Archive for the 'Music News' Category

Australia turns to Manilow music to disperse youths

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 […]

June 5th, 2006 - Posted in Music News

Russian download site linked to music piracy

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 […]

June 5th, 2006 - Posted in Music Download, Music News

The beat goes on at annual Music Fest

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 […]

June 5th, 2006 - Posted in Live Music, Music Event, Music News

M-Audio Brings Music to the Masses with Groundbreaking Session Software

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 […]

June 5th, 2006 - Posted in Music News

Blues cues: No need to be sad to love this music

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 […]

June 5th, 2006 - Posted in Music News

Annual Beach Music Festival Draws Large Crowd

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 […]

June 5th, 2006 - Posted in Live Music, Music Event, Music News

File-sharing site to relaunch as music service

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 […]

June 5th, 2006 - Posted in Music Download, Music Links, Music News

Track Entertainment Completes Merger With Angel Music Group

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 […]

June 5th, 2006 - Posted in Music News

Reggaefest 2006: Where Thy Beer Cup Overfloweth and the Music Nev

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 […]

June 5th, 2006 - Posted in Live Music, Music Event, Music News

Morocco music fest seeks harmonious ’soul’ of globalisation

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 […]

June 5th, 2006 - Posted in Live Music, Music Event, Music News

Satan is real for music biz on Tuesday

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 […]

June 5th, 2006 - Posted in Music Event, Music News

Sony Music grabs a slice of Pizza

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 […]

June 5th, 2006 - Posted in Music News, Music Store

Univision sets up digital shop

Digital music sales have long lagged behind physical sales in the Latin music world. The launch of a digital music store by Univision Communications, the largest Spanish-language media company in the United States, may shift that dynamic.
The retail effort will take root at Univision.com and aims to be live by June 9, to benefit from […]

June 5th, 2006 - Posted in Music News, Music Store

Emmis stations add iTunes stores to their websites

Listeners to hip-hop bastions WQHT New York and KPWR Los Angeles have a new way to enjoy music — at 99 cents a pop.
The two Emmis Communications stations recently introduced the first radio-branded iTunes music stores on their Web sites. Jay-Z handled the ribbon-cutting duties, announcing the store openings on-air. Busta Rhymes welcomes store visitors […]

June 5th, 2006 - Posted in Music Download, Music News, Music Store