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The Who's first studio album in over 25 years will also be released alongside a compilation of Pete Townsend's rock opera, 'The Boy Who Heard Music'. 'Endless Wire' is set to hit the streets at the end of October. The band released the 'Wire & Glass' EP earlier this year, a mini compilation ... (25/08)
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A YOUNG musician is to release an album from beyond the grave.
Singer-songwriter Matthew Jay, who drew comparisons with folk legend Nick Drake, died ...
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Janet Jackson will soon be roaming the backstreets and church choirs of America on the hunt for "the next big thing" in pop. Naturally, it's all for ...
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Tirhut range DIG Arvind Pandey does not find fighting crime and music contradictory. "A recent report in America suggests that music makes police officers ...
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Imagine if you had a bedroom full of CDs and decided to buy a new player one day, only to discover that none of your albums would play on the new system. ...
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CreateSpace, a subsidiary of Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN), on Monday expanded its print-on-demand CD publishing service in an effort to put an end to the concept ...
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Plastic ax-wielding players of Guitar Hero II surely remember the dub/metal hybrid "Elephant Bones" by a band called That Handsome Devil. The song managed ...
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They turned the music sales model on its head, but indie rockers Radiohead won't be repeating their decision to let fans choose what to pay for their ...
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After enjoying last week as the top-selling album at the Amazon MP3 store, American Idol contestant David Cook's 2006 album Analog Heart was pulled from ...
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This is the message printed on the cover of protected CDs. Most filesharers are probably familiar with the “for your consideration” messages displayed ...
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Radiohead's In Rainbows has climbed straight to the top of the UK album chart in the week following its physical release on CD and vinyl, apparently proving ...
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Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor has posted the download and sales numbers for "The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust" the Saul Williams ...
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Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke has responded to a report that his band demanded an exorbitant advance from EMI for its next album as well as control of ...
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The site administrator of OiNK.cd, having been released from custody after his arrest last week for running a torrent tracker site that specialized in ...
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has released his first CD of traditional Venezuelan and Mexican music, entitled Canciones de Siempre or Songs for all ...
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Over the past few months, "multiple judges" at 9inchnails.com listened to over 200 submissions to the Nine Inch Nails open source remix contest and the ...
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The traditional music in the Philippines is being rekindled and recreated in the capital Manila. Replacing rock and pop, bands known as "musikong bumbong" ...
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Bands playing London are pretty lucky. During the snakes and ladders game of the music business they can play venues that rise in capacity from a former ...
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The British dance-pop duo the Ting Tings are having the kind of year most musicians dream about: hit singles in the UK, a buzzed-about showcase at South ...
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Within minutes of arriving at the monastery in the Vienna Forest, I see a clutch of men wearing lederhosen, while an oompah band tunes up for the May Day ...
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The gig last Sunday evening at Score bar in Cilandak Town Square seemed much like any other organized by major sponsors trying to tap in to the youth market, ...
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Gabriel Hubert, horn player with Damon Albarn's favourite street-jazz collective, the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, speaks with the unashamed zeal of a convert: ...
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Plastic ax-wielding players of Guitar Hero II surely remember the dub/metal hybrid "Elephant Bones" by a band called That Handsome Devil. The song managed ...
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Modlife is interactive website for fans of the band Angels & Airwaves (created by Tom Delonge, former lead singer of punk-rock band blink182). People who ...
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Chinese pop and rock singers, bands and composers will have a chance to compete with peers from other Asian countries for awards worth more than 1 million ...
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Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke has responded to a report that his band demanded an exorbitant advance from EMI for its next album as well as control of ...
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Promoter Harvey Goldsmith has branded eBay the "biggest rip-off merchants in the world" after tickets to the forthcoming Led Zeppelin gig appeared for ...
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Band managers behind 400 artists from Robbie Williams to Radiohead and KT Tunstall have formed a new rights society that hopes to collect a slug of the ...
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Some of the music industry's biggest names are considering offering their music free online following the success of the experiment by the band Radiohead ...
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The lead singer of Nine Inch Nails has urged fans of the band to steal its music as a protest against the high price charged by record companies. Trent ...
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It's official: gay icons and boybands make the best music to get sweaty to. A nationwide Standard Life Healthcare poll yesterday revealed that the Scissor ...
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Lance Ozanix of the California-based band SKITZO was admitted to the hospital late last night after suffering from severe stomach pain. After being seen ...
