IAmHypeOnline.com

IAmHypeOnline.com levels the media playing field for recording artists. By optimizing new media technology and social networking, this San Diego based marketing firm offers their clients maximum exposure that once required the backing of high budget production companies. They provide both the tools and the expertise for talent to market and promote themselves effectively to the one and half billion people who annually visit the web ad the twenty two million accessing the web daily through their mobile phones
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Warner Music Group posts larger 2Q loss

"Warner Music Group Corp. said that its losses widened in its second fiscal quarter as the company booked some one-time charges and its revenue suffered from a light music release schedule. For the quarter that ended March 31, Warner Music lost 68 million, or 45 cents per share. A year ago, the company's losses totaled $37 million, or 25 cents per share."
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Vevo gets progressive record label exec as new president

"Vevo - the forthcoming site for YouTube videos featuring professional musicians - is getting a new president, according to MediaMemo and CNET. It's Rio Caraeff, the current vice president of Elabs, Universal's digital business unit"
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WaTunes

WaTunes is a social media distribution service that enables artists, groups, and record labels to sell #music, music videos, and audiobooks through leading online entertainment retailers, including iTunes,Rhapsody, and eMusic. Artists and labels can sell unlimited music and earn 100% of their profits
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Hailey Niswanger: Confeddie

Hailey Niswanger: young female jazz artist with a unique sound, plays straight ahead jazz that makes the listener feel good, and leaves them wanting more
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Google: Eurovision 2009 Forecast

Google's "Predictor" gadget looks at searches for #Eurovision 2009 contestants to predict which performer will win


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30th Blues Music Award winners announced

"Last night in a simply unbelievably wonderful night of Blues Music and camaraderie, the following Blues music performers were honored with 2008 Blues Music Awards: Acoustic Album of the Year: Mississippi Number One - Eden Brent Acoustic Artist of the Year: Eden Brent Album of the Year: Skin Deep - Buddy Guy Band of the Year: Lil' Ed & the Blues Imperials B.B. King Entertainer of the Year: Janiva Magness Best New Artist Debut: 2 Man Wrecking Crew - Cedric Burnside & Lightnin' Malcolm Contemporary Blues Album of the Year: Skin Deep..."
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Live Nation first-quarter loss widens

"Live Nation Inc, the world's largest concert promoter, posted a wider loss than expected on Thursday as its revenue was hurt by foreign currency exchange movements. The Los Angeles-based company, which is the in the midst of a controversial merger with Ticketmaster Entertainment Inc, posted a net loss of $103.2 million, or $1.29 a share from continuing operations compared with a loss of $70.8 million, or 92 cents a year ago. Revenue fell by 6 percent to $499.3 million, hurt by $49 million in forex changes and a decline in U.S. ticket sales. The company said on a constant currency basis its revenue grew by 3 percent. Analysts had expected Live Nation to post a loss of 82 cents on revenue of $567.7 million." - Yahoo
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RealNetworks' suffers net loss as sales drop

"RealNetworks, best known for its RealPlayer software, saw weaker results for the first quarter of 2009, the digital entertainment company said Thursday. Net loss for the quarter ended March 31 was $12.1 million, or a loss of 10 cents a share, versus net income of $2.4 million, or 2 cents per diluted share, in the first quarter of 2008. Revenue was $140.8 million, down 5 percent from $147.6 million a year ago. Results were below estimates from analysts polled by Thomson Reuters, who expected a loss of only 6 cents a share." - cnet
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Giveaway of the Day - Music Making for MS Word

Giveaway of the Day - #Music Making for MS Word - free today only (May 8 2009)
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Blyper

Blyper will notify you when your favorite #music artist releases a new CD or single
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theRADIO

theRADIO - search and listen to your favorite artists, songs and #music channels for free. Type in an artist or genre to start listening to music
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next to normal

Official site for next to normal, a new #musical with libretto and lyrics by Brian Yorkey and music by Tom Kitt. Features Alice Ripley, Aaron Tveit, J. Robert Spencer, Jennifer Damiano, Adam Chanler-Berat, and Louis Hobson. next to normal shows the lengths to which two parents will go to keep themselves sane and their family's world intact.
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Bob Dylan bows atop Billboard 200

"Bob Dylan, whose Billboard 200 chart career began in 1963, lands his fifth No. 1 album this week as "Together Through Life" (Columbia) opens atop the list with 125,000. It gives the icon back-to-back No. 1s with studio albums, as 2006's "Modern Times" also started in the penthouse. However, the latter set bowed with a much stronger number -- 192,000. "Modern" was ushered in with an Apple iTunes/iPod TV spot, which starred Dylan himself singing that album's song "Someday Baby." The new album did not have such a splashy marketing tie-in." - Billboard
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CBS Corp. creates interactive music group

"CBS Corp. said it is combining its CBS Radio online assets and music discovery site Last.fm to create the CBS Interactive Music Group. It includes CBS Radio's more than 100 music Websites and audio streams, related mobile applications, as well as Last.fm, which has so far been part of CBS Interactive. The combined operations reach almost 40 million unique monthly users worldwide, according to the company." - THR
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Labels dissatisfied with MySpace Music performance

