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Welsh vocalist Duffy was the big winner at the 2009 BRIT Awards, taking home three trophies tonight (Feb. 18) at London’s Earls Court. Duffy, whose debut album, "Rockferry" (A&M/Universal), was the U.K’s top seller in 2008, won BRITS for British female, British breakthrough act and British album.

Collecting her first award for British female, she commented, "It’s a good job my mother didn’t have a boy." She beat rivals M.I.A., Adele, Beth Rowley and Estelle in that category.

For her final award, for British album, Duffy was tearful as she accepted it from fellow Welsh singer Sir Tom Jones. She also performed "Warwick Avenue" at the ceremony.

The awards show, aired live on ITV1, was opened by U2 performing its new single "Get on Your Boots." Bono sang on a platform in front of a giant screen showing images of the British union flag and the Irish flag.

Nashville rock band Kings Of Leon won the international group award as well as the international album BRIT for "Only by the Night" (Hand Me Down/Sony Music Entertainment). The current Billboard cover stars acknowledged the importance of the British market to their success.

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Okay, we’re completely back online now.  The sessions, with the new feeds, are on iTunes now

It was a challenge to upload them all.  In the next few days I’m going to add a player to the right hand side of the site (most likely to the welcome message box).  So if you don’t want to download the sessions you can just listen in your browser

Paramore have a list of priorities — demoing their new record, rehearsing for their upcoming tour with No Doubt and, uh, finding something to eat.

In a blog post on the band’s official site, frontwoman Hayley Williams writes about the progress of all three … with a special focus on the status of Paramore’s much-anticipated new album and her gustatory struggles.

"We decided not to go to our practice space today. Each of us are at our respective homes writing our own stuff to bring to practice tomorrow. Doubtful we’ll all be successful," she wrote. "I’m still finishing lyrics to some of the music demos we’ve already recorded. Some perdy good shtuff here!
"I’m stuck here at home," she continued. "There’s nothing to eat here but one pack of ramen. No, really."

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It went deeper than rap, and in many people’s minds, it crossed the line of hip-hop battling. On Wednesday, 50 Cent released a dis video on ThisIs50.com called "A Psychic Told Me," in which he threatens DJ Khaled and his mother.

In the clip, 50 is sitting down in the studio, writing a poem, then the footage switches to a house that he claims belongs to Khaled’s mom. Later, 50 says he knows where DJ Khaled lives and all but takes responsibility for the DJ’s car tires recently being slashed. Then the video shows some men in Thisis50.com T-Shirts arriving at Khaled’s mother’s purported workplace. The woman they claim is the DJ’s mother is asleep at a desk, as the cameraman zooms in on photos of Khaled and Fat Joe. At the end of the video, 50 declares he has "less compassion than the average human." He crumples the poem he was working on, a ThisIs50.com logo comes on the screen and there is the sound of gunshots.

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NASHVILLE – If anyone had any doubt that touring is where the money is in today’s music business, a look at Billboard’s top moneymakers of 2008 should hammer the point home.

Regardless of genre, retail sales or radio play, each of the 20 acts on the moneymakers list toured last year. For almost all of them, touring generated the most revenue. And in a year when recorded-music sales declined yet again, many earned more at the box office than ever before.

Madonna was No. 1 on the list with $242.2 million. She had the 50th-best-selling album in the country and ranked 14th on the list of digital track sellers — but had the highest-earning 2008 tour.

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This singer-actor’s sophomore major label disc comes four years after its initial release date. Whatever the hold-up, the Texan wunderkind, now 19, has grown into her voice, bringing subtlety and resonance to womanly tunes such as "Lover Man" and "My Baby Just Cares For Me." Her rich, graceful sound is a cross between Tierney Sutton and Christina Aguilera, and hitmaker David Foster has her dishing up jazz-flavoured pop big-band style on standards such as "You’ve Changed" and the title track. She’s been called a female Michael Bublé, which isn’t far off the mark.

