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The following is an interview with ONErpm founder and CEO Emmanuel Zunz, one of the most bullish executives on streaming music’s growth potential. Zunz is all blue sky, though he’s also backing his enthusiasm with free streaming distribution for all artists, a huge move that’s part of a broader, walk-the-walk approach to digital music distribution. […]
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Good job, internet. You can call the recent leak of documents related to the raid of Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch an act of salacious, ‘click-bait’ journalism. You can attack publications, like Digital Music News, that report, publish, and asked questions about this information. But just because the New York Times isn’t writing about it doesn’t mean […]
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The long, expensive, messy ‘Stairway to Heaven’ case is over… Today (June 23rd), a California federal jury officially rejected claims that Led Zeppelin stole the opening riff to their hit song ‘Stairway To Heaven’. The accusation was that the band blatantly lifted the critical guitar progression from a song called ‘Taurus,’ originally composed and performed by […]
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But how do you claim them? Over the weekend, Ticketmaster started notifying millions of past buyers that they were eligible to attend free shows. The only problem is that it was difficult to actually view the list, at least for a large percentage of eligible people, thanks to some website issues. Now, nearly 500 shows are […]
The post Ticketmaster Adds Another $10 Million In Free Ticket Giveaways (Here’s How to Get Them) appeared first on Digital Music News.
One band who paid $1,000 to play the festival learned just before they were going to make 3 hour trek to play LaconiaFest in Laconia, New Hampshire that the headliner for that evening, Sevendust, had pulled out. This band started inquiring about what happened but their point of contacts were MIA. They could only go […]
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There are only so many notes that can be assembled into a melody. Actually, there are 12 of them in Western music. That melody can only be combined with so many rhythms. It’s a finite mathematical number, and simple math dictates that the same melodies and rhythms, and various combinations thereof, will keep recurring over […]
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Michael Jackson family members blasted back against leaked documents tying Michael Jackson to pedophilia, declaring the documents both false and ‘click bait’ designed to exploit the singer’s name. “Everything in these reports, including what the County of Santa Barbara calls ‘content that appears to be obtained off the Internet or through unknown sources’ is false, no […]
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Please note: there are no images of the items listed in this report. If you want to see the images, go to the leaked report as published by Radar Online, here (NSFW, possibly disturbing depending on your sensitivity). [Pages not in order; listed how they appear] Page 4: Evidence Item #507. Piece of notebook paper, with drawn image of […]
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Jackson may have had a sickening collection. Authorities discovered stockpiles of child pornography and lewd images of animal torture at Michael Jackson’s residence at Neverland Ranch, but didn’t disclose those findings to the general public according to a recently published report. Radar Online has now released an 88 page dossier of disturbing images and documents, which somehow […]
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Another buried old song has emerged in the ‘Stairway to Heaven’ copyright infringement lawsuit. Back in April, a Digital Music News reader unearthed a classical composition from the early 1600s that sounded nearly identical to ‘Stairway to Heaven.’ That piece, written by pre-baroque composer Giovanni Battista Granata, raised the possibility that the famous progression from ‘Stairway’ is actually in […]
The post Exclusive: Old Folk Song Proves That ‘Stairway to Heaven’ Is In the Public Domain [LISTEN]… appeared first on Digital Music News.