also finding the notion of amino acids as chords strung together to be something eerie and wonderful, like putting my ear to a seashell and hearing the ocean. In addition, the idea makes sense, given that music is essentially digital--a series of precise calibrations of sound that the ancient Greeks thought of as a form of mathematics. For instance, the ancient Greek mathematician Pythagoras developed "The Music of the Spheres" to describe the proportional movements of the planets, moon, and sun in what he believed to be whole-number ratios identical to musical intervals.
Checking out Takahashi's Gene2Music website, I discover that other musically inclined scientists have applied notes and sounds to biological activities, such as the functions of a cell. You really need to check out these strange, compelling tunes.
Takahashi's website also allows you to enter any amino-acid sequence and have it translated into music. Try it, and listen to the slightly dissonant but curiously soothing sounds of protein sequences that are in a sense singing.
Source : http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/duncan/17597/
Sara Evans, Josh Turner Added to CMA Music Festival
Source : http://www.cmt.com/news/articles/1558766/20070503/evans_sara.jhtml
Get Crunk at Coachella Music Fest
Avoid Festival’s Over-Priced Beverages
Published Thursday, May 3, 2007
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I just returned from the most amazing weekend ever. I was one of the lucky tens of thousands of people who traveled from all over the world to Indio, Calif., this past weekend to see the Coachella Music Festival. This music and art festival was the best time I’ve ever had. I am definitely going next year and I suggest that everyone who reads this goes, too. If you are fortunate enough to go next year, or to any other music festival in the future, I discovered a few more ways to sneak in alcohol to avoid paying for the expensive and small collection that festivals tend to offer.
Coachella is one of the largest annual music festivals around. It started in 1999 a few months after the disastrous reincarnation of the Woodstock festival. Fortunately, Coachella went a little more smoothly and has since improved each year. This year, the festival offered big names such as Red Hot Chili Peppers, Interpol, the Arctic Monkeys, Peaches, Bjšrk, the Arcade Fire, Tiesto, Ratatat, Willie Nelson, the Roots and Rage Against the Machine. There were hundreds of other bands from all types of genres as well.
The festival was not limited to music alone. There was a unique variety of art found throughout the fairgrounds. There were large Tesla coils that shot out bolts of lighting over 30 feet long in all directions. Colorful tunnels, geometric domes and a steam-powered train were also there for amusement. There was even a section where you could ride a bicycle that would charge your cell phone. All the art and music was great, especially because we managed to sneak in a bunch of booze.
It’s not uncommon to find overpriced food and drinks at a festival or theme park. Knowing this, we brainstormed ideas on how to sneak in cheap alcohol to avoid paying for overpriced beer. The only alcohol that could be found at Coachella were a disgusting Bloody Mary for $10, warm Heineken for $7 and something called a Soju for $8. Lucky for us, we packed our cooler with a shit ton of booze. When I began packing at 4 a.m. after a crazy night downtown, I scoured my house for empty water bottles. These can be filled with vodka, rum or any clear liquor you choose. My group decided to go with high class Heritage Vodka, imported from Albertsons. There was some miscommunication and between the group of about 10 of us, we accidentally brought about seven handles of vodka. Of course, all this alcohol was consumed, but a little variety would have been nice.
Next year, I plan on sneaking in some other types of alcohol in juice cartons or jugs. Any container that is not clear will work for sneaking in tequila, Southern Comfort, Captain Morgan or anything else your heart desires. The people inspecting the coolers did not pay close attention. Most of them glanced at the bottles of juice and water and never inspected the seals. I even managed to sneak in cans of beer. Caguama is an up-and-coming beer that is ideal to sneak in. It is kind of like Otra because it is extremely cheap and imported from Mexico. You can buy a 30-pack of Caguama for about $12. The pros are that it tastes way better then most cheap beers, like Natural Light, Keystone, Otra, Coors, etc. It also comes in a strange yellow and blue can with a turtle on it, so it looks just like a soda. The con is that I have only seen Caguama when visiting the San Diego area.
