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CDs Purchases Down, Video Games Help Sales
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PC Magazine
Sales of physical CDs continued to decline in the third quarter while digital download sales saw a small uptick, according to data from NPD Group. Artists who participated in music-based video games, meanwhile, also saw a bump in album sales. The number of CDs sold during the third quarter dropped 19 percent from the same period last year, leading to a 2 percent decline in overall music sales. About 34 percent of teenagers abandoned CDs, while 36 percent of buyers ...
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EMI Pulls Coldpay vs. Satriani Videos from Youtube
Source:
HypeBot
EMI is using the full force of copyright law and its deal with YouTube to pull the videos that show the strong comparisons between Coldplay song “Vida La Vida" Joe Satriani's “If I Could Fly". “This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by EMI Music" reads the banner across the offending videos including the one Hypebot had posted here. (click play).
While well within their legal rights to yank the videos, EMI's actions serve as a ...
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DVD Release, "Let Yourself Go: The Lives of Jazz Pianist Fred Hersch"
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Orange Grove Publicity
Aha! DVD is proud to announce the release of Let Yourself Go: The Lives of Jazz Pianist Fred Hersch. This artist has been cited as “one of the small handful of brilliant musicians of his generation" by Downbeat and as “a master who plays it his way" by the New York Times. He has been honored with three Grammy nominations as well as a Guggenheim Fellowship in composition. He has an extensive catalogue of recorded works as a leader and ...
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The Who's 'Kids' Buffed up for DVD
Source:
Billboard Magazine
The Who's 1979 documentary “The Kids Are Alright" will be reissued in two different DVD forms Jan. 20 from UMe, both of which feature digital remastering and 5.1 surround sound. The single-disc version features commentary by director Jeff Stein, while the double-disc boasts interviews with Who vocalist Roger Daltrey and Stein, a behind-the-scenes look at the film's restoration and live performances of the songs “Baba O'Riley" and “Won't Get Fooled Again" isolated with John Entwistle's bass lines. Originally released on ...
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Jack Sheldon Perfect Jazz Holiday Stocking Stuffer
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All About Jazz
TRYING TO GET GOOD: the Jazz Odyssey of Jack Sheldon exposes Hollywoods best kept secret - when the stars come out to play, its Jack Sheldon who plays for them.
Trying to Get Good takes a look deep inside the eternally tormented soul of an artist whos not just trying to get good on the trumpet, but in his life as well.
The DVD is the perfect stocking stuffer for the ture Jazz Enthusiast.
His signature sound continues to paint ...
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Criterion's Blu-Ray Debut is up to Snuff
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Michael Ricci
'Bottle Rocket,' 'Chungking Express,' 'The Man Who Fell to Earth' and 'The Third Man' live up to the company's usual high standards.
The first wave of Criterion Collection Blu-ray discs was initially slated for October, then pushed out to November, then pushed out again to this week. For a while, home video forums were abuzz with the rumor that Criterion would never release the discs at all. The reason? Criterion's art-house product wouldn't appeal to “the PlayStation 3 crowd" anyway. ...
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Are Labels Charging Enough for Videogame Music?
Source:
PC Magazine
With more than $1 billion in sales and 50 million tracks downloaded between them—on a base of only about 350 songs—the “Guitar Hero" and “Rock Band" videogame franchises emerged this year as serious moneymakers for the music industry. But are they bringing in enough per track? During a quarterly earnings call in August, Warner Music Group chairman/CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr. said he wants more money from music games like Activision's “Guitar Hero" or he'll stop licensing music. Activision CEO Bobby ...
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