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UK orchestra 'pioneers' podcasts
The Birmingham Symphony Orchestra is to produce a monthly podcast, claiming a first for a major ensemble. Ex-BBC Radio 3 presenter Tommy Pearson will introduce musical clips and interviews during each 30-minute show. Members of the public will be invited to review recent concerts, ... (12/09) ReadYou may also like
The Pirate Bay to Add SSL Encryption Starting this Week
ZeroPaid | 23/06/08 
The Pirate Bay, one of the world's largest BitTorrent tracker sites, is once again at the forefront of privacy rights in Sweden with news that it plans ... More
The BBC throws open its music vaults to EMI
The Guardian | 16/06/08
Right now, in the smoke-filled boardrooms where corporation bosses make their decisions, a bunch of suits are high-fiving each other while listening to ... More
Music for pets while you're at work
The Dallas Morning News | 11/05/08
With most of us spending 40-plus hours at work, that leaves less time to pal around with our four-legged friends. We try all sorts of ways to distract ... More
Dolly Parton and Lessons on Bad Branding
Wall Street Journal | 04/05/08
There is nothing wrong with the product. But boy, the branding bites.
That's what I thought last night at Radio City Music Hall as I watched one of ... More
Behind the music: The No 1 template
The Guardian | 15/04/08 
This week's No 1 single is, yet again, Estelle's American Boy. It's one of those infectious tunes that seemed destined to be the soundtrack of the summer ... 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
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
Rhapsody to deliver music, radio through TiVo
Bizjournals | 09/10/07
TiVo Inc. and Rhapsody America LLC said Tuesday they've partnered to deliver digital music to consumers through any broadband-connected TiVo box. Alviso, ... Read
Yahoo, AOL May Abandon Web Radio After Royalties Rise (Update2)
Bloomberg.com | 29/11/07
Yahoo! Inc. and Time Warner Inc.'s AOL unit may shut down their Web radio services after being hit with a 38 percent increase in royalties to air music. ... Read
For One Dominican Songwriter, Top Music Honors
The New York Times | 09/11/07
Juan Luis Guerra, a songwriter from the Dominican Republic, was the big winner at the eighth annual Latin Grammy Awards last night. His “La Llave de Mi ... Read
Tacoma tries classical music to chase gangs from bus stops
Seattle Post Intelligencer | 30/07/07
Believing gangs and Mozart don't mix, city police and Pierce Transit officials are mounting a classical attack on a growing problem of street gangs at ... Read
The clapped-out legacy of Karajan that impoverished classical music
The Independent | 06/04/08
Waking up in the morning to Herbert von Karajan on the radio, I have to rub my eyes and check the calendar to make sure that Mao Tse-tung is not alive ... Read
Best guitar solos named
Planet Rock | 29/08/06
For the past few weeks, we (British radio station Planet Rock) 've been asking Planet Rock listeners to vote for the greatest guitar solo ever. We compiled ... Read
Radiohead generation believes music is free
Telegraph | 07/10/07
Having waited four years for their heroes to finish another record, Radiohead fans were understandably excited last week to learn that the band's seventh ... Read
The day the music industry died
Timesonline | 07/10/07
Having waited four years for their heroes to finish another record, Radiohead fans were understandably excited last week to learn that the band's seventh ... Read
Imeem music service doesn't quite rock
News.com | 31/10/07
Yesterday, the New York Times ran an article about Imeem, pegged to the news that this fledgling site has signed a third major label, EMI, leaving only ... Read
Imeem Pioneers Free Music With Ads
The New York Times | 30/10/07
Is Imeem the next iTunes? Imeem is a social network site with a heavy emphasis on music. I have no reason to believe that it will become as important as ... Read
UMG To Acquire V2 From Morgan Stanley
Billboard | 10/08/07
The Universal Music Group has reached an agreement to acquire the V2 Music Group from Morgan Stanley. Terms of the deal, which is subject to regulatory ... Read
Robot conductors could take the baton from us
The Guardian | 18/05/08
There's more to leading an orchestra than simply beating time, but how long will it be before Honda and co make a robot that can understand music too?
