MySpace’s new music service managed to bring major record labels together, but a group that licenses song rights for thousands of independent labels feels left out and angry, partly because indie musicians were a big reason the social networking site rose to prominence in the first place.

The National Symphony Orchestra has chosen Christoph Eschenbach as its next music director after years of searching.

YouTube has proven to be a powerful promotional vehicle and revenue generator for Universal Music Group, as it serves to connect the music label to over 400,000 channel subscribers who watch its ad-supported clips. That popularity has inspired UMG execs to explore the creating a “Hulu for music” standalone site, BillboardBiz reported, citing unidentified sources. The proposed site would offer …

YouTube has proven to be a powerful promotional vehicle and revenue generator for Universal Music Group, as it serves to connect the music label to over 400,000 channel subscribers who watch its ad-supported clips.

MySpace’s new music service managed to bring major record labels together. But a group that licenses song rights for thousands of independent labels feels left out and angry, partly because indie musicians were a big reason the social networking site rose to prominence in the first place. News Corp.-owned MySpace opened the much-anticipated MySpace Music on Thursday, giving its roughly 120 …

Competition from the internet forces Glasgow’s oldest music retailer to shut.

MASON CITY Elementary orchestra director Beth Frenchick lifted her arms and looked about the John Adams Middle School music room.

Just as vinyl once gave way to compact discs as the main physical medium for music, could CDs be replaced now by a fingernail-sized memory card?

The four major record labels will put their songs on the new format to help boost retail sales. Move over, compact discs. Something the size of a fingernail may offer the music industry a way to boost sales in retail stores as CD purchases continue to decline.

In a week that will see heavy coverage of MySpace Music when it launches, SanDisk (NSDQ: SNDK) has announced an ambitious venture to sell its microSD memory cards pre-loaded with DRM-free MP3 music from all the four majors EMI Music, *Sony* BMG, Universal Music Group, and *Warner Music Group*. The service, dubbed “slotMusic”, will launch this coming holiday season in U.S., at Best Buy and …

SanDisk is teaming up with some of the biggest music labels in an effort to ease the venerable and increasingly unloved audio CD into the retirement home. The Milpitas maker of flash memory said today that it is partnering with four top labels to roll out a…

Just as vinyl once gave way to compact discs as the main physical medium for music, could CDs be replaced now by a fingernail-sized memory card? Perhaps not entirely, but SanDisk Corp., four major record labels and retailers Best Buy Co. and Wal-Mart Stores…

The music has died for the National Music Center and Museum Foundation.

Residents of northern Los Angeles County are not grooving to this music.

Not music to everyones ears CALIFORNIA Residents of northern Los Angeles County are not grooving to this music. City officials in Lancaster said that on Tuesday theyll pave over a quarter-mile strip of asphalt that was grooved to play the William Tell Overture also known as the theme to The Lone Ranger at perfect pitch for motorists driving Honda Civics at 55 mph. The road was …

Residents of northern Los Angeles County are not grooving to this music. Lancaster city officials said this week that they’re paving over a quarter-mile strip of asphalt grooved to play the William Tell Overture when auto tires speed over it.

CHICAGO - Architects and church leaders have unveiled a $37 million plan to rebuild a landmark 1890 church on Chicago’s South Side that played a major role in the development of gospel music.

Mr. Kagel was an avant-garde composer whose often absurdist works blurred the boundaries between music, theater and film.

Mr. Kagel was an avant-garde composer whose often absurdist works blurred the boundaries between music, theater and film.

A New York man has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for his involvement as a paid member of a music piracy group. Barry E. Gitarts, 25, was sentenced Friday in Alexandria federal court.

The all-you-can-eat music services are getting chewed up and spit out. But rumors persist that Apple wants to get into the biz.

Nokia’s (NOK1V.HE) first phone model with free access to music is scheduled to go on sale on Oct 17 in Britain, retailer Carphone Warehouse said on its Web page.

A French museum has found a previously unknown piece of music handwritten by Mozart, a researcher said Thursday. The 18th century melody sketch is missing the harmony and instrumentation but was described as an important find.

Question: I’m a musician and I’d like to share my music with others. Are there any websites where I could upload MP3s so others can download them?

Before Kitty Wells, men didn’t just rule the roost in country music, they owned it.

Change is the buzzword for fall, and not just in politics. Amid the bumper crop of upcoming albums, ears are trained on artists facing crucial career transitions. USA TODAY’s music team looks at a dozen candidates whose new albums offer platforms for surges in critical and popular acceptance.

Myspace founders Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson have had an uneasy relationship with the music industry. Nearly every music act has a MySpace page; some of them, like British pop diva Lily Allen and American psychedelic-funk purveyor Gnarls Barkley, have used the social network to become stars. But two years ago Universal Music Group discovered unauthorized songs from U2 and Jay-Z on MySpace and …

Company wants to direct users to music available on multiple Web sites, but with many of these sites already offering a full range of services, will anyone need Yahoo?

DJ Dave Pearce is to switch his Dance Anthems show to digital station 6 Music from next month.

