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"Matador still puts out everything on vinyl." Mark Ohe's words come through crystalline and without distortion. The art director at one of the country's most respected independent record labels has a message, and he makes it heard in high-fidelity stereo sound. (19/09)
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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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Arguably the No. 1 item on record labels' to-do list for the year is, "Establish variable pricing for digital downloads."
As luck would have it, ...
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It's the sobering reality of today's music business -- a record company executive can sign a new act and then tell her, "Keep your day job."
That ...
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It is May 9 1996, and you are a Senior Executive at a Very Big Record Label, in charge of Future Developments. This "internet" thing is being talked ...
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hree interesting developments today on the issue of music pricing and price elasticity, a subject close to my heart. While one label starts flirting with ...
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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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The challenge was to come up with an idea that can transform public education, particularly in poor communities. The winner: an educator with a passion ...
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Newsflash, courtesy of PR agency Edelman: Young people don't feel warmly about the music industry, presumably because they are harshing their mellow and ...
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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 ...
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The relationship between EMI and some of its leading artists soured further yesterday as the record label suggested Robbie Williams's potential departure ...
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I used to own a record label. That label, Luaka Bop, still exists, though I'm no longer involved in running it. My last record came out through Nonesuch, ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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At a party in 1983, Francis Falceto had an epiphany that changed his life. Falceto had been involved in music for many years, as a curator, programme planner ...
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It was a fortuitous typo for the Fred Meyer retail chain.
This spring, an employee intending to order a special CD-DVD edition of R.E.M.'s latest release ...
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It was a quiet afternoon in the Oxfam Shop in Great Yarmouth in the autumn of 2005. Most days are quiet in Great Yarmouth out of season.
This day, however, ...
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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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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 ...
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Asking fans to pay anything from 1 pence (plus a 45 pence service fee) to whatever they think is fair for a download, Radiohead is offering their latest ...
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For many years I considered America as my promised land. As a young Jazz musician I was pretty convinced that sooner or later I would end up living in ...
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Taipei is synonymous with house music, and arguably has a vibrant house compared with other Asian capitals. A mish-mash of local and foreign talents have ...
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Let the silly indie kids have their silly SXSW, with their flannels and ironic t-shirts, their jangle and distortion. The rest of us have the cool, crisp, ...
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Faced with mounting pressure from international music orgs over alleged piracy, China's top web search site Baidu has announced a partnership with three ...
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For the past 10 years, music magazines have been flooded with articles about the death of the record store.
Joe Kboudi — who opened Wednesday with twice ...
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Ever wondered what this underground music is, which is spreading like wildfire? Does it constitute Bollywood or is it just independent artists that we ...
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While Warner Music had claimed that it was getting away from attacking fans who wanted to download, it appears that it still has a long way to go. Atlantic ...
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Like businesses, countries have their competitive advantages, things for which they have a particular propensity. And what Jamaica excels at, or at least ...
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It was a fortuitous typo for the Fred Meyer retail chain.
This spring, an employee intending to order a special CD-DVD edition of R.E.M.'s latest release ...
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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, ...
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Arguably the No. 1 item on record labels' to-do list for the year is, "Establish variable pricing for digital downloads."
As luck would have it, ...
More
It's the sobering reality of today's music business -- a record company executive can sign a new act and then tell her, "Keep your day job."
That ...
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No offense to Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper or Don McLean, but I think we may be witnessing the actual day the music died and this time I can even name the ...
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Since the record industry first noticed that some of the kids were using the internet in the mid-90s, it's flopped from one puddle to the next. Despite ...
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I like to believe that all of us have rock star alter egos. For most of us, these inner rock beasts sleep latently, awaiting the proper heartbreak or drug ...
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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 last time I listened to country music was the summer after my senior year of high school when I worked in a sweatshop in Tyrone, Pa., sewing seams ...
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The campaign's leaflet (pdf) is distributed through schools and colleges, libraries, record stores, teaching portals and websites in 21 countries. It ...
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It is May 9 1996, and you are a Senior Executive at a Very Big Record Label, in charge of Future Developments. This "internet" thing is being talked ...
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Some persons capture special moments on film, others in personal memories, but for some a good record can take them back into that golden moment. Record ...
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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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The "poduction" remix of her comeback song Why is supposed to be easier to listen to on earphones, and combats the loss of quality found in MP3 files. ...
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OLD FOGEYS will have spent up to £24,000 on music, stereo equipment and live gigs by the time they reach 50, says a UK radio station. Forty per cent ...
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Raghav Sachar is a young dude. With a hell lot of musical attitude. His score in ‘Kabul Express' is an absolute revelation. And no, he is not your run-of-the-mill ...
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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
For the past 10 years, music magazines have been flooded with articles about the death of the record store.
Joe Kboudi — who opened Wednesday with twice ...
More
Ever wondered what this underground music is, which is spreading like wildfire? Does it constitute Bollywood or is it just independent artists that we ...
More
Like businesses, countries have their competitive advantages, things for which they have a particular propensity. And what Jamaica excels at, or at least ...
More
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
Arguably the No. 1 item on record labels' to-do list for the year is, "Establish variable pricing for digital downloads."
As luck would have it, ...
More
It's the sobering reality of today's music business -- a record company executive can sign a new act and then tell her, "Keep your day job."
That ...
More
Since the record industry first noticed that some of the kids were using the internet in the mid-90s, it's flopped from one puddle to the next. Despite ...
More
I like to believe that all of us have rock star alter egos. For most of us, these inner rock beasts sleep latently, awaiting the proper heartbreak or drug ...
More
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
The last time I listened to country music was the summer after my senior year of high school when I worked in a sweatshop in Tyrone, Pa., sewing seams ...
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The campaign's leaflet (pdf) is distributed through schools and colleges, libraries, record stores, teaching portals and websites in 21 countries. It ...
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It is May 9 1996, and you are a Senior Executive at a Very Big Record Label, in charge of Future Developments. This "internet" thing is being talked ...
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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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Some persons capture special moments on film, others in personal memories, but for some a good record can take them back into that golden moment. Record ...
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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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