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Manager Bryan Coleman is justly proud that Nickelback is a blue-collar rock and roll band that still sells a lot of records; has SRO shows wherever it plays; and doesn�t give a damn about its critics.
Nor does he.
Nickelback has sold more than 50 million albums worldwide, and the band's last five albums debuted in the top 10 of the Billboard 200.
Nickelback delivered its 7th studio album �Here and Now� on Nov. 21, 2011. It debuted at #2 on the Billboard Top 200.
Under Coleman�s watchful eye, Nickelback will spend the next two years on the road supporting that record.
Prior to the release of "Here and Now,� the band was named the #1 musical turn-off in a poll conducted by Tastebuds.fm, and even found itself the target of an online petition seeking to have it removed from a half-time performance at the Detroit Lions' annual Thanksgiving football game.
Launched by a Michigan music fan, the online petition drew more than 40,000 signatures.
Nickelback, of course, played the Thanksgiving Day game anyway to a boisterous reception.
Booked by Steve Kaul at the Agency Group, the band will play North America from April through July; followed by European dates; and then do dates in Australia, New Zealand, Japan and S.W. Asia before the year�s end.
Dates in South America and South Africa are penciled in for 2013 along with further touring in North America, and Europe.
Meanwhile, Coleman will be choosing Nickelback's future recording home. The band signed a 360 deal with Live Nation in 2008, and "Here and Now" is their final studio album under its deal with Roadrunner Records.
Founded in 1987 by Tim Heyne (joined by partners John Greenberg in 1989, and Coleman in 1991) Union Entertainment Group handles Cinderella, Pillar, George Lynch, Red, Hinder, Daniel Powter and others.
Union Entertainment Group doesn�t have a centralized office. Its 20 employees work wherever they live. As a result, the company has outposts in Midland, and Houston Texas; Sarasota, Florida; Seattle; Amsterdam; Vancouver; New York City; Nashville with a staff of 4-5 people; and two offices in Los Angeles.
Based in Midland, Texas with three staff members, Coleman�s own client list consists of Nickelback, as well as Kevin Costner and Modern West, Default, Oleander, and Candlebox.
Nickelback can split a room between Nickelback fans and Nickelback haters. What is it about the band that people hate?
I don�t think it�s the band, particularly. I think that it�s just (being in) the mainstream. There are always people who are anti-mainstream. Nickelback is--I guess--the label of mainstream. This happened in the �90s too, but there was a big music movement that fought against it (mainstream music). That was grunge. Right now, there is not a big music movement. In fact, rock and roll really doesn�t have a lot of prominence, right now. In fact, Nickelback is probably the one beacon in the whole sphere of rock. There are a few others, like the Foo Fighters that are also doing great, but there aren�t many.
The disdain they attract comes mostly with the territory?
It does. Somebody has to carry that. Unfortunately, that is just the truth. Led Zeppelin carried it. They had horrible media. Van Halen did it. Def Leppard did it. AC/DC did it. And the same thing happened to Kid Rock too. He was tossed out of many venues. The list just goes on and on. It�s their time and their place right now. It is not going to be their legacy. It�s not. The band is going to be around for a long time, and there will be somebody else for people to hate on.
It (the criticism) is also being exploited because it�s on the internet. If there was no internet, you wouldn�t be hearing about it. But because people have a conduit to release their aggression, they are doing it online, and people are seeing it. That�s why it�s become so well-known.
The Black Keys� Patrick Carney provided Nickelback with a media gift with his recent outburst.
Ah jeez. It�s funny because the Black Keys are an act that the guys love, and I love them too. I think their videos are great, and their music is great too. Sometimes artists just want opportunities to get a little extra press. It happened to be one of those times, and it happened to be a moment when it was popular to bang on Nickelback. Okay.
[After The Black Keys� Patrick Carney told Rolling Stone that �rock �n� roll is dying because people became OK with Nickelback being the biggest band in the world,� Nickelback sent out a tweet saying, �Thanks to the drummer in the Black Keys calling us the Biggest Band in the World in Rolling Stone. Hehe.�]
It may also have been Patrick�s true feelings. But there�s no question it was a media gift to Nickelback. C�mon.
Yeah. It was pretty easy. It was a soft ball. It was a lob.
In 2008, Nickelback did a 360 deal with Live Nation. Was the band also being pursued by EMI, Warner, and Sony?
No. We were in discussions with Warner (the parent company of Nickelback�s longtime label Roadrunner Records) to extend our current deal. Needless to say (discussions) broke down. We went to Live Nation with the idea of a partnership, and they loved it. They were already doing similar things with Madonna and looking at doing a deal with Shakira. So we went to them and we had an idea of what we wanted to do. I talked with Michael Rapino (pres./CEO of Live Nation) and Jason Garner (head of the company's Global Music division who had left the company in 2010). We came to do a deal really quickly. It�s been a great partnership ever since.
With Warner, were you looking at securing ownership of Nickelback�s catalog?
I think that is every artist�s dream, right?
Not going to happen, pal. Once recordings are in a label�s holdings, it�s hard to pry them out.
Yeah, even artists who say they have it (reversion rights) don�t really have it.
The label then holds the right to distribute the catalog in perpetuity.
[In 2008, Nickelback signed a three-album/three tour deal with Live Nation estimated to be worth between $50-$70 million. The band had two studio albums left on its Roadrunner Records contract.
Nickelback�s 2005 album �All the Right Reasons� had sold 10 million units worldwide, and had spent 110 consecutive weeks in the Top 30 of the Billboard 200 album chart. The album--buoyed by seven multi-format hit singles--fell off Billboard�s album after a 156-week run, the longest run by an act registered in 11 years.
Under the new deal, Live Nation acquired 12 separate artist rights to feed its global distribution pipe. These include touring, tour sponsorship, tour merchandise, tour VIP/travel packages, secondary ticketing, recorded music, clothing, licensing and other retail merchandise, non-tour sponsorship and endorsements, DVD and broadcast rights, fan club, web site and literary rights.
Nickelback joined Madonna, Jay-Z, and Shakira in Live Nation�s stable of artists with long-term, comprehensive deal packages. U2 has a deal that includes many of the same features, but does not include its recordings.]
Nickelback�s final studio album for Roadrunner is �Here and Now.� Presumably there is greatest hits and, maybe, a live album?
Yeah, I totally anticipate greatest hits. I don�t know if we will do a live album or not.
Live Nation will probably third party the rights to a label. Might that lead to Nickelback staying with Roadrunner for distribution?
It absolutely could happen. Yeah, we fulfilled the last contract. We have a little time. We probably have a (album/touring) cycle. That will be a couple of years, if history dictates. So we have a couple of years to figure it out. Who knows who is going to buy who? Who is going to be where? Who�s going to be distributing music? How music is going to be distributed. It can change tomorrow. A year from now it (the recording business) could be very, very different.
The Live Nation deal is very fluid.
They are our partners. So what we will do is check the landscape, and we will find the right partner to distribute the music, and Live Nation is our partner in all things Nickelback. We deal with (Michael) Rapino and Steve Herman (president of artist services at Live Nation) now.
[It was Michael Rapino and Steve Herman, while at Core Audience Entertainment in Canada, who gave Nickelback one of its earliest major breaks as an opening act with Creed and Oleander at The Docks in Toronto in Oct. 1999.]
Promoter Louis Messina has publicly expressed his disappointment in losing Nickelback. How difficult was it telling Louis that Nickelback was leaving him for Live Nation?
It was tough. He understood. He understood where we were at, and what we were being offered. He understood. But it was tough because he was a big part of it (the success). Louis and I are friends to this day. It was a friendship then; and it has continued on. He got it. He understood.
[Up until its deal with Live Nation, Nickelback�s American dates had been primarily promoted by Louis Messina, the founder/principal of The Messina Group/AEG Live in Houston. �Look at Nickelback,� he told CelebrityAccess in 2010. �Here�s a band that didn�t sell a lot of tickets. I got involved and then they had a huge record (�All the Right Reasons� in 2005). They are talented and were ready to explode but, maybe, I had the foresight to see they were ready to explode. Everybody else thought, �Nickelback? That band can�t sell tickets.� We sold out across the country. Not once but twice. Then, when it was all said and done, the other guy (Live Nation) wrote them a big old check.�]
Marketing of �Here and Now� has been a mix of traditional and social media marketing. Was this the first time you�ve utilized a double single-strategy?
It is. It is one of the things that we had wanted to do in the past. It just hadn�t happened the way that we had wanted it to. This time the opportunity was there, and it was very distinct. We felt like that we had a song ("When We Stand Together�) that was very pop ready (for radio); and we felt that we had a song ("Bottoms Up�) that we could service to rock fans as well. Fortunately, the cycles are different with rock and with pop as far as how long the songs last (on radio) So we started off this time at the same time; and so we serviced them both. We felt like it (the strategy) was successful.
