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Twitter to Start Selling Ads
Twitter announced Tuesday that it will start showing sponsored tweets on some search pages, taking a cautious first step into a traditional advertising business model that could provide a steady source of revenue for the 4-year-old startup which doesn't make any serious money yet, but is reckoned to be worth a billion dollars. The so-called Promoted ...
Icon Hank Williams Receives Pulitzer Citation
Hank Williams, the country pioneer who is among the most influential singer- songwriters in music, was given a special Pulitzer Prize citation. The Pulitzer board awarded the late singer for his lifetime achievement, based on a confidential survey of experts in popular music. “I don't think any country artist cast a longer shadow than he does, ...
Eubanks Makes It Official: He's Leaving 'Tonight'
"Tonight Show" bandleader Kevin Eubanks has made it official: He's leaving as Jay Leno's sideman in May after 18 years with the late-night host. He told Leno during Monday's taping of “Tonight" in Burbank, Calif., that he was ready for a career change of pace, but he didn't announce specific plans. Eubanks called the NBC late-night ...
Veteran Saxophonist Ralph Lalama Interviewed at AAJ
Ralph Lalama's rich tenor saxophone voice has been heard for years on the New York City scene, perhaps most notably with the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra and its predecessors, first led by Thad Jones and Mel Lewis, and later by just Lewis. He's a guy who grew up when rock music was fully bursting on the American ...
Grammy Winner Steve Martin Takes His Banjo on Tour
With no introduction or celebrity fanfare, Steve Martin steps onstage with the Steep Canyon Rangers bluegrass band, a banjo strapped to his chest. He's not there to tell jokes, though he manages to squeeze in a few. He's there to play music -- songs from his Grammy-winning bluegrass album, “The Crow: New Songs for the Five-String ...
Apple Updates Macbook Pro Line
Apple today updated the MacBook Pro line with faster processors, powerful next-generation NVIDIA graphics and even longer battery life. The popular 13-inch MacBook Pro features the new NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics processor for up to 80 percent faster graphics and a groundbreaking 10-hour built-in battery.* The new 15-inch and 17-inch MacBook Pro models feature Intel Core ...
WGA Supports Composers, Lyricists
Last week's Writers Guild of America endorsement of film and TV composers' attempts to union ize through the Teamsters was a big boost for the musicians. It not only adds the backing of some heavyweight Hollywood names, but it also comes with a good deal of historical precedent. Nearly 20 years ago, the WGA supported the ...
Trumpeter Jeremy Pelt Interviewed at AAJ
For the younger generation of jazz musicians, those in their thirties today, the path is not always as smooth and easy as we may think it is. Nobody likes to live in anybody's shadow. Jazz is populated with giants who left their mark and those who look up to them in order to be able to ...
Vatican Makes Peace with the Beatles
The Vatican has finally made peace with the Beatles, saying their drug use, “dissolute" lives and even the claim that the band was bigger than Jesus are all in the past -- while their music lives on. Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano paid tribute to the Fab Four in its weekend editions, with two articles and a ...
Wall Street Touts Plans to Bet on Box Office
Think you're better than Hollywood at gauging whether an upcoming flick will be a box office bomb or a sleeper hit? You'd get a chance to put your money behind that under two proposals that movie studios are denouncing as legalized gambling. The proposals the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission are expected to rule on this ...
