Word: warners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Modern Lovers signed to Warner Brothers, which proves just how base corporate rock today is, since major labels then weren't afraid to sign bands like the Stooges or the MC5 or the Modern Lovers. All these bands were commercial flops, so it's understandable that labels were chastened, but each produced a body of art that ought to have bands like Third Eye Bland and Dave bleedin' Matthews throwing themselves off bridges in shame, or at least wetting themselves with envy...
Maybe. Silicon Valley is littered with the wrecks of start-ups that failed to reach the visual-community promised land. In fact, the Palace was almost one of them. Created by Time Warner in 1995 and independent since '96, the Palace--like most of its competitors--hoped to turn a profit by charging for its software. By last winter, though, it had amassed just 300 sites and 50,000 users, and its investors were looking for a buyer to bail them...
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...Soldier, Warner Brothers' new film starring Kurt Russell, is a futuristic science fiction action movie. What would someone going to the movie expect to see, given this premise? Special effects and outer space settings are pretty likely. So are violence and a romantic twist somewhere in the story. And, as usual, audiences at science fiction movies are ready to set aside notions of realism and plausibility in order to enjoy the film as an entertaining spectacle rather than an intellectual experience. Soldier makes use of most of these assumptions, but in the end turns out to be a disappointing film...
...media attention circulating around Up makes this a make or break album for the band as it enters the next millennium. Some argue that R.E.M.'s power has continued to grow, leading to the group's apparent autonomy from the shifty nature of the music industry. Still, executives at Warner Bros. had to worry just a little after the low sales of New Adventures in Hi-Fi in 1996, especially after the band was re-signed to a lucrative contract a few years...