For the past several months, our entire staff has worked around the clock to prepare for the new Pearl Jam "Ten" reissues. So far, the response has been great. In fact, many of you have already checked out our nearly impossible Pearl Jam Ten Game. As a part of our Pearl obsessiveness, we've also been forwarding around the office neat Pearl Jam related items which we've found on the net. Here's one from MTV.com.

COMMERCIAL
DIRECTV
Beyonce "Upgrade U"
VONAGE
Scouting For Girls "She's So Lovely"
TARGET
The Go! Team "We Just Won't Be Defeated"  (1 week)
SONY ERICSSON
Calle 13 "Atrevete-te"
FILM FESTIVAL
HAPPINESS RUNS
Blue Oyster Cult "(Don't Fear) The Reaper"
A Flock Of Seagulls "Modern Love Is Automatic"
TRAILER
DANCE FLICK
T-Pain (ft. Teddy Versetti) "Church"
Flo RIda (ft. T-Pain) "Low"
THE NEW GIRL
Lenka "The Show"
CENTER STAGE: TURN IT UP (SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT/SONY MUSIC GIRLS NIGHT IN PROMOTION)

If you were in midtown Manhattan last night, and you heard an ongoing rumble from beneath the city, it wasn't the subway system.
Instead, it was the Gods of Heavy Metal themselves, JUDAS PRIEST, performing a rare club gig downstairs at the Hard Rock Caf

Well, two are new & available for the first time to the public - The Eyes of Miles Davis, June 1969 & Santana, On Stage, 1981. The Miles Outside, June 1969 is well-known, even iconic, but is available at ICON Collectibles for the first time as a fine art print in open and limited editions.

Thanks to The New Yorker for all the love on their 100 Essential Jazz Albums.

Punk rock was (or "is," depending on your age and point of view) a visual and physical manifestation, an explosion of emotion and energy that went beyond language. While the Clash rose above the nihilism of the movement and became known for their politics and social commentary, their artistic expression was always as much through the physical as the written word.

Thanks to our friends over at YouTube, most of you now know about the Internet meme known as Rick Rolling. There's also another growing meme where fans create graphical representations of their favorite song lyrics. Known as "song charts," these are illustrations that chart or graph a particular song.
For example, here's a song chart of things Rick Astley would never do:

            It certainly is great to escape the waning days of winter every March by leaving behind New York City and heading to the sunny climes of Austin for South By Southwest.  With an all-time high of nearly 1700 acts this year, the 22nd annual  fest offered non-stop ear candy from March 12-16^th.  From conjunto to electro to stoner rock, SXSW offered all things to all musical tastes.  The event provided a forum for new projects from established acts like Lou Reed, Van Morrisson, R.E.M.

On Friday, we launched a new promo for Michael Jackson. Using a technology from a company by the name of BigStage, MichaelJackson.com now allows you to insert yourself into the original Thriller video by uploading 3 still shot images. Here's my video:
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For more information, visit www.michaeljackson.com/mythrillervideo

Everybody who's lived a musical life can name the moments when music changed their lives forever. Many of us who were kids in the â˜60s could tell you about the first time they saw the Beatles on TV or heard that Motown track on the radio or took umbrage to Dean Martin insulting the Stones.

Typically I share my "Top 10 Film" list with friends around the middle of January.  But this year I was tardy.  It's not that I was late in compiling the list -- that was no problem.  It's just that I never got around to typing and sending it out.   

Shout out to Jimmy Traina and the Sports Illustrated Extra Mustard staff for a mention of Thrillercast - The Michael Jackson Podcast in yesterday's Hot Clicks. Whether they knew it or not, Jimmy (and his readers) also pointed out three videos deeply rooted in Legacy.

In August 2005, Legacy producer Leo Sacks was sitting in a pizza parlor in midtown Manhattan, watching the surging floodwaters swallow New Orleans.

As the extent of the calamity became clear, Leo told his friend Andy Kowalczyk: “We need to start the healing; we need to make a record right away.”

Andy, a financier with a musician’s heart, agreed. “It’s the right thing to do,” he said.

Classic with a twist or twisted classical?
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One of the first things that I remember from when I started at Legacy was the main conference room. It was a large room with blue walls, a big table in the center and lots of chairs. Each wall had a collection of framed, black and white photos. The photos were of iconic artists that had recorded with Sony BMG. It was really quite stunning.