The beat goes on in the thriving music video game category. New editions of the hot-selling Guitar Hero and Rock Band are in stores or on the way, as is a new music maker: Wii Music for the still wildly sought-after Nintendo game system.
Nintendo’s “Wii Music” invites players to pick up their wireless remotes and strum, toot, bang and drum their way through improvisational jam sessions using more than 60 virtual instruments on which there can be no wrong notes, no mistakes.
The Thornton School of Music bucks ivory tower convention with a program for rock, R & B and more. USC’s Thornton School of Music will make room starting next year for singers and instrumentalists who play pop music, breaking a long-standing tradition in higher education that requires students to dedicate themselves either to classical music or jazz.
First a CD-trading site, then a free Web-based music browser, lala.com is being born again. The site is relaunching Tuesday as a hybrid, offering the digital download functionality of iTunes and the free music streaming of MySpace Music without the ads.
Lala’s new service blurs the difference between offline and online by letting you access your personal music library from any computer with a Web browser.
Lala today launched a kind of free, browser-based iTunes competitor that lets users access their music libraries from anywhere they can access the Web.
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The Roundabout Theatre Company will present a one-night-only gala concert reading of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s Tony Award-winning A Little Night Music Jan. 12, 2009, at the Nokia Theatre Times Square.
Britons who have only ever used Apple’s iTunes to buy digital music suddenly have a new and attractive toy: a Nokia mobile music service which offers thousands of tracks for free.
More than 7,000 runners who raced earlier this month in a half-marathon in London were under the influence of a scientifically derived and powerful performance-enhancing stimulant - pop music.
Nokia’s digital music strategy, including its subscription music service and a la carte stores, will be the strongest challenger to Apple’s iTunes to date. Wired.com
Elementary students in the Wilkinsburg School District are singing and playing a new tune thanks to a $90,000 grant from VH1’s Save The Music Foundation, Houlihan’s and Comcast.
Alicia Keys, Coldplay and the Eagles lead the nominees for the 2008 American Music Awards, which will air next month on ABC. Also on the multiple-nods list are Lil Wayne, who got a nod for artist of the year, as well as favorite male rap/hip-hop arist (among others), and Chris Brown, who is also up for artist of the year, plus favorite male artist pop or rock and favorite male artist soul/R&B. …
We all know, Nashville is known for its music, and now, a new generation of aspiring musicians will get a chance to learn the trade in a state of the art facility.
According to the London daily Elaph, the Lebanese division of the music production company Rotana invited music stars to an Iftar ceremony, (breaking of fast) during the holy month of Ramadan.
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At the Austin City Limits (ACL) Music Festival in Texas at the end of September, sandwiched between a stage and a small recycling center stood a white dome decorated with colorful cloud patterns. Inside the air-conditioned structure, visitors could get customized T-shirts, temporary tattoos and a mixtape of songs by artists performing at the festival.
Former Atlantic and Capitol top executive Jason Flom is nearly finished with negotiations that would bring him into the Universal Music Group fold, Billboard has learned.
Britney’s in the buff in her latest music video! In “Womanizer” — which debuted Friday on 20/20 — the singer plays a corporate tease, a freaky waitress and a raunchy chauffeur. Last month, Spears described the song as “a girl anthem.” “It’s basically saying, ‘We know what you’re up to.’ It’s about guys cheating on girls,” the singer told New York’s Z100 radio station. “Womanizer”…
And the winner is … Everyone: Band members, their friends and family and plain ol music fans. Richland High School on Saturday evening hosted a band festival that was just for fun, and to raise a little money for the Richland Music Boosters.
Now that Sony Corp. and Bertelsmann AG have broken off their troubled relationship, known as Sony BMG, the Japanese company hopes to harmonize its consumer electronics and its music, a duo that was badly out of sync.
A Kuwaiti official says authorities abruptly ended a music concert by an Egyptian singer in this conservative Muslim country when a young female fan jumped on stage, hugged the male singer and gave him a kiss.
Sister M. Serafina Viagrande, head of instrumental music programs for schools in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh, is living her life’s dream of using music to draw children closer to God.
There’s a maturity, a rare depth, evident in Sonya Kitchell’s music that belies her age. Her second album sounds as if she’s been at this music thing a lot longer than her 19 years.
