Rock and roll maestros the Red Hot Chilli Peppers, joined this music festival’s famous enlisting to headline one of the nights alongside other famous bands, including the Dave Matthews band, Jack White and the String Cheese Incident. There are also many local bands set to smash their reputations into public knowledge on the night.

R.H.C.P’s are known for their predisposition for being snapped in nothing but strategically placed garments that are set to be emulated as fashionable trends. Though the lineup featured  the likes of Dave Matthews band too, whose set to propel up the enthusiasms, the enlisting of Red Hot Chilli Peppers had to complete the topping of weekend bills and makes it mandatory for the festival lovers to be present in their multitudes.

Red Hot Chilli Peppers‘ newest album made a debut at number two on the billboard charts and have been together for nearly 30 years. They were an underground sect favourite for their hit releases back in 1991, through a famous album with which numerous hit singles made gave them their hit band status - Under the Bridge, which saw the band to their first class celebrity mainstream success – made the Chili Pepper’s what they are today.

Many of the bands at Hangout Fest have been chosen for their appeal to fanatics through progressive tastes. Overally, the lineup definitely bolsters the festival’s reputation of fine art approach and assumptions that defines its taste and style.

Metallica have this time round made the best of hits after their last album Death Magnetic,  released back in 2008. Their album Beyond Magnetic, is already in stores all across the country and is out to prove it is the next of the best and most interesting listens to have ever graced the charts.

Beyond Magnetic fuses a variety of Metallica studio mixed blends, mashed up to entangle the fans for nearly 30 minutes of special treats. The album has a grippingly solid collection of songs, and could have been spun into many separate albums.

Death Magnetic is centered around Layne Staley, the former Alice in Chains singer, who died in April 2002. Staley apparently attained the enlightenment that it is better to burn out than fade away, as once written by Niel Young.

Metallica and Alice in Chains have a strong history from back in the 90s metal and grunge days. This is surely the inspiration and fond memories that Metallica have gained inspiration from and have added references to Staley in the lyrics of songs.

References to Staley are common in the album, and in a way document the final years of Staleys life. After retiring from the music scene, Staley spent his life in voluntary seclusion and withdrawal from the world, leading into a solely virtual reality.

Beyond Magnetic is in some ways more of a tribute to Layne Staley, reflecting him as one who had lost hope and given up all that life had to offer and had resorted to the fact – if he was destined to - that he should die alone.

Although a total of fourteen songs were recorded, only ten made it into the final album.

Some people believe that extreme musical sides cannot be combined and if they are then the results would be disastrous. Well these two musicians have nullified this assumption. As long as there is an exceptional person to do the merging in  a very good manner.  Miracles of Modern Science band has to be the most daring band in the planet.

This is the one band that had the guts if taking a Bon Jovi song and performing it in such a way that the audience would think its Jon Iver who wrote the song. So the song sounds like Jon Iver’s but in the real sense it is a Jon Bovi song. The most amazing part is that people actually got awed by that and there were no disgruntlements because of a horrible performance. And to make the matter more interesting, The Miracles of Modern Science Band chose a song that is globally acclaimed to be a musical master piece; “you give love a bad name”.

Not only are they trying to draw attention to themselves, someone may assume they did not know better. If the results were horrible then a lot of people would be disappointed. A lot of musicians have tried to do such a musical mash up but the end game was not good. But not this band. In the middle of doing their own music, they still get time to perfect and create such a beautiful merger. Well this is something that is going to be the topic of many musical enthusiasts for a very long time.

According to a recent report released by the journal Poll Star, the group is estimated to have earned a whooping £442m pounds, ranking them as the first ever band group to make such huge sum of money from tours.

The breakdown of the visits made by the group was as follows as published by the journal poll star.

The band group with three members Adam Clayton, Larry Mullen and Edge began with a bang following their first visit in Spain, Barcelona.

Chicago also got their share of the tour in September the same year and in October performances in North America came to an end following a massive performance in Toronto.

Other visits were in Australia, New Zealand where the band continued to thrill their fans.

Breakdown of The staggering figures.

Reports indicate that U2 did most of their performances in stadiums, a major factor that contributed to them earning a lot from the shows they made.

Stadiums have the capacity to accommodate as many as seventy thousands fans at a go.

During their last year of performance 2011, the band group is estimated to have collected $231.9m US dollars. This was after 2.38 million fans were able to attend the group’s performance.

The performances of that year alone were from over 26 cities with an average of the band netting $8.9m US dollars per show.

The groups three performances in Brazil alone for instance, earned them a staggering 32m US dollars, the highest  amount they made from one performance that year.

In a case that is bound to test the limits of matters intellectual property the software manufacturer, Microsoft, is suing UK giant retailer Comet over allegations that the entity sold counterfeit recovery discs to the public for a period of some 2 years. According to Microsoft, the bone of contention lies in the fact that Comet allegedly created copies of Windows Vista and XP recovery discs and hawked them to the public, fully knowing that they were the property of Microsoft Corporation.

Comet comes out with a lot of egg on the face in the sense that it not only comes out looking like a thug, as it knowingly infringed upon intellectual property, but also in the sense that it  sold these recovery discs knowing fully well that potential buyers did not need them. In fact, the manufacturer of the hard drive already provided the recovery software and they could obtain them for free from the manufacturer – Microsoft Corporation.

The court case is not the only issue that Comet has to battle with; the entity that has been going through the wringer financially is being disposed to a private equity group Opcapita. This seems to be the culmination of a tough season for the Comet brand – the entity claims to have sought the advice of their legal counsel and claim that as far as the intellectual property issue go, their operation was all above board. How Comet manages to convince a court of law on how 94,000 sets of discs manufactured by them and sold to consumers at a retail price of £14 ( Comet claims to have grossed some £ 1.4 million in sales), over a period of some two years (March 2008 – December 2009) is definitely an interesting spectacle to behold. Microsoft sues Comets over counterfeit CDs – watch this space.