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...available in New York as early as December 21; since then it has been distributed throughout the region and can be found in most local music stores. Natchez points out, though, that fans may have to ask for it specially, since it wasn't released on a large corporate label...
Noah Wildman, office manager for Moon Records NYC, the four-person, all-ska label that produced the record describes Skavoovie's music as "a very swingy kind of traditional...
...deal's ancillary elements can make it tricky to assess. Warner Bros. signed Madonna to a $60 million deal and even gave the Material Girl her very own record label. Madonna's last few records have sold only about 3 million copies apiece, substandard for her, but the deal's overall returns look better because her private label has fared well (its latest success: imported Canadian diva Alanis Morissette, whose Grammy-nominated CD Jagged Little Pill has hit No. 1). The Rolling Stones' two albums since their 1992 $35 million contract with Virgin have had mild sales, but the fact...
...attempt to resurrect George Michael is being watched closely in the industry. Last year DreamWorks SKG bought out his contract from Sony for $40 million and gave him a $12 million, two-record deal. Michael was famously unhappy at Sony, claiming that the label had not supported what he saw as his musical maturation. He sued to get out of the contract, lost, refused to record for Sony anyway and eventually worked out his deal with DreamWorks. The former Wham! singer's first single for Dreamworks, Jesus to a Child, is rather solemn but is starting to get some airplay...
...deals that are too rich is not signing them at all. No record-company suit wants to be known as the guy who lost Janet Jackson. Plus big names lure other big names. Bruce Springsteen's manager brought him to Columbia in 1972 in large part because the label had Bob Dylan. Says Jackson's lawyer, Don Passman: "There's some trophy value to having artists of this magnitude...