punknews.org–
Polar Bear Club have unveiled a new 7-inch due out this summer which will preview two tracks from their forthcoming Bridge Nine Records debut, Chasing Hamburg. Due out July 28, 2009, the 7-inch will feature two songs …
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Punk, Hardcore
consumerist.com–
Ticketmaster will pay a $50,000 fine and shutter more than 100 deceptive brokerage sites as part of a wide-reaching agreement with Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan. Madigan's office accused Ticketmaster's …
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Industry
news.bbc.co.uk–
When the Sony Walkman was launched, 30 years ago this week, it started a revolution in portable music. But how does it compare with its digital successors? The Magazine invited 13-year-old Scott Campbell to swap his …
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Industry, Music Tech
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5 hours ago
latimes.com–
For more than 80 years, commercial stations have aired songs without paying royalties to musicians, but a bill making its way through Congress would change that. Reporting from Washington -- Broadcasters call the …
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Pop, Industry
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Ghost
5 hours ago
news.bbc.co.uk–
Kraftwerk have wheeled out four British gold medal-winning Olympic cyclists to ride to their music at a show in the Manchester Velodrome. The German godfathers of electronica played a two-hour set to open the …
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Indie, Electro
news.cnet.com–
Net neutrality advocates got a boost of support Wednesday from the Obama administration when it released grant guidelines for spending the government's $7.2 billion broadband stimulus package. Companies winning …
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Politics, Industry
latimesblogs.latimes.com–
The sale of The Pirate Bay probably ranks as the week's biggest news for those of us who obsess about copyright issues, followed by the ruling that Usenet.com's newsgroup-access service infringed on the major record …
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Industry
punknews.org–
In a post to the recording engineer forum, Gearslutz, veteran producer Butch Vig commented on recording plans for the next Against Me! album. Apparently Vig will again be recording the band and noted: I'm …
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Punk, Rock
blogs.myspace.com–
Just keeping you up to speed on where you can find the next track from "Still." This week, we've decided to make it easy, and just upload track 4 directly to our myspace!! It will be available until next …
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Ambient, Indie Rock, Alternative
news.yahoo.com–
Algerian singer Cheb Mami was sentenced on Friday to five years in a French prison after being found guilty of forcing an attempted abortion on his former lover. The 42-year-old star of Algeria's popular rai …
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Pop
billboard.biz–
Ticketmaster and Live Nation filed a Form S-4 joint proxy statement/prospectus with the SEC on Wednesday. The document is not complete but offers many details on the proposed merger of the two companies.
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Industry
pitchfork.com–
Veckatimest, Grizzly Bear's most recent piece of studiously engineered, heartbreakingly pretty chamber pop, has earned itself a 9.0, a Best New Music, and a debut on the top 10 of Billboard's Top 200 album chart. …
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Indie Rock, Alternative