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...created in the calendar for the IPL, lest aging players make a calculated decision to retire early from their Test careers. Teammate Andrew Symonds, snared at auction by Hyderabad for $1.35 million over three years, has made it clear he'd rather play in the upcoming IPL tournament than tour an unstable Pakistan as part of his national squad. "Right now you'd have to be nervous if you're a cricket administrator," Symonds warned in his Brisbane newspaper column. "The bottom line is the money on offer in India is not going away and may even get more...
...name The Swell Season since 2006, now have an Oscar and a Grammy. Once is the best-selling album on iTunes and the #9 DVD on Amazon. Their label expects sales of the album to triple in the next week. The pair is gearing up for a U.S. tour: Instead of the 75-seat clubs and bars The Swell Season played last year, they'll be headlining venues like Radio City Music Hall and the Coachella Music Festival. There was one other blessing the film wrought - Hansard and Irglova fell in love while promoting Once last spring...
...Searchlight launched the film in limited theatrical release in May with a 16-city bus tour. Screening the movie for local press and closing with live Swell Season performances, the tour built on the goodwill the film had established with critics at the Sundance Film Festival in January...
...fall, when Once was still in theaters, the Swell Season's record label launched another tour that rolled into Once's DVD release in December. "The film drove the album from the beginning," says Jack Hedges, marketing manager for Canvasback Music, the Sony BMG imprint that released the album. "But unlike most soundtracks, we had living, breathing musicians. These weren't actors who were singing songs." Rather than utilizing Top 40 radio or expensive TV ads, the label relied on the old-school marketing techniques of touring and press to sell their way to a gold record...
...musicians, that is surely true enough. Unless Tehran someday beckons as the next stop in an "axis of evil" tour, there can be no stranger venue than Pyongyang for some of the world's finest musicians to play. The buses that transported the orchestra, staff and some 80 foreign journalists (three times the number that accompanied then Secretary of State Madeline Albright for her meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il in late 2000) rolled past building after building that was unlit in the late afternoon gloom; pedestrians on the streets stared as the fleet of buses rolled into...