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Playing For Change CD/DVD Release
The Playing For Change Foundation is dedicated to connecting the world through music by providing resources to musicians and their communities around the world.
The organization has a new CD/DVD release, ‘Playing for Change: Songs Around the World’ due April 28.
The album’s first track is a cover of Ben E. King’s Stand by Me performed by 37 musicians from the Netherlands, Brazil, Spain and Russia, among other countries. The video for the song already has been viewed nearly 8 million times on YouTube since November. The artists also take on a couple Bob Marley classics. A version of War/No More Trouble features U2’s Bono, and American blues singer Keb’ Mo’ and Spain’s Manu Chao perform on One Love.
Pick up a copy of Playing For Change here.
Fall out Boy and All Time Low meet with us!
Pete Wentz via Twitter on 4-21-09 Its kind of insane that student journalists always give the best interviews. Green is better sometimes.”
Photos by Skylar Klager-
The Rock Star Stories by Alison Sikes
Student journalists from all over South Florida were given the chance of a lifetime to interview one of the world’s biggest bands, Fall Out Boy. In a press conference held by The Rock Star Stories at the Pompano Beach Amphitheater, bassist Pete Wentz and singer Patrick Stump answered questions from over 50 students. Despite being Billboard Top 40 and MTV favorites, it seems that fame has not gotten to their heads. The duo was ready and willing to answer any question on topics such as fatherhood and the future of Fall Out Boy. Following the interview, pop punk band All Time Low came to the press conference. Known for their hilarious personas, this quartet did not disappoint with their answers. When asked how the band formed, front man Alex Gaskarth responded “We met at a comic book convention.” It is safe to say the press conference was a great success.