By Gerry Plaza

They never announced they disbanded. They only said they went separate ways. But their 2007 reunion tour dispels common notion that they have been forgotten.

The Police posted the highest-grossing concert tour for 2007, raking in $132 million in the United States and $212 million worldwide. The tour is still ongoing, with the Latin American leg ended earlier this month. The tour will restart on Jan. 17 in New Zealand.

The trio of Sting, Andy Summers, and Steward Copeland, had a US take way above the runner-up in the Pollster list. Country star Kenny Chesney figured $71 million in his own tour, which is nearly half of the 80s New Wave rockers’ earnings.
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By Gerry Plaza

It was Josh Groban’s scintillating voice and the spirit of Christmas that made the phenomenon. Now Billboard Magazine makes it official.

Groban’s “Noel” is 2007’s top selling album after staying at four weeks on top of Hot 200 Album Chart, the only Christmas album to reach that milestone. Groban broke Elvis Presley’s record for a Christmas album, when the latter’s “Elvis’ Christmas Album” also stayed on top of the Billboard album chart in 1957 for four weeks, albeit non-consecutively, Billboard reported.

Billboard cited Nielsen SoundScan data in its report that “Noel” sold 669,000 copies in the week ended December 16 running to a 2.77-million total, eclipsing the soundtrack of “High School Musical 2″ as the year’s best-selling album.

What goes up must come down, or so the song goes, but everything just keeps going higher and higher for one of the country’s busiest bands

by Clarissa Concio
Photography by Erwin Barleta for Edge of Light

It’s been a very, very long year for 6cyclemind. If energy equals distance multiplied by time, then the past year should have drained all the life out of the band–they’ve played seven gigs in one single day, sang to 30,000 people at Tagbilaran, ridden with weird cab drivers in Dubai and even serenaded fans in the middle of a storm in Bohol. Dubai alone is 6,916 air kilometers from Manila, Tagbilaran roughly 500 and Cagayan de Oro is 810. Now you do the math. Maybe anyone else would have thrown the proverbial towel in, cashed in their year of non-stop gigging and endorsement responsibilities and took a well-deserved break from the music scene. But resting is far from the minds of Ney Dimaculangan (vocals), Rye Sarmiento (rhythm guitars), Chuck Isidro (lead guitars), Bob Canamo (bass), Tutti Caringal (drums) and sixth member, main songwriter and the band’s foundation and manager Darwin Hernandez. Granted, it would be more difficult to stop the wheels from turning once they’ve started, so it looks like the momentum 6cyclemind’s picked up since January of 2007 will well be carried over until 2008.
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This girl’s definitely come a long way from her “Candy” days. But that doesn’t mean her new collection of all-original material isn’t as sweet

While her contemporaries hog the headlines in gossip rags and entertainment news shows, Mandy Moore has been keeping a low profile, quietly writing songs, and supposedly using the long bout with the blues she found herself fighting last year as her muse to pen poetry and songs.
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A new lead singer, a new album and a lot of touring. This is what life is like for Click Five right now

by Yvette Tan

The band, composed of Ben Romans on keyboards, Ethan Mentzer on bass, Joe Guese on lead guitar, Joey Zehr on drums and their new member Kyle Patrick on lead vocals and guitar. The band has been getting a lot of press lately, what with their new album, Modern Minds and Pastimes, which has been heralded as darker and more mature than their first album, Greetings from Imrie House. Aside from their tours and videos, Click Five has also gained massive popularity on the internet. Their video, Click Five: The Band Behind the Band, is one of the most viewed videos on You Tube while their MySpace page is one of the most viewed one on the site.
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Read more of Burn’s exclusive interview with singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist KT Tunstall

Q: How has touring and being around different artists change the way you write songs now and the way you perceive music?
KT: I don’t think it changed the way I write songs necessarily but it’s definitely raised my bar. It’s raised my standards—having the opportunity to meet people that \I’ve always admired and also see them play and I’ve been lucky enough while I was travelling to catch them in fantastic shows and it really raises your bar and it really makes you examine what you do yourself and how you do it and…For example, going to see Radiohead here in London and seeing a stage show and i said wow that really is so inventive and so meaningful to their music and it really made me think how my stage looks and that’s just an example…almost every time i see a good show or band i like it provokes some thought in some area of what i do. Although i am obviously influenced in some level by what other people write and what other people produce, it’s quite important to me that that remains untouched, the writing because otherwise it’s going to sound like someone else.
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