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Zoo music festival ready to begin (BBC News) A three-day music festival at a zoo in Kent is ready to begin, with 20,000 fans expected to attend. us.rd.yahoo.com
Mobile Music A $7.3 Billion Industry By 2011 (TechWeb via Yahoo! News) InformationWeek - Research firm eMarketer predicts that music sales as a whole will continue to decline, but online and mobile markets will grow rapidly. us.rd.yahoo.com
NEWS: Kanye West, Mary J. Blige & Chris Rock Headline Essence Music Fest (SOHH) By Brandi Hopper The Essence Music Festival will be bringing some of hip-hop and R&B???s biggest acts to to New Orleans this Independence Day weekend. us.rd.yahoo.com
Music Went With Cave Art In Prehistoric Caves (Science Daily) Thousands of years later, we can view stone-age art on cave walls, but we can't listen to the stone-age music that would have accompanied many of the pictures. Researchers report that the most acoustically resonant place in a cave -- where sounds linger or reverberate the most -- was also often the place where the pictures were densest. In many sites, flutes made of bone are to be found nearby. us.rd.yahoo.com
Priestley says music industry 'a mess' but works (AP via Yahoo! News) Jason Priestley says he got a crash course on the Nashville music industry while directing a reality series about the Canadian band the Road Hammers. us.rd.yahoo.com
Denver Music Promoter Delivers A Weekend Of Dreams (CBS4 Denver) The upcoming Mile High Music Festival is the brainchild of promoter Chuck Morris. It's a feat only someone with his experience could pull off. us.rd.yahoo.com
Legendary music business up for sale (The New Zealand Herald) Legendary music store Real Groovy and its entire collection of associated businesses are up for sale. Managing director Chris Hart told the Weekend Herald yesterday a bad foreign exchange deal had left the 28-year-old business in need of capital. us.rd.yahoo.com
Jazz: Music to Hit Fort Collins Stage, Screen (All About Jazz) Starting Tuesday, Fort Collins is offering six days dedicated to experiencing the music in a variety of ways, with outdoor shows, indoor gigs, films and more. us.rd.yahoo.com
Pixie among new wave of fresh young faces at summer music gig (hellomagazine.com via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News) While it's usually Bob Geldof's elder daughter Peaches in the social spotlight, her little sister Pixie is fast becoming an equally ubiquitous face at the coolest bashes in town. The 17-year-old was helping get the party started in the VIP enclosure at a music festival in London on Thursday. us.rd.yahoo.com
Slow months bring cutbacks at Music Hall (Detroit Free Press) Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts has temporarily furloughed nine full-time workers -- 41% of its staff -- along with eight part-time contract workers during the summer months when activities at the nonprofit theater slow to a trickle. us.rd.yahoo.com
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