Source: The Star.ca

Fifty-five is hardly old age, but it would appear old enough to get Robyn Hitchcock thinking about a few things.

Goodnight Oslo, the beloved British acid-folkie’s second album with the Venus 3 – guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Scott McCaughey and drummer Bill Rieflin, all poached from the extended R.E.M. family – is rife with allusions to death, time passing and the wilder nights of Hitchcock’s youth. He’s said the creepy title track was inspired by a speed-fuelled romp in Norway many years ago with his old Soft Boys bandmate Morris Windsor (who guests here, along with the Decemberists’ Colin Meloy and Harvey Danger’s Sean Nelson).

"Saturday Groovers" relishes in smelling "the smoke from the lungs of the Saturday groovers" with jubilant, T. Rex-like swagger, then situates the reminiscence in a present fraught with "heart disease and gout." "16 Years" turns a cold eye upon "16 years when all I got was high." The lingering "Your Head Here," meanwhile, could be staring down into a friend’s casket and confronting the inevitable: "Life is all I own / You walk a thousand miles and you’re alone."

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If you’ve only seen videos of Katy Perry singing "I Kissed a Girl" and "Hot N Cold," looking like the love child of Zooey Deschanel and an anime character, you might take her for a lightweight. She giggles, does exaggerated pantomimes of femininity, and jumps into cakes at award shows. Nothing about her screams gravitas
But Perry doesn’t mind underplaying her hand. While she was "failing"—being dropped by three record labels before the age of 24—she was taking notes the entire time. And when she arrived at Capitol, she made sure to land on her feet.
"I Kissed a Girl," the first single from her album "One of the Boys," spent seven weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 during the summer of 2008 and has sold 3.1 million downloads, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The follow-up single, "Hot N Cold," reached No. 3 on the Hot 100 and has sold 2.9 million downloads. Her third single, "Thinking of You," shipped to radio Jan. 12; it has sold 97,000 copies.
Her album has sold 806,000 copies since its release in June, but if she was hitting 15 years ago, she’d probably be reaching Alanis Morissette levels of album sales.
That change in the music business is not lost on Perry. "People got burned by too many uneven records," she says. "I personally can’t live without iTunes."

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Nine Inch Nails will tour later this year with the reunited Jane’s Addiction, NIN frontman Trent Reznor wrote in a post on the band’s Web site.
Although he stopped short of saying the band was going on something more than a hiatus, Reznor confirmed these will be the last NIN shows for some time, and that they will be "much more raw, spontaneous and less scripted" compared to last year’s "Lights in the Sky" tour. "It’s time to make NIN disappear for a while," he said.
Dates have not yet been announced, but Reznor says the tour will take the bands "across the globe."
The pairing with Jane’s Addiction was inspired by NIN’s stint on the maiden Lollapalooza tour in 1991, which was headlined by Jane’s. The band broke up for the first time shortly thereafter, only to reunite minus original bassist Eric Avery in 1997 and again in 2001.
"These performances essentially created and defined the term ‘alternative’ rock in the U.S., created an ongoing festival franchise that is still thriving (Lollapalooza), set the stage for Nirvana to shift popular taste a few months later, and were really f*cking FUN to play and attend — truly the best times I’ve had," Reznor wrote.

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EDIT: Feeds are up, adding to iTMS now.

EDIT: So we’re back, finally… So Later today or tomorrow I’ll post the links for the feeds, right now I have to finish setting everything up.  But damn it’s good to be back!

So I was planning on, and pretty much did, kill quantumRadio.  Fear not as I’ve reversed the decision!

Anyways I’m changing the general format of the site around, it’ll be more about blogging music news and stuff instead of the sessions, though don’t worry we’ll still have session, that’s the main reason why I re-launched qR

I’ll be uploading all the sessions later this week, and an all new Euro session by the end of March.

And the reason I decided to re-launch quantumRadio is because of the song Master Blaster – Everywhere.  Inspiration, gotta love it.

Also note: the old feeds for the sessions will not work anymore, I have no plans for fix this.