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Universal betting on lower prices to boost CD sales
(Reuters)
Reuters - Universal Music Group (UMG) is embarking on one of the most ambitious efforts yet to boost U.S. CD sales, with the test of a new pricing structure designed to sell most new releases by current artists at $10 or less at retail.
03/19/2010 - 08:37 PM
Bands explore promo potential of Chatroulette
(Reuters)
Reuters - In the promotional run-up to the April 13 release of its new album, Ohio experimental rock group Foxy Shazam tapped a curious outlet to promote the release: Chatroulette.
03/19/2010 - 08:17 PM
Music biz insiders say Sony-Jackson deal makes sense
(Reuters)
Reuters - The magnitude of Sony Music Entertainment's landmark recording contract with the estate of Michael Jackson raises an inevitable question: Is it a smart deal for the label?
03/19/2010 - 07:39 PM
Lady Gaga fires back in NY court at music producer
(AP)
 AP - Lady Gaga is firing back at a music producer who claims he launched her career and is suing her for $30.5 million.
03/19/2010 - 07:37 PM
Independence pays off for salsa singer Manuelle
(Reuters)
 Reuters - On February 19, salsa star Victor Manuelle co-hosted Univision's Premios lo Nuestro Awards, looking dapper before a live audience of millions. The figure he struck had little in common with the painfully shy singer with braces who first gained national attention in the '90s as a new face of tropical music.
03/19/2010 - 06:53 PM
Songwriter Harrell expands his hitmaking business
(Reuters)
Reuters - Just three months ago, Thaddis "Kuk" Harrell was standing onstage at Los Angeles' Staples Center accepting the song of the year Grammy Award for Beyonce's "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" with co-writers Chris "Tricky" Stewart and Terius "the-Dream" Nash.
03/19/2010 - 06:33 PM
Barenaked Ladies bounce back after split with singer
(Reuters)
Reuters - There were double takes aplenty from sports fans attending the recent Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Was that really Canada's favorite quirky pop-rockers, the Barenaked Ladies, busking on Robson Street? There's been plenty of upheaval for the band in the past couple of years, but surely things weren't that bad.
03/19/2010 - 06:22 PM
"College" kid outdoes rap stars in digital sales
(Reuters)
Reuters - The name "Sam Adams" mainly has been associated with several American historical figures and a popular Boston beer -- until now.
03/19/2010 - 06:18 PM
British singer Laura Marling learns to "Speak" up
(Reuters)
Reuters - When Laura Marling first emerged from the U.K. alt-folk scene, she was a painfully shy, if precociously talented, 17-year-old. But her second album finds her growing in confidence, as a person and a songwriter.
03/19/2010 - 06:16 PM
Aretha Franklin does "own thing" with new album
(Reuters)
Reuters - As Aretha Franklin celebrates her 68th birthday this month, she shows no sign of slowing down.
03/19/2010 - 04:54 PM
Childhood memories inspire new songs for Frampton
(Reuters)
Reuters - Since he started his career in the '60s, Peter Frampton has maintained his reputation as an electrifying guitarist and solo artist, most famously on 1976's multiplatinum live set "Frampton Comes Alive!" Five days after his 60th birthday, the British legend will release one of the most personal albums of his career, "Thank You Mr. Churchill."
03/19/2010 - 04:20 PM
Court rules against Anna Nicole Smith in estate
(Reuters)
 Reuters - A federal appeals court on Friday ruled against late model Anna Nicole Smith, leaving her heirs none of the $300 million she sought from the estate of her Texas oil baron husband.
03/19/2010 - 03:09 PM
Ian McEwan plans opera version of 'Atonement'
(AP)
AP - It was a book, then an award-winning film. Now Ian McEwan's "Atonement" is to become an opera.
03/19/2010 - 12:30 PM
Geneva's 'Parsifal' ends in embrace
(AP)
 AP - Geneva's new "Parsifal" production escaped the boos heard after several recent Richard Wagner opera premieres at the Grand Theatre, with a richly colored staging accompanying music that was at times so sensuous the allegory of Christian salvation seemed destined to end in embrace.
03/19/2010 - 12:28 PM
No charges for son over conductor's Swiss suicide
(AP)
AP - British prosecutors say they will not charge the son of conductor Edward Downes and his wife with assisting their suicides at a Swiss clinic last year.
03/19/2010 - 07:00 AM
Polanski lawyers seek inquiry into misconduct
(AP)
 AP - Roman Polanski's attorneys filed an appeal Thursday asking that a special counsel be appointed to investigate alleged judicial and prosecutorial misconduct in the director's 32-year-old sex case.
03/18/2010 - 05:57 PM
Influential Big Star member Alex Chilton dies
(AP)
 AP - Alex Chilton, the singer and guitarist who had a No. 1 hit as a gravel-voiced teen with "The Letter" and went on to influence a generation of musicians through his work with Big Star, died Wednesday in New Orleans. He was 59.
03/18/2010 - 05:37 PM
Top 20 Concert Tours
(AP)
AP - The Top 20 Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows in North America. The previous week's ranking is in parentheses. The list is based on data provided to the trade publication Pollstar by concert promoters and venue managers.
03/18/2010 - 12:20 PM
World music champion Charlie Gillett dies at 68
(AP)
AP - Charlie Gillett, a DJ and music historian who helped bring music from around the world to wider attention, has died at the age of 68, his employer, the British Broadcasting Corp., said Thursday.
03/18/2010 - 10:56 AM
The right trajectory for Spoon
(AP)
 AP - Britt Daniel can't resist some dry humor when asked what it means to him that his band, Spoon, sold out a gig at New York's prestigious and spacious Radio City Music Hall weeks in advance.
03/18/2010 - 06:07 AM
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