How do you view this business today with all of the changes in touring, recording and music publishing? As a manager, you have to be a master of so many worlds now.
I think that has always been the case. For me. anyway. I�m in there with all of them (the different sectors of the music business) anyway. It is just that the dollars and cents are less from one side (recording); but we try to make it up from the others. It�s the same for all bands. In Nickelback�s case, if we can get people to come to the show, buy a shirt, and have good time, they are going to want to come back.
Why put music tracks on Spotify or iTunes when there�s so little revenue trickling down to artists?
It really is true. Spotify, specifically, we chose to put the new album up on as release. We did that because they were giving us a lot of promotion in return, and it really helped us overseas. We are having our best release in several cycles. In Scandinavia, it helped us immensely, and in some of the Eastern European markets, it has helped us immensely. So, it was not just about helping us here (in North America). Yes, it was about helping us here; getting us an awareness of the album; and awareness for the tour now. That�s great--but it really helped us internationally.
The band kicks of its North American tour April 10 in Moline, Illinois with openers Bush, Seether and My Darkest Days. The tour was slated to end in Vancouver on June 26th but I understand that dates are now being extended.
We are extending the North American run a bit through to July. Right now, it�s to June but we are going to announce more dates pretty soon. That will take us through July and then we are going to do Europe in September and October and then we will hit up Australia, S.E. Asia, and Japan.
Why do Europe later in the cycle? Many acts jump over there first, return to North America, and then go back again.
We are letting the record build there. It is so far out that we will be on sell here in a couple of weeks for September dates. We wanted to be far enough out. We wanted to build there like we do in the States. We want it (the album) to resonate--get a couple of singles out, and then tour the world. This really builds into not just our 2012 plan, but our 2013 plan as well because we will come back and do the festivals (in Europe) in 2013; and do another North America run as well. It just fits into the full plan; and not just for one year in 2012. It is a two year plus plan.
The UK resisted Nickelback for several years until the band was triumphant there last time around. What brought about the turnaround?
That�s not necessarily true. �How You Remind Me� was huge in the Europe. In the England to this day, it (�Silver Side Up� in 2001) is the band�s biggest album.
[According to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), over two million units of �Silver Side Up� were sold in Europe. The album sold eight million copies worldwide in 2002. The album has since sold another 2 million units globally.]
Nevertheless, Nickelback had difficulty touring the UK as a major headlining act for several years.
Let�s put it this way. We were at the arena level, and then we were not at the arena level for a few albums. Then �Rockstar� happened which was late in the (album release/touring) cycle. �Rockstar� hit, and it hit in a big way. We ran a campaign that just clicked with people, and �Rockstar� took off. I really put the band back to arenas there. Even without new releases, we went back and did multiples (tours) multiple times in the UK. With the last album (�Dark Horse�) it was kind of off the success of that. We continued to do arenas, and we will come back and do arenas there again.
[The real surprise from Nickelback�s fifth studio album "All the Right Reasons" in 2005 had been its final single "Rockstar" which reached #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart after being reserviced to U.S. radio.
In the UK, "All the Right Reasons" opened its chart run at #13 before quickly leaving the Top 75 while the single "Savin' Me" failed to chart. However, in early 2008, the album surged onto the UK chart again as "Rockstar" became Nickelback's highest charting single ever in the UK. It peaked at #2. The song was released in physical form there after becoming popular online. "All the Right Reasons� also peaked at #2.]
Many American bands have not broken in the UK or Europe. What does it take to have a consistency in those markets? Being there more and doing numerous media tours?
It takes all that. It probably takes a little bit more because you are not there on a daily basis. It�s easy to hop on over to Las Vegas and do a TV show or down to L.A. to do Leno, wherever it is. And it�s expensive going there. We take the same production from North America to Europe. It�s a big show. It costs more to tour over there. You don�t make as much money. So a lot of artists ask, �Is it worth it for me to go to Europe or should I make my money here, and not have to spend the time over there?�
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers haven�t played a major date in the UK in 20 years. The U.K. was one of the last markets to embrace Bruce Springsteen.
I�m not surprised. It certainly is a different market. They are very proud of their artists as well. We sort of embrace them and I think that they are a little bit more apprehensive about embracing American artists for whatever reasons.
[It has been announced that Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers have a headline slot at the Isle Of Wight Festival on June 22, 2012. The band will also play shows in Dublin, Cork and London.]
It�s (the UK has) become more and more hit-based, but now the catalog can carry the band. We will hopefully have more hits to come even though they aren�t playing anything with guitar on most radio over there. Most radio is beat-based and has hardly any guitar at all. We hope to have play again there but right now really we�re hoping to tour on the catalog. We will go over there and work. The guys went over and promoted the new album (with interviews). They went over and they worked hard--did their due diligence over there just like they did here.
You could do a remix for UK radio.
We already did that. DJ Reggie did a remix on �Lullaby� which is our new single. So we put a beat on it, and there you go.
How about a South American tour for Nickelback in 2013?
Absolutely, South America in 2013. We have so many fans there. Honestly our Facebook and Twitter lights up from South America begging us to come down. We have had a couple of opportunities and the timing just hasn�t worked right. It�s a huge priority for us to get to South America and South Africa as well.
Surely, Nickelback has played in Mexico.
No. We will do Mexico as well. We will do Mexico City. But really, it is about getting to Brazil.
Artists like Sting and Bryan Adams broke in South America with Spanish versions of their hits.
With the internet these days, and with English being the dominant language, it all helps us. When we do go to other countries which don�t speak English, they are singing their songs.
Would you consider having Nickelback go to China?
Absolutely. We are going to get to China too. China is tougher than most (territories) but there are arenas there, and there are rock fans there. So we will get there.
A 39-date leg of the Nickelback tour will end in Vancouver. Then the tour continues with a different size production?
Well, the April to June run is indoors and our production is...as you know the band puts on a big show. This is more than three times bigger than anything that we have ever done. This is huge. Multiple stages; double the pyro; double the lights. A very cool show. Seriously. It�s big. Chad (Kroeger) designed it. We brought in set designers and stuff but this is Chad�s concept. He dreamed pretty big, and this is his baby.
Will it be the same show internationally or will it be stripped down?
It depends. We are discussing that now. Australia, for sure we are taking it. It is just a matter of getting it over there.
Nickelback has played Japan over the years. They did Summer Sonic in 2010. It�s very expensive for any foreign artist to perform in Japan.
It is. We�ve gone there. We�ve scaled down, and gone in there with barebones shows, and it�s been some of the band�s best shows. We played two nights at Studio Coast (Studio Coast live music venue in Tokyo) which has a 3,000 capacity. I wasn�t able to go because I was sick but the band called me after the first show and said, �That was our best show ever. The crowd was great. We are shooting tomorrow.� We had brought in a film crew, and they shot the next night because it was so great. The crowd loved them, and they loved the crowd. It was one of their best shows.
Was it Ron Burman (sr. VP of A&R at Roadrunner Records) who called you about Nickelback in 1999?
It sure was. He called me and said, �We�ve got this band that we are signing and they are a rock band and we want to break them like you broke Oleander.� But Oleander is rock. I said, �Ron you guys are a death metal label. What are you talking about?� But I also then said, �Send it. Who knows?� So he sent it and I was like, �This is great. When are they playing?� They happened to be playing the next weekend (in Vancouver). So I flew up and saw them (at the Vancouver Indy Cart Race).
[Nickelback's first incarnation played covers in its native Canada, and featured a different lineup. After it disbanded, Chad Kroeger began composing songs. He then went into a Vancouver studio with guitarist Ryan Peake, his cousin, drummer Brandon Kroeger (replaced by Ryan Vikedal prior to making �The State� followed by Daniel Adair in 2005), and his older brother, bassist Mike Kroeger to record the EP �Hesher� which received some airplay on Vancouver rock station CFOX.
The band's original label signing was with EMI Music Canada which held Canadian distribution rights to the band�s recordings until �Here and Now� when the band signed with Universal Music Canada for its home territory.
In 1996, Nickelback recorded its album, �Curb� and toured for the next two years, all the while becoming increasingly disillusioned with its management. In the middle of recording �The State,� Nickelback fired its management, and handled all business matters directly themselves.
Roadrunner Records signed Nickelback in 1999, and released "The State" as part of a strategy to push the metal-based company into the mainstream rock market.]
By the time Nickelback members had met you, they had fired their management because they felt they had been getting screwed.
They were. They were reluctant (to do other management deals). When they met me I think that they got that I am an honest, trust-worthy person. That came first. Then they talked to Oleander after doing some shows with Creed and Oleander and got some insights into me, and they realized that I was what they needed. It�s been a great relationship ever since.
