31. May 2008 by Matt.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

CONTACT:
Matthew Schlein
WooJew Entertainment
matt@woojew.com
http://www.woojew.com

“WooJew The Music: Volume 1″ to be Released Friday, June 6th, 2008.

Ft. Worth, Texas, 5/31/08 - WooJew The Music: Volume 1 will be officially released on Friday, June 6th, 2008. WooJew TMV1 is a compilation album featuring songs and artists that have been previously featured on the WooJew Podcast.

This album will be available free of charge. It will initially be given out at “Steven’s Graduation Kegger” on the evening of June 6th, 2008. Those not in attendance may request a copy, free of charge, by e-mailing their name and address to matt@woojew.com. Please include “WooJew The Music” in the subject line.

Highlights of the album include newly remastered tracks from Alice Cooper and Iron Maiden. Also included are hard to find b-sides from Weezer and Nightwish, along with a new version of Apocalyptica’s “I’m Not Jesus”, featuring guest vocals from Corey Taylor.

Matt Schlein oversaw the creation of this album for WooJew to ensure the highest audio quality. The masters of each track were personally chosen by Schlein for the most superior audio quality and fidelity possible. WooJew The Music: Volume 1 will be pressed on Lightscribe printable CD-Rs, allowing the track listing to be professionally printed right on the disc.

Track list:
1. Metallica - Devil’s Dance
2. Alkaline Trio - Queen Of Pain
3. Michael Andrews and Gary Jules - Mad World
4. Theory Of A Deadman - No Surprise
5. The Beatles - While My Guitar Gently Weeps (2006 Version, from the album Love)
6. Eminem (featuring Dido) - Stan
7. The Juliana Theory - We’re Nothing Without You
8. Riddlin’ Kids - Stop The World
9. Weezer - You Gave Your Love To Me Softly
10. Megan McCauley - I’ll Pay You To Shoot Him
11. Apocalyptica (featuring Corey Taylor) - I’m Not Jesus (Single/American album mix)
12. Alice Cooper - Steven (2003 Remaster)
13. Jay-Z and Linkin Park - Points Of Authority, 99 Problems, One Step Closer
14. Cross Canadian Ragweed - Dimebag
15. Nightwish - Escapist
16. Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast (2008 Remaster)
17. HIM - The Kiss Of Dawn

WooJew The Music: Volume 1 is not being made for profit. This album is intended to serve as a promotional tool for the artists featured. WooJew Entertainment firmly believes that artists should be compensated for their work and insists that recipients purchase the works of the featured artists if they enjoy the material presented.

ABOUT WooJew Entertainment- WooJew Entertainment was formed in 2007 by Steven Kirby and Matthew Schlein. It is dedicated to entertaining the massess through various forms of media including audio, video and text.
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31. May 2008 by Matt.

Part 7

Part 8

Part 9

Part 10

Part 11

Part 12

Part 13

Part 14

Part 15

Part 16

That’s pretty much it. We’ve got a few short videos that weren’t part of our blog series. I may be posting those soon. We also have TONS of photos that will eventually show up.

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30. May 2008 by Matt.

Who are these people, and what have they done with Metallica?

The band has a long, storied history of clashing with fans online, but along with its label, it hopes to make amends with a new website called Mission: Metallica, offering fans a chance to “experience the new album before it’s done” that will offer its upcoming album in the unprotected MP3 format — no digital rights management attached.

When the two-years-in-the-making album is finally ready to be released, members of the site will be able to download it in the DRM-free MP3 format (320 Kbps) — quite a big step for the band that sued the original Napster. The album will also be available in vinyl and CD formats, each of which will also come with release-day digital download versions.

But the album’s just the tip of the iceberg, according to the band, which plans to use the site to open up to its fans, somewhat in the style of Some Kind of Monster.

“Mission: Metallica is your inside look at the past two years of riffing, writing and recording,” reads a note on the site, which was created by the band’s label, Warner Music Group. “[It’s] proof that we’ve actually been doing shit most of this time! We’re gonna open the floodgates and share with you photos, videos, riffs and a lot more.”

Metallica has been watching what Radiohead and Trent Reznor have been up to, and it would appear that this is its attempt to provide a similar experience designed to bring fans and the band closer together. However, unlike those bands, Metallica won’t offer its album for free.

This represents a big move for Metallica and its major label overlord away from DRM and towards unprotected music. And since it requires the creation of a profile, the site will also likely become a sort of social network for Metallica fans as the album is released and the band goes on tour in support of it.

That said, the band and its label still have one foot in the old music industry. Mission: Metallica offers fans certain things for free (mostly in the form of video footage and teasers for the album), but the decision not to offer a free version of the album looks major label-ish when compared to Radiohead’s and Nine Inch Nails’ full album giveaways.

Fans have several options when signing up for Mission: Metallica, from free all the way up to $125.

