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Entertainment Editors
VENICE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 19, 2004
Imagine having to win over the girl of your dreams ... every friggin' day. Th...
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In fact, [Phil Zachary] says the consolidation of the music industry has effectively led to less pressure on DJs from promoters than he saw as a program director 20 years ago. "There's probably two or three slots available to get on a playlist every week, and 20 years ago there might have been 60 records vying for that position. Now there are maybe a dozen or so," he says. "The labels still have their priorities and their timetables, but I don't see the kind of Wild West free-for-all that there was in the '80s or even the '90s." Zachary says that while working at a station in New Orleans in the '80s, he heard a rumor that a competitor had a swimming pool built in his backyard courtesy of a record company, and that another competitor allowed a major label to pick up the tab for his daugh...
... require stations to let listeners know if a song is being played in exchange for payment. A single ..."We owe it to the American public, music lovers and creative artists--the ones who are hurt the mo...This message promoting a single by the band 311, dated May 2004, is particularly direct:. "You hav...
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It was somewhere in the 2004 Adam Sandler knee-slapping blockbuster 50 First Dates that it happened: 311 became the greatest band the world has ever known. In a pivotal scene of love lost, the wistful chords of the Cure's "Love Song" play in the background. Only it's not the Cure.
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WHO: 311.
WHAT: Rock, fusing reggae and hip-hop.
... many albums they sell or how many of their songs soar to the top of the charts, the members of 311 ...Last year's remake of the Cure's "Love Song" reached No. 1 on the modern rock singles cha...
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... Cure like, "Close to Me," "Friday, I'm in love", "Just like Heaven" and the track most recently ccovered by 311 - "Love Song" - as Fuse presents what is quickly b...
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... Disaster," 311 marched through 19 other songs before stepping off stage and coming back for a th... Margin," however, 311 covered The Cure's "Love Song" with Matisyahu, one of the openers of the sh...
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... I was leery since Chango plays solely cover songs. Usually when this is the case, my immediate react... even a cover of 31 Ts cover of The Cure's "Love Song." This was the low point, seeing asinate bothh 311 and The Cure. Afi the same, the band was tight. Dr...
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Weekly charts for the nation's best-selling recorded music as they appear in next week's issue of Billboard magazine.
Billboard Hot 100: Top 20
...143. (Platinum). 7. "Speakerboxxx/The Love Below," OutKast. Arista. (Platinum). 8. "Kamikaze,...A&M. (Platinum). 11. "Songs About Jane," Maroon5. Octone. 12. "The King of Cru...Interscope. 8. "Love Song," 311. Maverick. 9. "I Believe in a Thing Called Love," ...
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The calendar may say 2004, but turn on the radio and you'll feel as if you are totally in the Eighties.
Your ears do not deceive you: That is definitely "Take My Breath Away" airing on contemporary radio, though a different version than the one by Berlin (used so dramatically in the film "Top Gun"). And yes, 23 years after the Go-Go's first sang "Our Lips Are Sealed," it's back again - but this time covered by Hilary Duff, the teen star who is younger than the song itself.
..." (as done by the Ataris) to The Cure's "Love Song" (by 311) to No Doubt's remake of "It's My Li...
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...Ditto for musicians. Great cover songs-like winning screen adaptations-transform underrat..., and Ziggy Marley, you can now admit you love. Jamaican musicians, who've long struck gold by si... Sugar," with its Mikey Dread interlude, or 311's version of the Cure's "Love Song"-doesn't transc...