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Paris Capital of the World of World Music (The Globalist)

World music is, by definition, a global phenomenon. It draws from all regions and encompasses manifold styles and instruments. Yet, certain spots on our globe seem to have a particular draw on musicians from many continents. Foremost among these places is Paris, France.

How’s Universal Music boosting digital revenue? (CNET)

Music industry sources say Universal Music Group CEO Doug Morris is beginning to see rewards from requiring digital music services to pay per-play minimums.

New music fest ends in discord (Austin American-Statesman)

Salim Daou usually sets up shop at festivals on the East Coast, but he traveled with his staff here from Richmond, Va., over the weekend, lured by the promise of 150 bands playing for 100,000 hungry people at the World United Music Festival .

Garrett refuses to reinstate music academy’s funding (ABC) (Yahoo!7 Music News)

Federal Arts Minister Peter Garrett has refused to reinstate funding for the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM).

Harvard Law Prof Takes on RIAA in Music Copyright Fight (Wired News)

Harvard Law School professor Charles Nesson has launched a constitutional assault against a federal copyright law at the heart of the industry’s aggressive strategy, which has wrung payments from thousands of song-swappers since 2003. Neeson has come to the defense of a Boston University graduate student targeted in one of the music industry’s lawsuits. By taking on the case, Nesson hopes to …

Actor Kevin Costner says his music sounds like Oklahoma (The Oklahoman)

NASHVILLE, Tenn. Hes played Wyatt Earp, Robin Hood and Eliot Ness in the movies, but Kevin Costner says his most natural gig is playing music with his band.”This is as close to my personality as I ever get, playing live, Costner said recently. “When Im making a movie, Im playing whoever Im playing. But my personality comes out on stage when I play live. Thats when you see me the …

Music Reviews: Takacs String Quartet; Levine Faculty, Daria Rabotkina; the Homosexuals (Washington Post)

For years, Bartk’s music has been the subject (some might say, the victim) of obsessive analysis: Is this chord the mashed-together notes of that tune? Does the Fibonacci series really govern his structures? Can any of these subtleties actually be heard and does anyone besides a musicologist care?

“I don’t know what this song is about. When I was writing this I was going through a divorce. And the only thing I can say about it is that it’s obviously in anger. It’s the angry side, or the bitter side of a separation. So what makes it even more comical is when I hear these stories which started many years ago, particularly in America, of someone come up to me and say, ‘Did you really…

Record companies cozy up to free music on Web (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

It could be seen as the music industry equivalent of fighting fire with fire.

Joaquin Phoenix quitting movies to focus on music (AP via Yahoo! News)

Joaquin Phoenix is quitting movies to focus on music.

Return of Paris’ roaring 20s music-halls (AFP via Yahoo! News)

Two legendary Paris music-halls that saw the birth of stars such as Maurice Chevalier, Django Reinhardt or Charles Aznavour, are making a comeback after years of oblivion.

Miyamoto Struggles to Sell Inscrutable ‘Wii Music’ (Wired News)

Nintendo’s new music game isn’t the wildfire hit everybody expected. That’s because it’s nothing like Rock Band and Guitar Hero and that’s not necessarily a bad thing.

Music video games set for an encore (USA Today)

The beat goes on in the thriving music video game category. New editions of the hot-selling Guitar Hero and Rock Band are in stores or on the way, as is a new music maker: Wii Music for the still wildly sought-after Nintendo game system.

Game Review: ‘Wii Music’ falls flat (AP via Yahoo! News)

Nintendo’s “Wii Music” invites players to pick up their wireless remotes and strum, toot, bang and drum their way through improvisational jam sessions using more than 60 virtual instruments on which there can be no wrong notes, no mistakes.

USC adds pop music program (Los Angeles Times)

The Thornton School of Music bucks ivory tower convention with a program for rock, R & B and more. USC’s Thornton School of Music will make room starting next year for singers and instrumentalists who play pop music, breaking a long-standing tradition in higher education that requires students to dedicate themselves either to classical music or jazz.

Lala.com gives digital music another try (AP via Yahoo! News)

First a CD-trading site, then a free Web-based music browser, lala.com is being born again. The site is relaunching Tuesday as a hybrid, offering the digital download functionality of iTunes and the free music streaming of MySpace Music without the ads.

Arlington Music Hall, Babe’s Chicken set to open in downtown Arlington next summer (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)

By SUSAN SCHROCK ARLINGTON Babes Chicken Dinner House could open in downtown Arlington as early as June, along with the expansion of the Arlington Music Hall. This year, Hurst developer Burk Collins received a $1.8 million tax incentive from Arlington for the first phase of his planned $30 million Center Street Station project, which includes office, retail and residential space at Division …

Violinist Midori makes time for much more than music (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)

By CHRIS SHULL Violinist Midori is no longer the teenage phenomenon who vaulted to classical music stardom in the mid-1980s. Like a precocious grandchild who grew up where did the time fly? Midori today is a consummate artist and prolific overachiever. She has degrees in psychology. Shes a violin professor and chair of the strings department at the University of Southern California in Los …

Music at the Limits, By Edward W Said (Independent)

Collections of performance reviews, whether of music or theatre, suffer a fatal weakness: their moment belongs to the period very shortly after the performance itself, and thereafter they quickly date. Only the historians of performance, or the biographers of performers, find old reviews interesting apart from the performers themselves, who usually remember their bad reviews best, for such …

LIKE FAMILY Pumpkin Festival brings together fun, Night Trains music (Bradenton Herald)

EAST MANATEE Tears welled up in Chris Pattersons eyes as he talked about the tradition of the country music band, Night Train, playing the annual Hunsader Farms Pumpkin Festival and the homage it paid to Lloyd Culbreath, one of bands founders.

New music from the heart (The Times-News)

Two former Twin Falls residents are bringing new music to the airwaves, and that music is close to their hearts. Up and coming Boston musician Chris Eberlein’s debut CD, “The Way of the Door,” and contemporary Christian singer Jaime Thietten’s new single, “My Chance,” were both released recently.

A video archive that is music to the ears (The Japan Times)

All the Japanese arts were somewhat mistreated after Japan’s 19th-century collision with the West. Temples, shrines, pagodas were threatened with destruction, and the classical noh drama all but vanished. Worst hit was hogaku, Japanese traditional music. In the pathologies that followed Japan’s chase after Western ways, native music was neglected and then, to an extent, suppressed. Hogaku was …

Chamber music society plans series (The Standard-Times)

The South Coast Chamber Music Society’s 2008-09 season offers concertgoers a cornucopia of musical treats and the opportunity to hear music played by a dynamic and enthusiastic ensemble.

Music on Oct 25, 2008 (Seattle Weekly)

Semitic music of the Jewish persuasion has gotten more than its share of attention from the avant-jazz scene. Projects like Hasidic New Wave, John Zorn’s Masada, and countless others, have made Eastern European shtetl harmonies and Americanized klezmer into practically a marker of the “downtown”…

Autopsy: Teen’s death at music festival an accidental overdose (Crookston Daily Times)

DETROIT LAKES, Minn. (AP) - An autopsy shows that the 17-year-old Wisconsin girl who died at a music festival near Detroit Lakes this summer died of a drug overdose.

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