MySpace reserves the right to take over MySpace URLs for their own purposes, as the Montreal-based band Mobile, an independent band that licenses its music through Universal Music Group in Canada, recently discovered. For nearly two years, Mobile had been...
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Poll: Is It Okay That MySpace Can Grab Your URL?
Inside the Unique Psyche of Axl Rose
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Axl Rose is not your average "crazy" rockstar, according to rock journalist, author and Guns N' Roses expert Mick Wall. The singer's personal issues apparently run much deeper. "He told Erin [Everly, his ex-wife] that in a previous life they'd...
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Full Interview: Mick Wall on Axl Rose
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From 1987 to 1990, journalist Mick Wall covered Guns N' Roses more and more seriously than any other journalist outside of America, and has authored multiple books on the band, including last year's W.A.R. The Unauthorized Biography of William Axl...
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Michael Jackson Settles Up With Sheik
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Monday was going to be a rough one for Michael Jackson. He was scheduled to appear in London's High Court to answer breach-of-contract charges from Bahrain's Sheik Abdulla bin Hamad Al Khalifa, who loaned The Gloved One $7 million American...
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Dr Pepper Extends Deadline After Servers Crash
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Just as most net-savvy Listening Post readers predicted, Dr Pepper's servers crashed when Chinese Democracy buyers logged on and tried to cash in on the gratis sodas offered by the soft-drink maker. It had bet -- wrongly or rightly, depending...
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McCartney: No Beatles on iTunes in the Near Future
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I've had it. This is the last article I am going to write about the Beatles' catalog possibly going on sale online until it actually happens. For years, reporters have been taunted and teased by rumors of the legendary Beatles,...
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British Karaoke Revenue Rises Despite Flagging Economy
Britain's Performing Rights Society has found one bright spot in the sagging global economy: karaoke, (Japanese for "empty orchestra"). Publishing revenue from karaoke in Britain is 10 percent higher than it was five years ago. And unlike most other forms...
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Vatican Forgives Lennon's Controversial Jesus Slam
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Better late than never, I suppose, especially if you're a religious person who loves The Beatles. But it happened at last: On Saturday, the Vatican's official newspaper L'Osservatore Romano finally rethought John Lennon's infamous 1966 claim that his band was...
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Dr. Pepper Pays Up, For One Day Only
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On Sunday, Guns 'N' Roses fans finally get to collect earnings on Dr Pepper's bet that the tumultuous band would never finish Chinese Democracy -- for 24 hours. After that, the freebies revert to huge traffic for the soft-drink manufacturer's...
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Geek Music Trifecta: Wii, Theremin and Star Trek
Observe, as Ken Moore plays the theme to Star Trek on his homemade Wii Theremin, complete with accurate vocal intro. "The technology links a Wiimote controller, infrared LED gloves and a Roland JV-1080 synthesizer to create Theremin-like sounds (sine wave),"...
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Robots Improvise Music Using Humans, Algorithms
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The Robotic Musicianship Group at Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology just blew our minds with some videos depicting robots playing music with real people. Great, you say. Some fake robot machine can, like, bang around on a drum or...
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Musebin: Twitter-Style Music Reviews with Reddit-Style Ratings
Musebin wants music reviewers to cut to the chase, big-time. Nevermind that girl you made a mix for in high school. Other music fans want to know what you think, and they want it now. Musebin (screenshots and invitation below),...
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Napster Judge Calls for Major Copyright Reform
Judge Miriam Hall Patel, who presided over the case that killed off original Napster, proposed a bold plan Monday to reform copyright for the digital age by creating a new public/private organization with authority over the licensing and enforcement of...
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Marnie Stern Has ADD, Taps Guitars, Teases Brains
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Her guitar technique is a finger-tapping frenzy, her new release is a tongue-twisting run-on, and her answers to our questions are strange and short. But Marnie Stern is just a normal punker who gets distracted from time to time. By...
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Building the Music School of the Future
Valencia, Spain will soon be home to a $145 million school of rock (and pop and jazz) from the Boston-based Berklee College of Music, which hopes to extend its successful contemporary music training program to European shores. "ARTeria Valencia" will...
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The Happy Hollows' Sarah Negahdari, Unhinged
She's simply murder on the guitar, using a hammer technique that recalls Van Halen as much as it does Marnie Stern. Her band The Happy Hollows excels in amped punk, rock and pop that channels the mischievous vibe of the...
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Spindrift's Nu-Spaghetti Sonics Mash Up Morricone
Revered composer and soundtracking innovator Ennio Morricone turns 80 on Monday, so Listening Post is celebrating his legacy all weekend. Why not start with his latest disciple Spindrift, which has upgraded the master's spaghetti sonics for the new millennium on...
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