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It looks like more was damaged or destroyed in today's Universal Studios fire than anyone previously thought. I've learned that Universal Music, which is a completely separate company and owned by Vivendi (which owns 20% of NBC Universal), rents space in the huge video vault housed on the studio lot. But one source tells me that, as a consequence, inside the video vault that was billowing thick black smoke were 1000's of original Decca, MCA, ... (02/06)
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More than any other genre in Latin music, regional Mexican has been buffeted by market conditions both broad and specific.
The genre has been affected ...
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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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This teenager hacked into the outfit charged with protecting companies like Sony, Universal, and Activision from online piracy—the most daring exploit ...
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Yesterday, the New York Times ran an article about Imeem, pegged to the news that this fledgling site has signed a third major label, EMI, leaving only ...
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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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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 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 good to highlight inventions that, while flawed, show where things may be headed. One worth watching is the “Comes With Music” program just announced ...
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Classical music giant Deutsche Grammophon will make the bulk of its catalog available online from tomorrow when it relaunches its Website and presses the ...
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Ray Beckerman has, from a standing start, become a veteran at defending RIAA victims. Now he has a thought he wants to share with all other American lawyers ...
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Universal Music Publishing Group has announced its new senior executive team to lead its European operations. The company has been forced to reorganize ...
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The decision was made by the firm's new owner Universal, which bought Sanctuary last month for £44.5m. The closing business is home to artists including ...
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The music-centered social network, which focuses on ad-supported streaming music and video that its members can arrange into "playlists" on their profiles, ...
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A few years ago, Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails persuaded his label, Universal Music Group, to let him post master recordings on his website for fans ...
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Between September 19th and 21st, Berlin, Germany will become the centerpiece worldwide for the music industry with the 19th annual popKOMM music conference ...
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The Who's first studio album in over 25 years will also be released alongside a compilation of Pete Townsend's rock opera, 'The Boy Who Heard Music'. ...
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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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Calvin Harris, creator of the MySpace hit Acceptable in the 80s and now stardust-sprinkling producer to Kylie Minogue, is squeezing his 6ft 3in frame through ...
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Grammy-winning record producer/engineer Phil Ramone has twiddled the knobs for some of modern music's biggest-selling, most influential performers: Barbra ...
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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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Good vibrations? Not always. On stage and in the studio, Brian Wilson, his cousin Mike Love and the rest of the Beach Boys produced some of rock 'n' ...
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Melding hip-hop and fighting may seem like an odd idea for a game series but that hasn't held back EA's rapper-blessed Def Jam series from bloodying ...
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News Corp.'s MySpace.com yesterday said it had licensed a new technology to stop users from posting unauthorized copyrighted music on the social networking ...
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He was 15 years old at the time and quickly became known in hacker circles as "DVD Jon," a wunderkind of reverse engineering who tore down cumbersome ...
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Christina Aguilera has recorded a song about oral sex, but has vowed never
to release it. The 'Dirrty' singer revealed she laid down the X-rated track ...
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Iggy Pop and the reunited Stooges (with former Minutemen bassist Mike Watt replacing the late David Alexander) began recording their previously reported ...
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YourGuitarist.com announced the launch of its web site, offering Internet based development of custom guitar tracks for artists worldwide. YourGuitarist ...
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