Metallica Creaties Orion Music Fest In Atlantic City

This summer is going to be another one full of music festivals far and wide. Just heard about this new festival created by Metallica and maybe it could be damn cool. Great line up of bands that go across many spectrums it they say in the video they are playing Ride The Lightning in its entirety. Hearing that album in its exact sequence would be worth the trip.

Link to more news on the Orion Music Festival

"We are beyond excited to announce the introduction of the Orion Music + More Festival, a brand new festival that we, your friends in Metallica, will be the headliners, curators, and instigators of. After many years of playing at legendary festivals around the world including Reading, Roskilde, Werchter, Rock Im Ring, Rock In Rio, Lollapalooza and countless others, we're hoping to spread the good times and diverse musical feel here in the States and bring the amazing good vibes and spirit of our 30th anniversary celebration at the Fillmore Theatre in December to a larger, outdoor setting. We've got two nights of live 'Tallica mixed with all kinds of cool bands, activities and stuff to see wrapped into one incredible weekend planned for you. And for the only time in America this year, we're planning to continue the 'Black Album' anniversary celebration by playing it in its entirety on one night AND something we've never done before... drum roll please... all of 'Ride the Lightning' on the other!

If you had a chance to watch the live webcast, you know now that our location will be Bader Field in the heart of Atlantic City, New Jersey on the East Coast on June 23 and 24, 2012. We've joined forces with our friends at C3, who bring you Lollapalooza and Austin City Limits each year here in the U.S. as well as presenting Big Day Out to our Australian friends. Together we've invited a wide range of bands and musicians to play on multiple stages (at least three!) including Arctic Monkeys, Avenged Sevenfold, Modest Mouse, The Gaslight Anthem, Cage The Elephant, Fucked Up, Best Coast, Hot Snakes, Titus Andronicus, Gary Clark Jr., Lucero, Roky Erickson, The Black Angels, The Sword, Liturgy, and more to be announced in the coming weeks. We've also put together non-music activities for you to experience when you take a break between sets... hopefully a chance for you to interact with us and see some of the stuff we're into.

Weekend tickets go on sale SOON! Met Club members should log in for details on their pre-sale with discounted tickets and special packages that begins on Wednesday, February 8 at 7:00 AM PST and ends on Friday, February 10 at 7:00 PM PST. Tickets will be available for everyone starting Saturday, February 11 at 7:00 AM PST... all the details are here: www.orionmusicandmore.com. The entire weekend ticket is $150 with no service charges... what you see is what you get for ticket prices with no surprises.

Needless to say, the details will keep flowing... keep watching here and the Orion site for ongoing updates.



Ticket Info
Tickets will be available for the early bird price of $150 starting Saturday, February 11 at 7:00 AM PST at www.orionmusicandmore.com. Supplies are limited at this special price and ticket purchases are limited to no more than ten per person.

Travel packages including tickets, hotels, and shuttle busses will also be available. Please note that some hotels have age restrictions due to gambling laws, so be sure to read the fine print and book carefully.

A special VIP package is also available for $750 so you can experience the festival in style and comfort with special amenities in the Orion VIP lounge. Situated with a great view of the stage, the Orion VIP lounge has an elevated viewing platform perfect for music and people watching!
What You Get:

Your Orion VIP Pass gets you daily VIP wristbands (one each for Saturday and Sunday) to enter the festival. It also includes:

• Unlimited access to the Orion VIP Lounge
• Viewing platform of the stage with premium sightlines
• Complimentary beer, wine and specialty libations all day
• Complimentary catered food servings daily
• Reserved air conditioned restrooms
• Shaded and relaxed lounge seating"

Warner Music Group Sold To Access Industries

Back in the day getting signed to a major label meant something. This was long before digital music was ever conceived and we all had a twinkle in our eye about making it big in music. Maybe the sale of Warner Bros. was to escape an impending doom or was it to hedge their bets, we may never know. In all reality, who cares. The major labels are fighting a losing battle and the tide has shifted to favor the smaller and more nimble independent labels who work directly with their artists instead of dictating terms to them. This sale will have an interesting ripple effect and kind of excited to see where it goes and how the pieces will be picked up and re-fit for their current roster which includes Avenged Sevenfold, Built To Spill, Cher, Deftones, Don Henley, Disturbed, Dire Straits, Devo, Eric Clapton, Green Day and many more.

Link to Article on PaidContent.org

Warner Music Group’s sale to Access Industries has been completed for $8.25 per share in cash, or $3.3 billion. The record label’s board approved the deal two weeks ago. 

WMG will be part of Airplanes Music, a division of Access Industries, the diversified business group owned by Russian-American industrialist Len Blavatnik, whose $3.3 billion offer in May represented a 34.4 percent premium over the record label’s average half-year price of $6.14.

The company will remain named and located as is, but Access will take WMG off the stock market. The brief statement about the deal’s closing did not say whether CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr. will stay aboard. As it stands right now, Bronfman is still the head of the company, but again, that could change.

With WMG done, the focus will shift to what will happen with EMI Group, which began exploring a sale in June. Citigroup and Access Industries are both vying for EMI. For Access Industries, the addition of another record label, considering the weak state of the record business, may seem crazy, particularly the premium he paid for WMG. But Blavatnik seems to feel he would be able to find some value after some heavy cost-cutting while continuing to market a roster that so far includes big names like Bruno Mars, R.E.M., Cee Lo Green and Lupe Fiasco. 

In terms of what Blavatnik is getting with WMG, in May, the company reported that Q1 losses grew amid anemic revenue gains. Meanwhile, digital now makes up more than 30 percent of the labels revenues—a combination of the decline of physical CD sales and, to be fair, an reasonably aggressive focus on building up its online and mobile distribution.

WMG is scheduled to have its last quarterly earnings report on Aug. 1, as it is being delisted from the NYSE now that it is operating within a private company. But that Q2 report might or might not happen, though WMG still has bondholders it has to report to, but it’s not clear if that will be done through the standard quarterly report.