Prior to �The State� being released in America, Nickelback�s biggest supporter had been Ralph James, president, The Agency Group in Toronto. He had them opening shows for Big Sugar, the Headstones, 54:40, and Wide Mouth Mason until they became a headliner themselves.
Yep, and Ralph has been a huge part--a big component--of the band as well since.
What appealed to you about the band? The fact that they had the label connection in place?
No. Because at the time it was Roadrunner. I knew that it would be tough with them (breaking the mainstream while on a metal label). The good thing was that when I went to meet with Roadrunner, I saw that it was more than them just trying to put out a Coal Chamber record. They were really dedicated; Ron, (Roadrunner senior VP of promotion) and Dave Loncao who is a well-respected radio guy. At the time, Derek Shulman was the president of the company. They were really trying to make the label more than it was.
I recall Ron Burman being so committed to Nickelback in those days.
He absolutely was. That commitment was there, and I just heard the songs, and when I met the guys I thought that they were just great; and that they were great live. I loved their dedication. And they are smart guys. I don�t want to work with bands that don�t get it. I like having artists that I can talk to, and we can discuss things in detail of how we want to move forward, and how we can strategize on how we market the band,and how we move forward.
After signing with you, Nickelback toured the U.S. with 3 Doors Down, and Sevendust and headlined smaller venues.
Oh yeah. They just wanted to play. They wanted to go to every (radio) station and I wanted them to meet every PD and shake their hand, and to play acoustically, if they could. Do whatever they could to show the smiles on their faces so people would remember them the next time. The guys did 190 shows the first year (we were working together). They were right into the studio the next day. They just wanted to work.
Nickelback has had a wonderful working relationship with Steve Kaul of The Agency in New York. Obviously, it�s a team effort still.
It is. Steve has been a key part of the band�s success as well, especially live. Steve is a huge part of it. Nowadays Brad Russo, who runs our touring (at UEG), ends up talking to Steve more than I do. Steve and I don�t talk 50 times a day anymore. We talk a couple of times a week. It�s like, �Missed you. How have you been the last couple of days?�
Being based in Midland, Texas with UEG, you couldn�t get any closer in scenery and values than being in Hanna, Alberta could you?
Honestly. When we shot the �Photograph� video, we shot it in Hanna. It was the first time I had been to where the guys had grown up. I felt that I was in west Texas. There is hardly any difference. There�s more mountains there; and it�s flat here; but it is very, very similar. Oil and deserty. We obviously don�t get as cold as they do, but it�s very similar. Similar people. It was pretty similar. Scarily similar.
[The song �Photograph� was a sentimental look at Nickelback's roots, thus the return home to shoot a video of the song in this prairie town 215 kilometers northeast of Calgary.]
Midland is a small town. It�s 250,000 people in Midland and Odessa. It�s two cities, really.
It�s the hometown of former First Lady, Laura Bush, and the onetime home of former President George H.W. Bush.
I know that. There�s signs about that everywhere. George (George W. Bush) lived here and grew up here, and went to high school here. Obviously, they like to advertise that. My wife is from here. I�m from L.A. originally. We started having kids, and we moved here in 1999. At the time, it was the right opportunity for the family. I said then that as long as I have a fax machine, I can work anywhere. I don�t even have a fax machine anymore. But with email and cell phones, I can work from anywhere.
Does Midland still have oil derricks?
Oh yeah. I think that I am the only person in town not in the oil business. When you fly out of here, you start seeing oil derricks 10 minutes flying time. Hundreds of miles of pump jacks. Pump jacks everywhere. A third of the U.S. domestic oil comes from here.
You grew up in L.A.
I grew up in Simi Valley, and lived in San Fernando Valley. Laurel Canyon is in the San Fernando Valley.
One of your jobs early on was laying tile. Were you any good?
Oooh no. I was terrible at it. I tried hard. It just wasn�t what I wanted to do. I was going to Cal State North (majoring in Radio TV Film), and it (the job) was just helping me get through school.
Who was the artist manager you did some work for and met Tom Petty and Billy Idol?
It was Tony Dimitriades� house.
You didn�t know anything about artist management?
I had no idea. I just knew that I liked music, and that I wanted to be in the business and I didn�t like what I was doing there.
Tim Heyne started Union Entertainment Group in 1987?
He sure did.
You came along four years later. When did John Greenberg come in?
John came in 1989/�90.
You had been booking at Tapestry Artists?
Tapestry and Tap/ko (Union Entertainment Group�s former name) shared office space. (Tapestry resident/owner) Paul Barbarus brought me in to help him. I was working for him booking tours in South East Asia for War and Canned Heat. It wasn�t what I wanted to do. That was when I found out what a manager does and what an agent does. I don�t want to deal with promoters, c�mon.
Were you a good negotiator?
Sure, yeah. Most of my job was pushing paper and it wasn�t what I wanted to do. I wanted to be part of all aspects of a band; and to be able to develop a band from the ground up. I was fortunate to find a couple of bands that needed managers, I took them on, and I started working with the management company as well.
In 2005, Tim was shot and his wife gunned down. A devastating moment.
To the family, of course. For the company, yes. Tim is not only my partner (along with John Greenberg) but he�s also my right-hand man, and one of my best friends on the planet. So it was a tragic, tragic day, and a tragic time. No reason. It was just one those random things that happen. It really showed me the kind of man that he is and how strong he and his family are. To this day, his family is strong. He has remarried, and he�s happy and his kids are all married and having kids. They are just so strong. They volunteer themselves for gun control, helping wherever they can, and have done good things with it. Made a tragedy into a positive as much as they can.
How did you hear about the shooting?
His son (Jeff Heyne) called me.
[A 2005 killing spree in L.A. started with an attack that injured Tim Heyne and killed his wife Jan and attorney Steve Mazin. Jan was pronounced dead at the scene, Mazin died at a nearby hospital; and Tim Heyne, shot in the chest, survived. The Heynes were returning a boat they had borrowed from Mazin when the gunman approached them in the driveway. The gunman then opened fire, hitting all three.
After the shootings, the gunman carjacked a Ford F-150 and disappeared until the next morning, when he broke into a home in a gated community. There, he attacked a woman, who later died from her injuries, and beat her two children into unconsciousness. He then shot a police officer who arrived at the scene. The gunman then drove to a Wal-Mart store in Simi Valley, went in and apparently shot at the ammunition case in the sporting goods department before turning the gun on himself.]
How many people on staff at Union Entertainment Group?
About 20 people. It is still quite small. That is managers and department heads. Each artist has their own staff.
How do you balance your attention with the artists that you handle? It must be quite difficult.
It is. There are not enough hours in the day, period. You have to make sacrifices but you do your best for everybody. I try to give everybody equal time. Whatever is in front of me, I will deal with. Whatever we can do. That is what is so good about bringing great people into the company. I can rely on those people to handle things that I may not be able to get to at that moment. You have to rely on your staff and rely on the people around you.
Do you piggy-back artist clients on tours?
Only when it makes sense. I certainly don�t want to push one band onto another because inevitably it won�t work. For the upcoming (Nickelback) tour, My Darkest Day will be the opening act. They are one of our artists, and it�s a great fit. If the bands are successful than it works, but if it is just to put them on to put them on then it is not going to work for either party; so why do it? We will help friends of the band because they are friends. That�s great. But just to package just to package doesn�t make a lot of sense unless it�s a joint effort.
In this economy, it makes more sense to have the strongest bill possible.
That�s what we try to do. Two plus two makes five or one plus one equals three type of thing. We always try to have a really good package. If it happens to be one of our artists, great; but we are going to put on the best show possible for whatever artist it is.
You took on the management of Default, and built them alongside Nickelback.
Yeah. When Chad found Default, and recorded their album and played it to me I was sold just on the songs themselves. Then I met the guys, and I saw them play live and the same thing as with Nickelback, I was into it.
[Vancouver-based Default, formed in 1999. After the band won a talent contest in 2000 on Vancouver rock station CFOX, airplay for the song "Deny" spread rapidly across Canada. Sales of their album �The Fallout� followed suit.
After the band signed with TVT, the band re-recorded the album.
Following on earlier successes by Nickelback and Sum 41, Default became the next Canadian rock band to have a breakthrough hit in the U.S. as �The Fallout� found a growing American audience, due in large part to airplay for the single "Wasting My Time."]
What is happening with Default nowadays?
Default is on a hiatus as we call it. (Singer) Dallas Smith has a country album that will be coming out. The first single (�Somebody Somewhere�) is at radio now (in Canada). It�s on 604 Records (operated by Chad Kroeger and Canadian entertainment lawyer Jonathan Simkin).
Union Entertainment Group has recently signed Daniel Powter and George Lynch.
Yes, Daniel Powter is with us. George Lynch is a newly-acquired client with a new manager that we brought in. Larry Moran who has been a tour manager that we have used for many many years. He�s been like family, anyway.