Music festivals are great for everyone. Whether you chose to get drunk and mosh to Rage Against the Machine, smoke weed and chill out to Willie Nelson, roll on some thizz and head to the raves, or drop acid and stare at strange art, there is something for everyone at Coachella. I think you can also go sober, but I’m not sure if that is allowed.
Source : http://www.dailynexus.com/article.php?a=14008
Joshua Bell to join IU Jacobs School of Music faculty
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May 3, 2007
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Grammy Award-winning violin virtuoso, newly-crowned winner of the coveted Avery Fisher Prize and Indiana University's favorite son Joshua Bell will return to his alma mater to join the faculty of the IU Jacobs School of Music, school officials announced today (May 3).
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| Joshua Bell will return home to join the faculty of the IU Jacobs School of Music. |
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The 39-year-old native of Bloomington, Ind., will follow in the footsteps of his late mentor and longtime Jacobs School violin professor Josef Gingold and join the school as a senior lecturer in the String Department. Bell began studying the violin at the IU School of Music at age 8 and received an Artist Diploma in Violin Performance from IU in 1989. He will begin his involvement at the Jacobs School in 2008-2009 through two week-long residencies during which he will be involved in a variety of activities, including coaching ensembles, working with students both individually and in groups, and participating in performances, among other activities.
"I can think of no greater place than the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in Bloomington, Indiana, to accept a faculty position," Bell said. "This continues an association that began back in 1980 when I first became a student of the legendary Josef Gingold, who had a profound impact on me as a musician and as a human being. I would only hope that I can impart even a fraction of his love of music and his wisdom to the students with whom I come in contact."
Bell is the latest addition to a long line of musical superstars who, in the last three years, have chosen to base their teaching careers in Bloomington. The list includes such luminaries as world-famous National Symphony Orchestra maestro Leonard Slatkin, pianists André Watts and Arnaldo Cohen, violinists Mark Kaplan, Alexander Kerr and Jaime Laredo, singers Carol Vaness, Sylvia McNair and Marietta Simpson, ballet master Michael Vernon, bassoonist William Ludwig and hornist Jeff Nelsen.
"Josh's decision to now develop an academic relationship with the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music gives us enormous pleasure and further confirms what those individuals who have chosen to center their professional lives already know -- that this environment is truly special, world-class and fully prepared to lead future generations of musicians toward greatness," said Jacobs School Dean Gwyn Richards. "With Josh's roots so firmly planted here, and with the wealth of young musicians who gather here, Bloomington seems an ideal place for this association. We look forward to the collaborations that will result from this appointment to the string faculty."
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The appointment of one of the world's greatest and most well-known classical musicians adds a powerful dimension to the school's String Department, which has bolstered its ranks with the recent arrivals of Kaplan, Kerr, Laredo, cellist Sharon Robinson and violist Yuval Gotlibovich. The department also has strengthened its position as a leader in string pedagogy for years to come. Bell, Gotlibovich and Kerr, the former concertmaster of the famed Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam, are all under 40 years of age.
"Having Joshua Bell on campus to work, instruct and play with our string students is absolutely unique among all major U.S. music schools and conservatories," said String Department Chair Lawrence Hurst. "Here is a great artist with a career second to none, moving among our aspiring violinists, violists, cellists and bassists, not to mention all the other music students he will influence and touch while here. He is a terrific, musical resource for the Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University and the state of Indiana."
Violinist Alex Kerr, the Linda and Jack Gill Chair in Music at the Jacobs School, has been a friend of Bell's and frequent collaborator for more than a decade. He said Bell's decision to join the faculty is a momentous one for the school, which he says is undergoing a "renaissance" and has become "the place to be" for many of the world's premier musicians.
"Josh is one of the most excellent performers on the stage today," Kerr said. "For students to have access to a performer of his caliber is unbelievable and almost unprecedented. It's very rare, in this day and age, for a musician of this magnitude to be giving back to students.
"It will be a really nice challenge for him," Kerr added, "and Josh is always searching for challenges. He's always taking risks. I think that Josh will find that these kids want to be inspired, and he'll also be inspired by them."