Free membership

Fly-on-the-wall footage of the album being written and recorded
Pre-release excerpts from the upcoming album
A chance to pre-order the album and download it immediately upon its release
Photos and other material from Lars Ulrich’s vault of historical Metallica items, including rare and live tracks
Entry into a contest to win free passes to every show
Metallica events (when the band goes on vacation in Europe this summer, fans will be able to virtually tag along)
Digital Album

$12 pre-order
320 Kbps MP3 delivered on the release date
CD Album

$20 pre-order
Includes CD plus MP3 download delivered on the release date
Platinum membership

Price varies: Platinum membership costs $25 with the MP3 version of the album, $33 with the CD+MP3 version or $125 for the CD, the MP3s, a vinyl box set with five 180-gram LPs and a Mission: Metallica lithograph.
Digital, CD or vinyl copy of the album when it comes out — in all cases, you get the whole album in the unprotected MP3 format (320 Kbps) on the release date.
Live show downloads
Extended video footage, photos and ringtones of new riffs
Entry into a contest for festival show tickets, including air, hotel, and band meet-and-greet
$10 discount on band merchandise

In May of 2000, when Lars Ulrich personally delivered a 60,000-page printout of the Napster users who were sharing Metallica songs, he probably never suspected that the online backlash against his band would still be running at full steam eight years later.

Sometimes, hindsight is everything.

The band’s unveiling of a fan-outreach program called Mission: Metallica, including DRM-free downloads and access to unreleased material, reflects a new understanding on their part about how the internet works: Give people what they want or they’ll get it from somewhere else.

But when we first posted about Metallica’s plans for some sort of Radiohead-style release, the response was overwhelmingly negative. Of the 75 comments at this writing, not all are negative (even though the worst of the negatives are unprintable. Except they’ve already been printed. Look them up).

“Wow, you’re looking into using the Internet,” wrote Lewis Salem. “Good for you, Lars. We have been looking into using it for 14 years. When you got up and demonized Shawn Fanning, you made a complete ass of yourself. How pompous.”

A user called Kanye West took the matter into the realm of parody: “Metallica hates black people.”

When the band announced that its plan did not include giving the album away for free, as Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails have done, fans became even more hostile.

“Too little, too late. I don’t even listen to metal, but I’m going to download this album illegally out of spite. Metallica sucks,” wrote Ched.

Danijel followed that up with “Stay off of the internet, Napster-killing pieces of shit hypocrites.”

P.W. explained his decision to stop following the band as part of his embrace of MP3s, despite the fact that Metallica is selling its next album in the format: “Up yours, Metallica. (I) don’t buy your crap anymore and don’t listen to your stuff after the late ’90s. You wanted me to pick between MP3s and Metallica? I did. You lost.”

Contrast this with the love fans have shown for Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails, the two bands Lars Ulrich said Metallica had been keeping an eye on while devising its own strategy.

About Radiohead’s In Rainbows, commenter Bennet wrote, “I’m glad I could shell out 40 pounds for the discbox, the album is great and the bonus disc should be great,” while Falha explained that any version of an afterlife would be acceptable, so long as they play Radiohead: “I don’t know if there’s a heaven or a hell. I just hope that wherever I go, I can listen to Radiohead. Thank you so much!”

Nine Inch Nails received similar praise and gratitude from Listening Post readers for Ghosts I-IV. “Finally a music release system that I can get into. Pay the artist not the corporation,” wrote Beriale. “Thank you NIN.” Julie said she downloaded the album via torrent for free but decided to pay for it anyway: “First, I went to their site and downloaded the amazing GhostI. Then, after listening to it all night long, I went back and paid 5 bucks for the complete download, I loved it so much. How’s that for marketing? Thank you NIN for nailing this down! Will music start our next revolution?”

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29. May 2008 by Steven.

The party is next friday, June 6. Call me or e-mail me for directions if needed.

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28. May 2008 by Matt.

-Welcome to Royce’s Fantastic Hour!
-Since the boys are still in WDW, Royce is here to as he puts it, “tear things up!”
-Eric, Matt and Steven have just returned to the studio…to find Royce pantless.
-Gloria kicked him out of the house, less than a week into the marriage.
-Steven would really like to know why Royce isn’t wearing pants.
-Apparently it involves a Hamburger fountain, hamburger helper and Royce’s ass.
-Royce has been staying out in Steven’s house, pantless, for about a week now.
-Eric chokes out Royce again.
-Roberto let Royce in the house, and then showed up in Disney World…he’s magical, man.
-Roberto has 20 some-odd children, most named after Latino celebrities. They also thoroughly enjoy chorizo.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorizo

“Russian Roulette” by10 Years
From the album, Division
 

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25. May 2008 by Matt.

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24. May 2008 by Steven.

E-mail me at steven@woojew.com or give me a call we are trying to plan it for either this Friday or next. It’s looking like June 6th since my brother graduates on the 30. Let me know what your schedule is like for those days, I want the largest amount of people possible.

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23. May 2008 by Matt.

This is the new Weezer video, “Pork and Beans” from the upcoming “Red Album”, out in June. This has got to be one of the most meta videos I have ever seen! It’s alot like that recent episode of South Park that featured internet stars. But this one actually has the real people from the Youtube videos. It’s nuts!

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22. May 2008 by Matt.

Part 3

Part 4

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21. May 2008 by Matt.

Hi everyone!
Over the next week or so I’m going to be posting the video blogs we recorded down in WDW. They will be on YouTube and also I’ll embed them in these here posts. Enjoy!

Part 1

Part 2

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