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It looks like more was damaged or destroyed in today's Universal Studios fire than anyone previously thought. I've learned that Universal Music, which ...
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Between September 19th and 21st, Berlin, Germany will become the centerpiece worldwide for the music industry with the 19th annual popKOMM music conference ...
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Allen Toussaint never left New Orleans. He spent virtually his entire distinguished career playing piano, singing, writing songs and making records with ...
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Calvin Harris, creator of the MySpace hit Acceptable in the 80s and now stardust-sprinkling producer to Kylie Minogue, is squeezing his 6ft 3in frame through ...
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Grammy-winning record producer/engineer Phil Ramone has twiddled the knobs for some of modern music's biggest-selling, most influential performers: Barbra ...
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One of Nahum Heiman's main tools in recent years is cotton ear swabs. Last Tuesday the composer sat in one of the rooms of his home, which he calls "the ...
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Here are some predictions for 2007: Google Stock Hits $1,000 per Share Internet Traffic Doubles ... to 5,000 petabits per day by the end of 2007. And 80 ...
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Good vibrations? Not always. On stage and in the studio, Brian Wilson, his cousin Mike Love and the rest of the Beach Boys produced some of rock 'n' ...
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Melding hip-hop and fighting may seem like an odd idea for a game series but that hasn't held back EA's rapper-blessed Def Jam series from bloodying ...
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News Corp.'s MySpace.com yesterday said it had licensed a new technology to stop users from posting unauthorized copyrighted music on the social networking ...
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He was 15 years old at the time and quickly became known in hacker circles as "DVD Jon," a wunderkind of reverse engineering who tore down cumbersome ...
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Christina Aguilera has recorded a song about oral sex, but has vowed never
to release it. The 'Dirrty' singer revealed she laid down the X-rated track ...
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Iggy Pop and the reunited Stooges (with former Minutemen bassist Mike Watt replacing the late David Alexander) began recording their previously reported ...
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YourGuitarist.com announced the launch of its web site, offering Internet based development of custom guitar tracks for artists worldwide. YourGuitarist ...
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Gabriel Hubert, horn player with Damon Albarn's favourite street-jazz collective, the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, speaks with the unashamed zeal of a convert: ...
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Radiohead_social As their former label readies a greatest hits compilation to showcase their past, Radiohead continue to forge an innovative path into ...
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Starbucks expanded its push into the entertainment business Monday, launching a record label with the same brand — Hear Music — stamped on the compilation ...
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A long-lost opera by Antonio Vivaldi was to have its first performance in centuries last night. Argippo, discovered by a Czech musician as he rummaged ...
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World-famous cellist and conductor Mstislav Rostropovich, who has been recuperating in a sanatorium outside Moscow, has been hospitalized again, a source ...
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Two recent incidents of booing are the talk of the opera world, a hothouse of passionate debate if ever there was one. First, boos rained down on Placido ...
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Wandsworth Prison inmates have spent weeks rehearsing for the nine-date show, developing confidence and new skills in the process. The musical is being ...
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A "symphony" comprising music from some of the most popular video games will be performed in Sydney next year after sell-out shows in the US and Europe. ...
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Astrid Varnay, the Swedish-American soprano who made her Metropolitan Opera debut _ without rehearsal _ in a nationally broadcast performance and went ...
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Opera lovers and classical music aficionados have long lamented the particular difficulties they face in organizing their music in digital programs and ...
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David Gockley unveiled a different sound and look for the San Francisco Opera on Monday, announcing a season -- the first he's planned as general director ...
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At a time when the San Francisco Opera is looking to shore up its finances, the company has received $35 million from longtime patron and supporter Jeannik ...
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The theater director Robert Wilson has been faithful to his artistic obsessions for more than four decades. Starkly arresting visual tableaus, dramatically ...
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Early last year Robert Lepage visited Australia to perform his one-man show, The Andersen Project, as part of the Sydney Festival. In it the writer-director-performer ...
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The prospect of witnessing Cecilia Bartoli in an important a new role was probably the greatest draw, but the Zurich Opera House's new production of Handel's ...
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Anna Netrebko, as you might expect from one of the hottest divas in the world, is hopelessly late. I spend the time chatting to the doorman at the opera ...
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Technology to the rescue. Given the spectacular cost of making new recordings of familiar operas, we are likely to continue to listen to the great singers ...
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Katherine Jenkins, the 26-year-old opera singer, wore a dress made of 2,500 poppies to help launch the appeal. The Welsh soprano said it was becoming more ...
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