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NY Rock Music News
3/1/2008 11:00:02 PM
Wal-Mart stirs CD pricing pot with multi-tiered plan
(Reuters)
3/1/2008 9:14:15 PM
 Reuters - The major music companies have been
resistant to lowering their price on CDs, but now they may be
dragged to that point: Wal-Mart, the largest retailer of music
with an estimated 22 percent market share, has proposed a
five-tiered pricing scheme that would allow the discounter to
sell albums at even lower prices and require the labels to bear
more of the costs.
Univision deal ups Universal's Latin-market clout
(Reuters)
3/1/2008 9:13:43 PM
Reuters - Sometime in the coming months, a single
music label, Universal Music, will control almost half of the
U.S. Latin music marketplace.
Mexican, Argentine acts prep for Austin spotlight
(Reuters)
3/1/2008 9:12:59 PM
Reuters - A Vans Warped tour franchise in
Mexico and an Argentine DJ collective are among the
international Latin groups looking for stateside exposure at
the South by Southwest (SXSW) music festival, which runs March
7-16 in Austin, Texas.
Devotchka stays "Faithful" to its musical vision
(Reuters)
3/1/2008 9:12:30 PM
Reuters - When he founded Devotchka as an
"experiment" more than nine years ago, singer Nick Urata's idea
was to blur the line between the musics of East and West,
between gypsy and mariachi, tubas and theremins, bouzoukis and
guitars.
Expected MySpace service to compete with iTunes
(Reuters)
3/1/2008 9:10:20 PM
 Reuters - Amid ongoing competitive pressure
from Facebook, MySpace is taking its latest shot at entering
the music business as other social networking peers, such as
Last.fm and imeem, are making big audience gains with
ad-supported music offerings.
Touring fuels songwriting for Christian band Leeland
(Reuters)
3/1/2008 9:09:08 PM
Reuters - With the 2006 release of "Sound of
Melodies," Texas-based rock band Leeland became the critical
darling of the Christian music community. Its debut disc earned
the group a Grammy Award nomination for best pop/contemporary
gospel album as well as four Dove Award nominations.
Wynonna Judd holds storm victim benefit
(AP)
3/1/2008 7:46:06 PM
 AP - Wynonna Judd knows what the people of Tennessee went through the night the tornadoes hit — because she took cover from them herself.
Works warbled in NKorea included child's
(AP)
3/1/2008 7:08:59 PM
AP - When 12-year-old Farah Taslima started composing in the third grade, she never dreamed her music would someday be performed by the New York Philharmonic. Even if she had, she never could have imagined it would happen in North Korea.
Blues-rockers Black Keys branch out on new album
(Reuters)
3/1/2008 6:12:41 PM
Reuters - The Black Keys, the Ohio duo famed
for their hard-hitting blues-influenced rock'n'roll, charge
into new sonic territory on their fifth album, "Attack &
Release," which is due in stores April 1.
Twitty's children sue Sony for royalties
(AP)
3/1/2008 5:42:56 PM
 AP - The children of the late Conway Twitty have sued Sony/ATV for a share of royalties and publishing copyrights for the country artist's music.
Rapper 'shocked' by daughter's killing
(AP)
3/1/2008 5:10:55 PM
 AP - The rap star Juvenile is "shocked and devastated" by the shooting death of his young daughter, the girl's mother and another child, his manager said Saturday.
Report: J. Lo's twins named Max and Emme
(AP)
3/1/2008 5:41:23 AM
 AP - Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony have reportedly named their newborn twins Max and Emme.
Broadway actor sentenced in sex case
(AP)
3/1/2008 4:31:01 AM
 AP - A Broadway actor who played the beast in Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" was sentenced Friday to 60 days in jail and three years' probation for sexual encounters with a 15-year-old drama student.
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