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Warner Music Group Corp. may fall following a report that Madonna will leave the company and sign a recording and performance contract with Live Nation Inc. Madonna may sign a 10-year agreement with Beverly Hills, California-based Live Nation worth about $120 million in cash and stock, the Wall Street Journal said yesterday on its Web site, citing people familiar (11/10)
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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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Pre-twentieth century music all exists in the public domain, but that doesn't mean it's easy to get access either to recordings or sheet music. Want ...
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CreateSpace, a subsidiary of Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN), on Monday expanded its print-on-demand CD publishing service in an effort to put an end to the concept ...
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In the small San Diego County offices of French multimedia giant Thomson, employees crank up Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon," a recording laden ...
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A lack of security controls allowed hackers to "wipe" the Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) website on Sunday. The existence of an ...
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Forget about Warner Music Group's plummeting stock price, or the shrinking retail floor space. Forget about EMI's announcement this week that it's cutting ...
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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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In a short news post on the Nine Inch Nails website, Trent Reznor yesterday announced that his contract with Interscope has been fulfilled and he is now ...
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La Societe Des Producteurs De Phonogrammes En France (SPPF), which represents recording labels in France, is suing three P2P software vendors, Shareaza, ...
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The woman who lost the nation's first Recording Industry Association of America music pirating trial said Monday she is appealing the $222,000 verdict ...
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In the December issue of Wired, Seth Mnookin sits down with Universal Music Group CEO/supervillain Doug Morris for a pretty excellent profile (which is, ...
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The Fader Label, the recording branch of The Fader, today announced the release of the new recording by esteemed poet, artist and musician Saul Williams: ...
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A violin case slung over her shoulder, 10-year-old Daniela Fagundez trudges home along a row of muddy yards where chickens scratch among banana trees and ...
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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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Pre-twentieth century music all exists in the public domain, but that doesn't mean it's easy to get access either to recordings or sheet music. Want ...
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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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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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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 12-year-old boy is on the streets, hanging out in derelict tenement blocks next to a motorway. At 13, he's hooked on crack cocaine, carrying a gun and ...
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HIP-HOP kids may not want to hear it, but the godfather of turntablism is a 52-year-old white guy who was raised in Switzerland, lives in London, collaborates ...
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You are more likely to discover broken pint glasses than a revolutionary music business model on the spittle-flecked floor of Camden's Barfly venue. However, ...
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Ustad Amjad Ali Khan lives in a world of sound and harmony — and that's true, literally. He's now pushed the boundaries further by turning composer ...
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Playing music on plastic guitars is big business. Guitar Hero 3 has become quite the runaway hit at retail, and with Rock Band now released, we have two ...
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Who doesn't want to lead a stress-free life? Indeed, people aren't hesitant while taking various steps to make their lives smoother. Be it playing with ...
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"Dutch researchers have developed a network for a new generation of p2p file sharing through which, they say, faster down- and uploading and live video ...
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Madonna is pondering hanging up on Warner Music Group in favor of life without a traditional record contract. With the Material Girl's existing pact with ...
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The King is dead. Long live the King. At least he sort of lives in “All Shook Up,” a jukebox musical riding the nostalgia train on two dozen tunes Elvis ...
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