By now, Bell's story is well known. Born and raised in Bloomington, Ind., he began playing the violin at age four when his parents -- the late IU Professor Emeritus Alan P. Bell and Bloomington resident Shirley Bell -- bought him his first violin, after they noticed him plucking tunes on rubber bands that he had stretched around the handles of his dresser drawers. He began his studies with Mimi Zweig, director of IU's Summer String Academy for students ages 5-to-18. In true storybook fashion, Bell will join his first violin teacher on the String Department faculty.
"Having known Josh from his very early days as a talented violinist in the String Academy and then to see him expand into the amazing artist he has become, it is very exciting that he will be joining us," Zweig said. "Returning as one of the world's great violinists, his knowledge, wisdom and presence will be an inspiration to our students."
By age 12, Bell was a prodigious violin student of renowned violinist Josef Gingold, who taught at the Jacobs School for more than 30 years until his death in 1995. To this day Bell speaks fondly of his beloved teacher and mentor.
Bell first came to national attention at age 14 when he made his highly acclaimed orchestral debut with Riccardo Muti and the Philadelphia Orchestra. A Carnegie Hall debut, the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant and a recording contract further confirmed his unique presence in the music world.
Equally at home as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestra leader, Bell's career is exceptionally varied. He continues to perform regularly with the world's leading symphony orchestras and conductors. At the same time, his restless curiosity and multifaceted musical interests have taken him in exciting new directions, forging a unique career that has earned him the rare title of classical music superstar. In addition to his concert career, Bell enjoys chamber music collaborations with artists such as Pamela Frank, Steven Isserlis and Jacobs School alumnus Edgar Meyer, as well as occasional collaborations with artists outside the classical arena, including Josh Groban, Bobby McFerrin, Chick Corea and James Taylor. He also works regularly with pianist and Jacobs alumnus Jeremy Denk, who has garnered a reputation as one of the most inspiring collaborative pianists.
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Bell made his first recording at age 18, and he already had an extensive catalog of classical recordings when he joined the Sony Classical roster in 1996, hoping to expand his horizons as a recording artist. The result has been a distinctive and wide-ranging body of work that has rewarded him with a Grammy Award and Mercury Music Prize for his recording of Nicholas Maw's Violin Concerto and Germany's Echo Klassick Award for the Sibelius/Goldmark concerto recording. He also won the Gramophone Award for the Barber and Walton violin concertos.
Last month he was awarded the prestigious Avery Fisher Prize, an honor bestowed on a few select musicians -- including Edgar Meyer, who graduated from the Jacobs School in 1984 and is the only bassist to receive the award, and pianist André Watts, who is the Jack I. and Dora B. Hamlin Endowed Chair in Music at the Jacobs School. The prize, a $75,000 accolade presented for lifetime achievement and his name on a plaque with the other recipients, firmly established Bell's reputation as the most revered U.S. violinist of his generation.
Bell received much attention following his three-year involvement with the 1999 film The Red Violin for which he was an artistic consultant and performed all the solo violin music. The soundtrack composed by John Corigliano received an Academy Award for which the composer proclaimed during his acceptance speech, "Joshua plays like a god."
In addition to his Avery Fisher and Grammy victories, this year he was the only U.S. musician named by the World Economic Forum as one of 250 Young Global Leaders.
Local audiences have taken special pride in their native son. The Indiana Historical Society named Bell an "Indiana Living Legend" in July 2000. Additionally Bell received the Indiana Arts Council Governor's Award in 2003 and a Distinguished Alumni Service Award, IU's highest accolade reserved solely for its alumni, in 1991.
Bell has taught master classes and given a number of standing-room only concerts at IU. He also has returned home to perform at the university's annual Summer Music Festival at the Jacobs School of Music.
At the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, approximately 1,600 students from all 50 states and more than 55 countries benefit from the intensity and focus of a conservatory with 170 full-time faculty members who are among the best performers, researchers and educators in the world, combined with the broad academic offerings of a major university. As one of the world's premier music schools, the Jacobs School maintains a distinguished reputation for the quality of its music program and the professional preparation it affords graduates.
