Reuters - The moment is burned into the
mind of Roadrunner Records president Jonas Nachsin. It was
1999, and his label had convinced Ozzfest organizers to put its
newly signed band, Slipknot, on the festival's second stage.
Reuters - There were a lot of questions
surrounding the "Guitar Hero" videogame when it first came out.
Would gamers agree to pony up extra money for the special
guitar-shaped controller needed to play it? Would the music
industry agree to license master tracks? Would the addition of
downloadable content be successful?
Reuters - Building a studio behind the
Jacksonville, Florida, home he shares with wife, soul/blues
singer Susan Tedeschi, and their two children has allowed
guitarist Derek Trucks to make "the first album I've ever been
a part of that feels epic."
Reuters - Professionals and amateurs alike
will have the chance to remix the third single from Mariah
Carey's platinum-plus album "E=MC2" via a contest hosted on a
startup social network Web site for musicians, Billboard has
learned.
Reuters - Nearly six decades after his
start in the recording industry, legendary producer George
Martin is at work on a documentary about the history of
recorded music.
Reuters - Cali, a sprawling metropolis nestled
amid Colombia's southwestern mountain ranges, has long been
known as the country's capital of salsa and the breeding ground
for an ultra-rapid, particularly aggressive form of the music. -- read full article
Reuters - Walt Disney's imminent release of
two new film versions of "High School Musical" in Mexico and
Argentina marks another expansion in the company's efforts to
produce more localized content for international markets.