Can ... More
Ruben Vartanyan; Conductor Defected From Soviet Union
Washington post | 11/05/08
Ruben Vartanyan, an orchestra conductor who defected from the Soviet Union in 1988 and spent the past 20 years in Northern Virginia, leading the Arlington ... More
The orchestra that is saving children's lives
Telegraph | 06/09/07
A 12-year-old boy is on the streets, hanging out in derelict tenement blocks next to a motorway. At 13, he's hooked on crack cocaine, carrying a gun and ... Read
A symphony for Kazakhstan
The Telegraph | 01/05/07
After Kazakhstan's outraged official response to Sacha Baron Cohen's Borat movie - which included a summit meeting with George Bush in Washington and ... Read
Goth queen Siouxsie rocks with orchestra
Signonsandiego.com | 30/03/07
Long before Madonna, Siouxsie Sioux mastered the formidable art of style over substance. Never a great singer but always a riveting performer, the Londoner ... Read
Mashayekhi to test John Cage's unusual music in Iran
Mehrnews.com | 06/03/07
Tehran Symphony Orchestra conductor Nader Mashayekhi plans to test Iranian tastes for the unusual music of U.S. avant-garde composer John Milton Cage, ... Read
Violinist Hits the Streets on a Mission of Musi
The New York Times | 19/10/07
Walking briskly past Lincoln Center with a violin case in hand and a suitcase in tow, David Juritz looked like a busy orchestral musician arriving in the ... Read
Ella Fitzgerald's Never Before Released Recordings
jazz news | 08/05/07
To celebrate what would have been Ella Fitzgerald's 90th birthday, Starbucks Entertainment and Concord Records are co-releasing Love Letters From Ella, ... Read
The Rise of a Musical Superpower
Le Courrier International | 10/04/07
Mahler's Eighth may or may not be the greatest symphony ever composed, but it's surely the loudest: at its premiere in Munich in 1910, the impresario ... Read
Concerto for drill and software
The Guardian | 14/11/06
Most amateur orchestras expect their players to be able to scrape or blow a few notes to order. But no such restrictive demands are made on those wanting ... Read
When he takes the stage, anything can happen
The Denver Post | 10/11/06
A few weeks ago, Boulder pianist David Koorevaar talked to a Chicago colleague who mentioned that the once-heralded Ivo Pogorelich was coming for a recital. ... Read
The Pirate Bay to Add SSL Encryption Starting this Week
ZeroPaid | 23/06/08
The Pirate Bay, one of the world's largest BitTorrent tracker sites, is once again at the forefront of privacy rights in Sweden with news that it plans ... More
The BBC throws open its music vaults to EMI
The Guardian | 16/06/08
Right now, in the smoke-filled boardrooms where corporation bosses make their decisions, a bunch of suits are high-fiving each other while listening to ... More
Music for pets while you're at work
The Dallas Morning News | 11/05/08
With most of us spending 40-plus hours at work, that leaves less time to pal around with our four-legged friends. We try all sorts of ways to distract ... More
Dolly Parton and Lessons on Bad Branding
Wall Street Journal | 04/05/08
There is nothing wrong with the product. But boy, the branding bites.
That's what I thought last night at Radio City Music Hall as I watched one of ... More
Behind the music: The No 1 template
The Guardian | 15/04/08
This week's No 1 single is, yet again, Estelle's American Boy. It's one of those infectious tunes that seemed destined to be the soundtrack of the summer ... 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
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
Rhapsody to deliver music, radio through TiVo
Bizjournals | 09/10/07
TiVo Inc. and Rhapsody America LLC said Tuesday they've partnered to deliver digital music to consumers through any broadband-connected TiVo box. Alviso, ... Read
Yahoo, AOL May Abandon Web Radio After Royalties Rise (Update2)
Bloomberg.com | 29/11/07
Yahoo! Inc. and Time Warner Inc.'s AOL unit may shut down their Web radio services after being hit with a 38 percent increase in royalties to air music. ... Read
For One Dominican Songwriter, Top Music Honors
The New York Times | 09/11/07
Juan Luis Guerra, a songwriter from the Dominican Republic, was the big winner at the eighth annual Latin Grammy Awards last night. His “La Llave de Mi ... Read
Tacoma tries classical music to chase gangs from bus stops
Seattle Post Intelligencer | 30/07/07
Believing gangs and Mozart don't mix, city police and Pierce Transit officials are mounting a classical attack on a growing problem of street gangs at ... Read
The clapped-out legacy of Karajan that impoverished classical music
The Independent | 06/04/08
Waking up in the morning to Herbert von Karajan on the radio, I have to rub my eyes and check the calendar to make sure that Mao Tse-tung is not alive ... Read
Best guitar solos named
Planet Rock | 29/08/06
For the past few weeks, we (British radio station Planet Rock) 've been asking Planet Rock listeners to vote for the greatest guitar solo ever. We compiled ... Read
Radiohead generation believes music is free
Telegraph | 07/10/07
Having waited four years for their heroes to finish another record, Radiohead fans were understandably excited last week to learn that the band's seventh ... Read
The day the music industry died
Timesonline | 07/10/07
Having waited four years for their heroes to finish another record, Radiohead fans were understandably excited last week to learn that the band's seventh ... Read
Can bad TV save a bad music career?
Times Colonist | 23/06/08
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
'Nashville Star' lassos NBC
The Arizona Republic | 09/06/08
John Rich, half of the country music sensation Big & Rich, achieved stardom the old-fashioned way: He earned it.
