If you’re a fan of film music, you’ve probably suffered through this experience: You’re watching a lavish Hollywood action film filled with the usual wall-to-wall pyrotechnics and visual wizardry, but with every ear-ringing explosion or gunshot, the orchestral score you’ve been enjoying in the film’s quieter moments is being drowned out by a muddy sound mix that favors mayhem over melody.

Music fans unable to attend the Newport folk and jazz festivals will be able to listen to some concerts online.

InformationWeek - Dell launched a line of MP3 music players in 2003, but poor sales prompted the company to pull the plug in 2006.

Gilberto Gil, Brazil’s globally renowned singer and composer, announced Wednesday he has resigned his job as culture minister to return to music, after four and a half years in the post.

Gilberto Gil, Brazil’s globally famous singer and composer, announced Wednesday he has resigned his job as culture minister to return to music, after four and a half years in the post.

Sony Corp (6758.T) is in talks to buy the 50 percent stake it does not own in Sony BMG Music Entertainment from Germany’s Bertelsmann for more than 100 billion yen ($931 million), the Nikkei business daily reported on Tuesday.

Yahoo Music earned kudos from one of the Web’s most outspoken advocacy groups on Monday.

Yahoo plans to bail out of the online music sales business in September and says it will compensate users for the music they purchased. But as always, the devil’s in the details.

Yahoo will offer refunds to people who purchased individual tracks from Yahoo Music and who stand to lose access to that music when Yahoo Music is folded into Rhapsody in September.

Yahoo Music’s decision to offer refunds to customers who bought DRM-wrapped music is an important precedent for anyone dealing in copy-protected media.

More DRM blues around digital music. MobileMe: improving but still not perfect. Gauging the odds for the latest Google wannabe.

Yahoo is setting a new standard for music services that stop issuing authorization keys for songs sold that are laced with copyright protection software.

trueAnthem, a developer of widgets for musicians, has raised a $2 million angel round from unidentified investors. The SF-based company offers widgets that bands can use to distribute their music in a sponsored manner, thus earning them revenue. With the funding announcement, the company announced that Adidas had become the latest advertiser, sponsoring a widget from the band Ultraviolet Sound. …

trueAnthem, a developer of widgets for musicians, has raised a $2 million angel round from unidentified investors. The SF-based company offers widgets that bands can use to distribute their music in a sponsored manner, thus earning them revenue.

The first lessons in the form should include/understand the analysis of the simple airs, preferably of the type of folksong. Forms known under the name of ab, aba, and the alternatives derived from the latter will be explained, and the class will write examples of each one, initially not to harmonize the melodies, but making after thus. The old forms of dance will then be taken. At this stage it is absolutely necessary for those of the class which are musical, and which wish to give a little extra time to the music, to pass by an exchange rate of strict harmony and counterpoint; time without end will be wasted if they do not make thus. Work will be first of all enlightened because of the already thrown bases, for, without the knowledge, the children had made a small free counterpoint during some time, when they added the vocal parts to a given melody, and their knowledge of practical harmony will allow them to take with much a short cut inside formal work.

A jury found a 37-year-old San Francisco rap music figure guilty in the slaying of a Kansas City rival in what authorities called a West Coast versus Midwest rap war.

Casting has been announced for the Arena Stage’s production of Daniel Beaty’s Resurrection, a music, dance and poetry-filled new work introducing us to a handful of varied African-American men.

When it was unveiled in June, Apple’s new iPhone didn’t appear to offer anything new for music fans. But thanks to the subsequent launch of the App Store on iTunes, iPhone users can download a host of applications to add new functions to the device. Many of them are music-oriented and all are made specifically for the iPhone.

Jeff Price likes to say he can get anybody’s album on iTunes for “the price of a six pack and a pizza.” Now the founder of TuneCore, a Brooklyn-based digital music distributor, is offering his customers something more: the chance to be on the Billboard chart with a bullet.

A French study of bar patrons shows people drink more alcohol when the music is loud.

Well, the good news for record companies is that they will be able to make some money from mobile music; unfortunately, says eMarketer, they won’t see as much as they’ve been hoping for. eMarketer forecasts worldwide mobile music retail revenues will grow from $2.4 billion in 2007 to over $13 billion by 2012but full-track download sales will not even comprise half of that in five years.

Some newcomers made a splash, so did the weather at 3-day festival Here’s something you don’t experience too often at a big outdoor music festival: silence.

Jessica Simpson booed at country music fest; Amy Winehouse’s husband gets jail sentence; Britney Spears steps out

We’ve graduated to the second half of 2008, which has made me reflect on the music that has kept me occupied this year.

As music retailers struggle to stay in business, a Los Angeles firm is doing nicely targeting a demographic that gets bigger every year — prisoners.

It was a fine debut for the Mile High Music Festival, which opened today on the outer grounds of Dick’s Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City.

It was a welcomed return to metro Detroit Saturday night for Kid Rock and his Rock and Roll Revival — in the first of four shows at DTE Energy Music Theatre.

NEW YORK - Music Note turned in a dazzling performance, beating entrymate Little Belle by 11 lengths Saturday in the $300,000 Coaching Club American Oaks for 3-year-old fillies at Belmont Park.

