O Compositor Cliff Martinez E O Diretor Nicolas Winding Refn Se Reunem Para o Filme "Neon Demon"

Composer Cliff Martinez and Director Nicolas Winding Refn reunite for The Neon Demon

Three times the charm for veteran film composer Cliff Martinez and director Nicolas Winding Refn. Ever since their initial collaboration on 2011’s sexy indie thriller Drive, the two artists have gone together like Gosling and a hammer.

Now, they’re back for Refn’s latest feature, The Neon Demon, starring the ever-talented Elle Fanning as a young, aspiring model surrounded by a bunch of monstrous, beauty-hungry women. Christina Hendricks and Keanu Reeves co-star.

The film just premiered at Cannes Film Festival and to celebrate Milan Records has unearthed the gloomy, pulsating title track from Martinez’s forthcoming soundtrack. As expected, it’s fit for the dance floor and warrants lots of glitter.

Cliff Martinez, the composer who left his mark on Nicolas Windin Refn's breakthrough film Drive (and more recently TV's The Knick), is working together with the acclaimed director again on the upcoming film THE NEON DEMON. Their third collaboration together (the other being 2013's Only God Forgives), the soundtrack will be released via Milan Records both digitally and on CD June 24, 2016, along with a double vinyl release coming July 1st. In addition to the score, the album release also features the original track “Waving Goodbye” performed by Sia. Today Consequence of Sound premieres the first piece of music from the film -- Cliff's unforgettable, dark-disco leaning theme "Neon Demon". Listen here on Soundcloud. 

Amazon Studios and Broad Green Pictures will be releasing THE NEON DEMON in theaters June 24th before making it available exclusively to Amazon Prime members. The film premiers at Cannes this weekend.

Perhaps inspired by his time in the punk scene, Cliff Martinez’s approach to scoring is nontraditional. His scores tend towards being stark and sparse, utilizing a modern tonal palette to paint the backdrop for films that are often dark, psychological stories like PUMP UP THE VOLUME (1990), THE LIMEY (2009) WONDERLAND (2003), WICKER PARK (2004), and DRIVE (2011). Martinez has been nominated for a Grammy Award (Steven Soderbergh’s TRAFFIC), a Cesar Award (Xavier Giannoli’s A L’origine), and a Broadcast Film Critics Award (DRIVE).

ABOUT NEON DEMON:

THE NEON DEMON is a story about an aspiring model, Jesse (played by Elle Fanning) who moved to Los Angeles to chase her dreams. Her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women who will take any means necessary to get what she does. The film also stars Keanu Reeves, Christina Hendricks and Jena Malone. This is the third Nicolas Winding Refn film Martinez has a part of, first with DRIVE and secondly with ONLY GOD FORGIVES marking it as another trifecta of perfection for the duo.

Mac Quayle O Compositor Do Seriado Mr. Robot

Composer Mac Quayle - Mr Robot

Composer Mac Quayle about his electronic score for the hit show, Mr. Robot which starts its second season on July 13, 2016.

The second season of MR. ROBOT premieres on USA Network Wednesday, July 13 at 10/9 c. Lakeshore Records will release MR. ROBOT – Original Television Series Soundtrack Volume 1 and MR. ROBOT – Original Television Series Soundtrack Volume 2 digitally on June 3 and on CD June 24, 2016.

$100 Milhões Por Um Acordo Com Um Superstar! Eles São Um Bom Investimento?

$100 Million Record Deals For Music's Superstars: Are They A Good Investment?

First of all thanks to Hugh McIntyre for this article.

News broke yesterday that Adele has reportedly signed a $130 million dollar recording contract with Sony . That figure is high enough to give her the largest deal ever offered to a female artist in the music industry, and if it’s correct, this is certainly a good time for the British singer-songwriter to celebrate.

Other record labels have made similarly-sized deals in the past, but they haven’t always ended up being good investments. In fact, it seems like when there is that much money on the table, the company offering the cash is taking a serious risk. There have only ever been a few deals signed that come even close to the $100 million mark, and while some have paid off, others ended up as financial blunders. 

Adele’s reported $130 million might be the largest for a woman in history, but it isn’t the biggest payday for a musician. The largest and most expensive deal of all time belongs to Michael Jackson, though it was only signed after his passing. It has only been a few years since that landmark deal (reportedly worth somewhere between $200 and $250 million) went into effect, but already there’s a good chance that Sony will make its enormous investment back. Jackson’s popularity isn’t likely to fade for generations, and in the years since his death, his estate, which signed the contract with the label, has made over $1 billion. He’s only released one proper album posthumously, but there are many more to come.

