“Artifact” is a documentary that depicts the hectic battle between alternative-rock band 30 Seconds to Mars and British label EMI. After 9 years of being with Virgin Records/EMI, 30 Seconds to Mars decided to opt out of the contract. In return, the recording giant served them with a $30 million lawsuit for “breaching the contract”. Jared Leto, the band’s front man, picked up a video camera and recorded the whole process under the name of Bartholomew Cubbins. Touring the world and selling over three million album copies was not cutting it; the band was still in a 2.7 million dollar debt. 30 Seconds to Mars sent EMI a termination letter and cited the seven-year statute in it, claiming that they could not be held bound to a contract for more than …show more content…
They had no idea if they were going to continue to be a band in the future. Taking in a guy from outside the music business who, in addition, did not play by the industry rules had partially led them to this situation. The band and its team clearly did not follow Passman’s advice of effectively screening the sharks. The Record label industry was, at the same time, having problems of its own. Record labels had failed to create their own future distribution systems; Illegal downloads, online streaming and other factors led to an overall decrease in record sales. EMI was being acquired by Terra Firma, a U.K. based private equity company, for five billion dollars. Guy Hands, founder and chairman of Terra Firma, really thought that he could turn EMI around, but that wasn’t exactly the case. He didn’t quite understand the music business and started hiring and cutting jobs, all of a sudden. The overarching dilemma of the whole documentary is that the business model of record labels is to screw an artist; they take advantage of uneducated artists. The record label gives $25,000 dollars in advance to the artist to record an
perfect background for PSA's. Maybe, afterall, there was more to this band than sex and drugs.
Archaeologists have been popular characters in American Fiction at least since the 1920’s. In the movie The Fifth Element directed by Adrian Lyne an archaeologist makes a startling discovery, which kicks off the entire plot for the movie. The setting is a popular one for that of archaeologists which is Egypt in the year 1914.
Although it may be perceived that music is a free market based on the love of music, others may argue it is based on profit. In the article “U2’s double trouble,” the band Negativland proclaims that Island Record’s, U2’s record label, only concern in the lawsuit is, “to control the marketplace” (139). Negativland believes Island is trying to control what music is being made and sold. Island is so focused on profit that they are limiting the musical market.
The original drummer wasn’t able to make it to a concert because of the weather. family reasons and the other two members asked their best friend, Travis, to fill in even though he didn’t know how to play any of their songs. Even though it was only an hour before the show When they asked him to fill in, Travis didn’t want to let them down so he said he would learn. every song and perform with them. They didn’t want the audience to hear Travis learning how to.
Swenson, John.” The Story of a Band”. Billboard. 5 Dec. 1998. General Onefile.Web. 16 Apr.2014
The two biggest components are major and independent record labels. Major record labels are the driving force of the industry, “Big Four labels/major record labels represented the majority of the music sold, making up as much as 75% of the music market or more depending on the year.” (About.com) Additionally, “The five major record labels; Sony, Universal, BMG, EMI and Time Warner dominate 85% of the market when it comes to sales of Compact Discs. Leaving only 15% for the hundreds of independent record labels and thousands of artists out there." (Raprehab and Bomhiphop.com) In his essay A Brief Outline of How the International Popular Music Industry Manipulates and Exploits the Audience, Shams Quader discusses this issue."Big Four is responsible for 70% of the worldwide music and 85% of US music sales. ... Seeing that these companies have such a monopolistic hold on the world market..." (Quader) it would be safe to presume that the music monopoly was/ is created as a result of how the three major record labels today are holding more than three forths of the net profit of the industry moreover the question of the monopoly was brought to the table especially when Universal Music Group proposed a merger with EMI and many of its top billboard chart artists, Universal Music Group was also the
We got to the Murray about twenty minutes before the concert started. So we headed in to find our seats and wait for the opening band to come out and perform. At about five after eight, the lights went out and it was time for the concert to start. Two guys came out on stage and started to sing. The two guys called themselves Core Project. I thought that this band was pretty awful. I could not understand one word they said the entire time they were on the stage. They just tried to be like every other band to come out right now. They didn’t offer anything different or unique. I must not have been the only one that thought they were bad because there were many people booing and yelling out “you suck” while they where on stage. After about a twenty minute performance they left the stage and another band came out to perform.
