Ryan Adams’ new album, Easy Tiger, is due in stores next week but judging by some of his old habits his steady flow of new music could have easily never happened… Check out this article from The Star Online (which hilariously focuses on anything but his new album save for the last line in the article!):
Ryan Adams has admitted that he was a drug addict, and that he also consumed alcohol in huge amounts.However, he claims that he is now clean after going a cold turkey. He has also been attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.
“I snorted heroin a lot - with coke. I did speedballs every day for years. And took pills. And then drank. And I don’t mean a little bit. I always outdid everybody. It’s a miracle I did not die,”
Adams said.
“I was running the risk of becoming one of those people who talks to himself all the time. I was about to walk over this line that there was no coming back from, and I could feel it. I was seeing ghosts and hearing stuff. Having horrible nightmares,” he added.
Adams‘ new album Easy Tiger will be released next week.
Nice of them to mention the album! Easy Tiger is out June 26th but the entire album is streaming at MuchMusic.com. Check it out, its great! Nice job Ryan, just try and stay away from the speedballs…
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WatchMojo NewsletterIs this going to be a one-day silence or is this a gloomy precursor of what’s to come for Internet radio franchises?
If you depend on the sounds of Internet radio to get you through your workday, don’t be surprised if your headphones pipe out little more than dead air next Tuesday.
In protest of the elevated royalty fees Webcasters are poised to begin owing to the record industry next month, Internet radio operators are planning to stage a “day of silence.”
So far, Live365 and AccuRadio.com have agreed to cease their music programming on June 26, save for brief audio public service announcements sprinkled throughout the day, according to a Wednesday report by Kurt Hanson of the Radio and Internet Newsletter,. So has the online presence of KCRW, the Southern California-based public radio station. Other public radio broadcasters and larger operators, such as Yahoo, RealNetworks’ Rhapsody service and Pandora, may also sign on, Hanson said.
A number of small commercial Webcasters are also on board with the idea, and all told, thousands are expected to participate. Smaller Webcasters staged a similar protest five years ago in response to a similar rules change by the U.S. copyright officials.
At issue are fee hikes that the Internet radio community says could bankrupt its services, particularly those run by smaller operators. SoundExchange, the non-profit collection entity that lobbied for the changes, has repeatedly argued the changes are fair and necessary to ensure artists are compensated adequately.
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NEW YORK, June 21 /PRNewswire/ — A career-spanning, three-CD retrospective of Bob Dylan’s music - DYLAN - will be released worldwide on October 1 by Columbia Records. This definitive Bob Dylan collection chronicles the artist’s four decades of groundbreaking studio recordings, as well as his unparalleled influence on popular music and culture
According to Sony BMG Commercial Music Group President John Ingrassia, “Each new generation eventually discovers what millions of people the world over have known for decades: That Bob Dylan is a singular artist whose songs and recordings represent the very best that music has to offer. This DYLAN set will provide a comprehensive introduction to an important body of work that continues to impact our culture and attract multitudes of new fans each year.”
Song selection for this comprehensive set is still being determined, and will be greatly influenced by impassioned fan lobbying on website dylan07.com. This site — which went live in February for fans to share thoughts on Bob Dylan’s music, swap stories about first hearing the artist’s songs and seeing him in concert, and more — has been updated today with the DYLAN artwork, a promotional trailer for the album, as well as the ability for fans to vote on the DYLAN track listing.
Visitors to dylan07.com will also find details on a forthcoming online photo exhibit in which notable fans from the worlds of music, film, art and fashion will contribute images inspired by Bob Dylan. Fans will be able to contribute images as well, and a winner will be chosen by one of the celebrity photographers to receive a Sony Alpha digital camera and have his or her image included in the exhibit.
Two additional versions of DYLAN will be released simultaneously with the 3-CD set: A deluxe edition featuring the three disks in a cloth covered case, and accompanied by an extended booklet of classic and rare Dylan imagery plus 10 limited edition postcards highlighting pivotal moments of Bob’s career; and the “Best Of” edition that will feature 18 songs on a single disk.
Bob Dylan is one of the world’s most popular and acclaimed songwriters, musicians and performers, having sold more than 90 million albums and performed literally thousands of shows around the world in a career spanning five decades. His most recent album, Modern Times - lauded by critics around the world and selling more than 2.5 million copies to date — entered the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart at #1, as well as debuting within the Top Five in 21 other countries. His previous studio albums, Time Out Of Mind and Love & Theft, have been among his most commercially successful and critically lauded, each having sold more than a million copies and earning Grammy nominations for Album Of The Year (Time Out Of Mind won that award in 1998).
In 2001, he received a Golden Globe and an Academy Award for Best Song from a Motion Picture for “Things Have Changed” from the movie Wonder Boys. Dylan’s Chronicles - Volume I, his recent memoirs released in October 2004, was a world-wide best seller, spending 19 weeks on The New York Times Bestseller List. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988 and the Songwriters Hall Of Fame in 1982.
Bob Dylan remains one of the world’s top touring artists, performing more than 100 concerts yearly around the globe.
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