Daniel Powter has a long way to go to regain his career.
For him, it will be a comeback. We took him on about a year ago. It�s just been about building him back again. We got �Bad Day� (his 2006 hit) placed on a bunch of NFL games over this past season; and sales of the song have tripled every week for many weeks in a row. We are just trying to get his profile back and then we will drop another record pretty soon. It�s just been about building his profile up again.
In Dec. 2009, Daniel Powter was named as the decade's top �One-Hit Wonder� by Billboard magazine. Why take someone one who has only had one hit? That you can rebuild a career up from nothing again?
I�d like to say that there�s been that much thought put into it; that there�s a strategy. But honestly, it�s about working with people that we like. We like him as a person. We are in sync with him (with his goals). He works hard. He wants to work hard. He wants to make a comeback. We weren�t part of his rise and fall but we know that he�s got good material; that he�s a good person; and that we�d like to work with him. So we just hope for the best.
You have long expressed an interest in working with a country act. You worked with a country act years ago, Shane Parker.
Yeah. I grew up on country. In my rock collection, I always still had Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson. I�ve always wanted a country artist as well.
Like Kenny Chesney?
I love Kenny. I love what he�s doing. I have so much respect for him. He has turned his shows into a big party, and that�s been a big success for him. That is kind of what Nickelback has done. That�s part of the reason for their touring success.
What has stopped you from having a country artist on the roster?
We just haven�t found the right one. We opened up a Nashville office a few years and have a few guys there. They are both focused on the Christian side (of the business) which I feel is important. But we just haven�t found the right country artist.
At one time Union Entertainment Group handled the management of producers, including for Garth Richardson.
Early on, John put Garth together with Rage Against The Machine. That kind of took his career off. We handled producers in the �90s, and we stopped. We just started it back up again. We hired Lenny Johnson who was the A&R guy for Default at TVT. He manages producers, songwriters, and bands.
What happened with Union�s joint venture label with EMI, Audionest?
We actually have a new joint venture for Audionest with Fontana. The EMI deal ran out. We did the deal with David Munns, and when he left EMI it became a different company. We put out the Default album (�Comes & Goes�) in Canada. are putting out the Candlebox record in April.
How do you handle being abruptly fired as a manager?
Well, I will tell you that it has never happened personally. There�s been a few artists that I�m friends with, and I have worked with, and it has come to, �Let�s just not work it together anymore. You have this; we have this; and that�s fine.� The artist that I felt that I had found, built up, and bled for, and was unappreciated by was Saliva.
Saliva's Josey Scott publicly dissed you and Chad, saying you two screwed him out of money.
Of course. And that was hurtful. I did nothing but help those guys. It was pure jealousy. What happened was that our contract was up, and I just said, �I�m not going to renew. I am not going to work with you guys, anymore.� And it pissed him off. That�s why he went to the press and started saying those things. He was jealous about Nickelback from the day when Nickelback started to break. Unfortunately, it just didn�t work. I wished them all well, but I haven�t talked to him since.
[On the release of �Survival of the Sickest� in 2004, Saliva's Josey Scott told MTV.com�s Joe D'Angelo, �As a band, we cleaned house on this record. We fired our manager, Bryan Coleman. We fired our booking agent. We fired our lawyers. We fired our tour manager. We fired everybody, and we hired all new guys.�
Asked why the changes, Scott replied, �They didn't have our best interests at heart. Nickelback comes out with one hit and all of a sudden we get put on the back burner by Bryan Coleman because he's too busy brown-nosing Nickelback. And where are they now? They ain't doin' shit. They're back in Canada eating shrimp and smokin� f---in� cigarettes.�]
What excites you about what you do? That makes you go, �wow.�
The relationships with the artists. To be on a golf course together or to be somewhere together and go, �That was a good day� or �That was a good video shoot� or whatever we are doing. Just to sit back, and enjoy each other. That�s the reward. To see them happy, and to see their dreams become true. That�s the payoff.
How often are you on the road with clients?
Quite a bit. Whenever they are doing things in L.A., I�m with them and in key markets, I am always there. When most of the bands are on tour, I go out and see them at least once a week.
At 41, what are your ambitions? What do you want to be doing in 20 years?
I love what I do. As long as my family is happy, and I have a good home life, and my clients are happy and I am happy doing it, I am going to continue doing this.
Larry LeBlanc is widely recognized as one of the leading music industry journalists in the world. Before joining CelebrityAccess in 2008 as senior editor, he was the Canadian bureau chief of Billboard from 1991-2007 and Canadian editor of Record World from 1970-89. He was also a co-founder of the late Canadian music trade, The Record. He has been quoted on music industry issues in hundreds of publications including Time, Forbes, and the London Times. He is co-author of the book �Music From Far And Wide.�


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The northern New Jersey honor student who is suing her parents for $650 in weekly child support and college tuition reportedly sent a disturbing message to her mother. The message apparently got under the judge's skin due to its inflammatory and disrespectful nature.
The Daily Mail has reportedly obtained the "phone message" left by Rachel Canning, which was submitted to Morris County Court. Judge Peter Bogaard called the message vulgar and scolded the teen in court earlier this week.
Read the transcript of the message below:
'Hi mom just to let you know you're a real f***ing winner aren't you you think you're so cool and you think you caught me throwing up in the bathroom after eating an egg frittatta, yeah sorry that you have problems now and you need to harp on mine because i didn't and i actually took a s*** which i really just wanna s*** all over your face right now because it looks like that anyway, anyway i f***ing hate you and um I've written you off so don't talk to me, don't do anything I'm blocking you from just about everything, have a nice life, bye mom'
As TheBlaze reported on Wednesday, Judge Bogaard "ruled against immediately forcing Rachel Canning's parents — her father a retired police chief — to pay her $650 weekly child support and pay for her remaining year of high school tuition, as she requested in a lawsuit filed last week."
However, the judge scheduled a hearing for next month to decide whether to require her parents to pay for Canning's college tuition.
"Do we want to establish a precedent where parents live in basic fear of establishing rules of the house?" Bogaard asked in court.
The girl, who has been described as "spoiled," left home on Oct. 30, two days before she turned 18, during a period that her parents were separated and she began getting in trouble at school.
Canning has made plenty of allegations about her parents being abusive and kicking her out of the house. The parents claim she ran away.
Read more about the case here.
(H/T: Gothamist)

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Review for Vets Journey Home USA, Inc., Milwaukee, WI, USA
After publishing my book, Prelude to Reveille: A Vietnam Awakening, I wanted to donate partial profits to a hands-on group led by dedicated, honest, veterans. I asked several Vietnam veterans for ideas, and the name Vets Journey Home quickly came to the top of the list. I contacted Founder and Director, Gene McMahon, who is also a Certified Instructor and Instructor Trainer. He invited my husband, a Vietnam veteran, to attend as a participant, and me to attend as a staff member. Gene and his trained staff worked with each veteran, collectively and individually. Within hours, the participants had bonded like "a band of brothers," already experiencing changes in their lives. I witnessed nine veterans who arrived in pain from combat experiences heal throughout the weekend. By Sunday night, the terrible burden they had carried, some for decades, others for a few years, was lifted. My decision to support VJH financially and physically was easy. Vets Journey Home puts veterans back together and makes miracles happen.
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My girlfriend found a very good deal for a hotel, and since FR regularly has special offers, we booked online with FR; some 2 months ago (at the same time as my NRN-SXF-NYO-NRN trip). This time we also booked one checked bag, as we would return with the shopping results so needed a tad more space. Total booking fee was € 64,00 for the two of us, which is a real bargain. Add the parking costs for the car of € 36,00 and the total trip cost € 100,- for the two of us.
Let's go now!
Since our flight departed around noon, we decided to leave our home at 07.30, with an eta of 10.00hrs. Some spare time left in case the 274km drive causes some delays due to traffic jams or so. In the end it was just after 08.00hrs when I started the nr. 1 engine of my Renault and we were on our way. Traffic was light on this Saturday, and soon we passed Amsterdam, Utrecht heading more south to turn east towards the German borders.
It must have been around 10.30 when we arrived at the car park of Dusseldorf Weeze airport, or Niederrhein airport. We walked through the cold air, as it was actually freezing.
Since we had a checked bag, we could not check in online, so we queued up for the STN flight. Nobody in front of us, so we were checked in within seconds.
Now we had some time to spare and walked around the indoor Christmas market at the NRN terminal. Nothing special to be seen actually.
After a coffee and a hot chocolate for my girl, we decided to head for security which was also really quick. I really like NRN, it's so quick and relaxed!
Also passport control was done within seconds, and we waited at the gate for 15 minutes before the flight was ready for boarding.