Concert review: Ensemble La Rota opened the Early Music Guild’s International Series with a concert showcasing the excellent musicianship and judgment of the young Montreal-based ensemble.
Saturday, Oct. 4 could easily be considered the one night a year that Columbia’s music scene is on fire. The Free Times Music Crawl brought 30 bands to six stages in the Vista from Fred Durst wannabes from Charleston Blindsyght, to the show-stopper Venice is Sinking from Athens, Ga. The real jewels of the evening were the talented acts from Columbia though. Spanning the musical genre spectrum, …
With the Crookston High School music trip to Florida now only seven months away, students who have been hard at it fund-raising over the last three years are starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Although most of their efforts have involved selling items such as frozen food and Music Bucks on an individual basis, they’ll be putting on an extravaganza this weekend as a group …
WEEKI WACHEE - It was like Live Aid - only the venue was a church and not Wembley Stadium. Instead of rock stars, it was a collection of local classical music talent - mostly teenagers.
On Way To Normal, Ben Folds sets out to recapture his former brand of fun and humorous pop music. The album sees Folds moving away from the subdued sounds of his previous album, Songs For Silverman, and the three EPs he released thereafter.
Or, while I guess is now the correct limit, rock right. At least that how NPR is always referred to their “criticisms”. . . Perhaps also, this attraction in little sophisticated music, the music which is often the expressions of the segments of the company is associated the not cultivated behaviors, has a component of social/psychological. Like the ten-eighth-century Europeans, the in particular English, of which the empire brought in liaison with the indigenous populations of the foreign grounds, and who found fascination with the concept of the noble savage, deputy satisfaction of a perhaps contemporary experiment of dynamic junior managers while trying to test, by the music of the less sophisticated secondary cultures, a certain earthy life test them never had.
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Japanese video game maker Nintendo Co Ltd plans to launch a new model of its DS handheld machine that can take pictures and play music by the end of the year, the Nikkei business daily said on Sunday.
TOKYO, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Japanese video game maker Nintendo Co Ltd <7974.OS> plans to launch a new model of its DS handheld machine that can take pictures and play music by the end of the year, the Nikkei business daily said on Sunday.
The deal: Phantom Ball Package at the Congress Hall Hotel in Cape May. Spend Halloween at the historic hotel’s holiday dance; this year’s theme, “The Return of Passed Music Legends,” promises a spooky but rocking good time.
Sony Ericsson will launch a mobile phone service with unlimited music downloads within weeks, the company said on Tuesday, as it competes with Nokia in expanding business beyond the sale of handsets.
Sony Ericsson will launch a mobile phone service with unlimited music downloads within weeks, Lennard Hoornik, head of marketing at the firm, said on Tuesday.
In what is being dubbed “breakthrough that will facilitate new ways to offer music to consumers online” by the music industry groups representing songwriters, music publishers, record labels and digital music websites, they have have ended a seven-year dispute over two types of music royalties. The agreement applies to on-demand music streaming from the likes of Imeem, Napster (NSDQ: NAPS) and …
Cautious about being seen to devalue music, Nokia used our London EconMusic conference today to stress that tunes via its upcoming Comes With Music scheme will be anything but “free”.
Will a small microSD card save the album/CD music format? That’s the provocative question raised by SanDisk, which announced Monday that it has struck deals with music-industry leaders to release DRM-free MP3 music on slotMusic cards.
The battle and gamble over unlimited music services has arrived. Once Nokia came out of the gate last December with its Comes With Music concept, much of the music industry seems to be following their lead and in some cases beating Nokia to the punch.
Mobile music, the art of welding a Walkman to a handset, has so much promise - but in most countries outside the Far East it’s still just that. Two thirds of mobile users don’t want music, said a recent survey from Jupiter Research, so its research VP Mark Mulligan, our panel moderator, kicked off this session thusly: “Will Europeans ever behave like Japanese?”
COPENHAGEN, DENMARK: Sony Ericsson will launch a mobile phone service with unlimited music downloads within weeks, the company said on Tuesday, as it competes with Nokia in expanding business beyond the sale of handsets.
Jazzman Stanley Jordan’s intuition that music could be a healing force traces back to his teen years. He says he was sick with the flu and spent an entire day surrounded by song and recovered nearly instantly.
SanDisk, four major record labels and retailers Best Buy and Wal-Mart Stores are hoping that albums sold on microSD memory cards will provide an additional stream of music sales.