Contracts worth at least $100 million have also been signed with the likes of Bruce Springsteen and U2, and while the records that came out of those deals certainly weren’t the biggest or most commercially-successful of their careers, the titles were still big sellers, and money was made.

Other times, investing the big bucks hasn’t paid off, and there are a handful of stories that show just how wrong these situations can go after the paperwork is done. The best-known and most-cited example is that of Mariah Carey’s ill-fated Virgin Records debacle in the early 2000s. The label spent upwards of $100 million on securing her, and it was almost immediately a disaster. While the deal was for five albums, she only ended up dropping one: Glitter, which is still known as the worst of her illustrious career. After the failure of that album and a personal breakdown, the company had to spend tens of millions to buy her out of the contract it had just spent so much money on.

Both Whitney Houston and Lil Wayne have also signed deals reportedly close to $100 million that shouldn’t be considered massive flops on the same page as Mariah’s, but certainly didn’t return dividends like the labels were hoping. Houston only managed two proper albums with Arista before her death a few years ago, and neither one of those made the impact that her previous releases did. 

Things were going especially well for Lil Wayne close to a decade ago, so he re-signed with Cash Money Records, the company he had helped him become one of the most famous faces in hip-hop. In the years since, he has continued to chart and sell, but none of his albums have performed as well as the Tha Carter III, which helped him secure such a profitable deal in the first place. Now he’s in a legal dispute with the company, and there’s no telling how long that will last or how much it will cost.

If Adele’s $130 million deal is done, the superstar likely won’t start releasing albums that count towards it for a few years, as she is still busy promoting her latest, 25, which made history in its debut week and is still selling extremely well six months later. Whether that massive investment ends up being a great or terrible decision on Sony’s part won’t be known for years, or perhaps even decades, but hopefully this story ends well, and not as a cautionary tale on how nothing is certain in the music industry.

Paul McCartney Anuncia Um Documentário De 6 Episódios Em Realidade Virtual

Paul McCartney announces virtual reality documentary series

Paul McCartney has today (May 25) announced a six-part documentary series in virtual reality, filmed in his home studios where he'll be discussing some of his most iconic songs to-date.

The PURE McCartney episodes will chronicle 'Dance Tonight', 'Coming Up', 'My Valentine', 'Mull of Kintyre' and 'Early Days', released episodically beginning today and continuing through to the PURE McCartney album release on June 10.

Director for PURE McCartney VR, Tony Kaye comments: "It is an honour to be part of such a tremendously talented team of artists, tasked with documenting the thinking of this great man, in order to bring his fans a new means of expericing some of his greatest songs.

"His musical genius is now on display for the world in an entirely new light."

Credit: MPL Communications Ltd.

Cliff Plumer, president of Jaunt Studios added: "We used to see artists connect with their fans through album covers and liner notes but that personal expression, and deeper understanding of the music, has diminished over the years.

"With virtual reality, Paul McCartney is taking the most innovative step yet; he's connecting directly with his fans, to share his innermost thoughts and experiences, in an entirely new, personal and immersive way."

Building the series, the team behind it sought out the creative expertise of some incredible minds including award-winning Director, Tony Kaye; Producer and Soundscape Architect Geoff Emerick; and Executive Producers Cliff Plumer, Lucas Wilson and Doug Allenstein.

Credit: MPL Communications Ltd.

High quality cinematic VR combines with digitally remastered and spatially oriented ambisonic audio mixed in Dolby Atmos, to deliver the unique series.

The project also marks the first time an original Paul McCartney track has been remixed in Dolby Atmos.

As Rádios Pirata Estão Voltando!

Pirate Radio Stations On The Rise Again

Once upon a time pirate radio stations were big business and a big influence, with Radio Caroline, Radio Luxembourg and XERF all helping birth the modern radio and music industries. Most pirate stations have been long closed, and it was thought that they’d be gone for good thanks to the Internet. Surprisingly, pirate radio is actually on the rise again, according to a report by the Associated Press.

It seems that you can actually put a station on the air that covers a couple of miles for a mere $750, but why would anyone even think about it? The fact is that many want to broadcast to underserved immigrant communities to provide them with a slice of home. Others who formerly had their own Internet station but were forced to abandon it because of the recent huge increase in license fees have turned to a more traditional terrestrial approach. Still others feel that the homogenized sound of the radio thanks to the station group ownership has let down the listener.

