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They turned the music sales model on its head, but indie rockers Radiohead won't be repeating their decision to let fans choose what to pay for their downloads, frontman Thom Yorke told The Hollywood Reporter.
"I think it was a one-off response to a particular situation," Yorke said of the band's downloading policy for the album "In Rainbows." (01/05)
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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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Janet Jackson will soon be roaming the backstreets and church choirs of America on the hunt for "the next big thing" in pop. Naturally, it's all for ...
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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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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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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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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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This is the message printed on the cover of protected CDs. Most filesharers are probably familiar with the “for your consideration” messages displayed ...
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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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Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor has posted the download and sales numbers for "The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust" the Saul Williams ...
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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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The site administrator of OiNK.cd, having been released from custody after his arrest last week for running a torrent tracker site that specialized in ...
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has released his first CD of traditional Venezuelan and Mexican music, entitled Canciones de Siempre or Songs for all ...
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Over the past few months, "multiple judges" at 9inchnails.com listened to over 200 submissions to the Nine Inch Nails open source remix contest and the ...
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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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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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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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Researchers at The Leading Question and experts from Music Ally have determined that fewer people are regularly paying for downloads, while the percentage ...
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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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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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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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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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The Harry Fox Agency has been told to halt all future licensing of its product for streaming or limited downloads. Behind the order is Sony/ATV Music Publishing, ...
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Warner Music Group (WMG) is suing Seeqpod, the most popular of a new breed of music search engine/players with a new twist on the original Napster strategy ...
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Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor has posted the download and sales numbers for "The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust" the Saul Williams ...
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Last week Starbucks began testing a new service letting those with iTunes on their laptop, or carrying an iPhone, identify and download songs playing in ...
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Over the past few months, "multiple judges" at 9inchnails.com listened to over 200 submissions to the Nine Inch Nails open source remix contest and the ...
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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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