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The Who release first album for a generation
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) Read
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Musician Jay's music is given life after his death

WalesOnline | 30/06/08 iMuzique
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 ... More

Can bad TV save a bad music career?

Times Colonist | 23/06/08 iMuzique
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 ... More

Cops on song, criminals face the music

Times of India | 11/05/08 iMuzique
Tirhut range DIG Arvind Pandey does not find fighting crime and music contradictory. "A recent report in America suggests that music makes police officers ... More

When DRM detonates your music collection

Timesonline | 11/05/08 iMuzique
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. ... More

Amazon's CreateSpace Puts Out-Of-Print Music Back On The Market

InformationWeek | 06/05/08 iMuzique
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 ... More

Guitar Hero Band Releases First Full Album

Wired News | 02/05/08
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 ... Read

Thom Yorke: Radiohead's stunt was 'one-off'

The Globe and Mail | 01/05/08
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 ... Read

“American Idol” Contestant David Cook Tops Amazon MP3 Chart, Then Vanishes

Rolling Stone | 23/04/08
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 ... Read

Anti-Piracy Voice-Overs to Prevent CDs from Leaking

Torrentfreak | 16/01/08
This is the message printed on the cover of protected CDs. Most filesharers are probably familiar with the “for your consideration” messages displayed ... Read

Radiohead top UK album chart

The Register | 07/01/08
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 ... Read

Reznor Reveals Sales On Saul Williams Project

Billboard | 05/01/08
Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor has posted the download and sales numbers for "The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust" the Saul Williams ... Read

Yorke Addresses EMI Renegotiation Report

Billboard | 01/01/08
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 ... Read

Freed OiNK Admin Posts Google Link to Music Sharing Alternatives

Wired News | 30/10/07
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 ... Read

Chavez releases his first CD

Novosti | 02/10/07
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has released his first CD of traditional Venezuelan and Mexican music, entitled Canciones de Siempre or Songs for all ... Read

Nine Inch Nails' Open Source Remix Album Available as Free Torrent

Wired News | 11/09/07
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 ... Read

Bamboo music rekindled in Philippine

CCTV | 23/06/08 iMuzique
The traditional music in the Philippines is being rekindled and recreated in the capital Manila. Replacing rock and pop, bands known as "musikong bumbong" ... More

Music venues: the weird and the wonderful

The Guardian | 23/06/08 iMuzique
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 ... More

The next big Ting?

Boston.com | 16/06/08 iMuzique
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 ... More

The Cistercian monks being groomed for music stardom

Timesonline | 18/05/08 iMuzique
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 ... More

Tika: The fearless songstress returns

Jakarta Post | 11/05/08 iMuzique
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, ... More

Bands are getting into bed with consumer brands

Timesonline | 04/05/08 iMuzique
Gabriel Hubert, horn player with Damon Albarn's favourite street-jazz collective, the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, speaks with the unashamed zeal of a convert: ... More

Guitar Hero Band Releases First Full Album

Wired News | 02/05/08
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Why modlife / Angels & Airwaves have a right music model

Philgalland's Weblog | 18/04/08
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 ... Read

A million-dollar reason to be a rock star in China

Xinhuanet | 25/12/07
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 ... Read

Yorke Addresses EMI Renegotiation Report

Billboard | 01/01/08
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 ... Read

Led Zeppelin promoter wishes eBay would 'drop dead and die'

The Guardian | 08/10/07
Promoter Harvey Goldsmith has branded eBay the "biggest rip-off merchants in the world" after tickets to the forthcoming Led Zeppelin gig appeared for ... Read

Concert sites slam agency's levy

Telegraph | 05/12/07
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 ... Read

Oasis, Jamiroquai to follow Radiohead

Telegraph | 09/10/07
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 ... Read

Nine Inch Nails tells fans to steal music

VNUnet | 20/09/07
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 ... Read

Gym music favourites revealed

pinknews.co.uk | 23/03/07
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 ... Read

Vomiting Skitzo Rocker Hospitalized

antiMusic | 23/03/07
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 ... Read

Uni Blaze Burns Musical History

Deadline Hollywood | 02/06/08 iMuzique
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 ... More