Flight: FR3261
Stretch: NRN-STN
Date: 13-dec-2008
Aircraft: Boeing 737-8AS (WL)
Msn: 36574
Registration: EI-DYL
Delivered: 12-jun-2008
Seat: can't remember
Loadfactor: 90%
4th flight on the 737-800 and the first on this machine
Photo © The Fokker Aircraft Page
Photo © Fabrizio Berni
Time for boarding came soon and we could walk up to the plane. I was happy to see that I could add a new entry for my log, since some a.netters seems to be lucky with catching the same FR machines over and over (Airbuseric…). We seated somewhere in the front part of the aircraft, with my girlfriend at the window-seat and myself just next to her.
Machine was quite clean and the usual blue and yellow cabin lay out. The cabin crew existed of 4 female attendants of which one I recognized from my earlier trip on FR.
Legroom was small, but for a 55 minute flight just enough.
Soon boarding completed and we were pushed back from the parking spot, and taxied to the active runway.
We used quite a bit of runway length before we jumped into the foggy skies, but everything was comfortable enough. The cloud layers were not too thick so we soon had a clear blue sky and some nice views of the islands in the southern part of The Netherlands.
Service came through and we bought a coffee and a tea which cost € 6,- in total, which is rather expensive.
Descent followed rapidly, and we lost our view due to a thick layer of clouds over the London area. Touch-down was smooth and we taxied to our stand between some other FR 737's.
Other equipment at STN was a couple of U2 319's, Jet2 733's and an Asiana 744F at the cargo dock.
We disembarked via the front door and walked to the terminal. Some quick pictures taken and on our way to the main terminal.
Through the very large area of the UK border control, and to the desk where we bought 2 bus-tickets on the Terravision bus to Liverpool Street.
After a bus ride of about an hour we were at Liverpool Street station and headed to our hotel.
Here are a couple of pictures we made during the weekend. Some of which are made by my girl.
Our Hotelroom, rather nice!
Our Fall-out base, from this Tube station we went exploring the city.
A classic!
Tower Bridge
Tower Guard
Big Ben
London Eye or Millenium Wheel
Randon typical English style street
Typical London Taxi
small bird
Buckingham Palace
Unfortunately it soon was Tuesday, so time to go back home again.
We really enjoyed our stay in London, which is a great city to visit. We really are going back there in a couple of years.
Wrong day
D-ALCE and Santa
Turn around, and again, and again
Are we in Munich?
Speedy Gonzales
Piccadilly Circus
and again
Harrods in Christmas style
We went with a red double-decker bus to Liverpool Street and boarded the Terravision bus to London Stansted airport. Again it took about an hour to cover the distance between the city and STN airport.
The ride went smoothly and I created a nickname for the bus driver, since he drove quite fast. I call him Robert Kubica, since he was a polish chap!
Terravision bus to STN
Terravision bus at STN
A quick smoke outside, and we headed to the check-in machines for our check in. After that we dropped our bag and did some last minute buying in the tax-free zone.
Strangely enough we did not pass any passport control when exiting the UK, and I thought the border control would take place near the departure gate. This was not the case though.
Is this only at STN or are there more UK airports where no border control is done at leaving the UK.
Anyway, we bought a bottle of IRN-BRU, a Scottish soft drink and waited for boarding to start.
A long queue at the gate caused the boarding process to be very slow. A mother with her two kids queued up at the priority line and got rejected by the gate agent. She was told to queue up at the normal queue and wait for her turn. She refused to move and started arguing with the young female gate agent. Both raised their voices and a heavy discussion almost escalated as the mother got a bit aggressive. We meanwhile boarded the airplane and don't know how it ended, but we didn't see the mother and her kids on board the aircraft, nor at NRN after arrival. So I think they got a refused boarding for this flight.
Flight: FR3262
Stretch: STN-NRN
Date: 16-dec-2008
Aircraft: Boeing 737-8AS (WL)
Msn: 33808
Registration: EI-DCN
Delivered: 01-nov-2004
Seat: 31B
Loadfactor: 99,5% ( all but three seats )
5th flight on the 737-800 and the first on this machine.
Photo © Piotr Kaczmarek (Wlkp_Spotters)
Photo © Kamil Kasznicki
(one pic with eyebrows and one with removed eyebrows)
We entered the aircraft via the aft. door, and were amazed that there were still some window seats open as we were not one of the first 100pax to board the plane.
We sat down and OMG, I did not have any place to put my legs! This machine was the featuring the tightest legroom I have seen in my flying career! Just terrible, even for a 55 minute flight.
Cabin crew existed of 2 male and 2 female attendants, all seemed very friendly. Please note the word, seemed….
During the safety briefing the purser ( if FR have any ) started laughing for the whole duration of the briefing, so it was hard to understand for those that are interested.
We taxied to the active runway, with foggy conditions, and took of after yet another long take off run.
Cabin service was started quickly, and was very very messy and unprofessional.
During the flight one of the male attendants passed us, while we were taking some pictures of the cabin and views outside.
The doomed picture
And the other one, sorry it's a bit blurry
He told me with a very threatening voice that we were not allowed to take pictures during the flight. I didn't want to start a discussion and said ok.
Obviously we continued taking pictures.
Couldn't resist it Chewin gum again!
Almost touched down
Soon we were already descending into NRN, and had another perfect landing!
We got off the plane via the rear door and asked the ramp agent if it was ok to take some pictures. It was ok and my girlfriend took some. While making the pictures the same attendant yelled from the plane that we immediately should stop making pictures as it is not allowed. We continued, and again he yelled from the plane that it was forbidden.
We just laughed and answered that it was ok with the ramp agent, and he shut up and went back into the aircraft.
What an *******! Sorry but I really started to get angry by his unprofessional behavior!
We were bussed to the terminal and went to passport control. Our bag was already on the belt waiting for us, and we headed to the car for our ride back home.
So far for my latest trip report!
NRN : Perfect airport with good services!
STN : Good airport, a bit unclear signs where to go, but you'll manage.
FR: well, what should I say? The flight to STN was good, but the flight back was really wrecked by that Attendant and his behavior. If you want to stop a passenger doing something, do it nice, and not like an army officer.
For the next period, I am done with FR. I prefer to pay more, and get a higher standard of service and crew.
I really hope you enjoyed my report, and please feel free to comment.
If the mentioned attendant reads my report, please change your attitude towards your GUESTS!
Joost (D-ALCE)


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Among the Sleep will release later this year for PC and Mac. The game is rather odd with the main character being a two-year-old child, making it more terrifying than your average horror title. Players will step into the limitless imagination of a child that takes a creepy and twisted turn!
Among the Sleep invites you into the mind and body of a two-year-old child. After being put to bed one evening, mysterious things start to happen. Being played in first person, the game let its players immerse themselves in a child's limitless imagination. This is a perspective we all have a distant familiarity with, but few can clearly remember what it felt like.
In the borderland between dream and reality, surreal creatures and diverse environments will present you with both physical and mental obstacles that challenge your creativity. Among the Sleep is set for release on PC and Mac later this year, but you can bask in some of its glory already by downloading the wallpaper and following the development over at the Krillbite Blog.
Learn more on the official Among the Sleep website.
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That is One Gigantic Steampunk Squid…
Perhaps one of the greatest sci-fi adventures novels ever written, Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea was a landmark book, one that was decades ahead of its time. The story follows the crew of the Nautilus, a submarine commanded by Captain Nemo, as they venture in search of a giant sea monster. It was the basis for several film adaptations and the character of Captain Nemo played a pivotal role in the graphic novel series The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
So why am I bringing this up, you ask? Because Tor Books is releasing Nemo Rising, a sequel this Christmas! Written by C. Courtney Joyner, the story once again follows Nemo, although this book sees him a prisoner that must be pardoned by President Ulysses S. Grant in order to face an onslaught of more sea monsters.
Normally, I wouldn't bother you all with this but I happen to have a soft spot in my heart for 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and the cover art for the book is fucking epic! I've always been a fan of cephalopods and I've found the steampunk aesthetic to be pretty fascinating. Combine them both along with giant monsters and you damn well better believe that I'm 100% into it! Plus, it's wrapped itself around the Nautilus, which is already a giant vessel, so now I'm wondering just how large these mechanical monstrosities are…
Nemo Rising will be released on hardcover from Tor Books on December 26th, 2017.
Sea monsters are sinking ships up and down the Atlantic Coast. Enraged that his navy is helpless against this onslaught and facing a possible World War as a result, President Ulysses S. Grant is forced to ask for assistance from the notorious Captain Nemo, in Federal prison for war crimes and scheduled for execution.
Grant returns Nemo's submarine, the infamous Victorian Steampunk marvel Nautilus, and promises a full Presidential pardon if Nemo hunts down and destroys the source of the attacks. Accompanied by the beautiful niece of Grant's chief advisor, Nemo sets off under the sea in search of answers. Unfortunately, the enemy may be closer than they realize…
Filming On Blumhouse's Halloween Pushed to January
Looks like filming on Blumhouse's upcoming sequel to John Carpenter's Halloween from Danny McBride and David Gordon Green has been pushed back a few months.
