'F*cked' record companies in 'cataclysmic' meltdown - manager
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So are live promoters the new pigopolists? As some of the biggest figures in the music business weighed in on the future of music this week, there were very mixed views on its future.â¦
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Phantom sales lost to piracy? Get over it. It's time for the music labels to pull those master recordings out of storage and make some money. Commentary by Eliot Van Buskirk.
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The CEO of the computer disk drive maker abruptly resigns.
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One of the big four record labels, which just this week was part of a landmark deal for MP3 access through Last.fm, announced earlier it is suing a completely different firm that offers similar access though without any kind of compensation plan.
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Shares of Boston technology services firm Keane Inc. tumbled by nearly 20 percent yesterday as investors reacted to a double dose of unsettling news: the firing of a top executive and a warning of lower-than-expected revenues and profits.
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Tycho:   One of the questions during a a panel at PAX had to do with the italicised line at the end of each day's post.  They're almost always song lyrics, and back before we were paying for bandwidth (and before RIAA rape gangs were prowling the web) these lines used to link directly to the MP3.  I maintained the practice afterward because it's sort of like a song of the day, and I like the idea that someone might be struck by a strange turn of phrase and seek out a piece of music.  It also serves as a gauge of my mental state at the moment.  Today's song, for example, is Stan Rodgers' incredible live version of the sea shanty "Rolling Down To Old Maui," which Pandora kicked out after about a week of tuning the station.  I've listened to it about thirty times today.    The person who asked the question at the con complimented my musical tastes, and I accepted the compliment, but I'm almost always late to the scene.  I just bought Interpol's "Turn On The Bright Lights," for chrissakes.  I'm mostly lucky to know people who do have unique library.  I told him I would mention a few of my favorite bands on the site, but then I forgot.  Essentially, it's music that cool people were listening to a decade ago (where applicable).  I am a musical carrion bird.    He wanted me to list off a few bands, and I said I would last week, but then I forgot.  These are the first ten albums I could think of.    "Starless" by Shiner
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Steve Jobs: credit where very little credit's due EMI is close to removing rights management software from its digital music for good, in a move which would pile pressure on the rest of the recording industry to follow suit.â¦
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Arts & entertainment: They've crashed into the mainstream and Hollywood adores them, but Arcade Fire aren't happy.
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Media & professional: File-sharing has holed the record industry below the waterline. So why does private equity guru Guy Hands want to buy EMI?
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Brian May has stunned Queen fans by announcing the rock group will reform, with ex-Free and Bad Company star Paul Rodgers taking over vocal duties from the late Freddie Mercury.
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Radiohead has hit out at the chief of its former label after a news report claimed the rock band rejected a 3 million pound ($5.95 million) advance for its new album and demanded the rights to some of its older albums.
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LONDON (Billboard) - Sony BMG has hit out at "ludicrous" press reports stating the company dropped Annie Lennox after a 25-year association.
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Entercom Communications Corporation fired a top programming executive over suspected improprieties involving record executives.
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Three months to apocalypse Comment Does anyone else get the feeling that the relationship between VMware and EMC has some very rocky times ahead of it?â¦
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Dr Strangelove I presume Symantec inadvertently warned enterprise customers of a full-scale internet meltdown on Friday.â¦
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The record company's response to dwindling CD sales is cutting up to 2,000 jobs worldwide in an attempt to save $400 million
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Chart-topping trio Busted annouce their split following Charlie Simpson's decision to leave the band.