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Singing Waitress To Play Music Festival

Teenager Victoria Hart will play on the John Peel stage for up-and-coming artists. She became an overnight sensation when she landed the gig of a lifetime at the Cannes Film Festival. Record companies are now queueing up to sign her - but she has yet to finalise a deal. (29/05) Read

Keyword(s) : Record, Festival, Record-shop

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

All That Jazz doing fine despite doom in music industry

Steamboat Pilot & Today | 30/06/08

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

Music beneath my feet

The Financial Express | 23/06/08

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

Warner Tells Kid Rock To Denounce File Sharing; He Denounces Warner Instead

Techdirt | 19/06/08

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 ... More

Music, sex and murder

Jamaica Gleaner | 16/06/08

Like businesses, countries have their competitive advantages, things for which they have a particular propensity. And what Jamaica excels at, or at least ... More

Some retailers give vinyl records a spin

GoErie.com | 16/06/08

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 ... 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

Labels eye variable pricing for digital sales

Reuters | 07/06/08

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

A new harmony for music labels, TV

Los Angeles Times | 07/06/08

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

Idol Dominates Charts: Is This The Day The Music Died?

Hypebot | 30/05/08

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 ... More

The music biz's digital flops - a short history

The Register | 26/05/08

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

Rifflet, Like Twitter For Music

Gizmodo | 18/05/08

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

The Cistercian monks being groomed for music stardom

Timesonline | 18/05/08

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

Music City can turn a citified girl into a country-hummin' gal

Kansascity.com | 18/05/08

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 ... More

IFPI Advises Kids to Use LimeWire and Kazaa

TorrentFreak | 11/05/08

The campaign's leaflet (pdf) is distributed through schools and colleges, libraries, record stores, teaching portals and websites in 21 countries. It ... More

Music execs stuck in old time rock'n'roll

The Guardian | 11/05/08

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

Collectors record Jamaica's music history

Jamaica Gleaner | 11/05/08

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

Bands are getting into bed with consumer brands

Timesonline | 04/05/08

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

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

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

Fez music festival builds bridges

BBC | 30/06/08

Artists from all over the world converged on its ancient city of Fez, to the east of the capital Rabat. While the Saudi gathering was made up of only ... More

Death of the folk song

Nationmedia.com | 16/06/08

THE TURKANA CULTURAL FESTIval, organised by the German Embassy, debuted recently to showcase the promise of a region that lacks the advantage of numbers ... More

Obamaroo: Days of love, peace, music

The Baltimore Sun | 16/06/08

Comes word on this sunny Father's Day, from a child on the road, that the annual music and arts festival which has convened in a 700-acre pasture at Manchester, ... More

Festival of Microtonal Music Breaks Musical Barriers

The Arcadia Weekly | 04/05/07

The Festival of Microtonal Music will allow local audiences to hear cutting edge contemporary music when its three month, six performance program, the ... 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

Jagger gets rocks off at Indian music festival

Reuters | 03/11/07

Mick Jagger was a surprise visitor to the inaugural Rajasthan International Folk Festival, held October 25-29 in the Indian city of Jodhpur. "I wouldn't ... Read

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

If it's Bihu, let the music play

Telegraph India | 06/04/07

Bihu is synonymous with music, dance and festivities. So, when a group of experienced and young artistes got together for a music album, they decided to ... Read

Marianne Faithfull shines as grandmother-turned-sex worker

ABC News | 13/02/07

Singer and actress Marianne Faithfull plays a grandmother in dire straights who becomes a sex worker in London's seedy Soho, in a touching yet hilarious ... Read

Ghana Music Awards festival takes off

The Statesman | 08/05/07

Interspersed with exciting live stage performances by old time greats such as George Darko and Nana Kwame Ampadu I, as well as young and not so young artistes ... Read

Glastonbury 2007 review

The Sun | 25/06/07

AFTER Glastonbury was cancelled last year, the rush to get tickets for this summer's festival was on. The muddiest annual music bash attracts everyone ... Read

Batman Samini Is King Of Reggae Music In Ghana

Ghana Music.com | 15/05/07

Ghana's most famous hip life artiste, Emmanuel Samini (Batman) was astonished when his name was mentioned as the best Reggae Artiste of the year at the ... Read

Dubai Original Music Festival Attracts A Surprise Sponsor

World Music Central | 08/05/07

Lime Green Entertainment, an entertainments company in the UAE which runs the Dubailime.com website today announced that it would be sponsoring the Dubai ... Read

After an anemic start, Rage Against the Machine delivers at Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival.

Los Angeles Times | 01/05/07

Zack de la Rocha crouched in front of Brad Wilk's drum kit and surveyed the nearly 60,000 people at his feet. All around him crested a noise that had ... Read

Archdeacon against Sir Elton John's visit

Jamaica Gleaner | 16/03/07

Controversy is emerging over the sexual orientation of British entertainer Sir Elton John with one local religious leader opposed to bringing the singer ... Read

Music on the border

Nepal Times | 20/04/07

Live music and mild summer evenings are a superb combination. But The Last Resort has found a way to make it even better. On the weekend of 28-29 April, ... Read