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Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:25:10 GMT
AP - Having disappeared from Lincoln Center for a season, New York City Opera is taking tiny steps toward recovery.
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:37:39 GMT
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.
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:17:10 GMT
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.
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:39:04 GMT
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?
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:37:49 GMT

FILE - In this Jan. 20, 2010 file photo, singer Lady Gaga performs in concert at Radio City Music Hall in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, file)AP - Lady Gaga is firing back at a music producer who claims he launched her career and is suing her for $30.5 million.


Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:53:02 GMT

Victor Manuelle of the U.S. kisses his award for 'Tropical Album of the Year, Male for 'Decision Unanime' backstage at the 2007 Billboard Latin Music Awards in Coral Gables, Florida April 26, 2007. REUTERS/Marc SerotaReuters - 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.


Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:33:14 GMT
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.
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:22:10 GMT
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.
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:18:13 GMT
Reuters - The name "Sam Adams" mainly has been associated with several American historical figures and a popular Boston beer -- until now.
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:16:51 GMT
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.
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:54:18 GMT
Reuters - As Aretha Franklin celebrates her 68th birthday this month, she shows no sign of slowing down.
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:20:49 GMT
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."
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:30:40 GMT
AP - It was a book, then an award-winning film. Now Ian McEwan's "Atonement" is to become an opera.
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:28:04 GMT

Undated picture released by Geneva, Switzerland, opera house on Friday, March 19, 2010 shows Klaus Florian Vogt as Parsifal during a dress rehearsal for the new 'Parsifal' production in Geneva. 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. (AP Photo/GTG, Vincent Lepresle, HO) ** MANDATORY CREDIT ** EDITORIAL USE ONLY **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.


Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:00:23 GMT
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.
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:57:02 GMT

Director Roman Polanski at the opening ceremony of the 8th Marrakesh film festival in 2008. Polanski has launched a fresh appeal to drop child sex charges from the 1970s, offering details of what his lawyers called improper dealings by prosecutors and the judge, court documents showed Friday.(AFP/File/Abdelhak Senna)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.


Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:37:53 GMT

FILE - Alex Chilton of the 1970's rock band 'Big Star' performs at the South by Southwest Music Festival in Austin, Texas, in this March 19, 2004 file photo. Chilton, who topped the charts as a teen and later became a cult hero with the band Big Star, died Wednesday March 17, 2010. He was 59. (AP Photo/Jack Plunkett, File)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.


Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:20:31 GMT
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.
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:56:04 GMT
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.
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:07:24 GMT

In this March 5, 2010 photo, members of the group Spoon, from left,  Britt Daniel, Rob Pope, Jim Eno and Eric Harvey are shown in New York. (AP Photo/Jim Cooper)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.


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