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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, ...
Jazz Musicians Throw Concert to Pay for Their Health Coverage
Get Breaking News Alerts * Share * Comments 188 Thirteen years ago, 68-year-old jazz guitarist Calvin Keys underwent a life-saving quadruple bypass surgery. Keys, a notable Bay Area musician who recorded and toured with Ray Charles in the '70s, says he would not have been able to afford that surgery if he hadn't been covered under ...
Dr. Yes Will Hear You Now
Tall, white-whiskered and dressed in a tailored suit, Bruce Lundvall is sitting at his desk in the Manhattan headquarters of EMI Music. Framed platinum discs and photographs on the wall mark the pop, rock and jazz triumphs of a half-century: discovering best-selling artists like Norah Jones and Richard Marx; supporting the careers of Bruce Springsteen and ...
The Barriers of Music Consumption: Past and Present
Kyle Bylin, Associate Editor -- Edited by: Refe Tuma of Creative Destruction There was a time when songs were songs. When there were the albums that you owned and those that you did not. When there was a distinct difference between the music that you liked and the artists that you didn't care for at ...
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 ...
Should the Beatles Have Worked It Out?
Looking back after 40 years, that seems like a ridiculously short lifespan for a band as important as the Beatles, who were, from left, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Ringo Starr and George Harrison. Seven years and seven months. That's how long the world officially knew the Beatles as a recording act, spanning from the date they ...
Happy Jazz Day -- 7 Ways to Celebrate; Tampa Bay Area Shows to See
Today is Jazz Day, as established last year in a proclamation made by the U.S. Conference of Mayors. That organization proclaimed, in part, that “jazz has spoken eloquently of freedom for people in the United States and abroad, and has become an international language that bridges differences and brings people of all races, ages, and backgrounds ...
Independent Record Shops Competing in Digital Age
When Matt Vaughan heard that a Saturday in April had been set aside two years ago to honor indie-music stores, the owner of Seattle's Easy Street Records thought it was “a waving of the white flag." Still, he went along and opened his doors with modest expectations. “To my surprise, it turned out to be the ...
U.S. Consumes Music Differently on Smartphones Than in UK and Canada
A new Vision Critical study of music on smparthones in the US, UK and Canada, found major differences. While those in Canada and the UK are using apps on their smartphone or iPod Touch to listen to broadcast radio, U.S. users are more likely to listen to web-only radio and music streaming services. Pandora was the ...
Soundexchange Payments Jump 25%
SoundExchange sent out checks for nearly $52 million to artists and rights holders in the first quarter of 2010 marking a 25% increase from any previous quarter. The jump was came from an increase in satellite radio subscriptions caused by rising car sales, more radio stations streaming online, and the growth of Pandora and similar online ...
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