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| RIAA Says DRM Not Dead |
| Despite widespread declarations of the death of DRM in music, the Recording Industry Association of America insists that it's far from dead. POSTED: 05/09/2008 - 07:14 am |
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| Online Music Services Could Pay $100 Million In Royalties |
| Time Warner Inc's AOL unit, RealNetworks and Yahoo Inc could stand to pay up to $100 million in royalties owed to thousands of songwriters and publishers. POSTED: 05/01/2008 - 08:52 am |
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| 95% Of Teenagers Illegally Copy Music |
| Ex-Undertones singer Feargal Sharkey, now British Music Rights chief, is worried for the musical life of the next generation of 'sexually frustrated 17-year-olds'. POSTED: 04/28/2008 - 08:31 am |
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| Guitar Hero IV To Feature Non-Guitars? |
| Activision CEO Bobby Kotick reportedly revealed a future direction that would put Guitar Hero franchise on equal footing to Rock Band. POSTED: 04/23/2008 - 04:03 am |
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| Top 5 Guitar Amp Modeling Software Products |
| Just like with analog gear, the tone you get from plugging your guitar into your computer depends greatly on the gear that you use to model the amps. POSTED: 04/09/2008 - 09:20 am |
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| SonyBMG Working On New Unlimited Music Service |
| SonyBMG are working on a new music service that will allow users unlimited access to songs on the record label's catalogue. POSTED: 03/27/2008 - 08:26 am |
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| To Set The Record (Industry) Straight… |
| Is the music industry really on its deathbed, or is it just changing? POSTED: 03/21/2008 - 09:41 am |
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| Mobile Music Market To Reach 175 Billion By 2012 |
| The global mobile music market is expected to be worth $17.5 billion by 2012, with growth driven by rental music services and full-track downloads. POSTED: 03/03/2008 - 04:37 am |
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| Music Exec: 'Music 1.0 Is Dead.' |
| Five hundred top members of the music business gathered today in New York to hear that "music 1.0 is dead." POSTED: 02/29/2008 - 09:10 am |
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| RIAA Keeps Settlement Money |
| Despite collecting an estimated several hundred million dollars in P2P related settlements, artists’ managers haven’t received any compensation from the labels. POSTED: 02/29/2008 - 08:57 am |
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| Online Music Store Unfolds Unconventional Music Discovery, Invites Musicians |
| Guitarati, an online music store that offers music discovery through an unconventional way, recently launched its private beta. POSTED: 02/19/2008 - 02:35 am |
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| Musicians Sue Universal Music For Lost Royalties |
| More than a dozen recording artists, including the estates of Count Basie and Benny Goodman, sued Universal Music on Friday. POSTED: 02/18/2008 - 04:43 am |
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| Ejamming: Skype For Musicians |
| The idea is to let musicians practice together even when they can't get together physically, or to let students and teachers work together remotely. POSTED: 02/14/2008 - 06:48 am |
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| NAMM Spotlight. StompIO: Not Your Ordinary Pedal |
| Thanks to one of the latest creations from IK Multimedia, guitarists are able to find the sound they need with the click of a button. POSTED: 02/06/2008 - 11:32 am |
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| NAMM: Carlos Santana Unveils 2008 PRS Custom Model |
| The main feature at the press conference was the introduction to PRS’ new Santana MD. POSTED: 02/04/2008 - 09:30 am |
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| The Epiphone Masterbilt Acoustics |
| Epiphone revives the prestige of its 1930s guitars with the Masterbilt Acoustic Series. POSTED: 02/04/2008 - 03:00 am |
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| Music Labels Say No Deal With Qtrax |
| including Warner Music Group Corp and Sony BMG, denied that they have agreed to license songs for a free download service that was launched by Qtrax on Monday. POSTED: 01/31/2008 - 04:07 am |
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| The Best Of NAMM 2008: Jimmy Page, Satriani Models Among The Highlights |
| Of the thousands of items introduced for 2008, UG has compiled a list that features a few that we deemed the most memorable among the bunch. POSTED: 01/29/2008 - 10:03 am |
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| Legal File-Sharing Service Touts Free Music With Ads |
| Qtrax, a new legal online file-sharing service that allows fans to download songs for free. POSTED: 01/29/2008 - 06:59 am |
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| NAMM. Dean Guitars: 2008 Line Features Impressive Metal Artist Roster |
| Dean has proven it occupies a very unique niche in the music industry, and its 2008 line should likely make it the go-to company for the metal world. POSTED: 01/28/2008 - 12:07 pm |
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| NAMM 2008: Welcome To The Beautiful Chaos |
| You could consider it a guitarist's Mecca or an agoraphobiac's nightmare. POSTED: 01/25/2008 - 09:53 am |
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| Jaxx Unplugged? |
| The little rock club that could may have a new owner by the end of the year. POSTED: 01/25/2008 - 09:28 am |
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| Last.fm Provides Free Tracks On Demand |
| Last.fm has been a popular Internet music player, despite rarely playing exactly the music you want. POSTED: 01/24/2008 - 08:20 am |
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| Rock Band, Guitar Hero Drive Digital Song Sales |
| In the two months since MTV Networks and Harmonix released the music-based ideogame "Rock Band. POSTED: 01/21/2008 - 07:55 am |
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| Could RIAA Disappear? |
| In a move designed to get major music trade organizations to reorganize, EMI has made the first step to exit the British trade group IFPI. POSTED: 01/15/2008 - 07:11 am |
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| Digital Sales Hit Record High In '07 |
| As physical CD sales continue their free fall, digital downloads again reached record sales figures for the year. POSTED: 01/08/2008 - 09:02 am |
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| Football Helmet Guitar |
| NAMM supposedly stands for the “National Association of Music Manufacturers.” It’s purportedly a trade show for music instruments and technology. POSTED: 01/07/2008 - 06:13 am |
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| Under Southern Lights New Album From Urbandub Out In Stores |
| Now that the airwaves are rife with rock bands, the stage is set for Urbandub to make another ranging guitars and crashing drums with album ‘Under Southern Lights.’ POSTED: 12/26/2007 - 04:32 am |
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| EMI Cutting Funding To RIAA, IFPI |
| One of the big major labels, EMI is planning to cut back the money they pay to the RIAA and the IFPI. POSTED: 11/29/2007 - 10:15 am |
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| The Gibson Robot Guitar Is Coming |
| On December 7 Gibson is launching a robotic, self-tuning guitar - which comes in a limited-edition frost blue paint retro-robotic job. POSTED: 11/12/2007 - 11:05 am |
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