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Former Pumpkins sue over downloads
HAPPIER TIMES: Billy Corgan with James Iha, left, and D'Arcy Wretzky-Brown at the 1997 Grammy Awards.
Stuff
LOCAL MUSIC: Hit me!
It’s been a long hot summer, but this week’s local concert schedule is going to heat things up with much-anticipated shows by Boombox, Punch Brothers, and the Dropkick Murphys.
Colorado Daily
MUSIC: Spin this
Sugarland captures the exuberant possibilities of life as well as any modern country act. On "Love On The Inside," the third album for the duo of Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush, they once again tap into a joyful energy that's as irresistible as it is catchy.
Colorado Daily
Top five, Saving Abel
Saving Abel have a hit song with Addicted and are still pinching themselves that they've actually made it. Lead singer Jared Weeks told us the Top 5 Best Things About Finally Hitting It Big.
Rocky Mountain News
Trucker Trades Big Rig For Hot Dog Stand
Ray Arthur, of Ray's Rocking Dogs, quit his trucking job and opened a hot dog stand when gas prices skyrocketed.
NBC 10 Philadelphia
Girl Talk: Everything you love about music in a single album
My latest obsession has taken over the newsroom late Saturday nights. Shortly after we punch the button to send your Sunday morning paper to be printed, the lights go down, the disco lights up (not really) and I pump Girl Talk's latest album out of my tiny iMac speakers.
Tri-City Herald
At the 92nd Street Y, Jazz for All
One evening in the early '60s, the bassist Charlie Haden was playing at the Village Vanguard as a member of the Ornette Coleman Quartet. He was in the middle of a particularly intense solo, and he decided to close his eyes. When he opened them at the end of the solo, he was surprised to see a distinguished-looking gentleman kneeling in front of the bass, almost pressing his ear into the bridge, ...
The New York Sun
Neil Young documents anti-war tour in film CSNY: Deja Vu
NEW YORK - Not every musician will make a film that features a fan facing him from a concert audience with two arms raised, middle fingers extended - more than one fan, in fact.
GMA News
First Night: West Side Story, Sadler's Wells, London
You can see why they were terrified. Gang fights, race hatred, flick knives – you call this a musical? It's no wonder the Tony judges, with – in the language of Arthur Laurents' book – the spit scared out of them, gave the award for the best show of 1957 to The Music Man (now enjoying a dazzling revival at Chichester, for those who want to make their own comparisons).
Independent
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young a harmonious mix of music, interviews, history
CSNY: Deja Vu has plenty of music, but it's not a concert film. It has plenty of interviews and historical footage, but it's not a biopic.
Rocky Mountain News
Sting joins Mayer, Matthews and Morisette
Sting is recording a 'Songs for Tibet' album with a host of other music stars.
NZCity
Lively Arts by Margot Abbott
I ALWAYS LIKE HEARING ABOUT a new performing arts group, especially one that does musicals, holds classes and takes theater to their community.StarStruck Theatre is a youth theater that has won awards such as Silicon Valley 2007 Theatre Awards and Bay Area Parents Best of the Best, also in 2007.
Contra Costa Times
BROWN: Festivals good to Offspring
Despite the angst-ridden songs, life is good for songwriter Dexter Holland and his band, The Offspring. Mark Brown talks to Holland as the band prepares for Saturday's Big Gig at Fiddler's Green.
Rocky Mountain News
JAZZ: Six opportunities to enter sax heaven
You'll have six chances to hear Kenny Garrett, one of the most exciting and intelligent alto saxophonists around, this weekend at Dazzle.
Rocky Mountain News
(RWire) Athletics: Reyes, Kibii Debut at and Win Wine Country Half Marathon
Kibii smashes women's course record at Napa-to-Sonoma race.
RunnersWeb.com
Batanga, Inc. Brings Music, Video and Community to Five Million US Latinos Monthly Through Internap's Performance ...
ATLANTA, BUSINESS WIRE -- Internap Network Services Corporation (NASDAQ: INAP), a global provider of end-to-end Internet business solutions, announced today that Batanga, Inc., the leading next-generation Hispanic media company reaching US Hispanics, is using Internap's Performance IP(TM) network to power Batanga.com, one of the most trafficked Web sites in the world offering Latino ...
Broadcast Newsroom
Former Smashing Pumpkins sue over downloads
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Two former members of the Smashing Pumpkins sued Virgin Records on Thursday, saying the label shut them out of profits after signing a deal with the rock band's frontman Billy Corgan.
Reuters.co.uk
The Black Ghosts Album Release Party
Local label IAMSOUND 's British electro-pop group The Black Ghosts (not to be confused with The Black Keys, Kids, or Lips) are having their release party this Sunday the 27th. The show is free at Turntable Lab (424 N. Fairfax) and it not only features free drinks, but also free mixtapes of The Black Ghosts' music, so LAist certainly recommends checking it out! Here's the video for ...
LAist
Rapper DMX raps after Phoenix court hearing
PHOENIX (AP) -- Musician DMX rapped about rebounding from struggle outside a Phoenix courtroom Thursday after pleading not guilty to felony charges of theft and identity theft.
FOX 11 Tucson
Rapper Lil Wayne sued for Stones copyright breach
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A musical publishing company that owns the rights to the Rolling Stones' song "Play With Fire" sued U.S. rapper Lil Wayne on Thursday, saying he released an altered version of the song without permission.
Reuters
Welcome to the piano
NEW England Conservatorium of Music (NECOM) Inverell Campus is hosting a “Welcome Piano” performance and nibbles this Sunday July 27 from 3.30pm. In June the Campus purchased a brand new Kawai K5 upright piano to be used for lessons, workshops, rehearsal and performances.
Inverell Times
Dickey Betts concert moved to Woodstock
The upcoming Dickey Betts & Great Southern concert has been moved from Saugerties to Woodstock, event promoters announced Thursday, citing "completely unsubstantiated reasons" by the town of Saugerties.
Kingston Daily Freeman
People: Fair Oaks singer wins TV contest
Melinda Watts of Fair Oaks recently was crowned the winner of the "American Idol"-like Gospel Dream 2008 on the season finale show that aired June 29 on the Gospel Music Channel television network. Melinda Watts of Fair Oaks won the Gospel Music Channel's 2008 Gospel Dream competition.
The Sacramento Bee
Linked by Adam S on Thu 6th Oct 2005 12:00 UTC
With each successive generation of technology, we collectively make each leap faster and with slightly less pain. However, as a music fanatic, the jump from tape to CD/mp3 was a tough one for me.
New Mobile Computing
Shedd Aquarium Music Events
The Shedd Aquarium is holding a series of musical events through August.
ABC 7 Chicago
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