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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 ...
Facebook Awarded Patent for Its News Feed
Facebook has secured a patent to a feature that many of its competitors have adopted in recent years the news feed. The patent, officially granted on Tuesday by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, governs a “method for displaying a news feed in a social network environment." Facebook applied for the patent back in August 2006, ...
Alan Parsons: Album and Dates
Frontiers Records Signs Alan Parsons, Releases Eye 2 Eye - Live In Madrid Alan Parsons Studio wizard Alan Parsons returns with a live concert recording, Eye 2 Eye - Live In Madrid to be released March 19 in Europe and April 6 in the USA on Frontiers Records. Eye 2 Eye - Live In Madrid was ...
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 ...
FCC: 'Up To' Claims for Internet Connection Speeds Next to Worthless
The Federal Communication Commission determined in a recent report that “actual broadband speeds lag advertised speeds by as much as 50% to 80%," particularly at peak usage times from 7 to 10 p.m. Providers promise maximum transfer rates, but actual speeds may be as much as 80% slower during peak periods. When it comes to high-speed ...
Darcy James Argue Sells Out!
That's right, the indie jazz world's favorite composer/conductor is taking his Reign-of-Terror–loving, Extraordinary Renditions–hating act from the halls of Williamsburg and the Bowery to Wynton's Jazz Palace in the Sky. To quote the man himself, “Zounds!" In all seriousness, this is great news—a marker of Secret Society's recent successes and JALC's expanding horizons. Argue's Dizzy's Club ...
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 ...
Jazz Bands Led by Rob Mosher, Petr Cancura Play Brooklyn Benefit March 12
Rob Mosher's critically acclaimed and quirky 10 piece jazz/classical band Storytime and Petr Cancura's buzz-worthy new musical project Down Home will be featured at a benefit for New York City based charity Rational Animal on Friday, March 12th at 8pm in the Great Room at South Oxford Space,138 South Oxford Street(Between Atlantic Avenue and Fulton Street)in ...
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