Not a huge deal, though. Only till January.
Filming on Halloween (2018) was supposed to begin this October (natch) but now it seems the film still has some cast to fill out.
The news comes to us via a South Carolina casting agency, The Island Packet, who are still seeking extras for the new film. In fact, if you are from the South Carolina area, you can be an extra in the film. Just click the link above for more details.
I wish I lived in or around South Carolina because being in this new Halloween would be a f*cking dream come true. If you're in the area, get on it. You owe it to the rest of us! Haha?
How excited would you be to be an extra in this new Halloween? Let us know below!
Blumhouse's Halloween is directed by David Gordon Green from a script he co-wrote with Danny McBride. The film stars Jamie Lee Curtis and Judy Greer and is executive produced and scored by John Carpenter.
Halloween (2018) hits theaters Oct. 19, 2018.
Jamie Lee Curtis returns to her iconic role as Laurie Strode, who comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.
Horror Movies to Be Thankful for on Thanksgiving
After you've gorged on your Thanksgiving feast and the L-tryptophan is kicking in, you're probably thinking about parking your carcass on the couch and watching movie after movie. But not just any movie – this is a holiday, so naturally you want to celebrate on-topic and gobble some gore.
We've got you covered with this curated list of choices from a 25-item menu of Native American-themed thrillers and chillers.
Death Curse of Tartu (1966)
A group of students on an archaeology assignment in the Everglades decide to throw a dance party one night. The spot they choose happens to be the burial site of an ancient Seminole shaman named Tartu. He returns from the dead to take his revenge on those who desecrated his grave site.
Stanley (1972)
A Seminole Vietnam vet (Chris Robinson) goes on the warpath when a leather goods merchant (Alex Rocco) tries to grab his pet snake Stanley to turn him into a belt. A William Grefe cult classic!
Hex (1973)
Set on the Nebraska prairie in the immediate aftermath of World War I, the story follows the spiritual clash between the daughters of a recently deceased shaman and a gang of ex-aviators. Christina Raines, Scott Glenn and Keith Carradine star in this largely unknown, bizarre body-count thriller.
Shadow of the Hawk (1976)
A Canadian Indian (Jan-Michael Vincent) and a newswoman (Marilyn Hassett) join his grandfather (Chief Dan George) on a tribal walk among evil spirits.
The Manitou (1978)
A psychic (Tony Curtis) recruits a witch doctor (Michael Ansara) to get a 400-year-old Indian medicine man off his girlfriend's (Susan Strasberg) back…. literally. The demonic Native American spirit is a tumor trying to reincarnate.
Prophecy (1979)
When a dispute occurs between a logging operation and a nearby Native American tribe, Dr. Robert Verne (Robert Foxworth) and his wife, Maggie (Talia Shire), are sent in to mediate. Chief John Hawks (Armand Assante) becomes enraged when Robert captures a bear cub for testing, but he's not as angry as the mutant grizzly mom! George Clutesi plays an Original Person who believes the monster is the personification of the god Katahdin and is there to protect the land.
Nightwing (1979)
A policeman (Nick Mancuso), his girlfriend (Kathryn Harrold) and a scientist (David Warner) track vampire bats on a Maski tribe reservation. Abner Tasupi (George Clutesi) is the shaman who helps them.
Wolfen (1981)
A New York cop (Albert Finney) investigates a series of brutal deaths that resemble animal attacks. His hunt leads him to Native American high worker Eddie Holt (Edward James Olmos) to see if there's any connection between the killings and old myths and legends from the area. Finney's character refers to as "the Crazy Horse of the Seventies… the only one of our local militants left alive who's not making money off of Levi's commercials."
Scalps (1983)
Hapless college science students go on a dig around a sacred burial ground for artifacts. Unfortunately, one of them becomes possessed by the evil spirit of Black Claw… and that means only one thing: Now he must slaughter all of his friends.
Eyes of Fire (1983)
Almost lynched in 1750, a preacher (Dennis Lipscomb) leads his followers (Guy Boyd, Rebecca Stanley) west to a valley whose dirt holds a devil of Indian origin.
Firestarter (1984)
Pyrokinetic protagonist Charlie McGee (Drew Barrymore) is in trouble when an evil Native American named Rainbird (George C. Scott) wants to kill her because he is convinced her death would give him special power to take to the mystical other world of his ancestors.
Poltergeist 2: The Other Side (1986)
The Freeling family have a new house, but their troubles with supernatural forces are not over. Whoops, looks like it's another haunted Native American resting place!
Creepshow 2 (1987)
In the anthology film's first vignette, "Old Chief Wood'nhead," thugs who terrorize small-store grocers played by Dorothy Lamour and George Kennedy are attacked in kind by the general store's wooden Indian.
Pet Sematary (1989)
After moving to an idyllic home in the countryside, life seems perfect for the Creed family…but not for long. Louis and Rachel Creed and their two young children settle into a house that sits next door to a pet cemetery – built on an ancient Indian burial ground.
Ravenous (1999)
Capt. John Boyd (Guy Pearce) is sent to investigate reports of missing persons at Fort Spencer, a remote Army outpost on the Western frontier. After arriving at his new post, Boyd and his regiment aid a wounded frontiersman, F.W. Colghoun (Robert Carlyle), who recounts a horrifying tale of a wagon train murdered by its supposed guide — a vicious U.S. Army colonel gone rogue… and who's developed a taste for human flesh.
Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001)
In 18th century France, the Chevalier de Fronsac and his Native American friend Mani (Mark Dascosos) of the Micmac tribe are sent by the King to the Gevaudan province to investigate the killings of hundreds by a mysterious beast.
The Wendigo (2001)
Director Larry Fessenden movie uses the Native American Wendigo legend to tell an eerie and hallucinogenic tale about a family trapped in the woods with a dark force.
"Masters of Horror: Deer Woman" (2005)
A burned-out cop believes that a recent string of murders prove that the killer might be a deer-like creature in the form of a beautiful woman (Cinthia Moura) come to life from a local Native American folklore legend.
Skinwalkers (2006)
A 12-year-old boy and his mother become the targets of two warring werewolf packs, each with different intentions and motives. Based on the folk legend from Utah about the spirits of murdered Indians returning to seek revenge upon those who disrespect the land.
The Burrowers (2008)
A search party – played by Clancy Brown, William Mapother and Doug Hutchison – sets out to find and recover a family of settlers that has mysteriously vanished from their home. Expecting the offenders to be a band of fierce natives, the group prepares for a routine battle. But they soon discover that the real enemy stalks them from below.
The Dead Can't Dance (2010)
Three Native Americans discover they are immune to a zombie virus in this whacky indie comedy.
Savaged (2013)
After thugs brutalize a deaf-mute woman (Amanda Adrienne), the spirit of an Apache warrior takes over her lifeless body and sets out on a bloodthirsty quest for revenge.
Volcano Zombies (2014)
Danny Trejo as a Native American who warns campers about the legendary and very angry lava-laden "volcano zombies."
The Darkness (2016)
Peter Taylor (Kevin Bacon), his wife and their two children return to Los Angeles after a fun-filled vacation to the Grand Canyon. Strange events soon start to plague the family, and the Taylors learn that Michael brought back some mysterious rocks that he discovered inside an ancient Native American cave.
Mohawk (2017)
After one of her tribe sets an American soldiers' camp ablaze, a young female Mohawk finds herself pursued by a ruthless band of renegades bent on revenge. Fleeing deep into the woods, Mohawk youths Oak and Calvin confront the bloodthirsty Colonel Holt and his soldiers. As the Americans seem to close in from all sides, the trio must summon every resource both real and supernatural as the brutal attack escalates. Mohawk is a dark, political drama with horror undertones. "While set 203 years ago, Mohawk is unfortunately a timeless story," says director Ted Geoghegan. "It's about marginalized people being decimated simply because they exist and scared white men who fail to realize that their racism and bigotry will place them on the wrong side of history."
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Pokémon Dream World
The Pokémon Dream World (Japanese: ポケモンドリームワールド Pokémon Dream World) is a special feature of Pokémon Black and White. Operated via the Pokémon Global Link website, the Dream World allows players to send a Pokémon to the Internet to obtain items and meet other Pokémon, making the website like a Generation V analog to the Pokéwalker.
Players may access the Dream World by creating an account at Pokémon.com for international players, at the Pokémon Daisuki Club website for Japanese players, or at the Pokémon Korean site for Korean players. To have full access to one's account, players must first send a Pokémon to the Dream World by using their C-Gear's only Online feature, Game Sync. After doing so, players will have full access to the Global Link site. An account may only have one Pokémon Black and one Pokémon White game with access to it.