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Again, the band had another chance in the Europe’s tours; but something went wrong. They lost the trains; they lost ways and did not get paid because of two hours late; they had play in the empty room with no audients; they had to sleep on the station because of running out of money. In addition, in the last festival (Monsters of Transylvania), they expected about 5000; but finally there had just 174 people showed up. Again, the band went down from failure to failure. They weren’t paid for any tours. And they have to come back to their normal jobs. It is difficult to put too much the effort, ambition and hope but the result is nothing. I think they would give up if they didn’t have enough “passion and love” as what Lips said before. Hopefully, they met a producer who agreed to support them in making records. They decided to continuous following their dream in their fifty one; they believed that they could make it happen after several decades. That is my favorite part in this movie so far; no matter how hard it was, keep trying harder as what Lips said: “Everything on
The picture I choose for my personal artifact assignment is a picture of my old HALO-3 helmet based of the video game HALO which is a sci-fi & military science fiction first-person shooter video game. The game deals with inter- galactic warfare which also involves fictional characters to travel around in space, explore new discoveries and findings in planets. The reason why I choose this helmet as my artifact is that it relates to our coarse earth and space a lot as it merely almost looks like a future of what could be of a astronauts helmet and through the game and in the course they also show resemblance of how life is in space, different theories and the game also sheds some light on how the future of space travel may be in the years yet
Processual Archaeology, was a movement in the archaeological field that began in the 1960‘s and changed the course of archaeology forever. Anthropologists such as Julian Steward were absolutely influential on many archaeologists and anthropologists during the early 1960s with his theories of cultural ecology which established a scientific way of understanding cultures as human adaption to the surrounding environment (Steward, 1955: 36-38). It was approaches such as Stewards that led eventually led to a rejection of culture-historical approaches to the archaeological record and propelled the ideas of cultural evolution and its reaction with the environment. This approach to cultural systems was essentially a rejection of the culture-historical approach of determinism by suggesting that the environment influences culture but is not a deterministic feature and that both culture and the environment were two separate systems that are dependent on each other for change (Steward, 1955: 36).
Earlier this year (DATE???) alt-rockers Cake topped the Billboard 200 chart with their first album in seven (???) years, Showroom of Compassion. The album sold 44,000 copies the first week of its release, a record low for the number one hit. At the same time, Britney Spears' single “Hold It Against Me” scaled the digital song chart with 411,000 copies sold. The two charts illustrate the change in the way we listen to music. The Internet—as it did for almost everything—has radically affected the way people get music.
This paper examines a National Geographic news article pertaining to the history of First Americans called, “On way to New World, First Americans Made a-10,000 Year Pit Stop”. The First Americans may have stayed on the Bering Land Bridge after separating from Siberia, which would explain a few things about the genetic variances between the two groups. Why do researches believe first Americans lived on the Bering Land Bridge? Are the reasons to believe in this justified? This paper attempts to answer such questions.
Artifact 1: Artifact 1, under Tab C: Curricular Content Knowledge, the Instructional Plan Module, completed during ELSE 6193 Laboratory Experience was completed. For the Instructional Module, candidates were to create and teach two lesson plans for both elementary and secondary instructional settings. The lessons plans were to address one or more of the goals and objectives that were written in each student’s Individual Education Program (IEP). The candidates were to describe in detail the adaptations and modification that were needed for the target students to be able to fully participate in each lesson. Additionally, each lesson plan was to incorporate some type of technology.
According to The Society for American Archaeology, the definition of Archaeology is, “to obtain a chronology of the past, a sequence of events and dates that, in a sense, is a backward extension of history.” The study of ancient civilizations and archaeology is rather ambiguous due to the primitive nature of the time period. With little imagery and even less textual evidence, professionals in the field must work diligently when studying their subjects. Naturally, archaeologists cannot see or communicate with those whom they are studying, so they must be extraordinarily meticulous when analyzing past cultures. This relates to all aspects of the ancient world including; foods, raw materials, artifacts, agriculture, art work and pottery. All of these elements can collectively provide new and innovative information to curious archaeologists who may wish to gain a better understanding of those who came before us. This information is equally beneficial for both historians and archaeologists who plan to compare the histories of societies from all around the world. In the world of archaeology, archaeologists strive to better explain human behavior by analyzing our past. Therefore, the study of archaeology is a key element in understanding a time before our own.