This talented foursome, discovered by Third Day’s Mac Powell, is the flagship act for RKT, Rocketown Records’ new rock imprint. There’s been a lot of industry buzz around this band, and its first album more than lives up to expectations. Musically inventive and lyrically potent, Hyper Static Union boasts an ear-catching, fresh sound. At […]
Trumpeter Urcola, who has worked with Paquito D’Rivera, assays 10 tunes here, including four originals. Highlights: Guillermo Klein’s “El Camino,” a downtempo piece with incisive solos by Avishai Cohen (bass) and Edward Simon (piano). “40/40″ features an invigorating mood swing, opening with a gentle passage, then taking flight with D’Rivera sitting in on clarinet. […]
A local Sydney council has decided on a new weapon in its bid to remove groups of youths from gathering in carparks and disrupting residents — the music of 1970s crooner Barry Manilow.
Officials said that the youths were not causing property damage but were annoying residents by revving their engines and doing wheelies up and […]
Rising consumer popularity is turning AllofMP3.com, a music downloading service based in Moscow, into a global Internet success story, but with a catch - the site may well be illegal.
Operating through what music industry lobbyists say is a loophole in Russia’s copyright law, AllofMP3.com offers a vast catalog of music that includes artists not normally […]
Gambling that the ominous clouds above would produce little rain, about 200 people mingled in Patriot Square Park on Sunday evening to enjoy the 9th Annual Nanticoke Music Fest.
While John Stevens’ Doubleshot set the tone with a selection of danceable polkas, youths made their own popping rhythm by throwing Snap Pops, which explode with a […]
Avid Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVID today announced that M-Audio - a business unit of its Digidesign audio division - has introduced Session(TM), a powerful software application for consumers who want a user-friendly way to create music on a computer. The new software empowers virtually anyone using a PC to create loop-based music - or layers […]
Kevin Gall can’t remember a time when he didn’t love music. “As a kid I would wake up every morning to the sound of my mom playing the piano in our living room,” he said. “We had a baby grand and she would get up and play and drink coffee.”
Gall’s taste in music continued to […]
Folks put on their dancing shoes over the weekend to kick off summer with some good beach music.
Hundreds came out to the Carolina Beach Boardwalk for the 21st Annual Pleasure Island Beach Music and Shag Festival.
Although it was mostly cloudy Saturday afternoon, the weather didn’t stop people from having a great time dancing on the […]
The firm behind the defunct Qtrax online file-swapping network has inked a licensing deal with Britain-based EMI Music Group PLC and aims to relaunch later this year as an ad-supported recording industry-friendly online music service.
Qtrax was among several peer-to-peer file-sharing applications that emerged following the shutdown of Napster, the pioneer service that enabled millions to […]
Track Entertainment, an entertainment based marketing company connecting brands with their target consumers, announced today that its merger with Angel Music Group is complete. The new company, called Live2Net, which on a combined basis generated over $50 million in revenue for 2005, expects to operate all existing properties under the umbrella, including the leading dance […]
For many Orange County students, the image of a contemporary music fan involves tight pants, bangs combed over one eye and dark clothes. But last Friday in Aldrich Park, UC Irvine students were offered a respite from the O.C. punk and emo scene and given an opportunity to experience something other than trends created by […]
As world musicians including those from India turned up in this ancient town in Morocco for a festival of religious music, political figures and thinkers sat under an oak tree at the weekend debating ways of bringing spiritual harmony to the globalised world.
The 12th edition of the festival, which opened on Friday, brings together spiritual […]
The music industry has an unprecedented opportunity on Tuesday to have some fun with its reputation — deserved or otherwise — as the devilish corrupter of innocent youth.
For June 6 will be the first album release date in history that correlates numerically with the Mark of the Beast: 666. (Cue: Iron Maiden’s “The Number of […]
Atlanta-based pop trio Laughing Pizza has signed a deal with Sony BMG Music to develop children’s recordings, direct-to-DVD titles and TV programming based on the group’s live act.
Laughing Pizza is composed of husband-and-wife duo Billy Schlosser and Lisa Michaelis, and their young daughter, Emily.
Sony BMG’s Epic Records and its children’s arm, Sony Wonder, plan to […]
