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I saw an incredible film last week. It was only playing at 6 theaters across the country. Two happened to be in LA. We were... The post What Boyhood Can Teach The Music Industry appeared first on Digital Music News .
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Fullscreen, a multi-channel network that represents a variety of content creators, has announced an upcoming festival featuring YouTube and Vine Stars. Fullscreen says they are... The post Intour: A Festival Featuring Performances from Y...
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Hear four songs by the popular band, recorded live from Icelandic National Day celebrations.
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Ultra Records and Ultra International Music Publishing are suing Michelle Phan for copyright infringement. Michelle is one of YouTube’s most popular creators, and her channel... The post Ultra Sues Michelle Phan for Using Their Mus...
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Chris Maples, Spotify's Vice-President of Europe has exited after three years. No reason for the change was given and Maples only says he's looking for his "next adventure". Maples was the music streamer's most visible representative in ...
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The post The 100 Most Pirated Music Releases… appeared first on Digital Music News .
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Two decades after the epic Dopesmoker was written, "The Clarity" presents Sleep at its heaviest and weediest. The band describes it as a "lyrical follow-up to a lifetime of marijuana enjoyment."
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The contralto joined host Marian McPartland in 2000 to perform "I Didn't Know What Time It Was" and Lundy's own piece, "Quiet Times."
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To some degree album apps are being treated as novelty items with marketing appeal even when there's a lot of new art involved from remastered music to photos and video. That means pricing is treated differently than it would for a new a...
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LA's Annenberg Space For Photography is throwing a day long photo and music festival called Photosynthesis. The outdoor event features country and blues bands as well as photographers onstage, video wall displays of their photos and a va...
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Hear some of the best up-and-coming artists Alt.Latino found at this year's event, from a hypnotic Dominican singer to a dramatic Chilean pianist and a Cuban crooner.
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"You have to see your unimportance before you can see your importance and your significance to the world," Haden told Fresh Air 's Terry Gross in 1992. The bassist died on July 11.
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Website building platform Squarespace has partnered with Bandsintown to make it easier to post gigs. Users can now just add a new Squarespace Bandsintown "Block" to their website that displays tour dates within a specified range and it i...
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Sony/ATV's Martin Bandier is threatening to withdraw all rights from ASCAP and BMI. Most major music publishers are looking to withdraw digital rights from the PROs and negotiate direct deals with digital services due to low royalty rate...
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From the Official Wu-Tang Blog. As an art form, Hip Hop has always been a champion of open source creative processes. From DJs extending breakbeats from classic funk and soul records, to repurposing pieces of multiple works through digit...
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I often round up music videos using new tech but today's examples from OK Go and Tweedy focus more on the process of making the videos than on anything radically new. OK Go released a behind the scenes video for "The Writing On The Wall"...
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By Bobby Owsinski of Music 3.0. The other day I wrote a post on why creating the proper metadata for a song or album is so important. A number of readers wrote in asking for suggestions for some metadata editors, since many DAWs don't pr...
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MTV has announced the 2014 nominees for its MTV Video Music Awards. Beyoncé leads this year’s field with 8 nominations, including Video of the Year, Best Female and Best Collaboration. In the list announced Thursday via SnapChat, Eminem ...
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TuneCore has announced that it paid out $33.2 million in digital music royalties in the second quarter of 2014, down from $34.1m in Q1 but up 18.4% year-on-year. Figures released this week (July 16) give TuneCore digital royalties a run ...
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“At its best, no art form is more thrilling than grand opera, yet none is at greater risk of following the dinosaurs down the cold road to extinction. The New York City Opera was forced to close its doors last year after seven deca...
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It’s a surprising number for an art form that has supposedly hit hard times.
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“According to the opera statistics website Operabase, last year 7,230 opera performances took place in Germany, one-third of the world’s total. The United States was a distant second, at 1,730 performances, followed by Russia and F...