The Texas native, with pal Kenny Alphin, ... More
Miley Knows Best
Vanity Fair | 30/04/08
It's my favorite show! I love it!” says 15-year-old Miley Cyrus, speaking of Sex and the City over spinach-artichoke dip in a dingy Toluca Lake restaurant ... Read
Digital Music Industry Challenged to Follow Fans' Lead
PC World | 10/01/08
At the Consumer Electronics Show this year it's clear that consumers are making choices that are driving industry changes, and nowhere is that more evident ... Read
P&P, killer of Ghanaian music industry
Ghanamusic.com | 29/11/07
Showbiz, they say, is 90 per cent business and 10 per cent show?. But there is no denying the fact that without the 10 per cent show there is no business ... 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
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
Nokia and Universal's Proposed Music Tax
The New York Times | 05/12/07
It's good to highlight inventions that, while flawed, show where things may be headed. One worth watching is the “Comes With Music” program just announced ... Read
Radiohead Launches Social Network
Wired News | 06/04/08
Radiohead_social As their former label readies a greatest hits compilation to showcase their past, Radiohead continue to forge an innovative path into ... Read
For One Dominican Songwriter, Top Music Honors
The New York Times | 09/11/07
Juan Luis Guerra, a songwriter from the Dominican Republic, was the big winner at the eighth annual Latin Grammy Awards last night. His “La Llave de Mi ... Read
Tickets stampede for Kylie's huge new show at the V&A
Dailymail | 06/02/07
The Victoria and Albert Museum's new exhibition devoted to the style and fashion of Kylie Minogue is the most popular show in the museum's history before ... Read
The Pirate Bay Introduces Music Discovery Feature
Torrentfreak | 30/11/07
If you click on show detailed artist info on a torrent page it will show a list of similar artists, other albums from the same artist, upcoming concerts ... Read
Baidu partners up for music service
Variety Asia | 30/06/08
Faced with mounting pressure from international music orgs over alleged piracy, China's top web search site Baidu has announced a partnership with three ... More
Jay-Z Quiets Critics With Indie Cred
ABC News | 30/06/08
The world's largest music festival is wrapping up in the rolling hills of Somerset, England. For three raucous days, revelers at Glastonbury can always ... More
Tika: The fearless songstress returns
Jakarta Post | 11/05/08
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
They're doing it Frank Sinatra's way
Los Angeles Times | 11/05/08
Anew era is beginning in the career of Frank Sinatra even if the Chairman of the Board isn't here to participate.
The iconic singer died May 14, 1998, ... More
Music biz lawyers wary of labels' new grab
Reuters | 29/12/07
Like it or not, major record companies are expected to continue drafting their artist contracts so that labels share a piece of most -- if not all -- of ... Read
Artist Managers Protest New EMI Regime
Billboard | 11/01/08
EMI is facing the prospect of an artists' revolt, with representatives of major acts Robbie Williams and Coldplay expressing concern at the current state ... Read
DiMA, Publishers Clash Over Rights
Billboard | 08/01/08
A major battle is erupting between some digital media companies and major music publishers, which may lead to federal litigation, Billboard.biz has learned. ... Read
EMI to exit IFPI
Variety | 10/01/08
In a move designed to get major music trade organizations to reorganize, EMI has made the first step to exit the British trade group IFPI. Top operating ... Read
Why (And How) I Just Canceled All My Music Subscriptions
Wired News | 28/12/07
Now that three of the four major labels have decided to sell music without DRM, I've finally decided to drop it too. I've subscribed to Napster, Rhapsody, ... Read
The Old Music Industry Is Dead: Apple Launching Record Label With Jay-Z
Gizmodo | 03/01/08
Looks like there might another major announcement at MacWorld. BGR says they've "confirmed" that Apple is launching a record label with Jay-Z, who's ... Read
Imeem music service doesn't quite rock
News.com | 31/10/07
Yesterday, the New York Times ran an article about Imeem, pegged to the news that this fledgling site has signed a third major label, EMI, leaving only ... Read
Prince seeks to 'reclaim the net'
The Guardian | 13/09/07
Prince is threatening to sue a raft of major websites, including YouTube, eBay and Pirate Bay, as part of a legal initiative to "reclaim the internet" ... Read
Two Big Rap Stars Bicker, Ignoring a Larger Threat
The New York Times | 20/09/07
“Nothing is going according to the actual plan,” 50 Cent said in an interview with MTV last month. Right about now that seems like an understatement. He ... Read
Will The Music Industry Pin Its Hopes On Vinyl Records (Or Player Piano Rolls)?
