|
12/01/2008 10:29 PM
|
|
Music retailers report bleak sales on Black Friday (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
|
Music merchandisers weren't sharing the general optimism of most retailers during Thanksgiving weekend.
|
|
12/01/2008 08:04 PM
|
|
Online seen claiming 41 pct share of U.S. music market (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
|
Digital music sales account for 18 percent of the U.S. music market and that figure will grow to 41 percent in five years, Forrester Research said in a report released on Monday.
|
|
12/01/2008 09:10 PM
|
|
YouTube Plans Classical Music Contest, Teams With Carnegie Hall (Bloomberg)
|
Dec. 2 (Bloomberg) -- YouTube, the video-sharing Web site owned by Google Inc. , announced an online classical-music contest whose winners will gather at New York’s Carnegie Hall and perform a specially written orchestral work.
|
|
12/01/2008 07:06 PM
|
|
Boosters help Moreland music program stay afloat (San Jose Mercury News)
|
When state budget woes stripped music and art programs from California schools in the early 2000s, the Moreland School District didn't sit idle.
|
|
12/01/2008 08:12 PM
|
|
After CDs: bands back USB-stick music (Sydney Morning Herald)
|
Australian artists get behind a new music format that offers bonus content.
|
|
12/01/2008 11:14 AM
|
|
Ticket Battle Shakes Music Biz (Rolling Stone)
|
Ticketmaster, Live Nation vie to fill power vacuum left by labels When Live Nation, the world's biggest concert promoter, announced that it would begin selling its own tickets starting in January, it seemed like the beginning of the end for Ticketmaster. Instead, the move has triggered a war that is reshaping the entire music industry, with the two companies battling for a piece of every dollar ...
|
|
12/01/2008 03:27 AM
|
|
Adams Morgan's Commonwealth Is Fashion-Forward and Music-Conscious (Washington Post)
|
The music is always on, and it's always loud. Never earsplitting but loud enough that the teens and 20-somethings who frequent the place occasionally have to shout as they navigate racks of limesicle-colored denim and T-shirts adorned with fornicating silver skeletons. Kanye West's "Touch the Sky...
|
|
12/01/2008 10:35 PM
|
|
Techniques and Styles of Video Game Music (Slashdot)
|
MarkN writes "Video game music has come to represent much more than just the beeps and boops of early video games that often got muted out of annoyance. It's a genre that stands on its own, stylistically and musically. It necessarily differs from typical soundtrack fare in a few important ways — it's written to accompany an activity rather than meant to be listened to passively, it is often ...
|
|
12/01/2008 04:40 PM
|
|
'Tis the season for choral music (The Star-Ledger)
|
MARION ETTLINGERTarik O'Regan It's the season for choral music, what with ubiquitous performances of "Messiah" starting and Christmas carols around the corner. But choral music doesn't have to be just old favorites. Composers from around the world are turning out...
|
|
12/01/2008 03:18 PM
|
|
eMedia Music Releases New Hybrid Version of EarMaster 5 (Harmony Central)
|
eMedia Music Corp., announced the release of a new Windows / Macintosh Hybrid version of the EarMastera Pro 5 and EarMastera School 5 ear training software CD-ROMs from EarMaster APS. Now Mac users can take advantage of this comprehensive software suite for ear training and practical music theory available in 18 languages.
|