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Fans purchase and download more than 5 billion songs from iTunes.
Music fans have now purchased and downloaded more than five billion songs from the iTunes Store. The number one music retailer in the U.S., iTunes features the largest music catalog with over eight million songs. And iTunes customers are now renting and purchasing more than 50,000 movies every day, making it the world’s most popular online movie store, as well.
“If you can make a dollar in a bear market, you can make a billion in a bull market!”
Detroit, Michigan was once known as the motor capital and as the city that gave birth to Motown Records. Now with the recession on its way, GM has lost $15.5 billion in the lsecond quarter and Michigan holds the highest unemployment rate in the United States (8.5%). So how does a company stabilize with a declining economy? By having quality products and reducing their overhead. FrontStreet Records consistently records, manufactures and distributes a monthly compilation series in order to provide fans with quality music and to gain market share. The next step in the process of branding FrontStreet Records is the new compilation LP Nobody Fronted Us s2. Nobody Fronted Us Series 2 picks right up where series 1 left off! With (TBS) The Boi Skout Productions team leader Thirty overseeing the production on the entire album, you will not be able to sit still when you play this record.
The standard gets set right away with the first song entitled “Franklins” by Oseeola. Another energetic Oseeola single “She Can Get it” is next and is followed by the Jab smash “Bang ‘em in the Head” feat. Oseeola and Braulio. Speaking of Braulio, (TBS) The Boi Skout productions member provides choruses on the majority of the songs on the compilation. Lending his creative writing abilities and infectious voice to songs such as “Drama Strippin” and “Hideaway” this compilation contains a perfect balance of Street Anthems and ready for radio singles. And, once again Oseeola and Gayle come together to compose another feel good song for the ladies on “Bad Guy.”
So how does this Michigan label plan to effectively market and distribute there music? By having quality product and keeping the cost of creating that quality product to a minimum. That is why FrontStreet Records does everything in house. From the production to the mixing, mastering, recording and pressing, FrontStreet Records is capable of doing it all. And by allowing only the cream of the crop artists and producers to work for the label, quality is not sacrificed, only amplified! With Michigan and the music business in need of new leaders, FrontStreet Records is stepping up to the plate and positioning themselves as one of the key components in the modern business world. This 11 song compilation LP is another step towards branding FrontStreet Records and providing consumers with what they not only need, but deserve!
Is anybody buying Records Anymore? Since ’07 record sales have decreased 16.5% according to Neilsen soundscan and are showing no signs of improving. Since the emergence of digital distributors (Itunes, Amazon, etc…) most artists find it difficult to go gold, let alone platinum. It is almost impossible to break a new artist in this day and age, which is why it is imperative to use more aggressive marketing strategies when branding a Record Company in the 21st Century.
That brings us to the new FrontStreet/IMG release entitled “Nobody Fronted Us.” This 10 song composition is a Compilation, not a mixtape! There are no industry beats and no samples. Just all-original material from independent powerhouse FrontStreet Records! This first installment of the three part series features Production by FSR’s in house Production Team leader Thirty (who has produced tracks for Stat Quo, Rick Ross, MC Breed, Dayton Family, etc…) and has vocals from Oseeola, Jab, Braulio and Gayle. One things for sure; “Nobody Fronted Us” is not to be taken lightly!
The most featured artist on the compilation is Detroit’s own Oseeola. You can hear Oseeola deliver superb lyrics with a very distinct and unique style not often heard in Hip Hop these days. Tracks like “Ditto,” “Like a Rocket” and “20/20 Vision” will grab any underground fans attention, while songs like “Cupcake” and “Bad Chick” are perfect for radio and clubs. The art of story telling is also resurrected on the Jab single “Gun Control” in which Jab takes you on a journey through the chain of events that lead up to a robbery gone entirely wrong (check out the surprise ending).
But what would good beats and rhymes be without hooks? That is where Braulio comes in. The Angola born phenomenon operates as a spark plug throughout the whole compilation and really brings life to songs like “20/20,”“They Gotta Love It,” and “Bad Chick” with catchy choruses and a sound that is truly infectious. Full of life and energy, Braulio is equally as comfortable singing a hook as he is performing a verse (often in Portuguese).
Comparisons aside, “Nobody Fronted Us -s1” really lives up to the title. Nobody gave FrontStreet Records anything; they had to get it themselves. They produced, recorded, mixed and mastered the entire project from start to finish and now you have the opportunity to be a part of this experience. The CD is available on www.FrontStreetRecords.com estore.
With FrontStreet/IMG’s non traditional marketing strategies and ability to not only change with the times but change the times they are on pace to becoming a Fortune 500 company in no time. And with their undeniable & unmistakable sound this first compilation will leave you impatiently waiting for the next one. Just remember, it’s a Compilation, not a Mixtape!
While on vacation in Mexico, Chloe (Barrymore), a pampered Beverly Hills chihuahua, finds herself lost and in need of assistance in order to get back home. Coming to Chloe's aid is a a macho Chihuahua named Papi (Lopez), a spirit guide (Hayek) who endeavors to help Chloe discover her true heritage.
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I'm wondering if Disney employees think BHC looks kind of kinda juvenile after the refreshing Enchanted became a worldwide hit and was nominated for 3 Oscars. Chihuahua! Or why the trailer, which reveals nothing about the movie, also doesn't indicate that Drew Barrymore's voice is the star of the show. Chihuahua! Or if Raja Gosnell will ever make a non-syrupy movie. Chihuahua!
Two strangers (LaBeouf and Monaghan) become the pawns of a mysterious woman they have never met, but who seems to know their every move. Realizing they are being used to further her plot for a political assassination, they must work together to outwit the woman before she has them killed.
