Staying up ’til all hours has a deleterious effect on the memory; last evening’s “The Player’s Spot” TV shoot featured JK McKnight, the driving force behind The Forecastle Fest. He filled us in on the basic details and now, late on Friday, I’ll tell you: The Festival is set for July 27 & [...]
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The Financial Timesof London reports that a recent study by Enders Analysis predicts that global CD sales for the next two years will fall steadily and by 2009 will be half the sales at the 1997 peak. It’s hard to know what where the record companies will do next to combat this trend, as [...] From Joan Osbourne’s website, we read this: “Time Life is pleased to announce the release of a newly recorded Joan Osborne studio album, due in stores on May 22nd. Titled Breakfast In Bed, the forthcoming album is best described as an homage to the great Soul and R&B songs of the late ‘60s and [...] On Thursday, Warner Music Group demanded that the online retailer AnyWhereCD remove its digital albums from the site, claiming violation of a prior agreement not to sell product without DRM, but it did say that AnywhereCD can offer a service to let CD buyers rip their albums into MP3 files. Confused? So are we [...] As is so often said these days, you can’t make stuff like this up: Edgar Bronfman Jr., the chairman and chief executive officer of Warner Music Group Corporation, filed suit against Vivendi SA, the French company to whom he sold Seagram’s for $34 billion in 2000, claiming it owes him a bigger pension. The [...] Stuff happens on the weekend… Former C-J cartoonist Nick Anderson has a nice take on the hypocrisy of corporations vis-a-vis Imus’ “nappy-headed ho’s” comment. |
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