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Fans determine Radioheads value
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterLAST week, a federal jury in Minneapolis slapped 30-year-old single mom Jammie Thomas with $222,000 in damages, ruling that she illegally shared music over the Internet. Apparently there wasn't any Radiohead on her hard drive. Late Tuesday -- at sometime...Tags: Jamiroquai (music group), Steve Martin, Radiohead (music group), Justice System, Music Industry
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Mark O'Connor, genre fiddler
Mark O'Connor sat in the small theater at UCLA as three earnest young music students -- a violinist, a cellist and a pianist -- determinedly worked through one movement of his Piano Trio No. 1, a piece commissioned and recorded by the Eroica Trio, one...Tags: Jamestown (Jamestown, Virginia), Aaron Copland, Marin Alsop, Career and Workplace, Music Industry
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Interscope emerges as star act for Seagram
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterLast week marked the one-year anniversary of Seagram's $10.4-billion purchase of PolyGram, which created the world's biggest record company and triggered the most brutal restructuring in the industry's history. In Los Angeles alone, more than 100 artists...Tags: Dr. Dre (music artist), Guns N' Roses (music group), Drug Trafficking, Gang Activity, Drugs and Medicines
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A reignited Reznor nails the feeling at Coachella
Times Staff WriterWhen a great artist from one decade returns to action in another, the best that can usually be hoped for is a reasonable approximation of the old brilliance. Prince's comeback tour last year may have been wonderful, but he still wasn't the man with the...Tags: Arcade Fire (music group), Music Industry, Missing in Action, M.I.A., Health
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Interscope is golden on the pop chart
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersFor the first time in 20 years, a single company--Interscope Records and its family of hot young labels--captured the top four positions on the nation's pop chart this week. With 10 albums in the Top 100 and a parade of potential blockbusters due out...Tags: Tupac Shakur, Marilyn Manson, Corporate Performance, Music Industry, Marketing
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MCA off to cautious start with Interscope
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterMCA Inc. on Wednesday formally completed its $200-million partnership pact with Interscope Records and quickly illustrated how it would try to avoid the national controversy over the Westwood-based label's involvement in "gangsta" rap. Interscope...Tags: Dr. Dre (music artist), Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Edgar Bronfman Jr., The Seagram Company Limited, Tupac Shakur
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Scrappy label thrashes the big boys
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterMaybe the pop world is finally ready to believe what Calendar predicted nearly four years ago: that by concentrating on cutting-edge rock and rap music, upstart Interscope Records would become the envy of the music industry. The Westwood-based company,...Tags: England, Joan Osborne, Metallica (music group), EMI Group Ltd., Corporate Performance
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They sure figured something out
Robert Hilburn is The Times' pop music critic. Chuck Philips writes about pop music for CalendarJimmy Iovine, whose credits as a record producer and engineer range from John Lennon to U2, still winces at the humiliation of being turned down by everyone he approached in 1989 to invest in the record company he wanted to start. "People took my calls...Tags: Parties and Movements, Ray Charles, Radio Industry, EMI Group Ltd., Entertainment
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Who are pop's hottest properties?
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterWho's the hottest property in the record business? That's not an easy question, but with conglomerates betting zillions of dollars on it, Calendar set out to conduct some independent research. The first thing we did was to declare everyone--from Michael...Tags: Guns N' Roses (music group), Neil Young, Metallica (music group), Spike Lee, Barry Manilow
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MCA to buy half-stake in Interscope
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterDefying opponents of "gangsta rap," MCA Inc. has completed a $200-million partnership deal with Interscope Records, the controversial Westwood label that Time Warner Inc. abandoned four months ago after a heated national debate over Interscope's lyrics....Tags: Dr. Dre (music artist), Satellite and Cable Service, Tupac Shakur, Television Industry, EMI Group Ltd.
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93-5 'KHY Rock Report
Headlines for Friday, May 24, 2013
SLAYER: Metallica, System Members Speak at Hanneman Memorial
Metallica's Robert Trujillo and System of a Down's Shavo Odadjian joined Slayer's Kerry King as speakers at Thursday's memorial service for...Tags: Chicago Wolves, Minnesota Twins, Guns N' Roses (music group), Mick Foley, Hubert Sumlin
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Lollapalooza on way to sellout; day-by-day lineups set
Lollapalooza will put 60,000 single-day tickets on sale Wednesday at 10 a.m. central for the festival Aug. 2-4 in Grant Park. The only question remaining is how fast they’ll sell out. The festival’s entire lineup leaked weeks early last...
Tags: Crystal Castles (music group), Dada Life (music group), Two Door Cinema Club (music group), Bonnaroo, Steve Aoki
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