The Inquirer
FOR POSSIBLY THE FIRST TIME in its illustrious history, posh music magazine The Gramophone has a news story on its hands. As we reported earlier, William Barrington-Coupe, husband of deceased concert pianist Joyce Hatto, released digitally-tweaked copies of other pianists' work and passed it off as his wife's. (27/02)
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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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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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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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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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DRM (Digital Rights Management) added to music is a really bad idea and you should never buy DRM-protected files, unless you have more money than sense ...
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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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The popular Russian digital music retailer MP3sparks.com has scored a own goal by doing business with a web host that has been linked to an infamous cybercrime ...
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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 ...
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A major battle is erupting between some digital media companies and major music publishers, which may lead to federal litigation, Billboard.biz has learned. ...
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The mainstream music industry is coming to recognize a price for digital songs that might be good enough to compete with the underground exchange of tunes ...
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Warner Music Group today unveiled a 58 per cent slump in fourth-quarter profits, with increased digital revenues failing to offset a collapse in sales ...
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In a move that would mark the end of a digital music era, Sony BMG Music Entertainment is finalizing plans to sell songs without the copyright protection ...
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UK digital retailer 7Digital is pushing aggressive pricing as well as new features and alliances designed to challenge iTunes and other retailers. The ...
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The last few years in the history of digital content are littered with examples of Digital Rights Management (DRM) solutions that have been accused of ...
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Saturday afternoon Stevie Wonder returned to Taste of Chicago with a concert that was generous, adventurous, populist, humorous and amorous.
"A lot ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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Funk rockers Jamiroquai (you know, the future - virtual insanity...) are having a tough time getting gigs these days apparently. The band just played a ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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In the right hands, the bodhran and the bouzouki can still inflame the senses, and sometimes the oldest traditions can be entrusted to the care of younger ...
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The private equity vehicle run by city financier Guy Hands is fighting to meet financial targets set by Citigroup in a bid to avoid a fractious showdown ...
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The video game, Guitar Hero that lets anyone be a rock star, has been linked to a growing number of injuries.
Guitar Hero's been a smash hit around ...
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Later this year, over 30 young people from Shillong and Lucknow will travel to Rio and experience the work of Afro Reggae first hand.
In the heart of ...
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EMI is facing the prospect of an artists' revolt, with representatives of major acts Robbie Williams and Coldplay expressing concern at the current state ...
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Bankers bored of the credit squeeze are now obsessing over Guy Hands and his £4bn investment in EMI. Word is the chief executive of buy-out group ...
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Rocker Courtney Love has hit back at claims she criticised Amy Winehouse over her drug addiction. Love has denied reports she was shocked at the Back to ...
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Guy Hands has been busy since taking over EMI in September. His Terra Firma private equity group has made money on 24 of his 25 deals – the exception was ...
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The buyout of EMI could become the latest victim of the turbulence in the debt markets, as lenders to its private equity buyers threaten to pull funding ...
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EMI will drop artists it feels are not working hard enough and “unpick” its own executives' pay packages, its new private equity owner has told staff. ...
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John Lennon started it all back in 1964 when the lovable moptop assembled his Milliganesque black humour and primitive expressive drawings into his first ...
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In a move designed to fill the void created by the Recording Industry Association of America's crackdown on the formidable business of mixtapes, Universal ...
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Guy Hands' Terra Firma, on the hunt for additional equity investors in EMI, is telling prospective partners they can nearly quadruple their money in the ...
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Edge's Gibson Les Paul, Lennon's sunglasses, Springsteen's hand-written lyrics and a signed sax from Bill Clinton are among 200 pieces of music memorabilia ...
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As if digital music sales and unauthorized file-swapping weren't bad enough, now the Warner Music Group has another potential headache on its hands. Her ...
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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 ...
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Rick Rubin, the star music producer who had a hand in three of the five albums up for album of the year honors at the Grammy Awards next Sunday, has rarely ...
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