"The good news for MySpace #Music is that its record label backers are pleased with the traffic the site is attracting. The bad news is that the 8-month-old service has yet to turn that big audience into big dollars" - cnet
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Facebook amps up its music ambitions with The Jonas Brothers Live

Facebook may finally be making a power play into a world where they are not the market leaders: online #music. How, do you ask? By partnering with one of the world's most popular bands, The Jonas Brothers, to launch their new single via a live video stream
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Last.fm launches Visual Radio

Last.fm has launched Visual Radio, which combines artist photos and video with new advertising slots
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Sony Music Entertainment websites to feature audio players and song lyrics

Sony #Music Entertainment has announced a new initiative to add robust on-demand audio streaming and song lyrics features across its network of artist websites. Fans will now be able to listen to tracks from the catalog of many of their favorite artists, create multiple personalized playlists, and follow along with the words to songs. Sony Music's websites will encourage a deeper connection between the fan and artist by featuring on-demand audio players that will make it possible for fans to explore and discover both current hits and previous releases. To add to the experience, the sites will also include lyrics licensed by Gracenote, which offers the world's largest catalog of complete, accurate and licensed song lyrics. Sony Music's agreement with Gracenote spans all of its label groups in the U.S. and Canada and establishes it as the first music major to broadly offer song lyrics on its artist websites. The roll out will begin in early summer. The new lyrics service, which complements current features like music videos, artist photos, song recommendations, buy links and customizable playlists, further enhances Sony Music's websites as go-to destinations for fans to connect with the artists they love. Sony Music's web network already draws more than 18,000,000 visitors from around the world each month.
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Alexander Street's First Annual Online Jazz Music Festival

From Tuesday, May 12 through Thursday, May 14, electronic publisher Alexander Street will host the first annual Online #Jazz #Music Festival. Ordinarily accessible only to patrons of subscribing libraries, Alexander Street's newest streaming music collection, Jazz Music Library, will be openly accessible to visitors worldwide for the duration of the festival. Other planned festival highlights include: Concord Jazz videos featuring Ella Fitzgerald, Bill Evans, and Michael Feinstein; free music downloads; quizzes in which visitors can test their jazz knowledge; a juried playlist competition; and special discount coupons from publishing partners Concord Jazz and Jazzology. All visitors to the Online Jazz Music Festival will be entered in drawings to win prizes that include free CDs, a Flip video camera, and a free, one-year subscription to Jazz Music Library for the winning visitor's public or university library
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Fliis

"Fliis is a new service that is aimed at #music addicts the world over. Its tagline is 'all the music you can imagine', and it attempts to make that come true by letting users look up music that is featured on #YouTube. That is, it lets users crawl YouTube and listen to just the audio track that accompanies every file hosted therein. "
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Writing on the Wall 2009

Writing on the Wall 2009 is a festival of outsiders: writers, musicians and artists well-known for defying convention and corporate attitudes - 2-30 May - Liverpool, UK
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The Fab Faux brings the music of The Beatles to Northampton (USA)

"For starters, forget every notion you may have ever had about tribute bands. The Fab Faux don't weary goofy wigs, they don't get decked out in phony Sgt. Pepper's uniforms and they don't talk between songs with bogus British accents. But they just might be the most authentic live interpreters of the music of the Beatles on the planet. Well, perhaps other than Paul McCartney when he takes his own band on the road. The Fab Faux will be playing the Calvin Theatre in Northampton on Friday night in a show billed as "From the Cavern to the Rooftop." Led by bassist-singer Will Lee, best known for his work in the band on "The Late Show with David Letterman," and singer-guitarist-keyboardist Jimmy Vivino, a longtime member of Conan O'Brien's band, the Fab Faux formed in 1998 and have been drawing raves along with jaw-dropping looks of amazement from audiences ever since. "
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Enjoy a free weekend of Met Player

"Met Player, the Metropolitan Opera Company's new online streaming service, will be available for free as a special promotion for the entire weekend of May 1–3. Beginning at 5pm ET on Friday, May 1, all visitors to metplayer.org will enjoy free and unlimited access to more than 200 full-length operas - including 20 performances from the first three seasons of the Met's award-winning Live in HD series. The offer ends at midnight on Sunday, May 3"
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Dylan is in chart seventh heaven

Bob Dylan has topped the UK album chart for the seventh time in his career, nearly 40 years since his last number one LP. Together Through Life is the folk music legend's 33rd studio album, according to the Official Charts Company. He last topped the UK chart with New Morning in 1970. His first, in 1964, was The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan. Dylan now holds a record, previously held by Tom Jones, for the longest gap between solo number one albums
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John Lennon: The New York City Years