PopKOMM Forecasts A Bright Future For The Music Industry

Undercover | 06/04/07
Between September 19th and 21st, Berlin, Germany will become the centerpiece worldwide for the music industry with the 19th annual popKOMM music conference ... Read

Toussaint explores life after Katrina, outside the Big Easy

Scripps Howard News Service | 15/05/07
Allen Toussaint never left New Orleans. He spent virtually his entire distinguished career playing piano, singing, writing songs and making records with ... Read

Ever so Kylie rated

Timesonline | 09/03/07
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 ... Read

Music producer Phil Ramone a humble genius

Reuters | 23/10/07
Grammy-winning record producer/engineer Phil Ramone has twiddled the knobs for some of modern music's biggest-selling, most influential performers: Barbra ... Read

Pioneering venture

Haaretz.com | 22/12/06
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 ... Read

Wild Predictions for a Wired 2007

Wired News | 02/01/07
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 ... Read

Suin' safari: Beach Boys' legal hits keep on comin'

SignonSanDiego.com/ | 01/12/06
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' ... Read

Def Jam Brings Musical Fight to Next-Gen

Kikizo | 20/10/06
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 ... Read

MySpace will block illegal use of music

Boston.com | 31/10/06
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 ... Read

For iTunes hacker, the freedom of the open code

CNET | 24/11/06
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 ... Read

Christina Aguilera's Unreleased X-Rated Song

HollywoodRag.com | 13/02/07
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 ... Read

Mike Watt Talks (and Talks) Stooges Recording

Pitchforkmedia | 13/10/06
Iggy Pop and the reunited Stooges (with former Minutemen bassist Mike Watt replacing the late David Alexander) began recording their previously reported ... Read

YourGuitarist Offers Musicians Internet-Based Custom Guitar Tracks

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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 ... Read

Bands are getting into bed with consumer brands

Timesonline | 04/05/08 iMuzique
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Radiohead Launches Social Network

Wired News | 06/04/08
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Frap rap ahead? Starbucks brews own music label

The Seattle Times | 13/03/07
Starbucks expanded its push into the entertainment business Monday, launching a record label with the same brand — Hear Music — stamped on the compilation ... Read

Vivaldi's long-lost opera returns to Prague after 278 years

The Independent | 04/05/08 iMuzique
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 ... More

Virtuoso cellist Rostropovich hospitalized again

RIA Novosti | 24/04/07
World-famous cellist and conductor Mstislav Rostropovich, who has been recuperating in a sanatorium outside Moscow, has been hospitalized again, a source ... Read

In the operatic arena were those boos justified?

International Herald Tribune | 19/12/06
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 ... Read

Prison inmates perform in musical

BBC | 02/03/07
Wandsworth Prison inmates have spent weeks rehearsing for the nine-date show, developing confidence and new skills in the process. The musical is being ... Read

A new symphony is music to gamers' ears

The Sydney Morning Herald | 26/12/06
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. ... Read

Swedish-American Soprano Varnay Dies

The Washington Post | 05/09/06
Astrid Varnay, the Swedish-American soprano who made her Metropolitan Opera debut _ without rehearsal _ in a nationally broadcast performance and went ... Read

Classical fans figure to applaud new standard for digital music database

The Sydney Morning Herald | 09/01/07
Opera lovers and classical music aficionados have long lamented the particular difficulties they face in organizing their music in digital programs and ... Read

World premiere by Philip Glass, 'Appomattox,' set for Opera season

San Franciso Chronicle | 23/01/07
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 ... Read

S.F. Opera patron donates $35 million

San Francisco Gate | 04/10/06
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 ... Read

Robert Wilson's ‘Persephone': Swept Away by an Unusual Destiny

The New York Times | 15/08/06
The theater director Robert Wilson has been faithful to his artistic obsessions for more than four decades. Starkly arresting visual tableaus, dramatically ... Read

The Far Side of the Moon

The Sydney Morning Herald | 17/04/07
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 ... Read

Cecilia Bartoli shines in a new staging of

International Herald Tribune | 23/01/07
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 ... Read

'Justin Timberlake is too young for me'

The Telegraph | 03/11/06
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 ... Read

Just Like Yesterday, Only Better

The Washington Post | 14/11/06
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 ... Read

It's never too early to wear your poppy

Telegraph | 27/10/06
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 ... Read