Several boutique cruise lines are offering classical-music-themed trips this year.

A youth who argued with Sir Sean Connery’s cousin over loud music just before he died is sentenced.

Just as consumers now pay for HBO, they may one day be charged for a digital music service on their monthly Internet bill.

There is still a ton of art, music, dance and food to enjoy today and Sunday at the Bayou City Art Festival in Memorial Park. The massive outdoor gallery features 300 artists who work with clay, drawing/pastel, fiber/textiles, furniture, glass, jewelry, leather, metal, mixed media, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, watercolor and wood.

The free music of royalty means that the music can be royalty used freely, but only in one whole indicated of uses. For example, your licence of music can allow the use on all the emissions by radio without which had royalties, but requires royalties for the emission on the TV. The licences of music change by the company on the free use of acceptable and unacceptable royalty. Let us leave a few years behind before this limit occurred. Before the royalty-free-music, libraries charged what is known while “switches - fees of fall” (this must indicate to you to which distance the back we go), licences of cover of limit of limit and the simple production covers licences. Upset the fall, good old women days of vinyl, meant all the times that the music was employed (C-with-D.: the needle was placed on the disc), the producer paid fees.

British Internet startup Songkick launched Wednesday with a vow to inspire digital-age music lovers to reclaim the joy of hearing bands play live in real-world venues.

The Financial Times says the computer company is talking with record labels about giving iPod and iPhone customers access to the entire iTunes music library.

Apple is negotiating with record labels over a deal to give iPhone and iPod customers free access to the entire iTunes music library if they pay extra for the devices.

Apple is in talks with major music companies to offer customers free access to its entire iTunes music library in exchange for paying a premium for its iPods and iPhones, the Financial Times said.

The company is negotiating with the record labels to give customers who pay a premium free access to the entire iTunes music library, the Financial Times reports.

As part of a deal to offer devices featuring preprogrammed music, the company would have to agree to share sales revenue, says a source close to the deal.

Apple Computer is reportedly exploring ways to bundle an all-you-can-eat music plan with its iPhone and iPod devices.

The complex rhythms of Cuban timba music came to Festival of the Arts Boca Saturday, for an evening that began with symphonic-pop fusion and ended with hundreds of people dancing to the sounds of the Miami-based group Tiempo Libre.

Marina Youth Arts presents “Spring into Arts Spring Break Camp” from 8 to 11 a.m. at Vince DiMaggio Park, 3200 Del Monte Blvd., starting Monday and running through Friday. Music, art and dance classes will be offered and there are $100 scholarships available.

Despite being known for her cooking, lifestyle and travel shows, Rachael Ray sponsored her own music showcase at Austin’s famous South by Southwest festival.

Last year, when gossip blogger Perez Hilton came to South by Southwest, he was just a spectator. This year, he arrived as one of the music industry’s key playmakers - and his newfound power was on full display as he played host to one of the festival’s more coveted parties. “Thank you Perez!” Robyn, the Swedish-born pop star who is releasing an album in the United States this summer, gushed on …

After finding out that I studied piano at one time, Dr. Kevin Ayesh, professor of music at Blue Ridge Community College, occasionally asked me, “Why don’t you take a piano class’”

A New Castle organist wants a printing company to face the music for destroying her valuable books.

Los Angeles police say they have arrested a music industry manager for investigation of three sexual assaults involving two 16-year-old girls. Investigators said Friday they have arrested 35-year-old Jeremy Geffen, who is being held on $1.11 million bail and is expected to be arraigned on felony charges Monday.

In the midst of Paul McCartney’s divorce settlement dispute with Heather Mills, there is some happy news which will no doubt cheer the music legend through difficult times. According to reports, Paul’s eldest child Mary is expecting a baby with her new partner Simon Aboud.

A man facing child abuse and sex offense charges in Maryland has resigned after more than six years as music minister at Shades Crest Baptist Church in Hoover.

Los Angeles police say they have arrested a music industry manager for investigation of three sexual assaults involving two 16-year-old girls.

A Cook County judge has set bond at $150,000 for a music teacher at Kenwood Academy on Chicago’s South Side who is accused of sexually abusing two male students.

Bluegrass star Ricky Skaggs is getting an honorary doctorate from Boston’s Berklee College of Music. Skaggs is slated to receive the honor Tuesday during a performance at the Grand Ole Opry, putting the 53-year-old singer in the company of luminaries such as Duke Ellington, Sting, B.B. King, Dizzy Gillespie, Loretta Lynn and Paul Simon. “I was elated,” Skaggs told The Associated Press on …

15/03/2008 12:30:00 Business Wire Surrge, the hottest new brand in the business of online music, launches during South by Southwest this week.

A bricklayer dubbed “Romania’s Pavarotti” has secured a record contract with Sony after winning a Spanish television music competition for immigrants modelled after “Pop Idol” and “Star Academy”.

Cabbing to the far end of 4th Street, we hit the Austin Music Hall for a set from hometown folkies Okkervil River, which was preceded by the Austin Music Awards — naturally Spoon and its frontman Brit Daniel walked with a staggering nine awards in total. Later, Okkervil took the stage and churned out three tunes from their latest record, 2007’s Stage Names , including a vocally emphatic …

Impresarios, directors and conductors are salivating at the possibilities of classical music returning to the Armory.

No person’s life is so tragic that somebody else can’t make money off of it. The Macon Music, a minor league baseball team, will hold Eliot Spitzer Night on June 13. The disgraced New York Governor’s resignation was a natural…