John Lennon's passion for #music, art, politics and film - with a New York City focus - will be the subject of a new feature exhibit opening next month at The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Annex NYC. John Lennon: The New York City Years, opening May 12, has been designed to capture Lennon's life during an era that was full of political and social activism. The show will feature numerous Lennon artifacts - including items representing his inimitable fashion statements - as well as iconic photographs, legendary instruments, original handwritten lyrics and artwork
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Susan Boyle: The Way We Were: 1984

#Susan Boyle performing Barbra Streisand's The Way We Were in 1984 in Motherwell, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. #music


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Left Coast Live (USA)

Left Coast Live is a week-long music experience showcasing the talent of 100 local, regional and national bands in 40 Downtown San Jose venues including cafes, museums, bars and restaurants. The event starts with a future of #music discussion series, two preview concerts, and one outdoor cinema, and culminates in a giant walkable live music festival in downtown San Jose. This 5 day live music event was born from a group of local musicians, venue owners and arts supporters who were determined to grow live music in the South Bay. These visionaries knew that, by working collectively, they could ignite the local music scene and ultimately make San Jose and Silicon Valley renowned around the region and the country as a center for thriving live music
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Mixcloud

Mixcloud is an innovative new website that helps DJs distribute and promote their mixes and radio shows more effectively, whilst helping fans easily discover relevant DJs and content
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Handel's Messiah: A Facsimile

"Marking the 250th anniversary of Handel's death, the British Library is publishing a full colour facsimile of the composer's most famous work, Messiah. Composed in the summer of 1741, Handel's original Messiah manuscript is one of the British Library's greatest treasures and the jewel in the crown of the #music collections. Consisting of 280 pages, the draft score gives a fascinating glimpse into the composer's methods, showing his frequent changes of mind and occasional frustrations in committing his ideas to paper. The British Library's full-colour reproduction brings this creative process to life, showing every pen stroke and every crayon coloured amendment"
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Licklibrary

Licklibrary - the online guitar community. The site contains a continually expanding archive of guitar lessons, guitar tuition columns, guitar tutorial DVD's, guitar backing tracks and much more
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The Boat That Rocked

Official site of the movie The Boat That Rocked, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman as part of a group of pirate DJs broadcasting to the U.K. Also starring Tom Sturridge, Bill Nighy, Rhys Ifans, and Nick Frost. Directed by Richard Curtis
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Jazz Music Library from Alexander Street Press

"Jazz #Music Library is the most comprehensive collection of jazz recordings available online - covering thousands of artists, ensembles, albums, and genres, from all over the world, from the beginnings of jazz to today. It's an essential resource for the study and teaching of jazz history, performance, theory, or appreciation." From Alexander Street Press
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International Music Industry Week

International #Music Industry Week - 25-26 June, 2009 - London, UK
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Reggae Rising Music Festival 2009

Reggae Rising Music Festival 2009 - July 31 to August 2, 2009 - California, USA
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RockDex

RockDex measures and rates music fan engagement throughout several social networks, blogs, microblogs and more
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Abba's Benny announces live comeback...on a bandstand

The founder of Sweden's most successful pop group, ABBA, is to play an outdoor show on Hampstead Heath
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European recording artists and performers call for fairness on term of protection

"Europe has always prided itself on being a champion of culture, yet the EU is lagging behind many other parts of the world when it comes to protecting its recordings. European artists, performers and producers are provided with a 50 year period of protection for their work to enable them to benefit from the recordings they have made. This is a much lower level of protection than many other countries around the world which provide for between 60 and 95 years' protection. At a time when the creative sector based on intellectual property generates an increasing percentage of GDP in the European Union, this lower level of protection compared to other international markets puts Europe at a competitive disadvantage."
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Andria Vidler appointed president of EMI Music UK and Ireland

Andria Vidler has been appointed President of EMI #Music UK and Ireland. A former Managing Director of Capital Radio and of Magic 105.4, Andria is currently Chief Marketing Officer at Bauer Media. Bauer is home to 53 consumer magazines, including heat, GRAZIA, Closer and leading music titles Q, Mojo and Kerrang!, 42 radio stations including Magic 105.4 and Kiss, and TV channels including 4Music through its joint venture with Channel 4. In her new role, which she will take up this summer, Vidler will lead all of EMI Music's operations in the UK and Ireland, reporting to David Kassler, EMI Music's President, Europe
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Michael Mauldin: Evolution of Hip-Hop & R&B Marketing - Video

#Music industry veteran Michael Mauldin discusses how urban music marketing has evolved over the past forty years, where it is headed in the future, and how marketing as an end in itself has become nearly as important as the music itself among the elite of urban music tastemakers.


