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Something new for New Music Works' garden party. (San Jose Mercury News)
New Music Works brings a new sound to its annual garden party.
Publ.Date : Thu, 04 Jun 2009 07:08:13 GMT

Cher sues Universal Music (Sky News Australia)
Cher is suing Universal Music for $A6.
Publ.Date : Thu, 04 Jun 2009 04:27:37 GMT

New spin on console music games (BBC News)
Activision unveils its new music rhythm game, DJ Hero, at the E3 expo in Los Angeles.
Publ.Date : Thu, 04 Jun 2009 02:48:08 GMT

Man loves the sound of music (The Staunton News Leader)
Gary Kirby is one of the guys at a live concert who helps the music sound its best, yet he never sets foot on stage.
Publ.Date : Sun, 31 May 2009 07:12:48 GMT

Music icon Phil Spector gets 19 years for murder (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Legendary music producer Phil Spector has been sentenced to 19 years to life in prison after being found guilty of murdering an actress at his Los Angeles mansion six years ago.
Publ.Date : Sat, 30 May 2009 07:32:23 GMT

Music 'nurtures' premature babies (BBC News)
Playing music to premature babies may help to reduce their pain and encourage better oral feeding, work suggests.
Publ.Date : Thu, 28 May 2009 05:05:24 GMT

Playing music to babies 'can help them feel less pain' (Daily Telegraph)
Playing music to premature babies can help them feel less pain and lower their levels of stress researchers have found.
Publ.Date : Thu, 28 May 2009 06:40:41 GMT

New flexibility at music labels to help Web start-ups thrive (Detroit News)
San Francisco — With CD sales dropping fast, it is not hard to imagine how the major music labels could benefit from the growth of Web start-ups like Imeem. The company's service lets people listen to songs, discover new artists and share their favorites with friends. And in return, Imeem owes the labels licensing fees for use of the music.
Publ.Date : Thu, 28 May 2009 05:28:26 GMT

Warner Music Is Singing Again (New York Times)
Investors may be right in betting that the music industry?s worst days are behind it, and that Warner Music Group is best positioned to capitalize, potentially by acquiring EMI.
Publ.Date : Mon, 25 May 2009 04:10:03 GMT

Music baron Gulshan Kumar's killer flees (NDTV)
In a major embarrassment to the Mumbai police, the man who killed music baron Gulshan Kumar has fled the country. Abdul Rauf Daud merchant — the only convicted accused in the sensational murder case — was granted furlough in March after being in prison for eight years.
Publ.Date : Sat, 23 May 2009 06:42:45 GMT

Music baron Gulshan Kumar's killer flees (NDTV)
In a major embarrassment to the Mumbai police, the man who killed music baron Gulshan Kumar has fled the country.
Publ.Date : Sat, 23 May 2009 07:57:45 GMT

Spoleto season is last for chamber music director (AP via Yahoo! News)
It has been a pretty good run, as the performing arts go. Charles Wadsworth has hosted the popular chamber music concerts at Spoleto festivals on two continents for a half century.
Publ.Date : Wed, 20 May 2009 17:10:03 GMT

Spencer Pratt Makes "Music History" as Rap Hits iTunes (US Weekly)
Spencer Pratt's new single, "I'm a Celebrity," is now available on iTunes. "I feel honored to now be a part of music history and be able to say I have the second best music on iTunes for sale next to my wife Heidi!" the rapper — who goes by the stage name "The Great White" — tells Usmagazine.com. See Spencer and Heidi's cheesiest moments. After the song hit the Web last week, Pratt told… …
Publ.Date : Wed, 20 May 2009 22:02:35 GMT

The High Cost of Selling Cheap Music Services (New York Times)
After writing about how Napster renegotiated its deals with record labels to offer its music subscription service at a lower price, I called RealNetworks, which offers the Rhapsody service, to see if its executives were excited about cutting similar deals that would allow it to offer its own $5-a-month music service.
Publ.Date : Wed, 20 May 2009 17:13:25 GMT

Facebook game aids development of new 'Google for music' search engine (ZDNet)
A new kind of music search engine from the Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego allows for users to discover music by typing in free-text semantic queries rather than song titles, album names or artist names. For example, if you're in the mood for "groovy driving music with lots of banjo" you'd just use that as your query and the experimental system would return specific song suggestions …
Publ.Date : Mon, 18 May 2009 07:13:14 GMT

Roy Clark, Barbara Mandrell and Charlie McCoy Enter Country Music Hall of Fame (Washington Post)
NASHVILLE, May 17 — Roy Clark, Barbara Mandrell and Charlie McCoy were inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame on Sunday in a ceremony that saluted them for their music and their contributions to bringing the genre to a mass audience through television.
Publ.Date : Mon, 18 May 2009 04:00:00 GMT

Country music hall inducts three – Mon, 18 May 2009 PST (The Spokesman-Review)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Roy Clark, Barbara Mandrell and Charlie McCoy were inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame on Sunday in a ceremony that saluted them for their music as well as their contributions to bringing the genre to a mass audience through television. “All three of tonight’s inductees looked at the way country music was presented on television and said: ‘We can make this even …
Publ.Date : Mon, 18 May 2009 07:14:53 GMT

Harrington: Local shop offers music downloads (Knoxville News Sentinel)
Before you download that next song from iTunes Music Store, one locally owned business hopes you'll reconsider.
Publ.Date : Fri, 15 May 2009 04:14:34 GMT

Donations sought by music monthly (Courier-Post)
The music monthly Paste is asking readers to donate money to keep the magazine afloat.
Publ.Date : Fri, 15 May 2009 07:19:04 GMT

Imeem: Store Music in the Cloud, Access It on the iPhone (Wired News)
A new app from imeem lets iPhone users add 80GB to their devices' paltry storage by putting the music on the company's servers and streaming it to them.
Publ.Date : Thu, 14 May 2009 18:56:01 GMT

MPs want live music laws relaxed (BBC News)
Legal restrictions on live music, introduced less than five years, ago should be relaxed, says a group of MPs.
Publ.Date : Thu, 14 May 2009 00:03:09 GMT

Awards celebrate chart-topping music acts (The West Australian)
Natalie Bassingthwaighte, Wes Carr and The Presets turned out with their fellow Australian music acts to receive awards celebrating their chart-topping success. Eleven artists were honoured at the ARI
Publ.Date : Wed, 13 May 2009 07:49:22 GMT

Music marketing takes center stage at iLike (CNET)
The social music site plans to unleash a number of new syndication features for artists, from an iPhone app creator to YouTube integration.
Publ.Date : Wed, 13 May 2009 07:14:18 GMT