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“Sometime a few years ago some local members of the arts scene decided that it would be fun to start a summer opera company and hold all the productions in an outdoor platz that is part of the ruins of an old milling company, now t...
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Google reported a 5.9% increase in net income for the second quarter of 2014, while revenues were up 22%. The tech giant's GAAP consolidated net income in Q2 2014 stood at $3.42 billion compared to $3.23 billion at the same point in 2013...
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Watch an exclusive acoustic performance of the Icelandic band's most recent song, "Silhouettes."
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This week's puzzler for careful listeners includes something for everyone, from jazz and classic rock, to punk and speed metal. Hear a series of drum fills (and intros) and match them to the song.
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FRIDAY 7.18.2014 Music Business News & Views From Around The Web CLICK HERE Updated Continuously @ Hypebot's More News Tab
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Microsoft is spinning off it's Nokia MixRadio streaming music app into a standalone company. The announcement is of deep cuts at the parent company. If the free Pandora like service can survive the move financially the split might be goo...
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Today's iTunes UK charts – correct at the time of posting (1pm) – are: Singles: Me And My Broken Heart – Rixton It’s My Birthday (feat. Cody Wise) – will.i.am Right Here – Jess Glynne Ghost – Ell...
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Today's Official Chart Midweek Sales Flash is in. You can see the full Top 40 singles and albums midweek charts below: ALBUMS Lw Posn Posn Title Artist Label Company Wks 1 1 X ED SHEERAN ASYLUM ATLANTIC RECORDS UK 4 NEW 2 WORLD PEACE IS ...
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The long-running festival has a tremendous history of testing its genre's boundaries. From Anais Mitchell to Death Vessel to the one-man band Reignwolf, download five songs from this year's lineup.
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From July 25 to July 27, we'll stream more than a dozen concerts from the festival's main stage.
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Google’s fastest growing business segment, described as “Other Revenue,” saw a half-billion dollar year-over-year revenue increase, driven mostly by Google Play store sales. The news was reported in the company’s ...
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The latest Capital Xtra network playlist for the week commencing July 18, 2014 has been revealed. Afrojack Feat. Snoop Dogg Dynamite Ameriie What I Want Avicii Lay Me Down Bakermat One Day (Vandaag) Basement Jaxx Feat. ETML Never Sa...
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The latest Capital FM playlist for the week commencing July 18, 2014 has been revealed. 5 Seconds Of Summer Don't Stop Ariana Grande Feat. Iggy Azalea Problem Avicii Feat. Adam Lambert & Nile Rogers Lay Me Down Calvin Harris Summer C...
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Streaming service Nokia MixRadio is planning to spin out of Microsoft, following the parent company's announcement that it is cutting up to 18,000 jobs over the next year, including 12,500 from the Nokia Devices and Services unit it acqu...
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D espite being touted by rights-holders as a major facilitator for piracy, search giant Google has outlined five key steps it is willing to take to help UK content owners increase the visibility of authorised services in its search ...
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Ex-Rhapsody and Google exec Tim Quirk ( pictured ) and Bryan Calhoun - formerly of SoundExchange - have launched a new technology company Freeform Development Inc. The venture is designed to help artists build and earn from audiences by ...
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A sia is a pretty hot market right now. Previously seen as a piracy haven, times are changing thanks to the arrival of legitimate digital streaming services including Spotify and Deezer to the region. Last year, Universal Music Publishin...
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The Pirate Bay claims to have seen its traffic double since 2011, despite an increasing number of cyber blocks having been placed against the notorious file-sharing site in recent years. The figure comes from Pirate Bay itself, which add...
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The 21% VAT placed on entertainment tickets in Spain has caused a dramatic slip in attendance figures leading to business closures and job losses. That’s according to the heads of Spain’s entertainment associations, which sen...
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Evi Vine together with Steven Hill , create sublime and haunting melodies accompanied by frail yet overawing vocals. Together they create a unique and uncompromising atmosphere; the effect is reverential, physical music that ...
