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It was a fortuitous typo for the Fred Meyer retail chain.
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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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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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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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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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Faced with mounting pressure from international music orgs over alleged piracy, China's top web search site Baidu has announced a partnership with three ...
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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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Like businesses, countries have their competitive advantages, things for which they have a particular propensity. And what Jamaica excels at, or at least ...
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John Rich, half of the country music sensation Big & Rich, achieved stardom the old-fashioned way: He earned it.
The Texas native, with pal Kenny Alphin, ...
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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, ...
More
It's the sobering reality of today's music business -- a record company executive can sign a new act and then tell her, "Keep your day job."
That ...
More
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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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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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 last time I listened to country music was the summer after my senior year of high school when I worked in a sweatshop in Tyrone, Pa., sewing seams ...
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The campaign's leaflet (pdf) is distributed through schools and colleges, libraries, record stores, teaching portals and websites in 21 countries. It ...
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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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It was a fortuitous typo for the Fred Meyer retail chain.
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The campaign's leaflet (pdf) is distributed through schools and colleges, libraries, record stores, teaching portals and websites in 21 countries. It ...
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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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Apple Inc., the maker of the best- selling iPod media players, will settle European Union claims that its policy of varying prices at its iTunes music ...
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Apple Inc. ended a legal dispute with the Beatles over rights to use the Apple name and logos, potentially clearing the way for the company to distribute ...
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The Dangerfieldian profile of the brick-and-mortar music business is getting bigger, as Wal-Mart--the No. 1 music retailer in the US, as far as units sold--has ...
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The deal, whose value has not been disclosed, will see Virgin's 125 UK and Irish Megastores rebranded as Zavvi. The business will continue to be run by ...
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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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Looking to profit directly from the growing market for music downloads, Disney has launched an online store for kid-focused singles, albums and music videos. ...
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Apple met last night's deadline to respond to the European Commission's antitrust concerns over the pricing of its iTunes online music store, officials ...
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Amazon.com today announced today announced it has joined forces with more than 30 independent music labels to launch "Go Indie," a new section in its ...
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Swedish jazz pianist and composer Esbjorn Svensson, who helped break genre boundaries and attracted a young audience outside the traditional jazz scene, ...
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TMZ has learned that Oscar-nominated actor Don Cheadle ("Hotel Rwanda") plans to direct and star in "Miles Davis," a biopic of the legendary jazz innovator. ...
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Jazz and blues record label Blue Note plans to revamp its website from later this month, transforming it from a regular corporate front window to a combined ...
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This wasn't the greatest year for jazz. Locally and at large, the music appears to be in a holding pattern, trying to find new meaning — or at least a ...
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For many years I considered America as my promised land. As a young Jazz musician I was pretty convinced that sooner or later I would end up living in ...
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Controversy is emerging over the sexual orientation of British entertainer Sir Elton John with one local religious leader opposed to bringing the singer ...
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In advance of ‘‘From the Plantation to the Penitentiary,'' his suite of jazz and criticism out today, Wynton Marsalis has said he likes to put out a ...
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Instead of the usual handprint in cement, a bronze bust of the trumpet player has been put on display outside the Guitar Center on Sunset Boulevard. For ...
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Michael Brecker, the versatile tenor saxophonist who died Saturday of leukemia at age 57, was regarded by many musicians and critics as a virtuoso of technique ...
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In an art form more celebrated for its sinners, John Coltrane, who somewhere over the rainbow will turn 80 on Saturday, held the honor of being the music's ...
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'For you English, football is more important than life or death," says a young jazz fan in Moscow's Dom club, quoting Bill Shankly's famous comment. ...
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