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Tower Records files for Chapter 11; future in doubt
by Marie Beaudette
posted 2006-08-22
Tower Records has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection from its creditors, its second such filing in less than three years.
The company, which operates 89 stores in 20 states, including two in Seattle, sought bankruptcy protection Sunday to sell its assets through a court-supervised auction…
Screwed for Sure
by Eliot Van Buskirk
posted 2006-08-21
The rumor mill is still buzzing about Microsoft’s new Zune digital music player, but take your eyes off the device for a minute and you’ll quickly see that the real news here has nothing to do with Microsoft, or even Apple…
Holdout Bands Give In to iTunes
Associated Press
posted 2006-08-20
Bob Seger turned the page, and Metallica finally found justice for online fans. Now, only a few remaining big-name musical acts refuse to make their songs available on Apple Computer’s popular iTunes Music Store.
Analysts say the online holdouts—including the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Garth Brooks, Radiohead and Kid Rock—probably can’t avoid iTunes forever as fans flock to the internet to buy music…
'Selling Off The Country' on 'The Last Resort'
posted 2006-07-13
Selling Off The Country – from Daniel’s 2006 release OP-ED: Environmental / Social / Political – will feature in the soundtrack to ‘The Last Resort’, a New Zealand documentary by Abi King-Jones and Errol Wright, showing at The 2006 New Zealand International Film Festival…
ELECPHONIC debut on truly independent
posted 2006-07-13
The ELECPHONIC debut is a whimsically Mercurial collection of nine tracks simmered and steeped in a stew of electronica.
Released on Daniel Gannaway’s Truly Independent label, ELECPHONIC presents an incisive socio-political commentary in its lyrical content and continues the wryly opinionated tradition of the label’s various previous releases, such as OP-ED.
Recording And Producing For Guitarists
by Sarah Tomlinson
posted 2006-05-01
Although there are a number of user-friendly tools now available for recording and producing music with the guitar, the real trick is to find the right combination of equipment and techniques to compliment your music and playing style. In Randy Roos new online course Recording and Producing for Guitarists, students will study the gear and processes that guitarists and producers use to create a wide variety of sounds, as well as learn how to produce more professional-sounding recorded compositions…
Apple sets tune for pricing of song downloads
by Joshua Chaffin and Kevin Allison
posted 2006-05-01
Apple Computer on Monday revealed it had renewed contracts with the four largest record companies to sell songs through its iTunes digital store at 99 cents each. The agreements came after months of bargaining, and were a defeat for music companies that had been pushing for a variable pricing model…
The big DRM mistake
by Scott Granneman
posted 2006-03-01
Digital Rights Managements hurts paying customers, destroys Fair Use rights, renders customers’ investments worthless, and can always be defeated. Why are consumers and publishers being forced to use DRM?
