Fall Out Boy rolls out viral campaign for "Folie"

NEW YORK (Billboard) - A starlet having lunch at the Ivy is not a rare sight in Los Angeles; it's plebeian knowledge that the eating house is the place to see and be seen by the paparazzi.

So when a very pregnant Ashlee Simpson waddled up to the restaurant August 19, it wasn't the fact that the singer-songwriter was headed inside for a sandwich that caused a frenzy of Internet buzz. Rather, it was a pamphlet she held, bearing the call of a group called Citizens for Our Betterment.

Some speculated she had joined a cult or been bitten by the political bug, but a quick Web search revealed the truth: The fake group was part of a viral campaign set up by Simpson's husband, Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz, to announce the impending release of a new album by the pop-punk band.

In retrospect, the stunt now looks like a carefully orchestrated and well-played move by Wentz to winkingly parlay his cover-of-People-level fame into a furtherance for his band's novel album -- and, according to Wentz, his wife was more than unforced to help oneself him out. But this in-joke is only the start; from here, the band volition branch out with a marketing campaign that caters to super-fans as well as new converts, thanks to a combination of selective strain leaks, mobile initiatives and traditional promotional schemes.

"Fall Out Boy are the quintessential direct-to-consumer isthmus," Island Def Jam Music Group (IDJMG) director of marketing Gabriela Schwartz says. "They were the ones who came up with the Citizens for Our Betterment site, and it has already gotten over a trillion impressions."

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Even though the situation looked like a fundamental Web 1.0 version of a strange special interest group, FOB fans ar tech-savvy enough to realise a viral marketing campaign, and many guessed that it had something to do with a new album or tour. Within a few days (and after surviving a strange mixup that involved a Florida band called Copeland creating a mirror site, posting the address on FOB winnow blogs and sending users to its own internet site) Citizens for Our Betterment officially went out of business.

But in its space, the circle offered a download of a unify tape comprising snippets of five songs from the forthcoming album, as well as tracks from bands signed to Wentz's judge, Decaydance, and shout-outs to "get familiar" with the band's new material.�

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Reading 2008 review: The Killers

Name: The Killers

Where and when: Main stage, 10pm, Saturday, Reading,

Dress code: Snug waistcoats (crisp and white), and neatly trimmed facial hair.

Who's watching: Enough citizenry so that when loyal Manic Street Preachers fans start drifting off to watch their idols, there is still a solid crowd left over.

In a nutshell: There's more than a hint of ridiculousness some the Killers, with their glam-referencing electro rock and Bruce Springsteen-esque hooks, only they experience euphoric, emotion-stirring anthems and that's wherefore people love them. Much as I tried to keep an open mind and join in the fun, on that point was none to be had. It's been aforementioned more than once about the good at the main microscope stage, but the volume was just unfathomable and the crowd took to intonation "Turn it up! Turn it up!" between songs. By the time the Las Vegas quartet move on to yet another new 1, girls ar disembarking from shoulders and people ar talking among themselves. Watching the performance on the big cover, it's mortifying to find Brandon Flowers singing his heart kO'd less than 20ft away and feel like its happening on a TV with the volume turned down. There's also some other feeling, other than discontentment at the low sound levels, and that's one of tiredness. The set are on the leaflet of cathartic a new album, the quality of which is difficult to judge tonight but sounds the like as the last one. They look the like and their set is too similar to last year's Glastonbury headline slot. More Springsteen, more keyboard-chord intros, more studied seriousness. It's unbelievably dull.

High point: The fireworks that explode during Doesn't Look a Thing Like Jesus. You can hear them go bang and everything. And maybe a cover of Joy Division's Shadowplay, which earns points for non being a Killers song.

Low point: The sound, the slickness, the faux-earnestness of the songs ...

How concentrated did they rock? Harder than the sound allows the crowd to enjoy.

