Microsoft Launches Ignition

Microsoft has launced Ignition, an initiative to promote emerging music acts across its digital properties. The program is designed to expose new artists and their music to consumers for an entire month by featuring exclusive content through Microsoft’s multiple services, including MSN, Xbox Live and Zune. The first participating act is U.K. band Maximo Park. Microsoft is providing the group’s first single as a free...

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Ian Curtis Biopic – Control – Acquired By Weinsteins

The rights to the biopic of Ian Curtis, eclectic frontman of Joy Division, has been acquired by the Weinstein Company. “Control” focuses on Curtis’ last years leading up to his suicide in 1980, the struggle between his love for his wife and his girlfriend, his bouts with epilepsy and performances with Joy Division. Photographer and musicvideo director Anton Corbijn made his feature directorial debut with...

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