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Bob Dylan announces summer ballpark tour

"Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp will share the bill during a U.S. summer tour of minor league baseball parks, beginning July 2 at the GCS Ballpark in Sauget, Ill., and wrapping August 15 at the Banner Island Ballpark in Stockton, Calif. The upcoming 22-date tour marks the second time over the past 24 years that Dylan, Nelson and Mellencamp have shared the staged, according to a news release."
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Flex takes eight Billboard Latin Music Awards

"Propelled by the runaway success of his hit single "Te Quiero," Felix Danilo Gómez, the Panamenian DJ and singer better known as Flex, was the big winner at the 2009 Billboard Latin #Music awards presented by State Farm Insurance on April 23. Flex took home eight awards, including hot Latin song of the year, Latin ringmaster of the year and hot Latin song of the year, male." - Bollboard
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Music copyright to be extended to 70 years for performers

Copyright term for #music recordings must be extended from 50 years to 70 years, says legislation adopted on Thursday by the European Parliament. By adopting the report by Brian Crowley (IE, UEN) with 377 votes in favour, 178 against and 37 abstentions, MEPs voted to increase the term of copyright protection to ensure that performers continue to receive royalties for 70 years from the first publication or performance of their song
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Dora

Dora is a mashup of three API's: Pandora, Twitter, and Bit.ly. It streamlines tweets about what Pandora's playing for #Twitter users, so that it's easier to communicate and share thoughts about the #music you're hearing
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Music Monday 2009 (Canada)

On the first Monday of May each year, students and teachers take their music programs outside into the open air of their school grounds or into their communities, to perform a short concert. Serena Ryder's song, 'Sing Sing' will unite the country for Music Monday 2009. Pure raw amazing talent is what gave Serena Ryder a Gold album for If Your Memory Serves You Well, a Gold single for self-penned 'Weak In The Knees' and a 2008 JUNO Award for New Artist of the Year. On November 11, 2008, Serena's new album called is it o.k.. will be released by EMI Music Canada, with a U.S. release (via Atlantic Records) scheduled for February 2009


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Pink Floyd sues record label EMI

"English rock bank Pink Floyd has filed a lawsuit against their record label EMI over royalty payments. The band claims that the executives at the label have miscalculated royalties that are owed to them from their back catalogue. The band has been signed under EMI since 1967. They are currently seeking undisclosed damages from the label. The band was formed by keyboardist Richard Wright, who died in 2008 after battling cancer. Pink Floyd has been listed as one of the most successful bands of all time, selling over 210 million albums worldwide" - AHN
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Harmonia Mundi defies the music industry blues

"The small, family-run record label from the south of France has thwarted the downward slide in classical #music sales by choosing unorthodox recording projects and trusting its musicians. While other labels' sales have collapsed, Harmonia Mundi is thriving" - NPR
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Susan Boyle's performance viewed over 66 million times in one week

"#Susan Boyle is headed for the history books. The online video of Boyle's performance in the reality show "Britain's Got Talent" has set the record for the number of views in a week - and shows no sign of stopping. According to Visible Measures, which tracks videos from YouTube, MySpace and other video-sharing sites, Boyle's audition has generated 66.3 million views. On YouTube alone, it's been viewed more than 30 million times. The 7-minute video that was posted on YouTube last Saturday and then widely circulated online easily eclipsed more high-profile videos that have been around for months. Tina Fey's impersonation of Sarah Palin has clocked in 34.2 million views, said the folks at Visible Measures, while President Obama's victory speech on election night has generated 18.5 million views. In less than a week, Boyle topped them." - Washington Post
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Philly Rap Label CEO gets life in prison

"Philadelphia record label owner Alton Coles, also known as "Ace Capone", was convicted under Pennsylvania's "kingpin" law and sentenced to life in prison on Thursday. In August of 2005 Coles was arrested and indicted for organizing a $25 million drug ring that stretched across Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland, reports AllHipHop.com. During the seven-week trial prosecutors accused Coles and his affiliates of moving two metric tons of powdered cocaine and almost half a ton of crack between 1997 and 2005. Prosecutors believe that Coles opened a number businesses in efforts to portray legitimacy and conceal the true source of his earnings. The enterprises included Take Down Records, a day care center and an ice and water stand." - LiveSteevz
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Songs soothe symptoms in heart disease patients

"If you have heart problems, you might want to plug in that iPod or pop in a CD of mellow songs. Hospital patients with coronary heart disease reduced their heart rates, breathing rate and blood pressure just by listening to #music, a Temple University review of 23 previous studies found. The report, published in the latest issue of The Cochrane Library, found that the soothing effects were greatest when these patients chose their own tunes. For example, patients' pulse rates fell by more beats per minute when they made the selections compared with those who listened to music selected by researchers." - USA Today
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With economy stalling, more see used books, music as resources

"As the economic downturn lingers, people are turning to used book stores -- sellers as well as buyers. At Logos Books & Records in downtown Santa Cruz, #music buyer Warner Williams has seen people bring in entire collections to sell. Bookshop Santa Cruz has seen a dramatic increase in people selling and a new preference for cash over store credit, according to owner Casey Coonerty Protti. In Aptos, Bookworks co-owner Traci Fishburn reports "dipping our toes" into the used book market, prompted by donations by longtime patrons after the shop downsized in fall 2007. "Inexpensive entertainment, yet high quality," summed up Debbie Shayne, manager at Logos, which employs 25 to 30 people and has an inventory of 150,000 to 200,000 used books spread over two floors." - San Jose Mercury News
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"Fast & Furious" puts accent on Latin music