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How awesome is this teaser trailer?When Disturbia surpassed everyone's expectations last spring, DreamWorks execs quickly reunited Shia LaBeouf and director D.J. Caruso for a second project, and it'll be interesting to see if all the kids who swooned for Shia in a retooled Hitchcock thriller will be as engaged by our hero (who lost his real life, real-world innocence this year) trying to prevent political terrorism. By the way, there are a lot of screenwriters present here -- perhaps an indication of how quickly this was rushed into production, which is confirmed by the release-date slippage from August (summer vacation) to late in the back-to-school season.
Nick (Cera) asks Nora (Dennings) to pretend to be his girlfriend for 5 minutes so he won't have to feel as awkward around his ex-g.f., who just walked into the club where Nick's band is playing ... with a new guy. But when the fake couple decides to kiss, sparkage occurs, leading to a first date which seems to span all of New York City.
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Wow, a mainstream movie set in NYC's queercore punk scene? Those Weitz brothers (producers Chris and Paul) sure know how to work the studio system, even if their last teen-skewing comedy, Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas, didn't get much attention. Bickford couldn't boast Michael Cera in a starring role, however, or a long-awaited second film from a promising indie director (Peter Sollett turned heads back in '02 with Raising Victor Vargas). Assuming Sollett knows how to handle an awkward boy, a hot girl, and lots of swearing and cool music, we can see the iPod generation embracing this as their own sort of High Fildelity. (Look at that, not one mention of Juno.)
A doctor (Gere) who is traveling to see his estranged son sparks with an unhappily married woman (Lane) at a North Carolina inn
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After The Notebook became one the best recent examples of a sleeper hit, producers fought for the rights to the unoptioned novels of Nicholas Sparks. Superproducers Denise Di Novi and Bruce Berman secured Rodanthe and assembled an appropriate cast, as well as an interesting director pick in George C. Wolfe (Lackawanna Blues). Though we love Richard Gere, Diane Lane, and their Hollywood misses and hits, the question remains whether they can help reignite the romantic drama by pulling in a big audience on opening weekend or, a la The Notebook turning favorable word-of-mouth into staying power at the box office. If you listen closely to the trailer, after the part where Diane says, "We saved each other," Richard whispers, "from career oblivion." Meanwhile, we wish Diane's hair was just a little longer here.
A pair of lawmen (Harris and Mortensen) out to save a Western town from a rancher's tyrannical reign find their bond, and their mission, tested by the arrival of a double-dealing widow (Zellweger).
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Ed Harris returns to the director's seat some 8 years after his award-winning Pollock, but I'm more excited for his reunion with his A History of Violence co-star, Viggo Mortensen. Both men are fit for the material, an adaptation of the novel by Robert B. Parker (whose Jesse Stone TV movies have been a boon for Tom Selleck's career), but I'm not so sure about the Zellweger's ability to be anything but comical as she makes her return Cold Mountain-ish territory. Does this photo earn your confidence?
Samuel L. Jackson, Patrick Wilson, Kerry Washington
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Screen Gems
Plot:
An LAPD officer (Jackson) will stop at nothing to force out the interracial couple (Washington and Wilson) who just moved in next door ...
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It'll be fun to see Patrick Wilson in thriller mode (one of two genre flicks this season for the former phantom and soon-to-be owl -- look for him in Passengers next month), and I'm pro Kerry Washington (Ray) getting more notice, but if Neil LaBute isn't careful, he's going to find himself, like, rebooting a franchise or remaking his own early film for his next project. And if he tries to pass this off as anything but a cheap-and-easy mainstream release, we're going to laugh at him just like we laughed at Roland Joffe when he tried to promote Captivity as a film with a message.
A disk containing the memoirs of a CIA agent ends up in the hands of two unscrupulous gym employees who attempt to benefit from the discovery.
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The Coens want to make you laugh again, less than a year after bringing Anton Chigurh to life and saddling away with 4 Oscars for their efforts. While I don't think BAR will reach the same level of pop culture-saturation as NCfOM, I guess there's something to be said for a movie in which most everyone in the theater will understand the ending? Sigh ... The word from Venice is: The only problem with the film is that, at 96 minutes, it leaves you wanting so much more.
A firefighter (Cameron) and his wife (Bethea) begin a 40-day experiment known as "The Love Dare" in an attempt to save their marriage.
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While we all snicker at the notion that Kirk Cameron won't kiss anyone but his wife, Fireproof has quietly because one of the must-see movies of a busy fall weekend. Don't be surprised if Cameron's faith leads to a Top 10 debut come Monday morning.
An anti-American filmmaker who's out to abolish the July Fourth holiday is visited by three ghosts who try to change his perception of the country.
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Former liberal David Zucker believes that it's "almost illegal" to make a conservative film in Hollywood today, so he's used his decades of influence to skewer the Michael Moore set as the presidential and Oscar races shift into fifth gear. The problem here: Looks like Zucker has had to dumb down his political satire in order to entice the movie-going masses, because Carol looks tepid in comparison to his YouTube salvos that even stupefied the GOP two years ago (remember this?). Plus, those Disaster Movie wanks pretty much ruined the spoof genre for a few years. Do you want to know more about Zucker and his "Friends of Abe?" Then go here.
Atheist Bill Maher looks to understand the beliefs behind different world religions.
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Bill Maher has embraced controversy all of his career, and I'm primed to see what he and Borat director Larry Charles have created with their guerilla-filmmaking approach to documenting the beliefs and tenets of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, et al. I believe (I bee-LEAVE!) Maher and co. have already gone viral with their intent to expose the truths, untruths, and misconceptions to be found in Vatican City, Jerusalem, Salt Lake City, and elsewhere around the world. However, it remains to be seen if Maher can parlay all the attention into box-office dollars.
