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12/01/2008 11:14 AM
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Ticket Battle Shakes Music Biz (Rolling Stone)
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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 ...
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12/01/2008 03:27 AM
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Adams Morgan's Commonwealth Is Fashion-Forward and Music-Conscious (Washington Post)
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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...
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12/01/2008 08:09 AM
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Music Maker 15 Evokes Memories Of Embarrassing Singing Lessons (BIOS)
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Listening to music is fun, but making a track that doesn't sound like a pig squealing is a skill. MAGIX's Music Maker 15 promises to make you a star without the need to read music or have the perfect singing voice. In fact, this package makes you wonder why we're n...
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12/01/2008 05:44 AM
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Thai music firm Grammy sees impact from politics (Reuters via Yahoo! Malaysia News)
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BANGKOK, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Thailand's top music and entertainment group, GMM Grammy , said on Monday the country's political crisis and weak economic outlook could make it miss its profit growth target this year.
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12/01/2008 11:04 AM
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Angola: Musician DionÃsio Rocha Praises Children's Music Competition (AllAfrica.com)
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The Angolan musician DionÃsio Rocha considered last Sunday in Luanda as "important and an added value" the holding of the infant/juvenile music contest dubbed "Canta com Blue nas Escolas".
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12/01/2008 04:28 AM
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New music service will help fight Aids (ITN via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
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Sir Elton John, Jay-Z and other leading artists have teamed up to offer a new music service to help fight Aids in Africa.
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12/01/2008 08:28 AM
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Bands delay albums, leave music labels in lurch (Baltimore Sun)
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As recently as last month, Universal Music Group's Interscope Geffen A&M Records planned to release five major albums by superstar acts during the critical holiday shopping season.
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12/01/2008 09:43 AM
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GTV Launches Bet, Afro Music Channels (AllAfrica.com)
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GTV last week launched two more channels; Black Entertainment Television (BET) and the Afro Music l on its service.
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12/01/2008 11:26 AM
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Music stops for repairs (Reading Evening Post)
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A dilapidated outbuilding in East Reading has had its music licence suspended until the owners complete £45,000 worth of improvements.
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12/01/2008 04:57 AM
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Celebrating 100 years of music (Manila Standard Today)
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Taste in music is relative; a person may enjoy a kind of music that other people might consider as noise, but no matter how different types people define it, it all boils down to one single fact: it is a universal language.
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