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Vivid Seats sells discount concert tickets for this year's most anticipated shows and music festivals. This ticket source has almost a decade of experience in the industry and offers customers a way to buy and sell tickets online. From Metallica concert tickets to Dave Matthews Band tickets, you can compare prices and seating for venues all over the country.
AMANDA PALMER & MICHAEL POPE INTERVIEW - Watch this interview with AFP and director Michael Pope as they discuss the creation of video for music, the beginning of filming for the Who Killed Amanda Palmer videos, and specifically the video for "Runs in the Family." This interview is taken from the Who Killed Amanda Palmer DVD: A Collection of Videos.
"Play" 10 Years Later: Moby's Track by Track Guide to 1999's Global Smash -
How scratchy field recordings, Gwen Stefani and a Leonardo DiCaprio flick transformed him from a "has-been" into an international star
When Play was released, I kind of thought my career was over," says Moby. He's speaking from the sparse, utilitarian Manhattan studio where he recorded the 1999 smash in the years before the walls were dotted with awards documenting its 10 million copies sold. Play wasn't the first album to make a rock star out of an insular techno nerdnik, but it was the first to make one a pop sensation. An effortless blend of atmospheric swoops, block-rocking beats and bluesy a cappellas nicked from...
Michael Jackson: The Essential Playlist -
Look back at the King of Pop's remarkable career in Rolling Stone's archives. Check out photos, cover stories, album reviews and more at our Michael Jackson hub.
Culling a playlist from an artist as estimable and...
"Not Like Other Guys": Rob Sheffield Remembers Michael Jackson -
Look back at the King of Pop's remarkable career in Rolling Stone's archives. Check out photos, cover stories, album reviews and more at our Michael Jackson hub.
The night Michael Jackson died: a street corner in...
Michael Jackson Fans Flood L.A. Landmarks to Remember King of Pop -
Look back at the King of Pop's remarkable career in Rolling Stone's archives. Check out photos, cover stories, album reviews and more at our Michael Jackson hub.
Soon after word of Michael Jackson's death got around...
Reuters - More than half a million fans from around the world applied for 17,500 free tickets to Michael Jackson's public memorial service next week, organizers said on Friday as a massive security operation got underway.
R&B singer Maxwell ends seven-year break
(Reuters)
- Reuters - A vanishing act has become practically de rigueur for R&B musicians of a certain caliber. Many make a mega-hit album or two, collect Grammy Awards and critical accolades -- and then disappear.
AP - The powerful sedative Diprivan was found in Michael Jackson's home, a law enforcement official said Friday as the city planned for a massive crowd at the singer's memorial service.
Reuters - Since he swept into power 50 years ago, Cuba's Fidel Castro has been honored in poems, movies and paintings and now in reggaeton, a form of music widely popular among Cuban youth but not island leaders.
Reuters - For a reunited band bent on having a future, Stone Temple Pilots spent most of its House of Blues show Wednesday visiting the past -- the distant past.
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[April, 2006] We've launched a new section where we feature reviews of music software (mainly plugins, VST, VSTi, DX, DXi) every now and then. We'll usually provide sample mp3 files available for download so you can audition the software. We've also formed a section where all the contests and their respective winners are announced (participation to these giveaways is naturally free).
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[Updated on June, 2006/February, 2005] RockReviews has now an RSS feed http://www.rockreviews.org/rss.php. We recommend using FireFox browser, in order to take the full advantage of this feature. You can click the orange icon on the right corner of the status bar to add a live bookmark. Afterwards you'll be able to check the 10 latest music reviews from the bookmark directly. Quite convenient ;) Due to Your wishes, we've now updated the feed to show genre on the feed title.
[Miscellaneous Music Industry News] If you want to download and listen to songs in full length for free prelistening, check out the new electronic music store where you can listen to any song 3 times in full length. In addition to compressed OGG format, you can buy music also in lossless FLAC format there. You have to register to be able to download the prelistening versions (which are free), and to be able to buy songs/albums... It's at Mindawn.com. Please, use rc2f9f3k as a referral code, if you register there as an artist.
