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'Guitar Hero', 'Rock Band' ... Beatles?
 Apple
Corps and EMI, which respectively represent The Beatles' business
interests and ownership of its master recordings, have reportedly been
in discussions with video game publishers Activision and MTV Games.
Under a possible deal that could be worth several million dollars, users
could put their air guitar to use while listening to The Beatles...
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Microsoft's Zune Zeems to Zuck
 Though
Microsoft's answer to Apple Computer's iPod juggernaut officially went
on sale nationwide Tuesday, the Zune wasn't exactly flying off the
shelves in downtown San Francisco.
At two retail outlets, the new media player wasn't even on the shelves.
The Virgin Megastore near Union Square had them in stock, but the Zune
display wasn't the right fit...
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Tablature VS Copyright
 Music
publishers are taking action against guitar fan websites which they say
infringe songwriters' copyrights. Publishers have started to use
copyright lawsuits to shut down sites which share notations to help
musicians to play songs at home...
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U2 Upstages
Carey With Five Grammy Awards
The Grammys finally showed
Mariah Carey a little love — with an emphasis on "little." Though Carey,
2005's biggest pop success, had a leading eight nominations and the
chance to make history with the most Grammys won by a woman in a single
night, she went home with just three trophies Wednesday. She lost in all
of the major categories she was nominated for, including record, song
and album of the year. Instead, U2 got all...
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Will
Microsoft/ MTV's music marriage hit right chord?
MTV, it barely needs saying,
retains little credibility in the realm of music. Despite the "M" in its
name, the one-time music-video channel long ago turned itself into a
home, instead, for the trashiest reality TV this side of Jerry Springer.
You can barely find a music video on MTV and when you do, it's for
Britney or Lindsay or some other non-singer/non-songwriter...
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Musicians
recall the Lennon they knew
Say what you will about Yoko
Ono, but she has done a remarkable job in keeping John Lennon's legacy
alive. Today marks the 25th anniversary of his death, but instead of
leaving his fans grief-stricken, she released this uplifting book of
insights about him from such artists as Mick Jagger, Elton John, Jerry
Lee Lewis, Ray Charles, Carly Simon, Bono, and Pete Townshend, along
with record-industry giants and journalists and photographers who...
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Warner Music's
loss narrows as online digital sales jump 20%
Warner Music Group said
Thursday that its quarterly loss narrowed as consumers downloaded more
songs and artists including Eric Clapton released new albums. The
net loss was $30 million in the quarter to Sept. 30, compared with a
loss of $137 million a year earlier. Revenue in the quarter, the
company's fourth, jumped 13 percent to $905 million, beating the $814
million average estimate of analysts surveyed by...
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Sony BMG
recalls copy-protected CDs
Music publisher Sony BMG,
yielding to consumer concern, said on Wednesday it was recalling music
CDs containing copy-protection software that acts like virus software
and hides deep inside a computer.
"We share the concerns of consumers regarding discs with XCP
content-protected software, and, for this reason, we are instituting a
consumer exchange program and removing all unsold CDs with this
software from retail outlets," Sony BMG said in an statement.
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As Top 40
Rocks, Artist Ownership Questioned
Four of the format's top 10
songs have gotten or are still getting airplay at modern rock. While top
40 has always been a coalition of different genres, the inclusion of
Green Day, Nickelback, Weezer and Fall Out Boy in the format's most-spun
songs are a marked difference from the pop and R&B that usually
dominates the top 10. "It seems like collectively all the formats
are less worried about which formats which artist belongs to and [are]
playing hits," Island Def Jam VP of rock promotion David McGilvray says.
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Latest iPod adds vids to the music
It comes in black, lets you
watch Eva Longoria on the subway - and oh yeah, you can listen to music
on it, too.
Apple unveiled a fifth-generation iPod yesterday, a sleeker, thinner
version that plays videos on a small screen. "It's everything
everyone had expected," said Paul Boutin, a correspondent for the tech
Web site Engadget...
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Downloaded-music sales triple
 The
digital music market has more than tripled in a year, and that has
helped offset a continuing decline in sales of CDs and other physical
formats.
Spurred by the iPod revolution, digital music sales totaled $790 million
in the first half of this year, equivalent to 6 percent of industry
sales, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry
estimated in a...
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Apple unveils
iPhones for music
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 Apple
Computer Inc. CEO Steve Jobs introduced a music-playing phone Wednesday,
capable of storing about 100 songs, as well as a pencil-thin version of
the iPod, the company's ubiquitous digital music device..
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Stones are
solid in Showmanship
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 The
Rolling Stones completed their two-show siege of Fenway Park with
another over-the-top display of staging and music tuesday night. The
sound was better, the lighting was more coordinated, and any glitches
from day one were far less apparent. And day one was already pretty
flawless by opening-night standards.
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Music videos
may be coming to iPods
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 Apple
Computer has been talking to several major recording companies, looking
to license the sale of music videos through the popular iTunes music
site, The Wall Street Journal reported.
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Companies
fight against CD copying
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 Executives
at EMI Group on Monday said they planned to begin rolling out CDs with
technology designed to limit copying. The technology allows buyers to
burn onto CD only three full copies of the disc's songs, and the burned
discs cannot be copied.
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A Message From Kylie Minogue
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 Kylie
Minogue has delivered a message to fans at her official website
www.kylie.com to say
thanks for the support.
"I've been informed that since my diagnosis thousands of women have
become more aware than ever of the risk of breast cancer."
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Long-playing
plans for music copyright ownership
.
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songs will receive longer protection under new plans to extend copyright
laws.
It will mean Beatles classics such as Love Me Do and Please, Please Me,
released in 1963, will not automatically lose their copyright in 2013.
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Aerosmith's
Steven Tyler to Receive Honorary Degree
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 Rock
and roll hall of famer Steven Tyler of Aerosmith will receive an
honorary degree at the commen-cement exercises for the University of
Massachusetts Boston, to be held on Friday, June 3 at the Campus Center
lawn. Tyler is being honored for his community activism in the Greater
Boston area.
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