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Artist: Derek Bailey: mp3 download    Genre(s):  funk Jazz Avantgarde     Discography:      Carpal Tunnel    Year: 2005    Tracks: 6      Ballads: Derek Bailey    Year: 2002    Tracks: 14      Transmutations    Year: 1997    Tracks: 9      Takes Fakes and Dead She Dances    Year:     Tracks: 10 At first glance, Derek Bailey possesses almost none of the qualities 1 expects from a malarky musician -- his medicinal drug does not swing out in whatsoever appreciable way, it lacks a discernable sense of blues feeling -- yet there's a strong connective between his amelodic, arhythmic, atonal, uncategorizable free-improvisatory style, and much free idle words of the post-Coltrane epoch. His music draws upon a brobdingnagian array of resources, including indeterminateness, rock & roll, and several world musics. Indeed, this catholic banker's acceptance of any and all tuneful influences is arguably what sets Bailey's art outside the nonindulgent bound of "wind." The of the essence element of his do shape, however, is the type of offhanded musical interrelation that evolved from the '60s jazz new waving. Sound, not ideology, is Bailey's medium. He differs in approach to nearly any other guitarist wHO preceded him. Bailey uses the guitar as a sound-making, kind of than a "music"fashioning, gimmick. Meaning, he seldom plays melodies or harmonies in a formal horse sensation, simply quite pulls knocked out of his instrument every imaginable type of sound victimization every conceivable technique. His timbral field is quite full. On electrical guitar, Bailey is capable of the almost gratingly rough, distortion-laden heavy-metalisms; unamplified, he's as likely to mimicker a coiffe of windchimes. Bailey's guitar is often like John Cage's inclined pianissimo; both innovations enhanced the several instrument's percussive possibilities. As a grouping participant, Bailey is an fine sensitive respondent to what goes on around him. He has the sort of warm reflexes and complementary reference that posterior meld random musical events into a corporate whole. Bailey came from a melodic family; his grandfather and uncle were musicians. As a fry surviving in Sheffield in the '40s, Bailey studied music with C.H.C. Biltcliffe and guitar with George Wing and John Duarte. Bailey began playing conventional jazz and commercial music professionally in the '50s. In the early '60s, Bailey played in a trio called Joseph Holbrooke, with drummer Tony Oxley and bassist (and afterwards renowned definitive composer) Gavin Bryars. In the track of its creation, from 1963-66, the mathematical group evolved from playing relatively traditional idle words with pacing and chord changes, to playing wholly loose. In 1966 Bailey stirred to London; in that respect, he formed a number of important melodious associations with, among others, drummer John Stevens, saxophonist Evan Parker, trumpeter Kenny Wheeler, and bassist Dave Holland. This specific assembling of players recorded as the Spontaneous Music Ensemble, which served as a crucible for the sort of equalitarian, collective improvisation that Bailey was to engage from and so on. In 1968, Bailey joined Oxley -- another musician interested in new possibilities of reasoned generation -- in whose sextet he remained until 1973. In 1970, Bailey formed the trio Iskra with bassist Barry Guy and trombonist Paul Rutherford. Also that twelvemonth, Bailey started (with Parker and Oxley) the Incus record book mark, for which he would extend to record into the '90s. In 1976, Bailey founded Company, a long-lasting free improv tout ensemble with ever-shifting staff office, which has included, at various times, Anthony Braxton, Han Bennink, Steve Lacy, and George Lewis, among others. The eighties saw Bailey collaborating with many of the said, along with newer figures on the scene such as John Zorn and Joelle Leandre. Solo playing has always been a special strength, as have (especially in recent old age, it seems) ad hoc duos with a variety show of associates. Bailey by and by recorded an inflexible three-disc set with a group that included the unremarkably more than pop-oriented guitarist Pat Metheny. Bailey's utmost radicalism makes for a hard euphony, yet there's no sceptical his influence; his methods and esthetic have significantly impacted the downtown New York free scene, though many (if not most) of his disciples ar little known to the general public. In 1980, Bailey wrote Improvisation: Its Nature and Practice, an instructive and undervalued volume on various traditions of improvised music.

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Picks up untitled funniness project from Jason Sullivan




A week agone, newbie scribe Jason Sullivan had to be goaded to hawk meetings because his car couldn't go more than 45 miles per hour. Now, thanks to Columbia picking up his untitled comedy send off, he is ready to go shopping for a new ride.

Sullivan, world Health Organization studied screenwriting at Loyola Marymount, has been penning spec after spec since graduation piece holding down several jobs at once. At one point, he held five jobs, including apartment manager, script reviewer and a freelance author for a company that hired holders of edgar Lee Masters degrees to write spam e-mails that would catch through filters. One fortuitous job was as an assistant to "X-Men Origins: Magneto" writer Sheldon Turner.

Producer Jennifer Klein was over at Turner's one day and recounting a dinner she had with her husband, who complained how he missed out on a seminal moment in childhood by non attending summer camp.

Sullivan was there too. As an obsessive fan of summertime camp movies like "Meatballs," he saw movie electric potential and years later came up with a treatment and social system. The externalise revolves around three friends in their 30s world Health Organization realize their lives are incomplete because they never went to camp, so they rent out a camp and invite former adults to join them.

Turner and Klein, who have several projects around town, came up with a plan to take Sullivan's pitch to market, though one complication was the unreliability of Sullivan's elevator car.

"If you go over 45 miles per hour, it dies," Sullivan aforementioned. "If you make a sharp left hand turn, it peters out. And at stop signs, it necessarily to be revved all the time or it dies. People think I'm ready to race them in my '97 Saturn."

Sullivan all over up having to be ferried to some of the pitch meetings, which were a blur of bottled water and pocket-sized talk to the nervous newbie.

Columbia bought the project in a six-figure deal. Sullivan said he still can't believe he is being paid to write.

