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New MP3 Revolutionizes Way You Listen to Music
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 Roger Tailor drumming in Queen songs, then this may be what you have been looking for. Korean computer engineers are introducing a new digital music format that has separate controls on the sound volume for each musical instrument, ... (23/05) More
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Blast from the past

Arab News | 30/06/08 iMuzique
In a city where modern trends are the in thing, it is truly unique that people are still being swayed by voices from the past, something that bears mute ... More

Let's face the music

The Guardian | 28/05/08 iMuzique
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 ... More

Anti-Piracy Voice-Overs to Prevent CDs from Leaking

Torrentfreak | 16/01/08
This is the message printed on the cover of protected CDs. Most filesharers are probably familiar with the “for your consideration” messages displayed ... Read

Bringing Music to the War Zone in Iraq

All About Jazz | 11/05/07
The first project of its kind in the history of Iraq. Young Iraqi artists will soon have an opportunity to shine their talents through the fog of war, ... Read

‘Idol' winner strives for fun on album after moving debut

The Oklahoman | 22/12/06
Few people — at 22 years old — merit an autobiography and a biopic. But Fantasia, the former "American Idol” champ with the raspy, gospel-tinged voice ... Read

Did Paris Fake Her Vocals?

Radaronline | 15/09/06
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 ... Read

Somali Islamists ban music : 'intimidated' top artist agrees

Afrol | 05/12/06
Maryan Mursal, Somalia's top night club performer in the early 1970s and currently a patriotic voice admired by Somalis in the Diaspora, says that she ... Read

YouTube Phenom Mia Rose Has Her Thorns?

Rolling Stone | 26/01/07
In the last few weeks, vlogs from Mia Rose, a disturbingly well-packaged 18-year-old singer-songwriter, have become some of the most-viewed videos on YouTube. ... Read

Music of former refugees of war-torn Sierra Leone gives voice to pain, hope of a people

International Herald Tribune | 17/11/06
The members of the musical troupe known as Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars are no longer refugees, living as outsiders in a strange land, engulfed in ... Read

Welsh choir signed by world top record label

News Wales | 17/10/06
Fron Male Voice Choir from the Welsh village of Froncysyllte in the Vale of Llangollen have been given a recording contract with Universal Music, the company ... Read

Average teenager's iPod has 800 illegal music tracks

Timesonline | 16/06/08 iMuzique
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 ... More

Labels eye variable pricing for digital sales

Reuters | 07/06/08 iMuzique
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, ... More

The music biz's digital flops - a short history

The Register | 26/05/08 iMuzique
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 ... More

DRM claims more victims as Microsoft fails its music users

The Guardian | 23/04/08
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 ... Read

“American Idol” Contestant David Cook Tops Amazon MP3 Chart, Then Vanishes

Rolling Stone | 23/04/08
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

MP3sparks.com downed by links to Russian cybercrime gang

The Register | 11/01/08
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 ... Read

Digital Music Industry Challenged to Follow Fans' Lead

PC World | 10/01/08
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

DiMA, Publishers Clash Over Rights

Billboard | 08/01/08
A major battle is erupting between some digital media companies and major music publishers, which may lead to federal litigation, Billboard.biz has learned. ... Read

Mainstream music industry realizes the value of 'free'

International Herald Tribune | 27/01/08
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 ... Read

Warner Music profits slump 58%

Timesonline | 29/11/07
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 ... Read

Sony BMG Plans to Drop DRM

Business Week | 04/01/08
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 ... Read

7Digital Gets Agressive With Pricing & Features.

Hypebot | 06/12/07
UK digital retailer 7Digital is pushing aggressive pricing as well as new features and alliances designed to challenge iTunes and other retailers. The ... Read

The DRM maze for consumers

BBC | 11/12/07
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 ... Read

Bo Diddley dead at age 79, spokesman says

Orlando Sentinel | 02/06/08 iMuzique
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

Music video game linked to injuries

TV5 | 18/05/08 iMuzique
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

Guitar Hero Band Releases First Full Album

Wired News | 02/05/08
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

Is the Internet Turning Musicians Into Buskers?

Wired News | 01/05/08
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

Global guitar star is born on the Web

Times of India | 12/09/06
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

Hendrix Heir Sues Over Jimi-Branded Vodka

TMZ | 09/03/07
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

Arrest that stanza! lyric sites a target

New York Post | 17/09/07
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

The new girl power

The Telegraph | 17/11/07
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 ... Read

Best guitar solos named

Planet Rock | 29/08/06
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 ... Read

Songs included in Guitar Hero 3 see a dramatic leap in digital sales

Ars Technica | 23/11/07
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 ... Read

Music opens new world to Afghan girls

The News | 29/08/06
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 ... Read

Under The Hammer For Music Rising

U2 France | 27/03/07
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 ... Read

Music publishers license guitar tabs for the Web

PCpro | 03/04/07
The US Music Publishers Association (MPA) has begun licensing websites that want to reproduce guitar tabs, the notation that tells guitarists where to ... Read

After an anemic start, Rage Against the Machine delivers at Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival.

