Our good friends over at Desert Blue Jeans are going to be featured on EXTRA TV this week as part of the Silver Spoon Gifting Suite Special. Tune in and check out the jeans!

In a move that came at no surprise; Activision Inc today unveiled a new “Guitar Hero” video game featuring Aerosmith. This is a smart move for Activision and their billion-dollar franchise as it will provide the company with a long term growth strategy while it paves the way for other bands to jump on board.

Labels and Managers are going to have to remember not to milk this to death and over-saturate the market with every band on their roster.

Next; Would Activision use online content delivery systems to supply updates in terms of new songs to the end users? Would bands have the ability upload their own music to the service and sell it?

Congrats to Paul and Daniel for your 8 Oscar nominations for There Will Be Blood. An Epic movie that the critics agree with. Now hopefully the WGA will not rain on your parade.

Best Picture: “There Will Be Blood”
Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, “There Will Be Blood”
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson, “There Will Be Blood”
Adapted Screenplay: Paul Thomas Anderson, “There Will Be Blood”
Art Direction: “There Will Be Blood”
Cinematography: “There Will Be Blood”
Sound Editing: “There Will Be Blood”
Film Editing: “There Will Be Blood”

Check out this amazing artist that you have to get to know! Thanks to Big Billy Clark for sending over his MySpace page!

Ryan Shaw is truly amazing!! Check out this video of him preforming Nobody on BET.



Last night after the A&R Showcase at SIR Studios we attended the Terminator The Sarah Connor Chronicles Premiere at Arclight Cinedome in Hollywood, CA.

Verizon and Fox did a great job with the vibe of the event.

Fox did a great job with the show. You should check out the Two-Night Premiere starting Sunday , January 13, 2008 at 8pm on your local Fox station.

Thanks to Claudia Bremser at Verizon and Fox Studios for taking care of us and assigning a publicist for the evening. Check out the Soiree Series blog for all the photos.

View the full red carpet photo on the Entertainment Events page.

Last night we had the pleasure checking out the Coda Vesta A&R Showcase at SIR Studios in Hollywood. Thanks to our good friend Les Camacho for the invite. You did a great job mixing and engineering the session.

Check Coda Vesta out on MySpace here. It’s well worth the listen.

Today the Director’s Guild of America announced the nominees for Best Director and Paul Thomas Anderson was nominated once again nominated for There Will Be Blood. The award will be handed out at the 60th Annual DGA Awards Dinner on Saturday, January 26, 2008, at the Hyatt Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles.

Read all about it here.

Critics agree, There Will Be Blood! Paul Thomas Anderson’s epic masterpiece based on his loose adaptation of a 1927 Upton Sinclair novel, “Oil!”. In this movie Paul Thomas Anderson proves why he is truly one of the greatest directors of our generation.

The National Society of Film Critics on Saturday awarded There Will Be Blood, Best Picture, Best Actor for Daniel Day-Lewis and Best Director for Paul Thomas Anderson.

If the awards keep pilling up the way they have been, there should be no competition for The Oscars. That is if The WGA will get their heads out of their asses and stop playing hardball with the AMPTP. You can only go so far with an ex-Union leader who does not know how to play politics.

Hopefully the WGA will bargain and cut an interim agreement with the The Academy of Motion Arts and Pictures and allow ABC to broadcast the event. It would be a shame to delay the event or have the actors picket because they are afraid to cross the picket line. Grow some balls and give America a glimpse of what they look forward to every year!

Today our good friends over at KhyKel Music Enterprises signed a three year deal with Go Pets to provide music for their interactive online game.

Read all about it on the Official KhyKel Blog.

Congrats Torrey Adams!

About:
GoPets is a global community composed of real people and virtual pets. Each GoPet is a unique 3D companion that makes its home on its owner’s desktop.

KhyKel Music Enterprises is a full service music production publishing company based in Los Angeles, CA. KhyKel offers exclusive custom made content for brands, creative consulting for media, technology and entertainment industries.

After almost a year of putting together the team it looks like Bob Ezrin is going to finally head up Live Nation Recordings according to a mention on page 20 of the Wedbush Morgan 2007 California Dreamin’ Conference Live Nation Presentation.

You can download the report here (PDF).

Rumor has it that the Live Nation Recordings office is going to based in Miami at Michael Cohl’s office. Michael serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Artist Nation and Chief Executive Officer of CPI. I also hear that they are fully staffed and up and running.

Press release anytime soon? This points to why Live Nation would sign Madonna to a deal that includes recording. Looks like another way for Live Nation to loose more money. For a company who’s stock is under preforming this is the last thing as an investor that I would want to see.

What do you think of Live Nation going into the recorded Music Business? Leave us a comment.