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Morrissey is in talks with the BBC over plans to write a song for the Eurovision Song Contest. The former Smiths frontman, pictured, who has hits such as Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now and This Charming Man, was approached through his record label Sanctuary. (09/01)
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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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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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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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Teenagers and students have an average of more than 800 illegally copied songs each on their digital music players, the largest academic survey of young ...
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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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THE TURKANA CULTURAL FESTIval, organised by the German Embassy, debuted recently to showcase the promise of a region that lacks the advantage of numbers ...
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The CBC is set to launch a song-writing contest open to all Canadians in hopes of finding a new theme song for Hockey Night In Canada, the head of CBC ...
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Teenagers building vast music collections by downloading songs illegally from the internet should beware. Their access to free music faces being cut off ...
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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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It's worth entering the Eurovision song contest, and indeed worth losing, just to hear Terry Wogan attempt to have a huff about partiality on his way ...
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If you are a serious guitar-master wannabe and you want to focus on the tune of Brian May's guitar and don't want to hear Freddie Mercury's voice and ...
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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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I HAVE often railed at the fact that music has become more about the visuals than the song itself. Yet, in hypocritical fashion, I'm going to tell you ...
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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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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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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 ...
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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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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 ...
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 ...
More
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 ...
More
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
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 ...
More
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
The CBC is set to launch a song-writing contest open to all Canadians in hopes of finding a new theme song for Hockey Night In Canada, the head of CBC ...
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It's worth entering the Eurovision song contest, and indeed worth losing, just to hear Terry Wogan attempt to have a huff about partiality on his way ...
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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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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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Call it the "Hips Don't Lie" effect. Last year, Epic Records held a contest offering fans a chance to help create a video for Colombian pop diva Shakira's ...
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The Eurovision Song Contest will soon be upon us once again, giving fans and detractors alike another opportunity to watch the annual back scratching -- ...
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Michael Jackson apparently flew to Japan over the weekend in order to de-jetlag in time for the super special party he's hosting in Tokyo this week. On ...
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The victory of Marija Serifovic at the 2007 Eurovision song contest caused an outpouring of national pride in Serbia, a country more used to rebuffs from ...
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Britons believe the reason their entrant in this year's Eurovision song contest placed second last comes down to politics, not a disinterest in dancing ...
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The video submissions are in and we've picked the three top videos for our contest. Check out the submitted videos and see whose shaved noggin was worthy ...
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Readers sent us videos of their best one-minute Dylan imitation and now you need to judge which one is the best. Vote for your favorite imitation! The ...
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