Imagine seeing, oh, around 600 performaces at the Petrovaradin Fortress in Serbia over, say, three days? That’s the Exit Festival! And it’s happening from July 6th through the 9th.
Some of the confirmed artists playing on the 18 stages (yes, 18) are Franz Ferdinand, The Cardigans, Pet Shop Boys, Ritchie Hawtin, Nick Warren, Suzanne Vega and Dave Clarke. More will be announced soon.
Check their site for ticket information www.exitfest.org.
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If you’re one of the lucky ones whose got an XBox 360, prepare for a year of free shit. Epic has teamed with Microsoft of offer the owners free music and high-def music videos from their list of emerging artists to be downloaded via the XBox Live system. Each month one artist will be chosen, the first one is Natasha Bedingfield.
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As advertised.
Sony announced that their PS3 will launch in November of 2006, just in time for the holiday rush…or 1 year too late?
The PS3 will play Blue-Ray discs, PS1 & 2 games, and will attempt to take over the world once 1 million of them are plugged into the Internet.
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While the manufacturing of the high-definition DVDs apparently have been pushed out, Netflix has readied itself for the new format.
If you will be purchasing a HD DVD player, and have a Netflix account, you can log into your account and select and option that will allow you to rent the HD DVDs when they have them.
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While Warner Brothers teased us with a March 28th date for high-definition releases on DVD, they’ve since retracted stating it’s too soon.
They have not given us a new date.
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The rumor mill has Sony announcing the release date of their PlayStation 3 on the 15…so come back Wednesday, we’ll post what we learn then.
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What I would give to be at this show. To see Massive Attack then Tool would send me in a spiritual upward spiril that I may not be able to return from. That’s what’s happening at Coachella this year (on April 30th).
Other bands of note at the two day festival (April 29-30) are Daft Punk, Mogwai, Depeche Mode, Franz Ferdinand, Sigur Ros, Paul Oakenfold, and Coldcut.
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April 25th the next DJ Tiesto album, In Search of Sunrise 5 - Los Angeles, will be released.
Below is his tour schedule to promote the album:
March 18th - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
March 20th - Tokyo, Japan
March 31st - Manila, Philippines
April 1st - Seoul, South Korea
April 4th - Hong Kong, China
April 6th - Shenzen, China
April 7th - Guangzhou, China
April 8th - Hangzhou, China
April 9th - Bejing, China
April 13th - Bangkok, Thailand
April 14th - Singapore, Malaysia
April 15th - Taipei, Taiwan
April 20th - Bali, Indonesia
April 21st - Jogjakarta, Indonesia
April 22nd - Jakarta, Indonesia
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ps: I’m listening to In Search of Sunrise 4 right now.
The ultra-progressive and influential band Tool has released the title of their next album - 10,000 Days. Anticipated domestic release date is somewhere around May 2 (release date in the UK is confirmed to be May 1). This spring we should also be seeing a live DVD from Tool.
Check out the Tool Band Forum over at 10000-Days.com.
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One of the developments I never really understood was the huge success of movie sales for the Sony Playstation Portable (PSP). When the gaming platform was launched some time ago, game sales were disappointingly low while movies sales were surprisingly high. So high, in fact, that within weeks every studio seemed to jump the bandwagon and began releasing their movies on UMD discs. Well, the dream is over.
Hardly surprising, UMD sales have taken a sharp turn for the worse and the phenomenal sales figures of the initial months are a thing to be fondly remembered. UMD sales have become so low at this point that many studios currently pull out of the market altogether. Even Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, for example, who is directly tied to the PSP, of course, has decided to pull back on UMD releases for the time being. Don’t expect any more catalog titles to surface on UMD, and don’t expect every new movie to be released for your PSP either. Pickings will become very slim simply because people have stopped purchasing movies for the platform and seem to have – finally – embraced the PSP for what it really is, a gaming platform.
Nonetheless, Sony is not sitting idly and now has plans to talk to third party vendors to push for a series of converters that will allow you to play PSP movies on a TV screen. I am not sure who came up with this harebrained idea but I’m sure it will go down in the annals of the video industry as a joke. In case the folks haven’t realized it yet, but we have a format to play back movies on TVs, and we call it DVD. It works pretty well for most of us and has an adoption rate that is way beyond anything the PSP could ever achieve. The image quality is much better, the extras are much better and richer and many times the DVDs are even cheaper. Why anyone would think people could possibly see the PSP as a real alternative to set top players is beyond me, but that’s Hollywood for you.
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