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Personal radio app will still be preloaded on Windows Phones, but now has scope to launch on iOS and Android too Nokia's MixRadio streaming music app is spinning off as a standalone company, as part of deep cuts announced by its new pare...
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“Now 24, Matthew Aucoin has become one of the most sought-after young voices in classical music. He also is one of the most ambitious, setting himself the goal of transforming opera into something other than musical spinach for a n...
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Tkay Maidza U-Huh It’s hard to believe that Tkay Maidza has only just turned 18. The Zimbabwe-born rapper who now calls Adelaide home first came The post triple j Pick of the Week appeared first on The Music Network .
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TMN celebrates two decades in this ever-shifting music industry by taking a look back at the key moments – both triumphant and tumultuous – in The post TMN RETROSPECTIVE REPORT: Delta dominates – 2003 appeared first on The Music Ne...
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When Sony/ATV Music Publishing CEO Marty Bandier penned a letter to the publisher’s US songwriters stating its intention to withdraw from the two biggest performing The post MMF criticises Sony/ATV’s threat to withdraw from collect...
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Tim McGraw’s rep said he “instinctively swatted” at an overzealous fan to keep his jeans from ripping.
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In the better late than never department, we want to point out a notable sit-in that took place in Chicago last month. On June 14 Lettuce drummer Adam Deitch joined The Revivalists for a take on the hard-hitting Lettuce track "Madison Sq...
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NEW MUSIC: Twista Ft. Chief Keef & Stunt Taylor "Friend Of Me"
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Writer Stephen King stayed at the 140-room neo-Georgian Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, CO; which inspired him to write The Shining . The hotel is so proud of its role in The Shining that they show the Kubrick film based on the book on a co...
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Images By: Jeremy Williams Old Crow Medicine Show with Carolina Chocolate Drops :: 7.16.14 :: Red Rocks :: Morrison, CO Old Crow Medicine Show headlined Red Rocks on Wednesday night, where they were joined by Colorado Governor John Hicke...
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Today marks Widespread Panic keyboardist John "JoJo" Hermann's birthday and we want to celebrate the occasion by re-sharing a fascinating interview conducted by Aaron "Kayceman" Kayce that we ran in 2004. At the time, Widespread Panic we...
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Heater Of The Day: Boaz Ft. Scarface "Hard To Forget It"
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Los Angeles Clippers' Head Coach Says It's Hard To Recruit Players Because of Donald Sterling
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AllHipHop & DJ Hustle Presents: The Jump Off Mixes #3
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In 1976 Canadian prog-rockers Rush were finally feeling good about the course of their career. After a few albums that didn't do well either commercially or critically, the power trio released 2112 on April Fool's Day of 1976, which went...
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Mysonne Ft. Chinx Drugz "All I Know"
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Gov't Mule/Allman Brothers Band guitarist Warren Haynes has performed with legendary blues man Johnny Winter a number of times over the years. Winter was even supposed to perform at Gov't Mule's Island Exodus event in January. Unfortunat...
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The Aaliyah film is moving forward without Zendaya Coleman, as Alexandra Shipp takes the starring role in the Wendy Williams-executive produced Lifetime film.
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New Actress Playing Aaliyah In Upcoming Biopic Revealed
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Boston alt-jam act Guster have completed work on their next studio album. The band has teamed with Pledge Music to create a pre-order site with all sorts of "fantasy options" that fans can purchase in which they'll get to do such things ...
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As Jhene Aiko preps for "Souled Out" coming 8/25, she drops a new one off that project.
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OVO Sound's Majid Jordan has released its five-song "A Place Like This" EP.
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The top Hip Hop headlines for 7/18/2014.
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We're less than a month away from the Peach Music Festival , which takes place August 14 - 17 at Montage Mountain in Scranton, PA featuring the Allman Brothers Band, Bob Weir & RatDog, the Trey Anastasio Band, Gov't Mule, the Tedesch...