When doing certain actions for the first time, players are given a tutorial by Fennel. They may then explore the rest of the Dream World on their own. With the reopening of the Global Link site after the release of international versions of Black and White, players who had Japanese accounts prior to the reopening will be given tutorials once again. Players are also given the tutorial again when using a computer that they have not used for visiting the Dream World before.
On the player's first visit to the Dream World, they will receive five of one of the damage-reducing berries from Fennel; this is the only way, besides Share Shelves, to obtain these Berries. Repeating the tutorial does not re-award these Berries.
Due to the amount of people accessing the site at one time, players are given only one hour to access the Dream World every 24 hours. However, the website is occasionally under maintenance, prohibiting access.
If a player accesses the Dream World after 24 hours without having previously woken up their Pokémon on the Global Link website, the player is put into a position left over from the last time he or she accessed the Dream World. If a Pokémon was picked from the Tree of Dreams, the player is not allowed to access any of the island's areas, as they have a Pokémon still ready to be sent to the Entree Forest. Whatever water that wasn't used in the watering can for Berries is preserved and is not renewed until a Pokémon is woken up.
Any point accumulation during these continued games counts toward the total of Dream Points that would lead to a Pokémon's level-up once awoken via the C-Gear, including the points gained by logging into the Global Link once a day.
Players are given a home they can customize in the Dream World. With the use of certain Berries, they may purchase Décor to decorate the rooms available in the house. The house itself may be remodeled for a certain amount of Berries. Each day, players may also unlock one of up to five special pieces of Décor by talking to Loblolly in Nacrene City.
At the doorstep is the Footprint Mat, which shows the Pokémon that have visited the player's home. Also, when there is a pending Dream Pal request for the player, the Footprint Mat will glow. The footprint mat can be used to accept Dream Pal requests and visit the homes of players who visited the player's home.
Treasure Chest
The house itself contains the Treasure Chest, where players may see the items they have in the Dream World and send them to Pokémon Black or White via the Entralink. When sent to a Pokémon Black or White game, a little boy standing to the west of the entrance to the Entree Forest will give all items transferred, calling them "Dream Remnants". Only twenty of the same item may be sent to the player's game at once.
Friend Board
The Friend Board is available for players to see which Pokémon they are going to send back to Pokémon Black or White, as well as showing the ones they have sent before. Both Pokémon obtained through making a wish at the Tree of Dreams and Pokémon obtained through promotions are stored here.
If there are fifty Pokémon on the Friend Board that have not been sent to the game yet, the Island of Dreams cannot be visited. Due to players only being able to have one Pokémon from the Tree of Dreams on the Friend Board at a time, this would require the player to have 49 Pokémon from Pokémon Global Link promotions on the Friend Board that were not sent to the Entree Forest; therefore, this circumstance is extremely unlikely to occur. At one time before the international release of the Dream World, only fifty Pokémon could be transferred from a Global Link account; this was removed in 2010.
Unlike most games since Ruby and Sapphire, when the mechanic was introduced, Black and White do not allow players to plant Berries in-game due to the lack of loamy soil in Unova. Instead, players may plant Berries in the Dream World in the garden found in the area to the left of their home. Berries will take 50% longer to grow in the Dream World compared to their growth rates in Generation IV. Additionally, Berries will remain in the fruit-bearing stage until picked; they never fall off and resprout.
A Berry cannot be watered as soon as it is planted; it must dry out first before it can be watered. A player can water others' Berries up to 20 times per trip, as of the April 2011 update. Prior to this update, there was no limit. There is no limit on watering the player's own Berries.
Two rows are available from the beginning for players to plant their Berries in, with each row containing spaces for three Berries. Diglett will dig additional rows when the player obtains a certain number of Dream Points. Currently, players can have up to five rows.
|Dream Points
To the right of the player's home is the Share Shelf, a stand where items may be placed. Other players can swap their own items for items placed on a Share Shelf. A player will not be able to trade for an item that they already have or that they traded to the shelf, as of the April 2011 update.
Island of Dreams
Until November 2010, players could access the other features of the Dream World, even when they do not have a Pokémon in the Dream World, they cannot access the Island of Dreams unless they have a Pokémon in the Dream World, however this has since been removed. The island has several areas players may explore, find items and befriend Pokémon. More areas are unlocked as players obtain Dream Points. If the player has access to more than one area, they are sent to a random area every time they go to the island. If players obtain the necessary amount of points to unlock an area, they can access the area even without logging out of Dream World or Global Link.
After exploring an area, players will go to the Tree of Dreams, where they may choose to leave a Berry in the tree and make a wish to choose one of their befriended Pokémon to send to the Entralink. If they do, they may not revisit the Island of Dreams until the next trip. However, if they do not choose to make a wish and befriend a Pokémon, they have the choice of visiting the island again to look for more Pokémon and items. Upon entering the Island of Dreams five to seven times, players will start to find nothing on the island. Similar to wild Reshiram, Zekrom and Victini in Pokémon Black and White, all Pokémon found in the Dream World cannot be Shiny. Pokémon found in the Dream World will always have their Hidden Ability, if they have one. Pokémon found in the Dream World have about a 25% chance of being female, possibly to make passing down Hidden Abilities more difficult. All Pokémon obtained in the Dream World will be at level 10, unless they evolve at a level above 10, in which case they will be at that level; certain legendary Pokémon will also be at levels above 10.
Berries and other items are found throughout the Dream Island. They may either be sent to the player's games, traded to other players, or used to buy Décor (Berries only).
|Unlock Method
|Pleasant Forest
|Windswept Sky
|2500 Dream Points* and 4 badges
|Sparkling Sea
|5000 Dream Points* and 8 badges
|Pokémon Café Forest
|Participate in the Pokémon Café promotion
|Spooky Manor
|Available Sept. 28, 2011 onwards by default
|Rugged Mountain
|Available Nov. 16, 2011 onwards by default
- Main article: List of Pokémon Dream World mini-games
After finding a Pokémon, players are given an option to participate in mini-games in order to befriend them. The games to be played depends on the encountered Pokémon.
Dream Pals
A player can become Dream Pals with another player by visiting their house and sending a Dream Pal request. The other player's footprint mat will then glow until the request is accepted, deleted or expires. If the other player accepts, the two players become Dream Pals, and a rainbow bridge will link the two players' homes on their Dream Pal maps. Dream Pal requests last only a week before they are automatically deleted. There is a limit of 20 Dream Pals (including pending Dream Pal requests) per player.
When visiting another player's house, it is possible to view their Dream Pal map, and go directly to the houses of other Dream Pals of that player. This allows the creation of large networks of players.
In addition, on the player's Dream Pal map, a random player's house will appear in the bottom right-hand corner, as long as the privacy settings are set to "everyone". This player is randomly selected every time the player opens the Dream Pal map.
Prior to the April 2011 update, Dream Pals were only those that players had added to their Pal Pads.
Dream Points
Dream Points are earned by doing certain actions in the Dream World. Similar to earning Watts in the Pokéwalker, gaining Dream Points allows players to unlock more areas on the Island of Dreams. As of December 21, 2010, all Dream Point requirements were halved permanently.
|Points earned
|Watering another player's Berries
|10 Points
|Winning a minigame
|20 Points
|Gain a Dream Pal
|30 Points
|Log in to the Global Link*
|50 Points
Prior to the April 2011 update, the following mechanics were used in gaining points:
|Points earned
|Trading items via Share Shelf
|1 Point
|Picking berries
|10 Points
|Watering a friend's berries
|10 Points
|Winning a minigame
|10 to 30 Points
|Sending a new Pokémon to the Entree Forest
|50 Points
The more Dream Points that are accumulated in a single play session, the happier the dreaming Pokémon will become. This is reflected in the icons which appear above the Pokémon's head when it is moused over.
|0-99 Points
|100-299 Points
|300-499 Points
|500+ Points
Waking up
Right before saving the game and finishing a session, players are given the option to make real the Pokémon friends they have met and any items they have collected. These items will become available immediately after waking a Pokémon up using the Game Sync function. Anything materialized from the Dream World into a copy of Pokémon Black or White can be found within the Entralink. Waking Pokémon also resets mechanics such as the watering can being refilled.
If the player earns 500 points between tucking the Pokémon in and waking it up, the Pokémon's level increases unless the Pokémon is already at level 100.
Waking up also initiates any Pokémon Black or White customizations made on the Global Link website.
If the player selects the choice to exit the Dream World and keep the Pokémon asleep, then does not (before the hour is over) or cannot (because the hour is over) reenter the game, the option to wake the player's Pokémon is available on the main page of the Global Link website. Whatever was ready to be ported into the player's Pokémon Black or White version (Pokémon, items, customizations) will be carried over through the Game Sync.