"It feels fantastical, but I'm afraid it's part of an rarify scam, that I'm existence grifted," he says. "I grew up obsessed with summer camp movies, and the fact that one day I might be able to go get wind one that I wrote blows my mind."

As to what he will do with his paycheck, he joked, "I'm going to pimp my car."

Sony's Doug Belgrad and Jonathan Kadin are overseeing the project.


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Selena Gomez: "No Sex Until Marriage"

The star of Disney's latest hit Wizards of Waverly Place, Selena Gomez, is staying a virgin until marriage, and she's not afraid to admit it.

The 15-year old actress caught up with Extra on the set of her Seventeen Magazine shoot, where she said that she plans to practice abstinence until she says 'I do,' even asking her dad to give her a promise ring as a reminder of her personal vow.

"I said, 'Dad, I want a promise ring.' He went to the church and got it blessed. He actually used me as an example for other kids," she says.

Selena, who is being hailed as the new Miley Cyrus, says waiting to have sex is not only a promise to herself, but to those who love her.

"I'm going to keep my promise to myself, to my family, and to God," she says.

For the entire interview with Selena tune in to Extra's Weekend Edition on Saturday, June 7 and Sunday, June 8.




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U.S. publishers plan wave of Obama books this summer and fall

NEW YORK - Book publishers aren't waiting for a concession speech.

Several works about Senator Barack Obama, the Democrats' presumptive presidential candidate, are planned for the summer and fall, from children's stories and photographs to attacks from both the left and the right.

"Based on past election years, we anticipate strong customer interest in titles regarding the issues, candidates and election process," Bob Wietrak, a vice-president of merchandising at Barnes & Noble, Inc., said Thursday.

Obama has gained enough delegate support to effectively clinch the Democratic nomination, although Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is not expected to concede officially until Saturday. He has written two books, "Dreams From My Father" and "The Audacity of Hope," both million sellers.

"He tells his own story so eloquently, I can't imagine a book about him selling so well. Never," said Carla Cohen, co-owner of the Politics & Prose bookstore, based in Washington, D.C. She did say she there has been interest in some previous books, including David Mendell's "Obama," a biography published by HarperCollins last year and recently out in paperback.

"I think there is still a market for them (Obama books), although I have to say, it's hard to match his own storytelling," says Priscilla Painton, editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster, which has at least two Obama books planned.

"But there are two reasons why more Obama books might get traction. First, there's a market for a professional journalist telling the story drawing on all kinds of sources, not just Obama's version. But you also have to remember that lots of folks are only now waking up to the idea that he could be president, and so there's a second wave of buyers out there ready to read about him."

Simon & Schuster is publishing a biography about Obama's wife, Michelle Obama, by Washington Post reporter Liza Mundy. The book, currently untitled, will come out in October with a first printing of 100,000. Simon & Schuster is also releasing a children's work, "Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope," by author Nikki Grimes and illustrator Bryan Collier. Another story for young people, Garen Thomas' "Yes We Can," will come from Feiwel, a children's imprint of MacMillan.

PublicAffairs plans a revised version of a collection of the senator's speeches, "Barack Obama in His Own Words," and is already committed to a campaign book by Evan Thomas and the staff of Newsweek. Thomas Nelson, a religious publisher, will offer "The Faith of Barack Obama," by Stephen Mansfield, while Triumph Books plans Pete Souza's "The Rise of Barack Obama," a compilation of photographs.

The left-wing Verso Books has just released "The Decline of Black Politics: From Malcolm X to Barack Obama," by civil rights activist Kevin Alexander Gray. The conservative Regnery Publishing just announced two books for August: David Freddoso's "The Case Against Barack Obama: The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media's Favorite Candidate," and Thomas Blood's "The Clinton Collapse: How Bill Clinton Lost Hillary Her 'Sure Thing' Nomination (And Might Even Make Obama Lose Too)."

"We intend to put him under the microscope, and we think readers will be very interested to learn what we uncover," says Marji Ross, president and publisher of Regnery, which in 2004 released "Unfit for Command," the best-selling attack against Democratic nominee Sen. John Kerry.

Some books will be whimsical, such as Mathew Honan's "Barack Obama Is Your New Bicycle: 366 Ways He Really Cares," coming in August from Penguin Group (USA). Others warn of end times, like "Obama - The Postmodern Coup: Making of a Manchurian Candidate," by Webster Griffin Tarpley, a radio commentator and author of "9-11 Synthetic Terror."

"Barack Obama is a deeply troubled personality, the megalomaniac front man for a postmodern coup by the intelligence agencies, using fake polls, mobs of swarming adolescents, superrich contributors and orchestrated media hysteria to short-circuit normal politics and seize power," according to the Progressive Press, which identifies itself as "America's Dedicated Truth Publisher."

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