Ars Technica
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 big-name rhythm games on the market. Rhythm games live and die by their music, and with a varied and carefully selected track list, these games can be a good way to break up and coming acts to new fans as well as a way to raise awareness of classic tracks. (23/11)
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The traditional music in the Philippines is being rekindled and recreated in the capital Manila. Replacing rock and pop, bands known as "musikong bumbong" ...
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Bands playing London are pretty lucky. During the snakes and ladders game of the music business they can play venues that rise in capacity from a former ...
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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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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 gig last Sunday evening at Score bar in Cilandak Town Square seemed much like any other organized by major sponsors trying to tap in to the youth market, ...
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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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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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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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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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Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke has responded to a report that his band demanded an exorbitant advance from EMI for its next album as well as control of ...
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Promoter Harvey Goldsmith has branded eBay the "biggest rip-off merchants in the world" after tickets to the forthcoming Led Zeppelin gig appeared for ...
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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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Some of the music industry's biggest names are considering offering their music free online following the success of the experiment by the band Radiohead ...
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The lead singer of Nine Inch Nails has urged fans of the band to steal its music as a protest against the high price charged by record companies. Trent ...
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It's official: gay icons and boybands make the best music to get sweaty to. A nationwide Standard Life Healthcare poll yesterday revealed that the Scissor ...
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Lance Ozanix of the California-based band SKITZO was admitted to the hospital late last night after suffering from severe stomach pain. After being seen ...
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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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Bo Diddley, a founding father of rock 'n' roll whose distinctive "shave and a haircut, two bits" rhythm and innovative guitar effects inspired legions ...
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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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U.S. biologists have found a way to present human protein sequences as classical music in an attempt to help vision-impaired scientists. Rie Takahashi ...
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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 ...
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Tony Award-winning rhythm and blues singer Ruth Brown has passed away at the age of 78. She died in Las Vegas on November 17th of complications from a ...
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Bo Diddley, a founding father of rock 'n' roll whose distinctive "shave and a haircut, two bits" rhythm and innovative guitar effects inspired legions ...
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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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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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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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Richard Shindell, a singer-songwriter who paid his dues behind an open guitar case on the floor of Paris Metro subway stations as a street musician, has ...
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South Korean student Lim Jeong-hyun has basked in 5 minutes and 20 seconds of fame nearly 9 million times over. Lim, 22, was identified by the Media about ...
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A vodka called Hendrix Electric, which bears the image and name of late guitar legend Jimi Hendrix, has ignited a lawsuit between two members of the Hendrix ...
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Music publishers have quietly stepped up their efforts to shut down popular Web sites that publish lyrics to songs without their permission - and are demanding ...
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It's Saturday night in the Soho Revue Bar, a venue once advertised as the "world centre of erotic entertainment". The London club still has the red ...
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For the past few weeks, we (British radio station Planet Rock) 've been asking Planet Rock listeners to vote for the greatest guitar solo ever. We compiled ...
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The lilt of a girl singing of homecoming blends pleasantly with a cacophony of different melodies from keyboard, guitar and drums in a music school in ...
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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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The US Music Publishers Association (MPA) has begun licensing websites that want to reproduce guitar tabs, the notation that tells guitarists where to ...
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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 ...
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It's the big irony of the electric guitar. Its body mimics the waist and curves of a woman. And yet, alone among instruments, the electric guitar is still ...
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DISTINGUISHED highlife musician Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe, (OON) is dead at 71. He passed on last Friday, according to his family in a statement. It ...
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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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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 ...
Read
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 ...
Read
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 ...
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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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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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Bo Diddley, a founding father of rock 'n' roll whose distinctive "shave and a haircut, two bits" rhythm and innovative guitar effects inspired legions ...
More
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
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 ...
More
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 ...
More
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 ...
Read
Richard Shindell, a singer-songwriter who paid his dues behind an open guitar case on the floor of Paris Metro subway stations as a street musician, has ...
Read
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 ...
Read
With record sales of 100 million and countless awards for her music, she is probably the best-selling star never to have topped the British charts. But ...
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Radiohead's In Rainbows has climbed straight to the top of the UK album chart in the week following its physical release on CD and vinyl, apparently proving ...
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South Korean student Lim Jeong-hyun has basked in 5 minutes and 20 seconds of fame nearly 9 million times over. Lim, 22, was identified by the Media about ...
Read
Some of the music industry's biggest names are considering offering their music free online following the success of the experiment by the band Radiohead ...
Read
A vodka called Hendrix Electric, which bears the image and name of late guitar legend Jimi Hendrix, has ignited a lawsuit between two members of the Hendrix ...
Read
Music publishers have quietly stepped up their efforts to shut down popular Web sites that publish lyrics to songs without their permission - and are demanding ...
Read
If you're in the mood to feel disturbed by the British music scene, a glance at the album chart usually does the trick. Sure enough, this year's bestsellers ...
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It's Saturday night in the Soho Revue Bar, a venue once advertised as the "world centre of erotic entertainment". The London club still has the red ...
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The 500-year-old cultural, linguistic and historical bridge linking Spain and Latin America has shrunk to the size of a mobile phone, at least in terms ...
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