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Papoose responds to Kool Keith's comments about New York rappers running away from their original sound.
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On Thursday night Michael Franti & Spearhead brought the Soulshine Tour to the Stone Pony Outdoor Stage in Asbury Park, NJ - a city and venue (at least the indoor part) made famous by Bruce Springsteen . Franti and his longtime backi...
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Hopsin hasn't dropped one of these in while. It's about that time. Check it out.
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Common: "It's a beautiful thing."
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The August/September 2014 (#102) issue includes our regular Top of the World CD with ten tracks from the world’s finest new releases. The CD also includes five tracks selected by BBC’s Don Letts, who discusses his picks with Alexandra Pe...
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Next weekend, the Newport Folk Festival returns to gorgeous Fort Adams State Park in Newport, RI boasting one of the most impressive lineups in the event's history. Ryan Adams, Jack White, Robert Hunter, Jeff Tweedy, Nickel Creek and Jim...
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Yesterday T-Pain released another "T-Pain Thursdays" video, this time called "Monotone."
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Per 360: "Man listen - I was in the section with some beautiful women, faded the other night and when this joint came on I caught some inspiration lol."
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Exclusive: "I think the landscape was changing," Dana Dane says, "and Snoop Dogg changed it singlehandedly."
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SHYHEIM PLEADS GUILTY IN HIT & RUN MANSLAUGHTER CASE
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Last night Keller Williams and moe. both had gigs scheduled at different venues in Hyannis, MA on Cape Cod, leading fans to speculate about a potential collaboration. Those fans were right on the money as Williams did sit in with moe. at...
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This podcast includes highlights from the August/September 2014 (#102) edition, opening with music by the award winning Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita, our cover artists this issue. Features: Andrew McGregor on the Corsican a capella gr...
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Juicy J and A$AP Rocky finally bring some visuals for the song that led to Juicy inventing a twerking scholarship. Nice!
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UPDATE #3: The album preview for Common's "Nobody's Smiling" has been released.
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JEEZY ON FREDDIE GIBBS DISSES: I'M NOT REPYLING TO THAT. N*GGA, WE GETTING MONEY
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Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita, DrakaBraka and A Filetta The August/September 2014 (#102) edition is on sale in the UK from today. The free exclusive 15-track covermount CD features ten tracks from our latest Top of the World albums and...
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Chico Del Vec criticizes Biggie's son, Christopher "CJ" Wallace Jr., over graduation picture.
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Pusha T "No Flex Zone Freestyle"
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Ace Hood "0 To 100 (Freestyle)"
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Young Thug Ft. T.I. & Zuse "Eww Eww Eww (Remix)"
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Yo Gotti is prepping "The Art Of Hustle" and brings us "Different Ways" in the meantime.
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Another solo cut from the 2014 ESPYs which Drake hosted on Wednesday, July 16.
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Daylyt responds via Facebook: "Only a few will understand my plans."
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REPRESENTATIVES FROM DEF SQUAD & ONYX WILL BATTLE EACH OTHER AT MC WAR'S "NWO 2"
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Exclusive: Logic prepares for a New York concert with Myspace and discusses his love for the city and his pre-show routines.
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Exclusive: Terrace Martin explains how Snoop Dogg convinced him to remake Ray Charles "Let's Get Stoned" and charts how Blues, Funk and Disco influenced Hip Hop
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Trey Songz's "Trigga" and Michael Jackson's "Xscape" battle for the top spot.
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ONE OF THE TOTAL SLAUGHTER COMPETITORS WANTS TO BATTLE EMINEM NEXT
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Stalley continues the "Honest Cowboy" momentum, delivering some brand new visuals for his track "Feel The Bass."
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HipHopDX Premiere. Cryptic Wisdom grabs Irv Da Phenom for his latest cut "Man In The Mirror."
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Sha Money XL announces the signing and says he is the best when it comes to underdogs.
