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MTV-Microsoft Service Takes On iTunes
MTV is preparing to unveil its music-sharing service Urge, a joint venture with Microsoft that is expected to give Apple's iTunes a run for its money. Urge is expected to not only sell music for download, but also create an environment for users to...
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Beatles Sue for Royalties
Apple Corps, the company representing The Beatles, has sued EMI for $53, claiming band members McCartney and Starr, and the estates of Lennon and Harrison are due additional royalties....
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South By Southwest Lineup Announced
The first batch of bands to play the 2006 South By Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, have been announced. An list includes Belle and Sebastian, The Boy Least Likely To, Cat Power, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Jamie Cullum, Dashboard Confessional,...
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Return of the Futureheads
The Futurehead's second album is underway with fourteen songs recorded and ready to be mixed next month. The band spent five weeks recording on an English farm with Ben Hillier. No release date has been...
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Erasure Finds Country Inspiration
Brit synth-pop duo Erasure are preparing for the April release of their first country album, Union Street. The album, produced by Steve Walsh at Union Street Studio, takes classic Erasure songs and recreates them with a Nashville flair. Included on...
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Underoath Live at the Electric Factory Philadelphia, PA 10/15/05
It was an incredibly cold night for October, but outside the Electric Factory in Philadelphia, thousands clad in hoodies lined up around the block for Underoath, The Bled, and Veda. Not even a SEPTA strike, which rendered the whole city without...
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Scientific Lifestyle - Modern Sounds for the New Era
Neither Modern nor NewScientific Lifestyle has been billed as an innovative, “forward thinking,” pop-rock-meets-electronica collective. It’s a pretty impressive list of modifiers for the new,...
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YMCK - Family Music
Not so RGBYMCK (Yellow, Magenta, Cyan, and Black for all you non-graphic designers out there) are pure and simple Nintendo-pop. From their colorful pixilated artwork to their 8-bit instrumentation and robot-voice vocoder interludes, everything about...
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