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INgrooves to Distribute 'Songs For Tibet' From Art of Peace Foundation in Support of Dalai Lama
INgrooves, the leading digital distributor and label, has announced today the release of Songs For Tibet through The Art of Peace Foundation. More than a dozen of the world's top contemporary musical artists, including Sting, Dave Matthews, Alanis Morissette, John Mayer, Suzanne Vega, Rush, Imogen Heap, Garbage, Damien Rice, Moby, Underworld, Duncan Sheik and many more have been brought ...
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Motorola Expands ROKR(TM) Roster With Three New Additions
Motorola, Inc. today expands its ROKR portfolio with the introduction of three new music-optimized devices that provide a range of styles at attractive prices for mobile music fans.
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The NPD Group: iTunes Continues To Lead U.S. Music Retailers in First Half of 2008
PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y.----According to the latest MusicWatch consumer surveys from The NPD Group, a leading market research company, the five leading music retailers in the U.S. for the first half of 2008 ranked as follows: 1. iTunes 2.
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(AFX UK Focus) 2008-08-05 13:47 Bertelsmann sells 50 pct stake in Sony BMG to Sony for undisclosed sum UPDATE
(Updates to add business to be renamed, Bertelsmann to keep some music catalogue assets)
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Japanese drummers have rhythm
Instead of settling for one big bang, the Elora Festival ended with a thundering hour and a half of them. If you've never seen Japanese Taiko drumming before, consider the experience a combination of music, martial arts and dance choreography.
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NonStop Riot Delivers the Hottest New Music Videos in High-Definition Using Digital Fountain's DF Splash Video ...
Digital Fountain, a leading provider of advanced, standardized solutions for digital media delivery, today announced that NonStop Riot is using Digital Fountain's DF Splash video delivery network to deliver high-definition music videos to online viewers. NonStop Riot is a music connoisseur's dream guide to hot, new music online and will deliver online music videos via DF Splash to provide a high ...
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Sony buys Bertelsmann's stake in BMG: Bertelsmann
BERLIN - Sony has agreed to buy the 50 percent it does not already own in music giant Sony BMG from German media group Bertelsmann, the latter said on Tuesday.
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Mark Elijah Rosenberg, Founder of Rooftop Films
In eleven years, Mark Elijah Rosenberg has transformed Rooftop Films from a party he threw on his East Village roof with a sheet and a projector to a summer long short film festival with screenings at unique locations all over the five boroughs. Mark has brought over 1,000 films by more than 900 filmmakers to over 20,000 audience members. He has forged collaborations with more than 20 film ...
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Country music duo get Hollywood star
Country music's best-selling duo Brooks & Dunn are now immortalized on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Ex-Eurythmic Stewart tours again as "band leader"
Dave Stewart was half of the musical duo Eurythmics in the 1980s but when his partnership with singer Annie Lennox faded, the artist found other outlets for his creativity.
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With his Big Chill gig Leonard joins veterans returning to rock scene
Leonard Cohen is just one of several rock veterans returning to the stage this week. In Herefordshire for the Big Chill music festival, the 73-year-old Canadian singer songwriter and poet was introduced as a 'living legend' as he prepared to take to the stage.
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When actors try to play musicians
It's a Saturday night at Terminal 5 and 3,000 people stand transfixed, listening to a woman few knew could sing at all just several months before. Zooey Deschanel - she of indie movie queen fame and now frontwoman for the act She and Him - sings brilliantly through the microphone.
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Sony Buys Bertelsmann Sony BMG Stake for $1.2 Billion (Update1)
Aug. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Sony Corp. , the world's second-largest maker of consumer electronics, will buy Bertelsmann AG 's 50 percent stake in music company Sony BMG Music Entertainment for $1.2 billion to get full control.
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Go Behind the Scenes With The Plain White T's and ABCFamily.com
ABC Family follows the boys in 12 exclusive webisodes. The Plain White T’s — whose song “Hey There Deliah” hit #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart and was the fourth song in history to sell over three million digital singles — have a present for their fans. With the help of ABC family, the two-time Grammy nominated boys are presenting 12 interesting webisodes following...
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North West Evening Mail
POLICE have named a 20-year-old woman from north Wales who died of a suspected drug overdose at a South Lakeland music festival. Katie Elizabeth Holesworth-Jones, from Henllan, Denbigh, collapsed at Kendal Calling on Friday night.
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DJ DGAP-AFR: 313 Music JWP AG: Announcement according to Articles 37v, 37w, 37x et seqq. of the WpHG [the German ...
313music JWP AG / Preliminary announcement on the disclosure of financial statements 05.08.2008 Announcement according to articles 37v, 37w, 37x ff. WpHG, transmitted by DGAP - a company of EquityStory AG.
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ABBA sets new record in music charts, but promises no tours
Sweden’s legendary disco band ABBA set a new record in the world of music charts. A collection of the band’s best songs, a compilation album titled Gold – Greatest Hits, which was released in 1992, became the oldest album, which took the first place in the official music chart of the United Kingdom.
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Music Review: The Rumble Strips - Girls and Weather
British imports The Rumble Strips offer up plenty of soul you can surf to in their ska-heavy rock debut CD. Although lead vocalist Charlie Waller achingly proclaims, “I ain’t got no soul,” on the opening track of his band The Rumble Strips’ debut record Girls and Weather, it quickly proves to be ironic. For, once the melancholic lyrics give way to build rhythmic momentum with additional ...
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John Hiatt's Bring the Family An '80s Masterpiece
John Hiatt's masterwork amazes with its deeply personal lyrics, bare bones production, and blend of rock, blues, country, and folk. Remember Bonnie Raitt’s comeback 1989 hit, “Thing Called Love”? While many fans remember her Grammy-winning song and album Nick of Time (along with the video featuring a young and sexy Dennis Quaid), few think of that tune's songwriter, John Hiatt. A veteran ...
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Majestic owners offer to sponsor Mifflin Street party with live music
After years of skyrocketing arrest numbers and city and community frustration, the Mifflin Street Block Party is taking the first steps toward an overhaul. According to Joel Plant, aide to Mayor Dave Cieslewicz, Madison officials have been meeting with the owners of the Majestic after they raised the possibility of the local music venue sponsoring the event. Although planning is still in ...
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360 Rock Band 2 exclusivity for just one month?
US retail schedules suggest that EA's upcoming music game might be blocked from PS3 for just four weeks
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Sony to Purchase Bertelsmann's 50% Stake in Sony BMG; Music Company to Become Wholly Owned Subsidiary of Sony ...
Tokyo, Aug 5, 2008 - (JCN Newswire) - The international media and entertainment companies Sony Corporation and Bertelsmann AG today announced that Sony has agreed to acquire Bertelsmann's 50% stake in Sony BMG. The music company, to be called Sony Music Entertainment Inc. (SMEI), will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America.
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Bertelsmann Realigns BMG for the Music Rights Business
The international media company Bertelsmann is gearing the business of its Bertelsmann Music Group towards music rights management. The realignment is connected with the sale of Bertelsmann's stake in the Sony BMG Music Entertainment joint venture to the Sony Corporation of America.
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Ariel Way, Inc. and Lime Truck Take AARP On a Nationwide Foreigner Concert Tour
WASHINGTON, Aug. 5, 2008 -- Ariel Way, Inc. and Lime Truck announced today that on August 6th they will launch a four-week mobile advertising campaign for AARP together with the music group Foreigner.
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Bertelsmann to sell stake in Sony BMG to Sony for $1.2 billion
The new company will be called Sony Music Entertainment and become a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony of America.
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