Category: Music Industry
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Legendary Newport Jazz Festival
Newport Jazz Festival will be celebrating its 60th anniversary in August 2014. It is held in Newport, Rhode Island during the summer. The first event was organized by George Wein at the invitation of Elaine Lorillard and he remembers it very well since its inception in 1954. The first day of the initial festival people…
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New bill to address songwriter royalty payments
When someone buys a recorded song, or a song played on the radio or a band performs the song, the song writer gets paid a royalty. However, the arcane system that tracks information to pay the song writer is more than a decade old and complicated. The royalty from sale of a recorded song has…
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Trouble seems to follow Justin Bieber
Wherever he goes, trouble seems to follow the 19-year old Canadian pop star. Remember his troubles with the neighbor and the court ordered him to pay the neighbor for damages from the egging incident earlier this year and to attend anger management classes. California neighbors are fighting with him of his Ferrari speeding on local…
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Getting to Know Mozart
This article was written by Phineas Upham Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was the only surviving child of Leopold and Maria Pertl Mozart. His father was an accomplished composer and violinist, who was also the assistant concert master at the Salzburg court. Though Mozart did have a sister, young Maria Anna (who took the nick name “Nannerl”).…
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Apple iTunes and Spotify, two online music behemoths
Launched in October 2008, the Swedish outfit, Spotify is the world’s largest music subscription company on the Internet. The commercial music streaming service provides content from famous music labels including Sony, EMI, Warner Music Group, and Universal. According to publicly available information it had more than 10 million users at the end of 2010 and…
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Courtney Love and Dave Grohl Make Up
This article was written by Phineas Upham A bitter feud that has been going on for twenty years came to an end. Not quite the Hatfield and McCoy feud, but Nirvana’s Dave Grohl and Courtney Love finally made up at the 2014 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony. After Cobain’s death, Courtney Love became…
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Sony Music is making headlines with music
Sony Music comes with a rich history. The enterprise was first founded in 1929 as American Record Corporation and in 1938 renamed as Columbia Recording Corporation when it acquired by CBS. It was reorganized and became CBS Records in 1966. The Sony Corporation of America, a subsidiary of Tokyo, Japan based Sony Corporation bought CBS…
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Sony is blowing new life into Jazz music
Sony Music Entertainment used to be an ardent supporter of jazz music. However, like many other it also neglected promoting jazz musicians in the recent past. The 23 million records that jazz sold in 2003 dwindled down to 14 million in 2007 and just over five million records last year. Now, Sony is resurrecting jazz…
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Season 13 of the American Idol
The Fox singing competition, American Idol will start broadcasting starting from January 15, 2014. The Season 13 Final 30 are expected go on live TV in middle of February 2014 with 15 of each gender after completing the Hollywood Round. Regional auditions have been held in Boston, Austin, San Francisco, Detroit, Atlanta, Salt Lake City…
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Bruno Mars to perform at the XLVIII Super Bowl
The National Football League (NFL) has chosen Grammy Award winning pop artist Bruno Mars to perform at the XLVIII Super Bowl Pepsi half-time show at the MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey on February 2, 2014. This will be the first time performing at a Super Bowl for the 28-year old pop icon. He…