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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. British producers The Boilerhouse Boys developed the technique after studying records from the early days of stereo - including Motown hits and The Beatles. (24/09)
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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, ...
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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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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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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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"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 ...
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