Train to Dear Old Dallas This 1914 sheet music, I Am Going to Take a Train for Dear Old Dallas Town , is a sprightly paean to Arlingtons eastern neighbor. The publisher, Bush & Gerts Piano Co., was a large piano maker based in Chicago that issued music to sell with its pianos. Bush & Gerts Dallas store was on Elm Street, near its modern-day intersection with Field Street, between the …

EAST BRUNSWICK: “Music Saves Lives” and Vans Warped Tour is teaming up with New Jersey Blood Services for a blood drive at the Brunswick Square Mall from 2:30 to 8 p.m. tomorrow by the J.C. Penney Court.

Blaise W. Liffick was born into a family whose values included an acceptance of diversity and an appreciation for music. “Fol

No Newport Music Festival is complete without pianist John Bayless showing up. And last night the ingenious improviser of pop tunes in the style of the masters was back at The Breakers for some of his classic takes. It was quite a show.

It took me 23 years to cry for Steve Goodman. It happened when I was reading Page 637 of Clay Eals’ biography, “Steve Goodman: Facing the Music.” Q&A with Goodman biographer Clay Eals

Customers of bars that play loud music drink more quickly and in fewer gulps, French researchers said on Friday.

FRIDAY, July 18 (HealthDay News) — If busy bars and blasting music seem to go hand in hand, new research from France suggests that might be because loud music encourages more drinking.

Blame the DJ: loud bar music makes people drink more and drink faster, a study released Friday has found.

Montgomery County planners yesterday rejected a pair of land-use measures designed to bring one of Live Nation’s Fillmore music halls to Silver Spring, dealing a setback to one of County Executive Isiah Leggett’s signature projects.

With Rock Band and Guitar Hero revitalizing rock ‘n’ roll’s moneymaking mojo, suddenly everybody’s grooving on music games.

Terry McBride’s Nettwerk is perhaps best known for funding the legal defense for a 15-year-old music downloader sued by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). But the label, which counts Barenaked Ladies and Dido on its roster, has also set about transforming itself in to a digital distributor, on the cusp of pulling 70 percent of sales from online . For his efforts, the UK’s …

Streaming music site Last.fm on Thursday launched new features and underwent a massive facelift.

Jimi Hendrix’s music is coming to the “Guitar Hero” video game, according to the Seattle-based company Experience Hendrix, which controls the rock icon’s musical legacy.

Actress Mena Suvari is engaged to music producer/concert promoter Simone Sestito, People magazine reports.

David Kikoski and BeatleJazz. When: Tuesday-Wednesday, 9:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m. Where: Zinc Bar, 90 W. Houston St., New York. How Much: No music charge, no minimum.

IN a manner very similar to the flying prehistoric bone in Stanley Kubricks film 2001: A space odyssey, we fast forward to our day and examine how much is music imbedded in our lives and our education.

A sour note for The Music Man: Thursday nights performance at Pinewood Bowl was canceled by the rain and lightning storm. Weather providing, three more performances remain: Friday, Saturday and Sunday, all at 8 p.m. at the Pinewood Bowl Amphitheater in Pioneers Park.

There are numerous live music events fighting for your attention before August arrives with its vacations, Fringe Festival and, of course, the Minnesota State Fair.

San Francisco–While many music industry executives are crying in their soup, Walt Disney Music Group’s Damon Whiteside is singing “Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah.”

Nintendo Co Ltd said on Tuesday it plans to launch a music game for its hit Wii game console this year, taking it into the fast-growing software segment pioneered by “Guitar Hero.”

Walt Disney Records sees a whopping 60 percent rise in music sales last year because of the tween and young-teen music craze led by Disney star Miley Cyrus.

Pop star Natasha Bedingfield started out as a huge success in the U.K. and has made a smooth transition to the American music scene.

LOS ANGELES — A virtual symphony of music-playing games will soon be lining store shelves as game publishers and console makers try to capitalize on the growing popularity of the genre.

From Latin Jazz and Mambo to Salsa, Tejano, Chicano Rock, Latin pop, and Reggaeton, Latin Music USA tells the story of the rise of new American music forged from powerful Latin roots and reveals the often overlooked influence of Latin music on Jazz, Hip Hop, Rhythm and Blues and Rock and Roll - and on all of American culture.

MONTPELIER, Vermont : The cool guys of Ben and Jerrys have created a special ice-cream in honour of legendary Brit music star Sir Elton John.

Apple scraps plans to cut the price of music downloads on its iTunes service in the UK.

German media company Bertelsmann AG said Tuesday it will sell off its book and music clubs in several regions, including some countries in Europe and Australia.

VALPARAISO | A trio of Valparaiso University music faculty will perform classical chamber music during a July 17 recital at Valparaisos Center for the Arts.

This year?s Latin Alternative Music Conference showcases, like the one on Thursday night at the Bowery Ballroom, presented promising newcomers like the Mexican songwriter Ximena Sariana.

Scotland’s biggest music festival kicked off Friday with more than 85,000 revellers expected to gather on a airfield for T in the Park.

ST. CHARLES, Ill., July 11 (UPI) — Police in St. Charles, Ill., say they are investigating a music festival that was overlooked by officials until several fans were picked up on drug charges.

Music Web site Last.fm this week launched a royalty program that will pay artists a percentage of the company’s advertising revenue for streaming their music on the site.

Summerfest Concerts, founded in 1991 to offer professional chamber music to Kansas City audiences during the summer months, begins its 18th season with concerts today and Sunday.

The new Chocolate 3 for LG is compatible with Rhapsody’s subscription music service, and includes an FM receiver and stereo speakers.

French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy’s third album hits music stores today.

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