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Sing with the King site gives fans unique chance
Sony BMG is using the magic of the digital age to let Elvis Presley lovers sing Christmas duets with their departed idol and send the songs in electronic holiday greeting cards. Those wishing to join
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Warner Music pulls videos from YouTube
Warner Music Group ordered YouTube on Saturday to remove all music videos by its artists from the popular online video-sharing site after contract negotiations broke down.
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End of sweeping piracy lawsuits sounds good to UNL
The sea change in how illegal file sharing will be combatted, announced Friday by the Recording Industry Association of America, probably won’t bring comfort to those University of Nebraska-Lincoln students who have already been sued for illegally sharing music files.
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Highland Lake Inn: Dining, dancing and dreaming
(Rochelle Reynoldson, rreynold@charlotteobserver.com) New Year's Eve Flat Rock Highland Lake Inn: Dining, dancing and dreaming Celebrate New Year's Eve in style with fine dining and musical entertainment from 6 p.m. to 1 a.m. at Highland Lake Inn's Season's Restaurant. The New Year's Eve Experience includes a four-course dinner package with a champagne toast and noisemakers at midnight. ...
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Laws aim to stop encouragement of smoking
South Australian stallholders selling cigarettes and other tobacco products at youth festivals will be banned from using music or comfortable chairs to get people to smoke.
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MSU music program airs throughout the country
MURRAY, Ky. - Murray State University's (MSU) fifth annual The Holidays at Murray State University 2008: The Sights, The Sounds, The Season, produced for KET television, has expanded to its largest audience ever, reaching approximately 25 million homes across the United States (a 22.41 percent coverage rate).
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SeeqPod for Windows Mobile released
December 21, 2008 [General] By Edward J. R. SeeqPod is a service, by now available for desktop computers, where users can search for music and this service finds it somewhere on the Internet, even if these are illegal copies of this music.
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Boom in music video games helps original artists
"This song is dedicated to Debbie Harry," flinty-eyed Lisa Hsuan purrs into a microphone.
WPVI-TV Philadelphia |
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Music video game boom helps artists
Many songs' sales have more than doubled after release in one of the games.
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Divine Performing Arts Is History Come to Life
Little has an ear for music. An amateur piano player, Ms. Little fell in love with some of the musical pieces in Divine Performing Arts (DPA) performance.
The Epoch Times |
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Princeton's Top Ten of 2008
Picture via Princeton's Myspace December is list-making season. And for us music journalists, it is a time to look back on scores of albums, reflect upon the music and recapitulate our favorites. But this year, just like the last, we took this opportunity to flip that tradition upside down, asking the artists that influenced us what influenced them. The prompt was not limited to albums ...
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All-Area girls cross country: Loewen always on the move
Topsail's Zatha Loewen got a late start on training to defend her 1A state championship this year, but found out there's more to life than winning -- a lot more. Like hunting. Or learning French.
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U2 stock buyback rocks music mega-deals
The music industry trend of signing superstar acts to long-term mega-deals is under scrutiny after Irish band U2 exercised a contract clause that left partners Live Nation 19 million dollars out of po
The West Australian |
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Rockwall nonprofit Free Harmony offers free music classes for children
Kami Beck grew up surrounded by music. Her father worked as a singer and dancer for much of his life. And her mother, though not a professional musician, had an innate sense of rhythm. To pass the time on long car trips, the entire family would sing.
Dallas Morning News |
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Venture out of reading comfort zone
Ever notice how folks are much more eclectic about their musical tastes than their book preferences? I think it's the time investment that makes it so.
Colorado Springs Gazette |
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Music industry drops effort to sue song swappers
LOS ANGELES - The group representing the U.S. recording industry said Friday it has abandoned its policy of suing people for sharing songs protected by copyright and will work with Internet service providers to cut abusers' access if they ignore repeated warnings.
East Valley Tribune |
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B.B.King plays the holiday season bright at the Los Angeles Club Nokia December 27th and 29th.
His reign as King of the Blues has been as long as that of any monarch on earth. Yet B.B. King continues to wear his crown well. At age 76, he is still light on his feet, singing and playing the blues with relentless passion.
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The trombonist Steve Turre has an unforced affinity for Latin jazz and the sort of deep instinct that manifests over ...
Born into a Mexican-American family, he grew up in the San Francisco area, absorbing a wide range of sounds, including Latin music.
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MU holds commencement cermonies over the weekend
Beth Van Hove had been waiting 27 years for this moment. As holiday music played and visitors began to crowd Hearnes Center for the MU College of Arts and Science graduation ceremony Saturday, Van Hove stood anxiously in the General Studies line with her cap in hand. “I’m a little nervous,” she admitted. But all nerves aside, she was proud. Van Hove began her college career in 1981. After ...
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LAist Rock Book Gift Guide
Between our Gift Guide That Rocks , our Gift Guide For Classical Music Lovers and our Independent Music Store Guide , you’d think that LAist has already covered all there is to know for your Rock and Roll Christmas shopping. However, if you need some more rocking for your stocking, here are a few music books that came out this year that were enjoyed by LAist contributors. Heath Biter ...
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Hanukkah begins today
The Jewish holiday of Hanukkah is often called the Festival of Lights. That moniker doesn't just refer to the menorah, the eight-branched candelabrum that is lit during the eight days of Hanukkah
Connecticut Post |
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One step beyond: Madness find liberty in record deal
Madness, the hit ska band, have signed a deal to launch their 30th anniversary album, 'The Liberty of Norton Folgate', with Power Amp, a music investment fund.
Independent |
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Madoff: The man who sold the world
Could there be a more appropriately awful end to the most awful year for American capitalism since the Great Depression? The scam operated by Bernard Madoff, once a man above all suspicion on Wall Street, is not only one of the largest frauds – maybe the largest – in US history. It is also a perfect metaphor for the ills and excesses that have brought the country's financial system and economy ...
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Warner and YouTube fall out of tune
YouTube has removed millions of videos containing music by Warner Music's artists after the record label and the videosharing site failed to agree terms on a licensing agreement.
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Boom in music video games helps original artists
This song is dedicated to Debbie Harry," flinty-eyed Lisa Hsuan purrs into a microphone on the red-lit stage of Hyperion Tavern. It's a cozy dive where patrons drink Coke and beer from bottles and a fading chandelier dangles overhead.
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