Platform Music From Rogers Wireless
- May
- 27
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From exclusive live concerts to online previews of as yet unreleased albums, MTV in Canada’s partnership with Rogers Wireless is promising even more multi-platform access to popular music and related content.
Under a co-branded arrangement, Rogers and MTV will present new music oriented programming online and on TV, including:
“New technology has unleashed our audience’s demand for [...]
Modern music is more than noise
- April
- 8
A century after it was born, “modern music” is still a closed book for many music lovers. The reason isn’t only the oddity and downright ugliness of many of the sounds it makes, or the bewildering variety of styles it appears in.
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Songkick website guides music lovers to real-world concerts
- March
- 21
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British Internet startup Songkick launched Wednesday with a vow to inspire digital-age music lovers to reclaim the joy of hearing bands play live in real-world venues.The London-based website debuts with a free online service that matches people’s tastes in music with the schedules of bands performing in the US or UK.
“It’s all about changing the [...]
Napster Claws Its Way Back With Trimmer Losses
- February
- 26
The quarter marked Napster’s third in a row of positive cash flow, a metric that suggests the company is making progress toward becoming consistently profitable, he noted. Still, Napster remains in growth mode, Gorog added, having expanded into Europe and Latin America recently along with upgrading to its core service and establishing new partners in [...]
Napster Claws Its Way Back With Trimmer Losses
- February
- 8
The quarter marked Napster’s third in a row of positive cash flow, a metric that suggests the company is making progress toward becoming consistently profitable, he noted. Still, Napster remains in growth mode, Gorog added, having expanded into Europe and Latin America recently along with upgrading to its core service and establishing new partners in [...]
Publicradio news heads to FM
- January
- 18
Colorado Public Radio has found a home for news and information on the FM band.
CPR will purchase Christian-formatted 88.1 FM in Denver and this spring move KVOD, its classical-music station, there. Under an agreement announced Wednesday, CPR intends to move KCFR, currently at 1340 AM, to KVOD’s old home at 90.1 FM. The 1340 [...]
Vermont folk musicians add to winter pleasure
- January
- 17
As predictable as a pair of songbirds flying south from their snow-covered homes, Bennington, Vt., residents Steve Gillette and Cindy Mangsen make up a folk music duo that has been flocking to the Florida winter music scene for the past nine years. “We’ve been coming to Florida each January and [...]
Publicradio news heads to FM
- January
- 17
Colorado Public Radio has found a home for news and information on the FM band.
CPR will purchase Christian-formatted 88.1 FM in Denver and this spring move KVOD, its classical-music station, there. Under an agreement announced Wednesday, CPR intends to move KCFR, currently at 1340 AM, to KVOD’s old home at 90.1 FM. The 1340 [...]
Among winter pleasures Vermont folk musicians
- January
- 13
While I’m not sure if I attended their concerts every year, I’ve been in the audience enough to know how much I look forward to their annual concerts. With Gillette on guitar and Mangsen on concertina, their show never fails to entertain, enlighten and amuse. Perhaps Florida singer-songwriter Jack Williams [...]
