Archive for May, 2008

Stuff.co.nz

Making Top 10 of the Kiwi music chartsStuff.co.nz, New Zealand - 12 hours agoBig efforts have been made recently to straighten out the tangled world of how a song wins a top spot on the New Zealand music charts. …

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Malaysia Star

Clubbing gets hotter and better with novelty parties and funky DJsMalaysia Star, Malaysia - 7 hours ago?Age doesn?t matter when it comes to music. We could be playing anything at the start of any party. After gauging the crowd?s mood for the first half an …

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50 Cent and MTV Do a TrumpAdAge.com (subscription) - 7 hours agoMTV also announced a clutch of other new music-based reality shows: "Buzzin'," a humorous reality series that will chart the rise of music artist Shwayze …

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Water music: The Lucerne FestivalIndependent, UK - 6 hours agoIt is that orchestra, along with Pierre Boulez's Academy Orchestra, specialising in contemporary scores and classics of modern music, the new concert hall …

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Telegraph.co.uk

Santogold: a flash of gold in a black and white worldTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 6 hours agoFrom an early age, White says she felt alienated by the surliness of the "urban" music which most of her black peers rally behind. …

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Jeremy Camp steps off stage and goes on cameraChristianExaminer - 3 hours agoAfter being released to the general market last summer, Dreams and Visions received a first-round Grammy nomination in the New Age category. …

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Boston Globe

Spalding brings eclectic mix of music and moods to the stageBoston Globe, United States - 1 hour agoBassist, singer, bandleader, and songwriter Esperanza Spalding, 23, entered the Berklee College of Music at 16, and by the age of 20 she was the school's …

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Bluetooth Comes of AgeBusinessWeek - 23 hours agoThe ROKR also includes a low-power FM transmitter that can send both phone conversations and music stored on your phone to the car's audio system. …

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Music listingsVancouver Sun,  Canada - 22 hours agoNo Age LA-based indie rock duo performs songs from SubPop debut Nouns, with Abe Vigoda. Richard's on Richards, 1036 Richards, July 24, 9 pm, $12, Zulu, …

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Brazilian music flavors new Carly Simon albumArkansas Democrat Gazette, AR - 10 hours ago?I was creatively directed in that way by very wellmeaning people who didn?t recognize that a woman of my age has viable thoughts and feelings that people …

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An evening of classic standards with Steve TyrellManila Bulletin, Philippines - 10 hours agoToday, May 30, is a red-letter day for countless fans of standard music as they converge at the Plenary Hall of the Philippine International Convention …

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Cellphones, computers music to retailer's earToronto Star,  Canada - 9 hours agoOne of Canada's last remaining music chains is branching into computers and cellphones as CD sales continue to sag in the age of downloads. …

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A New Label for Music's New BloodNPR - 8 hours agoYou know, you don't run into people anymore our age that are like, "Well, you know, popular music is not valid." You don't even fight that ? it's like, …

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Award prompts further donations to New Zealand artistsScoop.co.nz (press release), New Zealand - 7 hours agoA New Zealand-born Samoan, Jonathan was educated in Dunedin, studying both law and music at the University of Otago and graduating with a Bachelor of Laws. …

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Ain't that a kick in the teeth?guardian.co.uk, UK - 6 hours agoAroyo sings two tracks in her native Bulgarian on Velocifero, and calls Ladytron's new album folk music. "We're just writing about what we know, …

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Economist

America's suburbs An age of transformationEconomist, UK - 6 hours agoSalsa music blasts from a CD stall. Most of the shoppers are black; the shopkeepers are a variegated mix of blacks, Latinos, Asians, Arabs and whites, …

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Best Is the New WorstNew York Times, United States - 1 hour agoOne might as well say that there is no point in consulting musicians about music or ichthyologists about fish. The assault on ?elite? did not begin with …

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Joe Jackson springs up from soundtrack of ?80sDispatch Online, South Africa - 23 hours agoAt the age of 16 he became interested in jazz and started playing in a pub. He was accepted at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he studied …

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Entertainment Weekly

On the Scene: Sasquatch! music festivalEntertainment Weekly - 18 hours agoBecause I've never seen so many happy high school/college-age kids in one place in my life. They bounced, they hugged, they sang every.single.word. …

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BERLINISTA

Music – New Releases,TVBERLINISTA, Berlin - 9 hours agoThe transition phase between former recording techniques and the computer age resounded on the album, and seemed as if it had been recorded with computers …

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Audiophile Audition

LUDOVICO EINAUDI: Divenire – 12 selections – Einaudi, piano …Audiophile Audition - 7 hours agoThis CD was not a challenge to categorize in just classical or jazz; Einaudi?s music draws on ambient, New Age, world music, contemporary pop, New Music, …

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Music review: Flight of the Conchords – live!San Francisco Chronicle,  USA - 4 hours agoBasically, they're the unlikeliest sex objects for middle-age women since Ricky Martin. But things are going considerably better for the group in real life. …

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Gone country ? Rogersville singer is Nashville bound with a new …Rogersville Review, TN - 4 hours agoOn June 5 the Rogersville resident will head to Nashville to sing at the CMA Music Festival with a host of ?Who?s Who? names in country music. …

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Symphony gains new directorHilton Head Island Packet, SC - 1 hour agoBriggs grew up with music, starting piano lessons at age 6 and vocal lessons in the fifth grade. She figured she'd end up in a life of music, …

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A new music collaboration between multidimensional artist SAGE …24-7PressRelease.com (press release) - 22 hours agoShaun "Stakka" Morris grew up in Brighton, England, where he began DJing at an early age. As a fan of everyone from Jean-Michel Jarre to Just-Ice, …

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14. Correction: Median Reader Age At Wired, Star, GQ and LatinaMediaPost Publications, New York - 17 hours ago"During the NBA All-Star game in February, we had a lot of fun and a lot of success using popular music to tap into viewers' love of both basketball and …

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New York Philharmonic Announces Tour of Europe 2008 August 28 …Business Wire (press release), CA - 15 hours agoSince its inception, the Philharmonic has played a leading role in American musical life, championing the new music of its time and commissioning or …

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Local music exec launches new voter registration campaignPegasus News, TX - 11 hours agoAt the age of 24, he oversees one of the south?s emerging urban music entertainment companies, encompassing a broad range of businesses including recording, …

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The Tide?s In For Brian Rolland?Jazz Pop Release Makes WaveseJazzNews, Canada - 11 hours agoThe Tide?s In debuted at #3 on the New Age/World/Ambient Charts for April 2008, and has been creeping up on the College Radio Top 10 World and Jazz charts …

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Globe NorthWest listingsBoston Globe, United States - 9 hours agoMondays, roots music jam session. Tuesdays, acoustic open mike with Bruce Marshall. Wednesdays, Jimmy Mazzy and the Last Minute Men. …

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