Los Angeles Times | 01/05/07
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 ... Read

Waiting for women to take the lead

The Telegraph | 06/02/07
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 ... Read

Osadebe, High-Life Music Maestro, is Dead

allAfrica | 15/05/07
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 ... Read

Musician Jay's music is given life after his death

WalesOnline | 30/06/08 iMuzique
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 ... More

Average teenager's iPod has 800 illegal music tracks

Timesonline | 16/06/08 iMuzique
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 ... More

The next big Ting?

Boston.com | 16/06/08 iMuzique
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 ... More

Death of the folk song

Nationmedia.com | 16/06/08 iMuzique
THE TURKANA CULTURAL FESTIval, organised by the German Embassy, debuted recently to showcase the promise of a region that lacks the advantage of numbers ... More

Day the (theme) music died?

Winnipeg Sun | 07/06/08 iMuzique
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 ... More

Virgin warns illegal internet music downloaders

Telegraph | 06/06/08 iMuzique
Teenagers building vast music collections by downloading songs illegally from the internet should beware. Their access to free music faces being cut off ... More

Idol Dominates Charts: Is This The Day The Music Died?

Hypebot | 30/05/08 iMuzique
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

Let's face the music

The Guardian | 28/05/08 iMuzique
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 ... More

Rifflet, Like Twitter For Music

Gizmodo | 18/05/08 iMuzique
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Enigmatic appeal

The Star | 11/05/08 iMuzique
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 ... More

Cops on song, criminals face the music

Times of India | 11/05/08 iMuzique
Tirhut range DIG Arvind Pandey does not find fighting crime and music contradictory. "A recent report in America suggests that music makes police officers ... More

When DRM detonates your music collection

Timesonline | 11/05/08 iMuzique
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. ... More

How much should music cost?

Los Angeles Times | 06/05/08 iMuzique
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 ... More

Dolly Parton and Lessons on Bad Branding

Wall Street Journal | 04/05/08 iMuzique
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 ... More

Guitar Hero Band Releases First Full Album

Wired News | 02/05/08
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Bamboo music rekindled in Philippine

CCTV | 23/06/08 iMuzique
The traditional music in the Philippines is being rekindled and recreated in the capital Manila. Replacing rock and pop, bands known as "musikong bumbong" ... More

Hannah Montana: Music Jam

ABC News | 29/11/07
If you are looking for an alternative to the sold-out Hannah Montana concert series, the new video game "Hannah Montana: Music Jam" may be just the ticket ... Read

Khan, giant of Indian music, reflects on 85 years

ABC News | 10/04/07
Of the many thousands of concerts Indian master musician Ali Akbar Khan has performed, he particularly disliked a famous 1971 benefit show organized by ... Read

Ethnic minority music shows it's charm

Vietnamnet.vn | 20/03/07
Ahead of the release, researcher Laurent Jeanneau, who compiled the selection, organised a performance at the Goethe Institute in Hanoi on Mar. 18, where ... Read

What comes after blasting music? It could be hearing loss, students told

Boston.com | 06/04/07
The audiologist walked through the packed lunchroom, holding a wand-like instrument near the 200 middle school students laughing, shrieking, and drumming ... Read

Turkish, French musicians forge new friendship in old music

Zaman | 06/06/07
What importance might traditional Turkish music instruments such as the ney, tanbur, kopuz and rebap, and Western classical music staples like the French ... Read

Waiting for women to take the lead

The Telegraph | 06/02/07
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Music Vets Prep Next-Gen Player

Wired | 13/02/07
Three digital music veterans have launched a stealth startup and are close to unveiling both a new portable media player and what they're calling an "internet ... Read

Waiting for Oluchi's Kind of Music

AllAfrica | 26/06/07
These pictures have let the cat out of the bag. Nigeria's supermodel, Oluchi Onweagba is not only modelling these musical instruments, there are strong ... Read

ABBA museum coming in 2008

WIS | 01/12/06
ABBA fans, start making your travel plans now. A museum dedicated to the musical group will open in Sweden in 2008. Organizers are still looking for a ... Read

Bo Diddley dead at age 79, spokesman says

Orlando Sentinel | 02/06/08 iMuzique
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

Idol Dominates Charts: Is This The Day The Music Died?

Hypebot | 30/05/08 iMuzique
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Music video game linked to injuries

TV5 | 18/05/08 iMuzique
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Wired News | 02/05/08
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

Is the Internet Turning Musicians Into Buskers?

Wired News | 01/05/08
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“American Idol” Contestant David Cook Tops Amazon MP3 Chart, Then Vanishes

Rolling Stone | 23/04/08
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

Nyet! The Madonna of Moscow says our pop stars are rubbish

The Independent | 13/01/08
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 ... Read

Radiohead top UK album chart

The Register | 07/01/08
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 ... Read

Global guitar star is born on the Web

Times of India | 12/09/06
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

Oasis, Jamiroquai to follow Radiohead

Telegraph | 09/10/07
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

Hendrix Heir Sues Over Jimi-Branded Vodka

TMZ | 09/03/07
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

Arrest that stanza! lyric sites a target

New York Post | 17/09/07
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Meet the future of pop music

The Guardian | 20/04/07
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 ... Read

The new girl power

The Telegraph | 17/11/07
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 ... Read

Latin music fans going mobile in Spain

Reuters | 13/11/07
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 ... Read