Greater Paramus News
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 with surround-sound effects. In the introduction to the well-worn 1973 tune "Money," the clang of a cash register seems to circle around the room as it shifts from one of the speakers surrounding the listeners to another. (02/01)
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Believing gangs and Mozart don't mix, city police and Pierce Transit officials are mounting a classical attack on a growing problem of street gangs at ...
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Microsoft Corp.'s forthcoming digital music player, dubbed Zune, may make some Hebrew speakers gasp. The name for the device, which will take on the Apple ...
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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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Universal, the world's biggest music group, today flagged up strong UK sales and rapid growth in downloads despite a tough market for recorded music. ...
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Anticipation of the iPhone launch has grown to a feverish pitch including glowing reviews from influentialIphone Wall Street Journal tech writer William ...
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Call it the "Hips Don't Lie" effect. Last year, Epic Records held a contest offering fans a chance to help create a video for Colombian pop diva Shakira's ...
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Paris Hilton's debut album was not exactly a triumph of artistic expression. But how much less impressive would Paris be if the thin, hyper-processed ...
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A new study in the Journal of Political Economy by Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf has found that illegal music downloads have had no noticeable ...
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Ongoing efforts by the Political
Correctness Police to ban the new hot-button music video from critically
acclaimed "dirty folk" comic JESSICA DELFINO ...
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The European Commission confirmed Friday that it will open an in-depth investigation into Universal Music Group's planned takeover of BMG Music Publishing. ...
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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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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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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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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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YOU might not expect to find a polished young ensemble like the Parker String Quartet playing music by Beethoven, Bartok and Ligeti — or collaborating ...
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This just in: Prince is kind of crazy. The diminutive hit-maker has reportedly demanded a London hotel transform a suite into an all-black liar for him; ...
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Allen Toussaint never left New Orleans. He spent virtually his entire distinguished career playing piano, singing, writing songs and making records with ...
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Michael Jackson apparently flew to Japan over the weekend in order to de-jetlag in time for the super special party he's hosting in Tokyo this week. On ...
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One of Nahum Heiman's main tools in recent years is cotton ear swabs. Last Tuesday the composer sat in one of the rooms of his home, which he calls "the ...
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Here are some predictions for 2007: Google Stock Hits $1,000 per Share Internet Traffic Doubles ... to 5,000 petabits per day by the end of 2007. And 80 ...
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As if you need another reason to love Iggy Pop, the veteran rocker (and his band The Stooges) have the single most entertaining concert rider TSG has ever ...
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