The New Century Chamber Orchestra began a new chapter Thursday night, welcoming Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg as its music director in an exciting, high-energy program devoted to South American themes. The change was immediately noticeable. Not that there was any…

Rather than cloister users into its own services, Yahoo Music plans to give them what they want — even if that means easy access to sites Yahoo once viewed as the competition. Yahoo’s motivation isn’t entirely altruistic: it plans to track user preferences across these services to create what it hopes will become a calling card music lovers can use to identify their tastes and desires wherever …

Fortune gets a first crack at doing a story on MySpace Music, which is launching in its new avatar next week. And while the News Corp (NYSE: NWS). subsidiary has been setting expectations on the music service sky-high with teasers, other established competitors like Imeem have been out in front on a PR offensive talking about how their services stack up in the market, their points of …

The first aspects of MySpace Music, a major partnership between News Corp. and the three largest record labels in the world, have been revealed to be a playlist creation tool and ‘buy’ links to Amazon’s MP3 store. Both sound more than a little familiar.

DEAR BILLY GRAHAM: What do you think of contemporary Christian music? Our church is beginning to use it more and more, but to be honest I’m having a hard time getting used to it. My teenage children like it, however. — Mrs. L.W.Y.

Updated below: Fortune gets a first crack at doing a story on MySpace Music, which is launching in its new avatar next week. And while the News Corp . subsidiary has been setting expectations on the music service sky-high with teasers, other established competitors like Imeem have been out in front on a PR offensive talking about how their services stack up in the market, their points of …

As CD sales shrink due to the ascension of digital, store closures and music space reductions, cable shopping channel QVC sees an opportunity and is stepping up its offering.

TUESDAY, Sept. 9 (HealthDay News) — Exposure to music therapy can dramatically improve the mental and physical condition of patients receiving palliative care, a new study suggests.

Most advances in digital music formats are extensions of the same linear playback techniques that have been heard since the wax cylinder. Musinaut’s MXP4 interactive music format goes beyond this, offering new possibilities for musicians and fans.

David Pittu’s “comedy with vocal selections,” What’s That Smell: The Music of Jacob Sterling , a satiric portrait of a musical theatre artist you’ve never heard of, officially opens at Atlantic Stage 2 Sept. 10.

Sony Ericsson’s mobile phone business has been struggling. But now, even though the maker of Walkman music phones has tried to stay away from “devaluing” the music industry, it apparently feels it has no choice but to introduce its own unlimited music download service. Read More…

Copyright 2008 ScoutNews LLC. All rights reserved. TUESDAY, Sept. 9 (HealthDay News) — Exposure to music therapy can dramatically improve the mental and physical condition of patients receiving palliative care, a new study suggests.

VietNamNet Bridge - Forty-five artists from Asia and Europe will attend the 2008 international music festival in Vietnam named Cracking Bamboo which will be held from September 15-22.

Billboard’s Mobile Entertainment Live, the pre-conference day before CTIA, started this morning with a panel including Michael Nash, EVP of Digital Strategy and Business Development from Warner Music Group , and Paul Smith, head of major label relations for Nokia , moderated by Antony Bruno of Billboard.

A new era in the cultural history of Dallas begins this week. Jaap van Zweden conducts his first local concerts as music director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra: a big-ticket gala Wednesday evening, at which he’ll also play the violin, and four concerts Thursday through Sept. 14.

The hip-hop star Kanye West will be the closing act at the 25th annual MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday.

Jaap van Zweden He wont begin his tenure as the Dallas Symphony Orchestras music director until this week, but the new concert season is already jam-packed for the Dutch conductor. Hell conduct Mahlers Fifth Symphony at the DSOs black-tie gala Wednesday, then again to open the season Thursday through Sept. 14 at the Meyerson Symphony Center. He also has been practicing the violin for …

What does the type of music you listen to say about you as a person? A New British study has found a link between different styles of music and the personality of those who listen to it.

There were classic cars, church floats, political candidates, marching bands, live music and, of course, horses. Nearly 160 entries marched in the parade that started at the Taylor County Courthouse at South 3rd and Oak streets, traveled north under the tracks down Pine, across North 6th Street and south on Cypress Street, under tracks and down Chestnut Street back to the courthouse, a trip that …

MANILA, Philippines - It was the first day of classes at the UP College of Music when our music literature professor asked us the question no one else in the entire college would have dared to ask.

Driving to work each morning this past week, I listened to classical music on the car radio Debussy, Bach, Vivaldi.

PETERSBURG Oren Pierson of Otter Lake near Girard had two reasons for attending the Traditional Music Festival on Saturday at Lincolns New Salem State Historic Site.

NEW YORK — It’s Britney, baby, one more time. Despite her train-wreck performance at the MTV Video Music Awards last year, the network confirms Spears will kick off the show once again.

He is a well-known figure in the local music industry who has produced songs for many artistes, including Sheila Majid, Siti Nurhaliza, Erra Fazira, Misha Omar and the late Sudirman.