The FCC issued about a hundred warnings to pirate stations last year, mostly in Boston and Miami where clusters of them seem to operate. According to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, fining the operators and seizing their equipment doesn’t stop many of them because often they won’t pay the fines and will just buy new equipment if it’s confiscated. The problem is that the FCC is short-handed and isn’t able to following up as timely as they’d like. As a result, agents have instead gone to landlords and local police to enlist them to be on the lookout for pirates.

Why is pirate radio a problem? With officially licensed radio struggling so badly, any advertising siphoned off by pirates can really hurt financially. Plus there’s the issues of interference with existing station signals and even the Emergency Alert System.

So it looks like something very old is new again. Terrestrial pirate radio may not be hip, but it’s making a comeback.

Facebook Novo Slideshow Para Vídeo De Música

Facebook’s New Slideshow Feature Just For Music Videos

First of all thanks to my friend
BOBBY OWSINSKI 

for this article.

It’s obvious that Facebook has been gunning for YouTube for some time now, and the service now claims that it now has more video viewers (although that’s debatable). That’s not enough though, as Facebook will soon introduce a feature called Slideshow that will allow users to create their own soundtracks from a list of licensed popular songs.

Although only Warner Music has signed on currently, all the major labels look to Facebook as a higher paying alternative to YouTube. Having another competitor in the music video streaming space could also force YouTube to reconsider it’s 55/45 payout schedule which has been the bane of record labels for some time. With the rest of the streaming industry paying 70% or more of collected revenue out on royalties, the major labels view YouTube as the thing that’s holding back users from subscribing to the paid tier of streaming networks, since it’s difficult to compete with free.

The labels would still be OK with YouTube if it paid a higher royalty, but since that doesn’t look to happen soon, Facebook’s Slideshow could be their dream scenario.

Facebook, Instagram and Messenger users currently spend 50 minutes a day using the services, CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed on the company’s last earnings call. It also reported an surprising 57 percent increase in ad revenue to $5.2 billion, and the music industry would certainly like to get a larger piece. That said, the average person spends about 1 hour and 12 minutes viewing online videos, and much of that is still on YouTube. Facebook would like to be part of that daily experience, which is why it views Slideshow as important.

Slideshow better be easy to use and even easier to search, as that’s the secret sauce of YouTube. It’s the second largest search engine in the world (and owned by the largest, which is Google), and that basic ability shouldn’t be underestimated.

Este Mac APP Faz Fones De Ouvido Baratos Soarem Melhor!

This Mac app makes cheap headphones sound way better

There's an app for Macs called Boom 2 that helps unleash the true potential of any headphones, including those cheap earbuds that came with your smartphone purchase.

The app helps boost certain levels of sound, like bass, mids, and treble to give your music a clearer, richer sound.

There's also a special option that makes you feel like you're on stage with your favorite band or artist, and it's amazing. It'll sound like your headphones just woke up and spread their wings.

Without the app, my music sounds flat, constrained, and muffled.

Yes, Boom 2 costs $15, which does seem expensive for an app. At the same time, we write about and recommend products worth hundreds, even thousands of dollars, so this app is a comparative drop in the bucket. Boom 2 is also a one-time purchase that you can keep forever and transfer to new Macs.

Here's how it works.

Find the Boom 2 app in the Mac App Store and buy it.

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Once installed, you'll see the Boom symbol on the menu bar at the top of your Mac's screen. Click it and click the the button with the three dots. Start playing music so you can hear the difference when you change the settings in Boom 2.

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In the Boom 2 menu, turn off the Boom Volume at the top. All it does is boost your Mac's overall volume, which you most likely don't need.

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Turn on the Equalizer option, then select "Rock" from the presets on the right. This will give your music a little boost in bass and treble to make it sound a little livelier.

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Then, click the Ambience option on the bottom left, and click/drag the orange circle to where the orange arrow is pointing. Your music should sound much better than it did before you installed Boom 2.

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You can try turning the settings off again to hear what your music used to sound like, but chances are you'll never go back. 

You can always try different equalizer presets, like Hip Hop or Jazz. But the key here is the Ambience option, which unlocks the true potential of almost any headphone. You can also adjust the level of Ambience, but I've generally found that a conservative setting serves me best.

Note that not all headphones, especially the really cheap ones, will be able to handle these extra settings.