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10/10/2008 07:27 PM
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Dell expands music tie-ins on festival circuit (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
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At the Austin City Limits (ACL) Music Festival in Texas at the end of September, sandwiched between a stage and a small recycling center stood a white dome decorated with colorful cloud patterns. Inside the air-conditioned structure, visitors could get customized T-shirts, temporary tattoos and a mixtape of songs by artists performing at the festival.
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10/10/2008 08:13 PM
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Music exec Flom lines up Universal post (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
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Former Atlantic and Capitol top executive Jason Flom is nearly finished with negotiations that would bring him into the Universal Music Group fold, Billboard has learned.
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10/11/2008 08:05 AM
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See Britney Spears in the Buff in New Music Video (US Weekly)
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Britney's in the buff in her latest music video! In "Womanizer" -- which debuted Friday on 20/20 -- the singer plays a corporate tease, a freaky waitress and a raunchy chauffeur. Last month, Spears described the song as "a girl anthem." "It's basically saying, 'We know what you're up to.' It's about guys cheating on girls," the singer told New York's Z100 radio station. "Womanizer"...
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10/10/2008 05:37 PM
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Sony seeks to harmonize music, electronics (AP via Yahoo! News)
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Now that Sony Corp. and Bertelsmann AG have broken off their troubled relationship, known as Sony BMG, the Japanese company hopes to harmonize its consumer electronics and its music, a duo that was badly out of sync.
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10/11/2008 04:23 PM
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Free chamber music concert to play at Millsaps (The Clarion-Ledger)
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Millsaps College will offer a free chamber music concert at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the Ford Academic Complex Recital Hall.
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10/11/2008 06:28 PM
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Music Review: Kings of Leon - Only By The Night (Blogcritics.org)
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Only By The Night may grow on me eventually, but so far it hasn’t grabbed hold of me like their previous releases. I am a big fan of Kings of Leon. I have enjoyed their albums and the couple of times I saw them live, so I was excited about another new release, but it’s not exactly what I wanted. They have veered slightly in a different direction, creating music that is more polished and infused ...
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10/11/2008 06:03 PM
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Launching a music career (Farmington Press)
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A local musician is heading to Los Angeles to make it big. Buddy Iahn is a local resident who moved to Nashville two years ago in search of trying to make it big in the music world. Earlier this year he was at a party with a friend and was introduced to Scott Foster Harris and they began talking.
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10/11/2008 04:45 PM
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Lucinda Breeding: How to mesh music, business (Denton Record-Chronicle)
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Most freshmen who pursue degrees in the University of North Texas College of Music take one of two tracks: performance or education. Faculty and advisers at the college know that a lot of these students will decide that performing and teaching aren’t for them, and they make it a point to help.
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10/11/2008 08:58 AM
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Wayne Coyne's Oklahoma City home is an unusual at the Flaming Lips' music (Austin American-Statesman)
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OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — When he isn't on tour, or in the recording studio making sublimely weird music, Wayne Coyne, the singer, guitarist and guiding force of the Flaming Lips, can often be found puttering around his home here — although "home" may be an inadequate word for it.
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10/10/2008 09:57 AM
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Senuti Recovers Music from Your iPod (PC Magazine via Yahoo! News)
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If you've ever been stuck with a non-functioning computer and a functioning Apple iPod that has all your music on it, you are not alone. Now Senuti ("iTunes" reversed) offers a solution.
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