FYI, Sting fans, his new site will be up and running this week with a special contest for AOL members. You can win tickets to see him in a special NYC concert just by sending an email. The site actually looks a lot like Prince's before the cultic nonsense was so apparent with Prince's last redesign. But it loads faster and...get this...actually has information on the artist!

just checked it out. i kinda liked it before it went to this style but it's still quite good. Sting is class all the way. i posted a thread ages ago about other artists websites and i named sting.com and billybragg.com as well. they actually had info on the artists. it wasn't ambiguous or shrouded in mystery. straight forward and straight up.
i actually like it when artists TRY to communicate with their fans and don't put on no pretence.

now where's my copy of "...Nothing Like The Sun"?

Dream Of The Blue Turtles was the shit!!!

gypsyfire said:

yeah but ...Nothing Like The Sun was the bigger shit!!!

Sting and Crack David...

BlueNote

What I don't understand is why it's still so easy for Sting to release an album into the mainstream when he wants - not just to a few thousand club members and then sporadically at record stores around the country, release a DVD concert of his band performing the new songs, shortly after, and also arrange for an A&E special on the making of his upcoming album, and Prince can barely even get reviewed. On the strength of his last album, which won a pair of Grammy Awards and sold over 2 million copies, Sting's new CD, Sacred Love, will probably do well for a man in his position, and News? Well...the sooner that dreck is forgotten, the better. Oh, and Sting has played with real jazz musicians, not whatever chump he dresses up after spotting play live in a MPLS Arby's.

Looks like he has his own music club.

https://secure.ultrastar....ng/signup/

I love Sting. He's a great songwriter and performer.

doomboogie said:

Sting is still with a label. And Maceo/Candy ain't no chump.