Source : http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/5558.html
Code breakers find music in carvings
May. 03, 2007
The Associated Press
ROSLIN, Scotland -- Like a plot from The Da Vinci Code, a team of code breakers claims to have found music hidden for 500 years in intricate carvings at the church where author Dan Brown set the climax of the best-selling book.
Father-and-son team Thomas and Stuart Mitchell say they deciphered a musical code hewn into stone cubes on the ribs supporting the ceiling of Rosslyn Chapel in the village of Roslin, near Edinburgh.
"Breaking the code was a true eureka moment. It's like we have been given a compact disc from the past," said Stuart Mitchell, 41, a music teacher from Edinburgh. "But unlike the fiction of The Da Vinci Code, this is a tangible link to the past."
The music has been recorded, and will get its premiere in the chapel May 18.
Musical experts reserved judgment, but did not dismiss the Mitchells' theory.
"We have 213 cubes [at Rosslyn] and the possibility that they have something to say is by no means implausible," said Warwick Edwards, an expert on early Scottish music at Glasgow University.
More research is needed, he said.
Gordon Munro, an expert on Scottish church music from 1500 to 1700 at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, said, "I have heard the music and it is not impossible, but it can only be a reconstruction that is open to interpretation."
"There is a series of shapes they are using, but I could not say if they would read the notes on the chapel ceiling from left to right or up and down," Munro said.
The Mitchells' research centered on the ribs of a ceiling in the Lady Chapel. Rows of carved angels play instruments above the columns of cubes.
The elder Mitchell, 75, was a code breaker for the Royal Air Force during the Korean War. He said he spent 25 years working at the puzzle.
"Many of the angels had musical instruments and some were arranged as a choir, but there was one angel we couldn't work out," he said. "Then we realized she was carrying a musical stave, the lined blueprint for musical composition, and therefore we were looking at a coded piece of music."
The chapel
Built by Sir Gilbert Haye and Sir William Sinclair. Steeped in the traditions of the Knights Templar and Freemasonry.
Elaborate decoration and mysterious symbolism have inspired many legends, among them that the building is a replica of Solomon's Temple and that it is the resting place of the Holy Grail, the Ark of the Covenant or even the mummified head of Jesus.
The music
"Rosslyn Motet" audio sample
Music Policy Fills Washington Air
By Roy Mark
There was music in the air this week in Washington. On the policy table, too.
Almost 200 independent labels, musicians and policy mavens gathered at the Future of Music (FOM) Coalition's annual policy day conference to discuss the links between public policy and the dominant companies that control the production, transmission and marketing of music.
On Capitol Hill, lawmakers concerned themselves with protecting the property rights of those major labels, pushing colleges and universities to do more about campus music and video piracy. It was a move saluted by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), which filed another 402 infringement pre-litigation settlement letters to students at 13 universities.
"There's no way to get government out of the music and telecom industries, even if it wanted to," Pittsburgh Congressman Mike Doyle told the FOM conference. "The question for policymakers in Congress and the administration today is, what goals should we be setting and what policies would get us there?"
One of the top policy issues for Doyle and the FOM attendees is the new Internet radio royalty rates recently approved by the Copyright Royalty Board of the Library of Congress. The decision nearly triples the royalty rates for music played over Internet radio stations and would change the rates from a percentage of revenue to a uniform rate that applies to all webcasters.
The new rates are retroactive to 2006. After some initial confusion by webcasters when the first bills come due, the CRB clarified Wednesday the bell will toll on July 15. Webcasters claim the new rates will cripple the nascent platform, which has provided valuable airtime to independent artists who are largely shut out of commercial radio play lists.
"While I strongly support musicians' efforts to be paid for their work, I am concerned that the new rate changes may go too far," Doyle said in his keynote speech. "Shutting down the majority of small or non-commercial webcasters by putting the royalty rates too high would in the long run hurt most musicians."
Doyle noted the rates are paid by webcasters, not the public. "The increases might cause some webcasters to turn off their music stream, which would hurt the ability of new and undiscovered artists to be heard by interested listeners," he said.
