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01/05/2009 10:56 PM
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Music marketers target female shoppers at home (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
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With CD sales dropping fast, the music business is exploring nontraditional ways to expose consumers to recording artists. Among the new sales and marketing vehicles are Tara Leigh Music Party and musicShop.
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01/05/2009 10:55 PM
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Music industry eases tactics in fighting piracy (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
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The Recording Industry Association of America's decision not to pursue new lawsuits against online file-sharers marks a fundamental shift in the music business's battle against piracy, from one focused on enforcement to one emphasizing education.
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01/05/2009 09:30 PM
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Hyundai Super Bowl ad to feature music by Yo-Yo Ma (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
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Hyundai Motor Co. will use music by famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma in a Super Bowl XLIII television commercial that consumers can re-edit online, Billboard has learned.
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01/06/2009 06:25 AM
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Pattinson's music ambitions (world entertainment news via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
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Twilight star Robert Pattinson isn't worried if offers of acting jobs dry up - he'd happily turn his hand to a career in music.
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01/06/2009 07:06 AM
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Wellington music teacher retiring (The Fort Collins Coloradoan)
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After 33 years in Poudre School District, raising a son as a single mom and battling breast cancer, Wellington Junior High School's music teacher is taking her last bow.
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01/05/2009 08:21 PM
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Sources: Apple to expand DRM-free music, new pricing (CNET)
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Moving further away from its one-price-fits-all model, the company will allow top four music labels more price flexibility.
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01/06/2009 05:08 AM
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Analyst: Music labels must get over their CD fixation (Guardian Unlimited)
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Will 2008 be the last big Christmas for CDs? Analysts Gartner think so, saying the music industry must away from its dependence on revenues from CDs and invest in online distribution networks. "Music labels should instead emphasise 'digital first,' making all new releases and catalogue issues via digital services and moving CDs to an on-demand publishing mode," said Mike McGuire , ...
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01/06/2009 04:16 AM
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Music Review (rediff.com)
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Luck By Chance's music is aimed at the Dil Chahta Hai generation of Bollywood viewers -- definitely urban. Let's hope the movie matches up.
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01/06/2009 02:00 AM
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Qld Police to crack down on drugs at music festivals (ABC via Yahoo!7 News)
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Police will target music festivals across south-east Queensland in the coming months in an attempt to combat the use illicit drugs.
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01/05/2009 01:58 PM
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Curtain comes down at Music Hall (BBC News)
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The final live performance takes place at a historic music venue in Shropshire.
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