Marklund is seeking six bands to participate in its second annual “Battle of the Bands” Music Fest, which will be from 1 to 7 p.m. Aug. 10 at Marklund’s Mill Creek Campus, 1S450 Wyatt Drive, Geneva.

Last month, the rock band Motley Crue began selling a single off a new album exclusively through the video game “Rock Band” with great success. It’s another new way for the music industry to find paying customers online.

Country music fans, don’t look to the Kane County Fair this year to see a big-name act.

Initially a purveyor of a clever CD-swapping service and then online music streaming, Lala is now trying a unique new approach of renting music for a nominal fee. Ars ponders the new business model while taking Lala’s new store for a spin. Read More…

Howard Stringer, the CEO of Sony (NYSE: SNE), is on stage talking about, among other things, Sony’s position in music: “We have sold about 170 million music enabled phones, which is more than iPods…we have sold that in about two years. We started the trend with the Sony Walkman phone, mostly in Europe. Clearly there is something happening in digital music on phones…Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has led …

Howard Stringer, the CEO of Sony , is on stage talking about, among other things, Sony’s position in music: “We have sold about 170 million music enabled phones, which is more than iPods…we have sold that in about two years.

The Cathy Hodges Memorial Music Fest will kick off Taltree Arboretum and Garden’s “Music in Nature” concert series at 450 W. County Road 100 North, Valparaiso. Hodges was a Taltreemember whose passions included gardening, music and enjoying life. Local musicians will be donating their time 2-6 p.m. Sunday. A variety of musical styles will be featured. Guided tours of Taltree plus games for …

People make the music, but when this music remotely becomes particular at a geographical place, in particular when such a place is historically significant, due to the actions of its inhabitants by the centuries, then the personal element amalgamates with the place itself. It is the case with the island of Crete. With much of cultural occasions the Crete limits and Crtois are interchangeable. The references to Crete or Crtois, evoke, inter alia, the music crtoise with its notes of detail and the noises characteristic. This music connects the valor and the spirit of Crtois by the centuries. It is a cultural worked object in musical form which was a long time badly included/understood by other Greeks in the continent.

Upcoming productions are going with complex themes. MODERNISM HAD a good run, the historian Peter Gay concludes in his new study of the subject. His estimate is about 120 years, beginning with the simultaneous publication in 1857 of Flaubert’s novel “Madame Bovary” and Baudelaire’s collection of poems “Les Fleurs du Mal.” In music, that span extends through the wild avant-garde experiments of …

HEMET - Tucked away in a quiet part of town, far from where most people would expect to find it, is one of the Inland area’s best kept secrets — a full-service, professional recording studio that caters to major names in the music industry, as well as local talent.

One of St. Andrews Roads stalwart businesses has managed to thrive despite a slow commercial slide along the thoroughfare. Sims Music, at 1110 St. Andrews Road, is about to start its second expansion this decade, owner Jerry Sims said. Sims, 54, opened his flagship instruments and music lessons store in 1993 along the Richland County portion of the road. His business has grown even as St. …

UPDATED: 00 :14 a.m. EDT, May 18, 2008 Chuck Yarborough becomes a volunteer on the Steamship William G. Mather. Talk arts, movies, music, dining and more!

The best of classical music festivals this summer from Arizona to Wyoming will feature Mitsuko Uchida, Joshua Bell, the Tokyo String Quartet and more.

PISCATAWAY:You don’t have to be Greek to sample the homemade Greek food and pastries, wine and gyros, or to enjoy the ethnic folk dancing, live music and singers that will all be part of the 35th annual Greek Festival at the Saint George Greek Orthodox Church in Piscataway.

On Wednesday, the City Council is scheduled to vote on an ordinance that would make Chicago’s most responsible music clubs pay a steep price for a tragedy they had nothing to do with.

The next big thing at Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus, will be a celebration of the region’s rich cultural heritage. The Coal and Coke Heritage Music Festival will take place on campus from 10 a.m. to dusk Sept. 27.

Party goers in Santa Clara County were obviously not thinking about their mothers tonight. On the eve of Mother’s Day, Santa Clara County Deputy Sheriff Skip Yenchik said angry residents from Gilroy to Cupertino called police to complain of loud music blaring in their neighborhoods - all before

It occurs to me this Mother’s Day that CDs were designed to be the trophy wives of music lovers. Think about it: Those old vinyl albums introduced us to hot tracks from Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, the Rolling Stones, the Beatles and Parliament /Funkadelic.

An “old-school” Music Row tradition will end Saturday when the Longhorn Steakhouse on Lyle Avenue closes its doors for good.

They’re black, wear yellow coats and have a nose for pirate movies and music: meet Lucky and Flo, two Labradors trained to sniff out not drugs or explosives, but the polycarbonate contained in DVDs and CDs.

The Cleveland Institute of Music has appointed Juilliard String Quartet first violinist Joel Smirnoff as president.

With Timbaland as its first producer in residence, Verizon Wireless’ mobile recording studio marks the company’s latest effort to transform the music industry.

Nowhere was the sense of continuity between 19th and 20th century music so pronounced as in Russia. Across a traumatic revolution and two world wars, the nation’s composers (even those in exile) kept the categories and conceptions of a bygone world firmly in…

Matthew McKay described last year’s inaugural two-day Stagecoach Country Music Festival in Indio as “epic” and “insane.” He’s especially proud of the YouTube video showing him dancing at an after-concert party.

Singer Shelby Lynne delivered an expletive-laced tirade against the Stagecoach Country Music Festival from the stage on Friday, then made an obscene gesture to fans photographing her.

Gramophone the leading classical music magazine in the world, 85 years old and based in London plans to allow readers to buy CDs and downloads from its Web site.

A federal court on Wednesday established a formula for determining the Internet royalties owed to thousands of music composers, writers and publishers by three major online services Yahoo Inc., AOL and RealNetworks Inc.

Merely making copies of music available does not equal distribution, or primary copyright infringement, the judge said.

Offering unlimited music downloads to phone buyers will make money for Nokia as well as record labels, the handset maker said, dismissing talk the move would come at the expense of profits.

Offering unlimited music downloads to phone buyers will be a profitable business for Nokia as well as for record labels, the handset maker said, dismissing talk the move would come at the expense of profits.

A giant helium-filled pig didn’t drift off to hog heaven after it was released into the night sky during Roger Waters’ performance at the Coachella music festival. It’s been found in pieces.

ASCAP is ballyhooing a federal court ruling today that AOL (NYSE: TWX), Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) must pay higher licensing fees for streaming songs by its 320,000-plus songwriters, composers and music publishers. The license period covered by the ruling from U.S, District Court for the Southern District of New York, acting as a “rate” court, could go as far back as July …

A federal court on Wednesday established a formula for determining the Internet royalties owed to thousands of music composers, writers and publishers by three major online services _ Yahoo Inc., AOL and RealNetworks Inc. The American Society of Composers,…

A federal court has dealt a body blow to the recording industry’s efforts to sue people who use peer-to-peer software to download music from the Internet. In fact, says one copyright lawyer, the P2P decision could mean the end of the Recording Industry Association of America’s litigation strategy.