The Pennsylvania Democrat said he would closely monitor developments in Congress, including legislation introduced last week by Reps. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.) and Don Manzullo (R-Ill.). The Internet Radio Equality Act would vacate the CRB decision and apply the same royalty rate-setting standard to commercial Internet and satellite radio.
But the potential legislation would do little to solve the almost immediate rate increase faced by webcasters. "If the new rates go into effect, there is no industry," Mark Lam, chairman and CEO of Live365, the world's largest Internet radio network with more than 10,000 stations on its platform, told internetnews.com.
Live365's growth reflects the growing public interest in Internet radio. In January of this year alone, 20 percent of Americans, approximately 49 million, tuned in to online radio, according to Arbitron. Compare that with the 6 percent of Americans who listened to Internet radio in all of 1998.
SoundExchange, which negotiates and collects royalty rates for the music industry, claims there were 430 distinct webcasting services registered and paying royalties in 2004. By 2006, the number had jumped to almost 1,000.
Lam said webcasters are still attempting to negotiate lower rates with SoundExchange. "We are the goose that lays the golden eggs for you guys," Lam said he told SoundExchange.
SoundExchange, though, seems in no mood to go for lower rates. It issued a statement claiming "big webcasters," such as Yahoo and AOL are painting a distorted picture of the issue to maintain low rates and high profit margins.
According to SoundExchange, a review of 2006 webcasting royalties paid to SoundExchange shows that 82 percent of royalties were paid by the 10 largest webcasters, which make up 4 percent of all paying services. In contrast, small webcasters made up fewer than 2 percent of all royalties paid to SoundExchange.
"Not only is Internet radio not going to die, it's going to continue to flourish," John Simson, executive director of SoundExchange, said in a statement. "The statistics show it is a vigorous business dominated by large businesses that can easily pay fair market rates while also having room for small webcasters and niche services."
While the independent music business was debating its future, Congress was dealing with its past and present, sending a letter and survey to the 20 universities identified as having the highest number of illegal downloading infringement notices.
"We want to know exactly what they plan to do to stop illegal downloading on their campuses," House Judiciary Committee ranking member Lamar Smith (R-Texas) said in a statement. "We are asking these universities to report back to us by May 31."
Intellectual Property Subcommittee Chairman Howard Berman (D-Calif.) added, "By answering the survey, universities will be required to examine how they address piracy on their campuses. My hope is that in six months from now these same universities will no longer be on the list."
Colleges and universities receiving letters were Columbia, Pennsylvania, Boston University, UCLA, Purdue, Vanderbilt, Duke, Rochester Institute of Technology, Massachusetts-Boston, Michigan, Ohio University, Nebraska-Lincoln, Tennessee, South Carolina, Massachusetts-Amherst, Michigan State, Howard, North Carolina State, and Wisconsin-Madison.
"Since government has obligations under the Constitution to set and administer copyright law to the benefit of creators and the public, it's involvement in this issue is inevitable," Doyle said.
Source : http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3675636
MTV Music Video Awards Move To Las Vegas' Palms Casino
New York, NY (AHN) - The MTV Video Music Awards this year will be broadcast live from Las Vegas, the cable network announced Wednesday.
The show will air live September 9 from the Palms Casino Resort.
"We're deconstructing every expectation of what an awards show should be to deliver a music experience for our audience, unlike anyone else connecting them beyond television," MTV President Christina Norman said in a statement. "We look forward to a weekend of rock n' roll chaos and producing the most sinful and explosive musical showcase of the year."
Moving away from a stage-based awards show, the network plans to host the event throughout the casino. Some parts will be aired in the Palms' hotel suites, others on the casino's rooftop, according to a press release.
"The Palms is honored to be host of the 2007 Video Music Awards," said Palms Casino Resort owner George Maloof. "The opportunity to showcase The Pearl Concert Theater as the venue for the awards show is extremely exciting."
The show will only air once - at least in its original form. Subsequent airings will be "remixed versions that will be programmed by and for the viewers," the statement said.
Source : http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7007231816
