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67% Say Concert Tickets Are Too Expensive
As artists big and small begin to announce their spring and summer concert schedules, a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 67% of adults who attend at least one professional music concert a year say tickets in general are too expensive. Just 14% disagree, and another 20% are not sure. Seventy-five percent (75%) of ...
David Soyer Famed Guarneri Cellist Has Died
David Soyer, the founding cellist of the Guarneri String Quartet, died on Thursday at his apartment in New York, a day after his 87th birthday. The news comes from Frank Salomon, a co-administrator of the Marlboro Music Festival, with which Mr. Soyer had a long association. Mr. Soyer, the violinists Arnold Steinhardt and John Dalley and ...
Former Teen Cheerleader Dinged $27,750 for Infringing 37 Songs
Harper must pay the RIAA $27,750 for file sharing that began when she was 14. A federal appeals court is ordering a university student to pay the Recording Industry Association of America $27,750 $750 a track for file sharing 37 songs when she was a high school cheerleader. The decision Thursday by the 5th U.S. Circuit ...
Targeted Audio Ads: Coming to a Cellphone Near You
Many of us grew up hearing ads on the radio, but those ads never knew where you were, what kind of radio you had, or your general demographic information. TargetSpot, a CBS-backed venture that calls itself the nations largest internet-radio advertising network, announced deals this week with Slackers music-streaming service to bring the first-ever targeted mobile ...
No Lie! Your Facebook Profile is the Real You
“On the Internet," one dog tells another in a classic New Yorker cartoon, “nobody knows you're a dog." The internet is notorious for its digital dens of deception. But on Facebook, what you see tends to be what you get -- at least in one study of tailless, two- legged young adults. College-age users of Facebook ...
Street on Cape Cod Renamed for Patti Page
Patti Page Way named on 'Old Cape Cod' Thanks to the lyrics of her 1950s hit song, Patti Page knew about Cape Cods winding roads before she even visited the area. In a ceremony today, one of those roads was named after her. Naturally, I was honored, said Page, 82, by phone. I was really thrilled ...
Bluesman to Storm Santa Monica
When noted bluesman Guitar Shorty blazes into Harvelle's nightclub in Santa Monica on Saturday, he'll come armed with his trademark fiery ax and a crack backup band. He'll also be packing a new CD, “Bare Knuckle," chockfull of fresh blues tunes seemingly designed to be played live. The 70-year-old virtuoso cut his first record for Chicago-based ...
iPad Apps Could Put Apple in Charge of the News
Publishers should think twice before worshipping the iPad as the future platform for magazines and newspapers. That is, if they value their independence from an often-capricious corporate gatekeeper. The past weeks controversy swirling around Apples retroactive ban of sexy apps in the App Store seems trivial, but the implications of Apples arbitrariness should be disconcerting to ...
Managing Your Digital Remains
Hamlet, that lucky stiff, only had to worry about being or not being what a nice, binary Denmark he lived in. We modern mopes, on the other hand, must consider not only our too, too solid flesh but also our online infinitude. From banking to book-buying, from Facebook pages to busty Warcraft avatars to scrupulously Tumblrd ...
Of Course On-Demand Music Replaces Sales - It's Supposed To
At the Digital Music Forum East in snowy New York, executives gathered to hear new data comparing what happens to music sales when people use interactive radio services such as Pandora as opposed to subscribing to unlimited streaming services such as Rhapsody and Spotify. The Pandora-like radio model has a promotional effect on music sales, increasing ...