Idolator | 30/10/07
Wired thinks that vinyl is about to "re-enter the mainstream, or at least become a major tributary" thanks to the "uniformly optimistic picture of the ... Read
Major Labels, Large Webcasters Reach Agreement
Billboard | 24/08/07
Major record labels and SoundExchange have just reached a deal with the large webcasting services over crucial terms covering royalty rates that webcasters ... Read
Stevie Wonder gives Taste-y performance
Chicago Sun-Times | 30/06/08
Saturday afternoon Stevie Wonder returned to Taste of Chicago with a concert that was generous, adventurous, populist, humorous and amorous.
"A lot ... More
Mandela concert offered music, recruited new warriors
Detroit Free Press | 30/06/08
Some moments in history are great when they happen: an inaugural speech, a call to dream, a final farewell from a television icon who has told you for ... More
Estonians Fight for Their Freedom Through Music
redOrbit | 23/06/08
As a nation that spent many decades under the constant watch of Soviet Russia, singing was an expression of a culture that refused to be crushed. It was ... More
Ending on a high note - just not a high C
Ottawa Citizen | 11/05/08
Twenty minutes before our concert last week I was trying to calm myself with judicious decisions: which notes to skip and where to drain the spit?
We'd ... More
Music biz lawyers wary of labels' new grab
Reuters | 29/12/07
Like it or not, major record companies are expected to continue drafting their artist contracts so that labels share a piece of most -- if not all -- of ... Read
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
Macca's marriage split cost him £1.5m already
La Libre | 29/08/06
Sir Paul McCartney is donating £1.6 million to a landmine charity after pulling out of a fundraising event he was due to host with his estranged ... Read
Led Zep, YouTube, and a Broken Record from Warner Music
Portfolio.com | 12/12/07
As we report on Portfolio.com today, within hours of Led Zeppelin's historic reunion concert in London on Monday, fans in attendance started posting videos ... 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
Jamiroquai Takes it To the Skies
The Jaunted | 02/03/07
Funk rockers Jamiroquai (you know, the future - virtual insanity...) are having a tough time getting gigs these days apparently. The band just played a ... Read
Historic buildings at risk from rock concerts
The Guardian | 14/09/07
Rock concerts at some of the UK's most important historic buildings have put them at risk of damage from powerful bass note vibrations, according to research ... Read
The Pirate Bay Introduces Music Discovery Feature
Torrentfreak | 30/11/07
If you click on show detailed artist info on a torrent page it will show a list of similar artists, other albums from the same artist, upcoming concerts ... Read
Beyonce to cover up for Malaysian concert
Khaleej Times | 03/09/07
Just weeks after US singer Gwen Stefani covered up for a concert in Malaysia amid a furore over revealing outfits, her compatriot Beyonce is facing similar ... Read
Would You Like Some Music With Your Tickets?
Pollstar | 08/11/07
Once upon a time, in the pre-digital analog world of yesterday, people bought albums at brick-and-mortar establishments known as "record stores" and ... Read
The daily cicada concert: Is it music?
Wednesday Journal | 06/06/07
Seventeen summers ago I was hanging out in Iowa City, sweating through grad school, and too engrossed in my work to care much about the periodical cicada ... Read
Hannah Montana: Music Jam
ABC News | 29/11/07
If you are looking for an alternative to the sold-out Hannah Montana concert series, the new video game "Hannah Montana: Music Jam" may be just the ticket ... Read
Symphony of Millions
The New-Yorker | 30/06/08
n March, Chen Qigang, a Chinese composer who is supervising the music program for the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics, received a National ... More
Robot conductors could take the baton from us
The Guardian | 18/05/08
There's more to leading an orchestra than simply beating time, but how long will it be before Honda and co make a robot that can understand music too?
Can ... More
A symphony for Kazakhstan
The Telegraph | 01/05/07
After Kazakhstan's outraged official response to Sacha Baron Cohen's Borat movie - which included a summit meeting with George Bush in Washington and ... 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
Mashayekhi to test John Cage's unusual music in Iran
Mehrnews.com | 06/03/07
Tehran Symphony Orchestra conductor Nader Mashayekhi plans to test Iranian tastes for the unusual music of U.S. avant-garde composer John Milton Cage, ... Read
Ella Fitzgerald's Never Before Released Recordings
jazz news | 08/05/07
To celebrate what would have been Ella Fitzgerald's 90th birthday, Starbucks Entertainment and Concord Records are co-releasing Love Letters From Ella, ... Read
The Rise of a Musical Superpower
Le Courrier International | 10/04/07
Mahler's Eighth may or may not be the greatest symphony ever composed, but it's surely the loudest: at its premiere in Munich in 1910, the impresario ... Read
Symphony world premiere brings together a virtuoso pianist and an ambitious composer
San Francisco Chronicle | 14/11/06
Composer Kevin Volans' new piano concerto, "Atlantic Crossing," is scheduled for its world premiere in Davies Symphony Hall on Wednesday night, and ... Read