PINK FLOYD’S“The Endless River”

Taylor SwiftShuns “Grand Experiment” of Streaming Music

The most pre-orderedalbum of all time

AC/DC Launch“Rock or Bust” LP

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DECEMBER 2012 Issue 12

Taylor Swift Shuns ‘Grand Experiment’ of Streaming MusicPink Floyd ‘The Endless River’- The most preordered album of all time AC/DC Launch ‘Rock or Bust’ LP

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Taylor Swift Shuns ‘Grand Experiment’ of Streaming Music

Days after Taylor Swift pulled her dis-cography from Spotify, the pop star has explained the rationale behind the de-cision. In an interview with Yahoo, the singer fielded a question asking her to speculate on how differently her latest record, 1989, would have sold were it on the music-streaming service. While Swift declined to speculate, she did comment on Spotify and the idea of free music.

“Music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spoti-fy, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment,” Swift said. “And I’m not willing to contribute my life’s work to an experiment that I don’t feel fairly compensates the writers, producers, artists and creators of this music. And I just don’t agree with perpetuating the perception that mu-sic has no value and should be free.”

Referencing the op-ed article she wrote for The Wall Street Journal this year, in which she asserted that art should

be paid for, Swift maintained that she likes to stay open-minded about the subject and willing to debate it as “ac-tual progress” within the music industry.

“A lot of people were suggesting to me that I try putting new music on Spo-tify with ‘Shake It Off,’ and so I was open-minded about it,” Swift said. “I thought, ‘I will try this. I’ll see how it feels.’ It didn’t feel right to me.”

After questioning the message she was sending by making her music avail-able for free, Swift concluded that she wasn’t comfortable with the percep-tion of the value of music that she was projecting. “So I decided to change the way I was doing things,” she said.A representative for Spotify declined to

address Swift’s comments for this article.

Elsewhere in the interview, Swift ex-plained why she focuses on writing al-bums rather than putting out a series of singles. “I’d really much rather write a nov-el than a bunch of short stories,” she said. I’d rather be known for a collection of songs that go together and live togeth-er and belong together. These are es-sentially installments of my life, two

years at a time, and I work really hard to make sure that those installments are good enough to also ap-ply to other people’s lives in two-year periods of time. Al-bums defined my childhood, and they’ve defined my life.”Earlier this week, Spotify re-leased a statement about Swift’s decision to pull her

catalog. “We hope she’ll change her mind and join us in building a new music econ-omy that works for everyone,” the com-pany’s statement read. “We believe fans should be able to listen to music wher-ever and whenever they want, and that artists have an absolute right to be paid for their work and protected from piracy.”

“I’m not willing to contribute my life’s work to an experiment that I don’t feel fairly compensates the...creators of this music,”

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The most pre-orderedalbum of all time

It’s been two decades since Pink Floyd released a new recording, but now “The Endless River” is here.

British fans made it the most-pre-or-dered album of all time on Amazon U.K., reports CBS News correspondent Mark Phillips.

Out of the mists of rock ‘n’ roll’s heyday, a small boat drifts in above the clouds, and a lyric seems to be telling the story of the band singing it.

“We bitch and we fight... Diss each oth-er on sight...” the song “Louder than Words” says.

Pink Floyd’s internal squabbling was al-most as famous as its music.

“It’s certainly a strong suggestion that that could be, that it is about the band, but it could also be seen as a couple and their relationship,” Nick Mason said.

Maybe they should be called “Grey Floyd” now. The new album is largely the creation of David Gilmour and Mason, the two enduring members of the band. But most people will think it’s about the band. In fact, a lot of people -- including those in the band -- are surprised the al-bum even happened.

“I really didn’t think that we would do this again after all these years now,” Gilmour said.He said it didn’t have to do with the fa-mous acrimony within the band.

“We’ve had a long career post the ac-rimony you know, in fact we’ve had a

longer career post the acrimony than we had with the acrimony or whatever his name is,” Gilmour said.

In their prime, Pink Floyd was just about as big as rock ‘n’ roll got. The band didn’t just produce some of the biggest selling albums in pop-music history -- world-wide sales in the tens of millions -- it re-invented rock.

Pink Floyd didn’t just do songs, although they had some big hit singles. They did concepts, whole albums meant to be lis-tened to in one sitting -- the experience enhanced, perhaps, with some of the more popular stimulants of their day.

Two of its albums are undisputed rock classics. “Dark Side of the Moon,” re-leased in 1973, was on everybody’s re-cord shelf. A world-wide number one, it sat on the U.S. Billboard charts for more than 14 years. And “The Wall,” released in 1979, topped the charts for 15 weeks.

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Pink Floyd was also a rock ‘n’ rolling soap opera of rivalries, jealousies, break-downs and break-ups. By the mid-’80s, its main writer, Roger Waters, left, calling it a spent force.

So imagine the surprise when Gilm-our joined Waters, Mason and Richard Wright and re-assembled for 2005’s Live 8 concert in aide of the world’s poor. The performance was a highlight of the show, but their behind-the-scenes dys-function led them to say it would never happen again.

When Wright died in 2008, the demise seemed complete and irreversible.But by using some previously unreleased recordings, including some by Wright, and massaging them with some new music and modern digital trickery, a new-ish album was born.

The music video ends in the dried-out lake-bed of the Aral Sea on the Kazakstan-Uzbekistan border. Pink Floyd’s tank, too, has finally run dry.“I don’t think it’s meant to be, as I say, the final statement, I think it’s

just a sort of a graceful ending,” Mason said.This time, they said they mean it.

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“The AC/DC Rock or Bust markets will be a one-off event that will put the Rock on the in-ternational map for an impressive worldwide fan base but more than that it offers our locals an amazing day out.”

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AC/DC to Launch ‘Rock or Bust’ LP in Place Literally Called ‘The Rock

for an impressive worldwide fan base but more than that it offers our locals an amazing day out.”This sort of small-town event is not un-precedented for AC/DC’s label Colum-bia. Previously, it played Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories for the first time in a small Australian town called Wee Waa. Only 4,000 tickets were avail-able to hear the record.Rock or Bust is AC/DC’s first record in six years and it will be their first with-out founding rhythm guitarist Malcolm Young, who left the band earlier this year due to a debilitating illness. His nephew, Stevie Young, played rhythm guitar on

the LP. The band debuted the first song to come off the album, “Play Ball,” online in October. The band intends to mount a world tour in 2015.Shortly after the group announced its Rock or Bust listening party, news broke that drummer Phil Rudd had been arrested for allegedly playing a role in a murder-for-hire plot in Tauranga, New Zealand. “We’ve only become aware of Phil’s arrest as the news was breaking,” the band said in a statement for Rolling Stone. “We have no further comment. Phil’s absence will not affect the release of our new album Rock or Bust and up-coming tour next year.”

AC/DC take their rock seriously. The Aussie group titled their new record Rock or Bust, four songs on the record have “rock” in their titles and their last album, 2008’s Black Ice, also sported four songs with the band’s favorite word in the title. So the fact that the band has selected an Australian town literally called the Rock to launch their new al-bum – despite a population of just over 3,000, according to The Guardian – only makes sense.Although the band members themselves won’t be in attendance, the 11-track record will play out in its entirety at a venue in the town on November 23rd, nine days before its official December 2nd release. “It’s fantastic for the town,” Lockhart Shire Council’s Tourism and Economic Development officer, Jennifer Connor, told the regional Eastern River-ina Chronicle. “The AC/DC Rock or Bust markets will be a one-off event that will put the Rock on the international map

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