The Police: highest earning musicians in 2008

If any of you were curious to know who made the most money off your backs last year, find out that its none other then your parents’ favorite band,  The Police. Yup, like Sting didn’t have enough dope already, it seems the made a whooping 150 million dollars last year, since they reunited and toured the world. Runer-ups include Beyonce, Justin Timberlake or Madonna. There’s no question about it, most of you are probably wondering…

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The Police on ‘last ever concert’

Today some sad news struck most life long Police fans, as the band announced earlier this evening, that they’ll soon hold their final concert, ever. The statement was made with the occasion of a press conference, held in New York, at which the band also participated. There each of the band’s members Sting, Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers were presented with keys to the city by mayor Michael Bloomberg, as the later praised the band…

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2007: the year of reunions and more …

“They just kicked out another band member? Is there anybody left?” “What in the name of all that is good would possess him to move in with Courtney Love?” “Is THAT really metallica?!” “So they are finally releasing Chinese Democracy…. again?” These questions say a lot about recent years, as well as this one, in music. We could not think about one to sum it up as it was an amazing year, musically speaking, from…

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ZME Music Top 50 Albums of 2007

Boy does time fly, we just can’t believe it how this year went by so fast, well ZME Music’s been around for only 6 months, but that’s not important. Actually this year was so busy, that we hardly could face the large amounts of new releases every week, especially in the summer time and believe us we don’t complain. Due to this, 2007, was the year in which new music was making it’s comeback; we’ve…

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My Bloody Valentine set reform and release new album

The year of 2008, will definitely go down in history as a time of band reunions. Since the beginning of the year countless broken up bands have announced their reunion and in most cases a grand tour or fabouls LP to go with it. [tag]Van Halen[/tag], [tag]Led Zeppelin[/tag], [tag]The Police[/tag], [tag]Rage Against The Machine[/tag] are just a few big names reformed under a lineup or another. Now ending the series of shocking comebacks is the…

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The Police with anniversary compilation

This year coincides with the 30th anniversary reunion tour in 2007. The band prepares a tour and they have also released a double compilation called “The Police”. The quality can not be denied but but this set falls just a bit short of being the definitive Police double disc. It feels a bit slim at 28 tracks. But the bad thing is not that it is slim but rather that some definitory tracks are missing….

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