|  Jobs invites Beatles to join iTunes after Apple legal victory
The Beatles were invited to join the iTunes music revolution today after losing their trademark battle with Apple Computer. Apple Corps, the company set up by the Fab Four in 1968, had wanted multi-million pound damages from Apple Computer for using the apple logo in its iTunes Music Store, which has sold a billion tracks since its launch three years ago but has no Beatles songs for sale...Read More.
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 CenterStaging's rehearsals.com to Showcase Universal Music Group Artists w/ Online Content
CenterStaging Corp., a creator of digital entertainment content for multi-channel online distribution worldwide, announced that it has joined forces with the Universal Music Group, the world's leading music company, to provide video content of UMG recording artists via the internet in an innovative strategy to market and promote...Read More. |
 Southern rock music mogul Walden dies
Phil Walden, the colorful and oft-controversial founder of the pathfinding Southern rock label Capricorn Records and manager of Otis Redding and the Allman Brothers Band, died Sunday of lung cancer at his home in Atlanta. He was 66...Read More.
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 Music industry guilty of collusion?
The Napster case, believe it or not, is still going strong. It took an interesting twist last week, though, when Judge Marilyn Patel ordered EMI and Universal to turn over documents which could show evidence of collusion among the music labels...Read More. |
 Music fingerprinting system is fastest yet
A digital music identification system that can search through 17 million songs in under 1 second has been launched in the US. MusicIP, based in California, US, announced last week that it had received a US patent for its method of automatically identifying, or "fingerprinting", digital music files. The company already offers software that analyses the music collection on a computer, identifies it...Read More. |
 Sonos ZP80 Bundle Multi-Room Music System
Sonos, Inc.,this week announced the availability of its new Sonos ZonePlayer 80 Bundle (ZP80 Bundle), a wireless, multi-room digital music system. The ZP80 bundle is a wireless streaming audio system that can play music files stored on networked PCs or Macs, similar to the Apple Express and D-Link 320 that we previously reviewed on Digital Home Canada...
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 Great White Manager Gets Four Years for Club Blaze
Dan Biechele, the former tour manager of Eighties heavy metal band Great White, was sentenced Wednesday to four years in prison and three years probation for setting a fire in a Rhode Island nightclub in February 2003, a blaze that killed 100 fans and injured twice that number...Read More. |
 Ebay's Skype inks online music deal
Ebay, following the launch of a new retail-like shopping service this week, may be preparing to enter the music download business through its Skype subsidiary and compete with Apple's iTunes. Skype has linked agreements with EMI Music Publishing and Warner Music Group to sell music from its internet store...Read More. |
 MTV Urge Inches Closer to Reality, Preview Next Week
MTV is moving ever-closer to launching its highly-anticipated Urge music store and destination. Executives have been pointing to an unveiling this quarter, and the company has now scheduled a private preview for top members of the media. The invitation first surfaced Monday morning...Read More.
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 Library of Congress picks 50 recordings
A high school band plays Beethoven. President Calvin Coolidge delivers his inaugural address. Fats Domino turns "Blueberry Hill," which had been a hit for Glenn Miller, into a rock 'n' roll classic. They're among the 50 records that the Library of Congress has deemed worthy of preservation this year. "The National Recording Registry represents a stunning array of the diversity, humanity and creativity found in our sound heritage..Read More. |
 Family says farewell to one of oldest music shops in Britain
A MUSIC shop, which opened when Mozart was born 250 years ago and now has a worldwide reputation, is passing out of family ownership. Judith Thorpe, the last member of the Banks family to be associated with the shop - founded in York's Stonegate in 1756 and moved to Lendal in 1985 - is retiring. Banks Music Ltd will retain its name, but will now be part of The Music Sales Group, which runs more than 30 specialist shops around Britain...Read More. |
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MTV Urge Inches Closer to Reality, Preview Next Week
MTV is moving ever-closer to launching its highly-anticipated Urge music store and destination. Executives have been pointing to an unveiling this quarter, and the company has now scheduled a private preview for top members of the media. The invitation first surfaced Monday morning...Read More.
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