“I thought we were going to have the album ready now, but why publish it now if there is still invaluable material to be discovered?” Writes Bono, the leader of the group, U2.com.

So far, the Irish quartet has been recorded in southern France, Fez (Morocco) and Dublin (Ireland) with his usual collaborators Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois and Steve Lillywhite.

“We know that we must emerge soon, but we also know that people do not want another disc of U2 unless our best work to date,” Bono added. “There must be more innovative, more challenging.”

Bono also says that the group now has 50 or 60 songs that include believed to be in the continuation of How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, his latest work, 2004.

“Right now we seek a transition similar to what happened between The Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby,” Bono added. “We wish that 2009 is our year.”

Relatives and close friends of Spears do not believe appropriate their participation in television, but apparently she has ignored the recommendations, according to page dailystar.co.uk.

According to the Daily Star, her father is furious, while his mother feared that Britney occupy the space to criticize the book recently published by his mom, and with whom Britney disagreed.

This is not the first time that Britney is participating in a reality. The first time was with her then husband, Kevin Federline on “Britney and Kevin Chaotic,” which was not successful as far as the short time, was cancelled.

The guitar player, Tiago Della Vega is a Brazilian who started studying their first lessons at 5 years and 2 years later began to play classical guitar. He spent much much much time over several years practicing, sometimes 16 hours per day, that’ how Tiago came to playing the way in which they make incredibly fast.

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* When assessing the P2P downloading population, there was “a strong positive relationship between P2P file sharing and CD purchasing. That is, among Canadians actually engaged in it, P2P file sharing increases CD purchases.” The study estimates that one additional P2P download per month increases music purchasing by 0.44 CDs per year.

* When viewed in the aggreggate (ie. the entire Canadian population), there is no direct relationship between P2P file sharing and CD purchases in Canada. According to the study authors, “the analysis of the entire Canadian population does not uncover either a positive or negative relationship between the number of files downloaded from P2P networks and CDs purchased. That is, we find no direct evidence to suggest that the net effect of P2P file sharing on CD purchasing is either positive or negative for Canada as a whole.

Thanks to Boing Boing.

Chaim Witz, better known as Gene Simmons, has been discrediting artists like Radiohead or Nine Inch Nails that are trying to find new ways of making money in the music industry.

“The record industry doesn’t have a f—ing clue how to make money.” he stated in an interview for Billboard.com. “I open a store and say “Come on in and pay whatever you want”. Are you on f—ing crack? Do you really believe that’s a business model that works?”.

During the interview, he also stated that “Every little college kid, every freshly-scrubbed little kid’s face should have been sued off the face of the earth. They should have taken their houses and cars and nipped it right there in the beginning.”.

… What a jerk!