A Sitrus Berry up for trade
- A scientist working for the Devon Corporation in Generation III mentions that he is trying to create a device that visually reproduces the dreams of Pokémon, but that he is not succeeding.
- While the style of Pokémon artworks used for the Pokémon Dream World is normally seen by fans as exclusive to the site, the style has been actually used in various other parts of the franchise, including Pokémon Center stores and Pokémon Channel, before the Dream World even emerged.
In other languages
External links
- Pokémon Global Link website
- Pokémon Dream World Usage Level (updated hourly)
|This game-related article is part of Project Games, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on the Pokémon games.


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Itai Adler, Born May 25, 1977
When the news of the disaster was first reported on television, Yaffa, Itai's mother, burst into tears. "I cried about the fact that two pilots were killed. I didn't imagine that the disaster was of such dimensions − and even more than that, that Itai was one of the soldiers."
Itai, son of Yaffa and Yitzhak, was an independent, quiet, clever child, with a great sense of humor. For a long time he kept the stuffed rabbit that his mother had bought for him when he was a child. To this day the rabbit is in his room, which remains as it was. The clothes in the closet, the tapes, the made-up bed.
Yaffa: "When your son is in a combat unit you keep hearing 'those knocks' on the door. When we realized that Itai was among the fallen, I waited for them on the porch. After a nerve-racking night they had identified Itai, who because of his condition was among the last to be identified. In the end all we got were two burnt halves of dog tags."
Yitzhak: "We're still in a process. Every year you go through another stage. There are still things that remind us of him, and which for us are hard to do: buying something new, eating hummus, cooking the stuffed vegetables that he liked so much, hanging out a flag on Independence Day. There's a difficult feeling of missed opportunities. He remains 20-years-old, and around us everything continues as usual."
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You should be glad that I didnt bring along my friends from Miami, Gil continued, they are REALLY boring!
I alone am the editing barrier between you and more gratuitous Jan swimsuit shots! Now be quiet and observe.
The Ghost was truly frustrated now. Do you even know what Kinesiology is? He asked.
Well, no, but I am sure it has something to do with cheerleading. I responded much more confidant than I felt.
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Legal Question in Family Law in Indiana
I am planning to move out of state but my daughters dad doesn't want her to leave. He is not a huge part of her life now as it is but as a courtesy to him I let him know about us moving. Us being in another state isn't going to change the amount of time he sees her since he only sees her about 2 weeks out of the whole year but he seems to think that I cant take her out of state.
Asked on 4/09/13, 8:14 pm
1 Answer from Attorneys
Burton Padove Indiana and Illinois Lawyer, Burton A. Padove
Regardless of whether you move in or out of state, you have to follow the Relocation Statute. See an attorney.
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I'm kidding.
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I just thought I'd share my opinion on the piece though. The upper-half looks great. But I can't really say the same for the bottom-half. I think you should try using some warmer C4Ds. It might not match the background but it should be more consistent with the render of the character.
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Kingpin lets both get back into the DS. It doesn't look like we have to make signatures for people anymore so activity wont be an issue. :lol:
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I changed my entry. Good to see an entry from zzkurozz and MentallyCritical!. :D
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Nearly three years after California made it illegal to use a handheld cell phone while driving, the state Senate on Monday approved a bill that would increase fines for texting or using a handheld cell phone while driving.
The base fine would increase from $20 to $50 per violation under the bill, which now goes to the Assembly. With various fees, a first offense would cost $328, up from the current $208.
A repeat offender could be fined $100, or $528 with fees. A subsequent violation would also add one point to the motorist's driving record.
"The goal here is simply to save more lives," said Sen. Joe Simitian, D-Palo Alto.
He said his original bill, which took effect in July 2008, deterred 60 percent to 70 percent of drivers from using handheld devices while driving, even as the use of cell phones increased.
However, he said it will take more deterrence and education to bring compliance near the 90-plus percent seen for the use of seat belts. Under the bill, $10 from each fine would go to a fund to educate drivers about the dangers of distracted driving.
His SB28 also would make it illegal to talk on a handheld cell phone while riding a bicycle.
Simitian cites California Highway Patrol statistics showing a 20 percent reduction in fatalities and collisions in the first year after his handsfree law took effect in July 2008. The texting-while-driving prohibition took effect in January 2009. He said the statistics show the law helped save at least 700 lives and avoid more than 75,000 collisions annually compared to previous years.
A Senate analysis of 2005 and 2010 crash statistics found "a significant downward trend," but couldn't attribute the trend to less cell phone use. The analysis found a less significant drop when comparing only those crashes were cell phone use was listed as a contributing cause.
CHP spokeswoman Fran Clader said that is because drivers are often reluctant to admit they were using a cell phone illegally. Neither the CHP nor Simitian's office had statistics on crashes involving bicyclists using cell phones.
Simitian's bill passed on a 24-12 vote, over the objections of several Republicans who said the bill goes too far and is disliked by drivers.


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In the third game of its four-game tour through Spain, the BYU women's basketball team picked up a 69-50 victory over Euskadi, the Basque National Team. This was the second game the two teams played. The Cougars defeated EUS on Thursday night, 55-52, in San Sebastian.
In her first start on the tour, Makenzi Morrison tied for team highs in points (13) with teammate Morgan Bailey. Alohi Robins-Hardy also finished in double digits in scoring with 11. Bailey had game highs in rebounds with eight, while Robins-Hardy pulled down five boards. Morrison tied for team bests in assists with three. Cassie Broadhead was the other Cougar player with three assists to go along with her two points and one rebound.
BYU took control of the game from the opening tip and never looked back, up by as many as 17, 42-25, with seven minutes left in the third of four, 10-minute quarters.
"We really did a good job defensively in tonight's game and we are seeing that a lot of the girls have gotten better in each game and that's why we're here," BYU head coach Jeff Judkins said. "It was good to see Xojian have a good game and get her confidence back. Makenzi slowed down and played with a lot more control. Kristine (Fuller) played a lot better tonight. Alohi had another good game and so did Cassie."
Bailey scored the first two points of the game for a 2-0 Cougar lead. Lexi Eaton extended the lead to 7-0 by scoring the next two times down the court. EUS got its first points of the game on a layup by Amaya Gastaminza with 6:51 left in the first 10-minute period. The Cougars went on an 18-4 run to close out the quarter up 20-9. Bailey had 10 of her 13 total points in the first quarter.
EUS fought back in the second quarter when a 3-pointer from Naiara Diez cut the Cougar lead to five, 20-15, with seven minutes left. A basket by Arrate Agirre got EUS within three, 22-19, with 5:45 remaining. But BYU's Alohi Robins-Hardy made sure that that was as close as the EUS team got all night by scoring the next four Cougar points, including a put-back with 3:54 showing on the clock.
With 2:20 left before the break, Morrison had back-to-back baskets, including a spin-around move underneath the basket that created a buzz from the fans in attendance and a 31-21 Cougar lead. A basket by Kristine Fuller with a minute left gave BYU a 10-point advantage, 33-23. A steal from Morrison on EUS's final possession of the second quarter turned into two more points for her and sent BYU to the locker room up 35-23.
Bailey started the third quarter on a three-point play, extending the Cougar lead to 13, 38-23. BYU went up by 17, 42-25, with seven minutes left. Gastaminza scored 12 of her 14 team-high points in the third quarter as she and teammate Maria Asurmendi were the only two players for EUS to score.Comment on this story
In the fourth and final 10-minute quarter the Cougar squad maintained their lead, providing several players valuable minutes of playing time. Robins-Hardy scored her final five points in the last quarter with back-to-back baskets that gave BYU a 58-45 advantage with just over seven minutes left in the contest.
With five minutes remaining, Morrison got a steal and took the ball the length of the court for an easy layup bringing the score to 64-45.
The Cougar women conclude their 10-day, four-game tour with a Monday night game versus Basquet Femeni Saint Adria from Barcelona, Spain.
Royce Hinton is the assistant women's basketball sports information director for BYU Athletic Communications.


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Blogs changing face of media, politicking
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People love info from blogs
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Locally focused group "metro" blogs — compilations of events, reflections, recommendations, news and complaints — are emerging to put a number of big cities in intimate, street-level relief. read more>
Welcome class: Today we'll talk about blogs
Durango Herald> I'm glad you specified fifth-grade English. I flunked English in the eighth grade. Years later, when I taught English, I had the irresistible urge to write Miss Gray to tell her that I took that "F" to heart.
Here goes. A blog (short for Web log) is a Web site that furnishes a running commentary from its creator. The blog is updated frequently, often daily. Usually it expresses the opinions and thoughts of the person running the blog (that person is called the blogger). Most blogs use text that includes Web links to news stories or to other Web sites. The blogger often uses those links to prove a point, or to disagree with the story. read more>