""Fast & Furious," set in the Dominican Republic, Mexico and East Los Angeles, is not the first mainstream movie to use Latin settings. But it is the first in recent memory to prominently feature Latin #music on its soundtrack. "It's not a Latin-themed movie," says Universal Pictures president of film music Kathy Nelson. "It's car racing and drugs. That could be anything. But we wanted the soundtrack album to be Latin." The soundtrack includes six Latin-tinged tracks, including reggaeton artist Don Omar's "Virtual Diva" and the theme "Blanco," performed in English and Spanish by Pitbull featuring Pharrell." - Reuters
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Kid Rock, Ted Nugent, Raconteurs win Detroit Music Awards

"Kid Rock, the Raconteurs and George Clinton were among the winners at the 18th Annual Detroit #Music Awards, held Friday night at the Fillmore Detroit. The show also featured the first reunion in 40 years of Ted Nugent with the original members of the Amboy Dukes, who received a Distinguished Achievement Award" - Billboard
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JDub label takes eclectic view of Jewish music

"Ask people for examples of Christian #music and they'll probably mention church hymns, Christmas songs or the band Creed. But Jewish tunes are harder to pin down. Many associate the music of the Chosen People with "Fiddler on the Roof" or Adam Sandler's "Chanukah Song." JDub Records is trying to change this perception. Founded in 2002, the label is best known for releasing Matisyahu's debut album and proving that a Hasidic hip-hop artist can appeal to nonreligious music fans. Even though the label hasn't signed another breakthrough artist, it continues to embrace its Jewish roots while reaching out to a broader audience" - Billboard
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ChinaShop Magazine

ChinaShop Magazine - Online culture magazine covering #music, #art, #film, and #fashion documented in written word, images, and video
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Susan Boyle - Cry Me A River - 1999 Recording

Susan Boyle from a charity cd made in 1999 of which only 1000 copies were made.
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Music banned from police stations (UK)

"Swindon bobbies have been banned from listening to #music after Wiltshire Police refused to continue paying the licence fee to the Performing Rights Society. The PRS is responsible for collecting licence fees from music users and apportioning royalties between songwriters and composers. The force is to pay GBP32,000 to the society, backdated from June 2007. In a letter to officers and staff, Wiltshire Chief Constable Brian Moore said he felt the public money Wiltshire constabulary would be forced to pay in the future would be better spent on policing."
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Woodstock Ventures teams with Sony Music Entertainment to launch Woodstock.com

"Woodstock.com will feature a cutting edge live #music social network for all concerts, including complete artist and event information, access to ticketing, concert reviews, blogs and a forum to connect with other fan events throughout the world. There will be platforms for environmental initiatives, social issues, and other current topics. Visitors to the site can meet on a virtual village green, a platform for developing initiatives about global warming, carbon emissions, and responsible energy use. A special interactive portion of the site will make clear to the world which issues are of the greatest importance to the Woodstock community. And of course, the site will be the ultimate source for all things Woodstock - exclusive interviews, guest editors, audio-visual content, rare photographs and other memorabilia with an online store offering a wide variety of goods including fine art prints of never-before-seen photography, music, film, collectables, apparel and books"
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Google offers free music downloads in China

"If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. That's the idea behind Google's latest move to allow users to download free #music in China. Google has partnered with a Chinese company, Top100.cn, to make it happen. About 140 music labels have joined in, including the "Big Four" - EMI Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group and Universal Music. Most Chinese users get their music for free anyway, thanks to rampant online piracy. Google and its partners hope the new business model will generate revenue from advertising that all will share. More importantly, Google wants to increase traffic and catch up to its competitor Baidu" - CNN
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Clear Channel works to improve music, on-air talent on stations

"Clear Channel Radio launched a new initiative to improve program quality at the company’s radio stations nationwide. The plan involves improving quality at each station's day parts - the blocks of time stations use to sell broadcast advertising. Day parts are typically broken up into the 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. morning drive-time segment, the 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. mid-day segment, the 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. afternoon drive-time segment, the 7 p.m. to midnight segment and midnight to 6 a.m. late-night segment."
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Amaze.fm

Amaze.fm is a community of #music makers and lovers hoping to restore some of that lost quality to what we call "popular" music
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Record Store Day 2009

Record Store Day 2009 is April 18. The original idea for Record Store Day was conceived by Chris Brown, and was founded in 2007 by Eric Levin, Michael Kurtz, Carrie Colliton, Amy Dorfman, Don Van Cleave and Brian Poehner as a celebration of the unique culture surrounding over 700 independently owned record stores in the USA, and hundreds of similar stores internationally
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Coachella Music and Arts Festival 2009

Coachella Music and Arts Festival 2009 - 17-19 April, 2009 - California
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15M hits later, YouTube Symphony makes live debut

