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Yahoo! Music
Hurts Competition
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 Internet
powerhouse Yahoo Inc. is introducing an online music subscription
service that will enable consumers to download thousands of songs onto
their portable MP3 players for $60 annually, undercutting the prices of
the current industry leaders by more than 60 percent.
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Diamond Dave
on WZLX
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 Former
Van Halen frontman and ex-Brookline resident David Lee Roth will be
behind a microphone in Boston all this week, but he's not going to be
singing any of his old band's hits..
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Cellphone
maker Nokia to use Microsoft Media Player
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 Nokia,
the leading cellphone manufacturer and a longtime Microsoft rival in
mobile phone software, said on Monday that it had agreed to use
Microsoft's music formats in its handsets.
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SIRIUS Ends Year With More Than 1.1
Million Subscribers
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SIRIUS Satellite Radio announced that it ended 2004 with over 1.1
million subscribers, exceeding its year-end target of 1 million. The
company attributed the results to robust retail sales, growing awareness
of the benefits of satellite radio, and greater recognition by consumers
of the company's premium quality programming.
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Pantera/Damage Plan Guitarist Dimebag Darrell Shot
Dead On Stage
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Damageplan guitarist Dimebag Darrell (born Darrell Abbott) was shot dead
at the Alrosa Villa nightclub in Columbus, Ohio, last night. Soon after
the band began playing, a gunman charged the stage and began firing at
the band and into the crowd.
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 Outkast gets first multi-platinum download award
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OutKast has become the first act to be awarded a multi-platinum award
for paid-for music downloads from the US record industry.
The hip-hop duo received the accolade for selling at least 400,000
downloads of Hey Ya, while The Way You Move and Roses got platinum
awards for 200,000.
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Plymouth Philharmonic’s 89th Season
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Opening Night of the Plymouth Philharmonic’s 89th Season is scheduled
for Saturday October 2 at 8:00 PM in Memorial Hall at 83 Court Street in
Plymouth. This year’s opener, called the Tariot Family Classical I
Concert, will feature the American premiere of Les Paons (The Peacocks),
a complete ballet score by an accomplished and prolific composer. The
Wellesley College Chamber Singers will also participate.
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Ramone Guitarist Dies of Cancer
9/16/04
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Johnny Ramone knew better than anyone that we're all "Here Today and
Gone Tomorrow."
Ramone, guitarist of the legendary punk rock band The Ramones, died in
his sleep Wednesday in Los Angeles at the age of 55.
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Unscrambling Digital Music Confusion
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Due
to an ever-growing array of digital rights management (DRM) strategies,
incompatible file formats, and disparate portable music devices, the
digital music scene has gotten complicated. Nevertheless, digital music
is selling briskly online, and innovative new strategies for
distributing music and sidestepping proprietary formats are appearing.
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Forget Radio, Tune Into The Net
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The concept has many names: Web radio, webcasting, streaming jukeboxes,
Internet broadcasts. With Internet radio, listeners can tap libraries of
millions of songs that would never be broadcast on the airwaves.
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