The YouTube Symphony got to Carnegie Hall. With 21st-century multimedia pizazz, the Web site's first orchestra dazzled the audience in the 118-year-old concert hall in its debut concert. As the orchestra played, musical notes literally streamed from the walls and moved along the cavernous ceiling. Some of the projections seemed to hang vertically as they emanated from the stage and over the audience. It was as if the producers were saying: "Classical #music is fun, too, and it's going to capture you." - AP
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Twitter search for #music RSS Feed

Here you can subscribe to the Twitter search for #music RSS Feed
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Qtrax

Qtrax is the world's first free and legal peer-to-peer (P2P) digital #music site. Music lovers can discover new music and legally download full-length, high-quality versions of their favorite songs while compensating both the artists and the record labels through non-intrusive and relevant advertising
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The complete works of Mendelssohn online at the Bavarian State Library

The complete works of Felix Mendelssohn are available online at the Bavarian State Library through a partnership with Google Books
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Music Maza

Music Maza - #music portal offering mp3 downloads, lyrics, wallpapers, pictures and videos, news, reviews and previews of the latest in #Bollywood
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Radio LPL at Live365.com (Liverpool Public Library, NY)

"Radio LPL is produced by Liverpool Public Library in Liverpool, New York. Tune in for selections from the library's collection of #music recordings. We feature classical, jazz, popular, folk, musicals, new age, soundtracks, and local artists"

123PPT

123PPT - Offers PowerPoint templates including presentation #music and video backgrounds
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"American Idol" singer Jason Castro signs with Atlantic Records

"As American Idol's eighth season hits its home stretch with only seven singers remaining, a former Idol is making some news of his own: While many former Idol contestants have lost their record deals due to slow sales, Season Seven's third runner-up Jason Castro has inked a contract with Atlantic Records. The label will release the dreadlocked crooner's debut album later this year." - Rolling Stone
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Chickenfoot

Chickenfoot - Official site for the hard rock band Chickenfoot, featuring Sammy Hagar, Joe Satriani, Michael Anthony, and Chad Smith


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Susan Boyle Sings on Britain's Got Talent 2009

"American Idol" isn't the only launching pad for aspiring singers. Across the pond, "Britain's Got Talent" scored a huge boost in the Buzz after an unassuming contestant gave an amazing performance. Susan Boyle (remember that name) became a Web phenomenon after singing "I Dreamed a Dream" from Les Miserables. The performance brought the audience to its feet and left the judges (including Simon Cowell) either speechless or in tears. Before going on stage, Ms. Boyle admitted some self-deprecating facts about herself (she's never been kissed and lives alone with her cat, Pebbles). For those reasons and more, audiences were expecting the female William Hung. They were wrong. Lookups on the sudden star posted huge gains. A no-name just the other day, Ms. Boyle quickly surged into our top 5,000 overall searches. Blogs and gossip rags went wild. The Mirror jumped on the story, reporting that while Ms. Boyle thought she "looked like a garage" on TV, she received a standing ovation when she showed up at her local church. Other sources write that as a child, Ms. Boyle was the target of bullies because of a disability. But, with her newfound fame, she is getting the last laugh. In fact, she's already meeting with officials from Mr. Cowell's Sony BMG label. This may have been the first you've heard of her, but it certainly won't be the last



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Music stores reach out to audience

Marlton's National Association of Recording Merchandisers is trying to keep its audience coming back for more. The trade association of bricks-and-mortar #music retailers plans to celebrate its second annual Record Store Day on April 18. According to NARM President Jim Donio, music retailers across North America and abroad plan to entice consumers into stores with live local performances by musical groups. Record Store Day is a joint effort with the Coalition of Independent Music Stores, the Music Monitor Network, the Alliance of Independent Media Stores and the Newbury Comics chain. In New Jersey, 22 stores plan to participate in the one-day event. - NJBIZ
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Goombay 2009

"It's the annual Goombay celebration in Pensacola, a Caribbean-style festival mixing the sound of the islands with local vendors offering tasty food and quality art and crafts. April 25 and 26, 2009 - Pensacola, Florida
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Phil Spector guilty of murder

Phil Spector has been found guilty of the murder of a Hollywood actress at his LA home in 2003. Lana Clarkson, 40, died after a gun was fired into her mouth while she was sitting in the foyer of Spector's hilltop mansion in 2003. A jury returned the verdict against the 69-year-old record producer after a five-month retrial. The jury at Los Angeles Superior Court was unanimous in its verdict of second degree murder, as required by Californian law. The first trial ended in a jury deadlock in September 2007.
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Fimusy

Fimusy - A database for #music fans, providing band images, Youtube videos, news & combined meta scores for millions of bands. The system uses several API's, search engines and unique programming methods to obtain a simple and easy page for any artist
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George Harrison to receive star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame

Late George Harrison is set to receive a star on the renowned Hollywood Walk of Fame at a ceremony on April 14. The guitarist will be honoured posthumously at a Los Angeles ceremony. It is set to take place along the Walk of Fame at 1750 Vine Street, in front of the Capitol Records building. The ceremony is open to the public beginning 11:30 AM. Harrison's wife, Olivia, and son, Dhani, will be present to accept the honour on his behalf. The former guitarist died of cancer in 2001. He was a founding member of the famous pop and rock band, The Beatles and gained worldwide fame within the group for his songwriting and guitar playing. Harrison began a solo career after the Beatles split up in 1970 and released a solo album, All Things Must Pass, which resulted in the number one hit My sweet Lord. Meanwhile, Martin Scorsese is currently directing a documentary feature about Harrison's life. Capitol/EMI will also announce plans for a new Harrison music release on April 14.
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Black Grooves - April 2009

Black Grooves - April 2009 - hosted by the Archives of African American #Music and Culture, now available
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Musician Dereck Rose wins One Billion Fans Contest

"Although CD sales are down there is still a lot to be gained by connecting musicians directly to company sponsors. Re/Max sponsored artist Dereck Rose was recently picked by an international jury consisting of Arne Frager who hosted the illustrious Metallica in his studio, Gary Platt founder of Full Sail University, Mike Linksvayer VP of Creative Commons Worldwide and Sem Bakker, nineties bass hero who played the major European concert stages."
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Kurt Cobain remembered 15 years after his death

"The park bench facing Lake Washington is covered with flowers, poems, a pack of Lucky Strike cigarettes and graffiti. "I miss your beautiful face and voice," one dedication reads. "Thank you for inspiring me," says another. "RIP Kurt." Fifteen years ago Wednesday, at a house adjacent to the park, Kurt Cobain's dead body was discovered by an electrician. The Nirvana frontman, 27, had committed suicide, police later ruled, killing himself with a shotgun while high on heroin and pills. His death ended a battle with hard drugs and added Cobain to a long list of legendary musicians, such as Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, whose careers were cut short by their addictions. Cobain's ashes were reportedly scattered in a Washington state river and a New York Buddhist temple. Nirvana band mates Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl eventually formed other bands. Cobain's widow, Courtney Love, stayed in the limelight with an acting career and legal problems surrounding her own drug problems. Frances Bean, the couple's daughter, has largely lived outside the public eye. - CNN
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Spotify releases libspotify

"Spotify, already the best #music app on the planet, is coming to a device near you. We're talking XBoxes, PlayStations, Slingbox, mobile phones, networked audio players, SlimDevices - any place developers want to put it. The release Tuesday night of libspotify, the company's Application Programming Interface, means that the sky is the limit: Any developer (for approved devices) can build apps that access Spotify's massive music catalog and use its P2P architecture, which streams Ogg Vorbis files between users like a streaming version of BitTorrent." - Wired
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Allow Web coverage of music-sharing suit, lawyer urges court

"A Harvard Law School professor who is defending a Boston University student accused of downloading #music illegally urged a federal appeals court panel yesterday to allow live Internet coverage of a hearing in the lawsuit, something that has never happened in a federal trial court in Massachusetts. Charles R. Nesson told a three-member panel of the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, in Boston, that a gavel-to-gavel webcast of an upcoming hearing in the suit by the Recording Industry Association of America against Joel Tenenbaum would be "an opportunity for the world to see what the recording industry is doing to him." Tenenbaum, a 25-year-old student seeking a doctorate in physics, clicked seven times on his computer to download seven songs and found himself being sued for thousands of dollars by the recording industry, said Nesson." - Boston.com
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Original Beatles digitally remastered

"The original #Beatles catalogue has been digitally remastered for the first time and will go on sale in CD format on September 9, the band's record label and company announced Tuesday. The release will coincide with the launch of "The Beatles: Rock Band" video game, the British quartet's first major leap into the world of digital music. The catalogue will not be available online for the foreseeable future, although the digital remastering is widely seen as bringing that process one step closer. "Discussions regarding the digital distribution of the catalogue will continue," a statement issued on behalf of record label EMI and Beatles company Apple Corps said. "There is no further information available at this time."" - Reuters
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Rascal Flatts adds dimensions to music with age

"One of the reasons Rascal Flatts has sold millions over the decade is their deft blend of rock and pop in anthematic crossover hits, from the cover of "Life is a Highway" to the heart-tugging ballad, "What Hurts the Most." Fans will find those familiar touches on their latest record, including their first single, the soaring top 10 Billboard country hit "Here Comes Goodbye." But bassist and songwriter Jay DeMarcus says Flatts fans may be surprised what else they hear on the trio's latest CD, "Unstoppable," released this week." - AP
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Buy music unfettered by Digital Rights Management

Although restrictions are easing, DRM can still be problematic for digital #music lovers. Here's advice on where and how to buy unrestricted tunes for all of your music-toting devices - PC World
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Musicnow.fm

Musicnow.fm - stream #music videos from YouTube using this web service, which provides an iTunes-like video player for the web. Search millions of songs from YouTube, easy drag and drop playlist creation, uninterrupted listening with auto-play
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tra.kz - URL shortener for all things music

Tra.kz is a URL shortener for all things #music that connects artists with their fan communities on Twitter and helps fans share music and cool music content. Shorten a link to an MP3 and you can listen to it and see tweets about it
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TrueAnthem adds tracking tools to its free music

"TrueAnthem, an ad-supported #music download service, is branching out into the world of ad tracking. Although the San Francisco-based startup initially made a splash by offering users free music downloads with pre-song ads, it's now providing tools to big brand marketers like Nestlé to help them track the performance of their viral campaigns" - venturebeat
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Bud Shank dies at 82

Bud Shank, the alto saxophonist who was a key figure in the West Coast #jazz scene of the 1950s, has died. He was 82. Shank died Thursday night at his home in Tucson of pulmonary failure, friends said
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Yahoo looks outside its walls with new music service

"Yahoo Inc is partnering with other online #music providers as the Internet giant tries a fresh approach to getting an edge in the evolving digital music business. The new version of Yahoo Music, unveiled on Monday, aggregates paid and free music services available on the Internet, allowing Yahoo users to access and interact with the services directly from the Yahoo site. Yahoo has struck commercial relationships with digital music retailers like Apple Inc's, collecting a fee for every referral, the company said. The move comes a little over a year after Yahoo announced it was shuttering its own paid-music service, and is in keeping with the company's latest efforts to make Yahoo a more open service by integrating products and services developed by other companies" - reuters
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Liverpool Sound City 2009 (UK)

Liverpool Sound City - a #music industry festival that will rival "South by Southwest" (The Observer) - returns 20-23 May 2009
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Public invited to hear live music recommendations

"The Austin Music Commission will hold a special meeting on April 6 to update the public on recommendations from the city's live #music task force. The meeting agenda will include a panel discussion open to the public with an update on the state of Austin music, the status of task force recommendations and the city's activities to benefit the music industry. There will be a limited time after the presentation for questions from the public" - ABJ
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Country Music elite getting ready for ACM Awards in Las Vegas

"Artists, #music executives and fans are gathering in Las Vegas for Sunday night's (April 5) Academy of Country Music Awards Show at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. With Reba McEntire hosting the show for the 11th time, the event will be broadcast on CBS-TV at 8 p.m. ET. Rehearsals are continuing for the show, with Jamey Johnson, John Rich, Lady Antebellum, Lee Ann Womack and Heidi Newfield having rehearsed their performances on Thursday (April 2). Among the other acts scheduled to perform on the three-hour special include McEntire, Trace Adkins, Kenny Chesney, Miley Cyrus, Rascal Flatts, Toby Keith, Miranda Lambert, Tim McGraw, George Strait, Sugarland, Taylor Swift and Carrie Underwood. The awards will be presented by Jason Aldean, Dierks Bentley, Billy Ray Cyrus, actor-musician Jamie Foxx, actress Jennifer Love Hewitt, Jack Ingram, Martina McBride, actor Matthew McConaughey, model Marisa Miller, Kellie Pickler, Rascal Flatts, Darius Rucker and Blake Shelton." - CMT
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YouTube now pulls music videos out of Germany

"#YouTube has pulled the plug on #music videos in Germany as Western Europe starts to look like a hostile environment for Web music services. A YouTube spokesman confirmed that YouTube is no longer playing music videos belonging to the largest music labels after talks with Germany's biggest royalty collections group, GEMA, broke down. The conflict is almost identical to YouTube's spat with a royalty group in the United Kingdom, but with one important twist. According to YouTube, GEMA is asking for royalty rates that are 50 times higher than those asked for by PRS, the British organization, and YouTube argues those are even too high." - cnet
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Atlanta Dogwood Festival 2009

Atlanta Dogwood Festival - April 17-19, 2009 - Atlanta, GA, USA
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McCartney says meditation helped stabilize Beatles

"The surviving members of the #Beatles, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, will perform at a concert on Saturday to raise funds to help children learn a meditation technique McCartney said helped stabilize the band at the height of its fame. McCartney and Starr will perform separate sets at the "Change Begins Within" concert for the David Lynch Foundation, which helps people learn Transcendental Meditation. The Beatles helped popularize Transcendental Meditation - described as a simple mental technique that combats stress - in 1967 when they sought spiritual guidance from an Indian guru, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi."
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Tweetervision

Tweetervision - watch #music videos while you and other fans post on Twitter
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Music Online from Alexander Street Press

Electronic publisher Alexander Street Press today announced the launch of Music Online, the broadest and most comprehensive resource available for the study of classical, jazz, world, and American #music. Unique to the resource is its ability to deliver audio recordings, video content, full-text reference materials, musical scores, liner notes, biographies, and images through a single interface. The culmination of a music publishing program that began with Alexander Street's purchase of Classical Music Library in 2002, Music Online built on that collection's robust technical features and functionality by applying rich and consistently controlled vocabularies across all format types to achieve the powerful search capabilities Alexander Street's Semantic Indexing™ makes possible.
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Free Music Archive

The Free Music Archive offers free downloads under Creative Commons and other licenses. The FMA is an online #music library developed by the legendary freeform radio station WFMU and curated by partners including KEXP and Dublab
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