Condos, Condos, Condos, but Where Will Vancouver's Artists Go?

by Steve VenegasJane Wolsak feels a little down these days.  The 65-year-old artist with the proper British accent  whose paintings show with Gallery Jones has worked for twenty years in 901 Main, a...

TVT Record Label Files for Bankruptcy

I thought the days of Big Bad Record Companies messing with the lives of artists on their roster were over. Apparently not. Oh right, it was the days when record companies were able to earn a profit. To quote Lil...

Rothbury festival: the next Bonnaroo?

Michigan music fans must be excited about this one.The Rothbury festival will make its inaugural debut this July and it promises to be a green-powered, mega-music-filled weekend."It could turn out to be one of the...

SXSW Festival Announces 2008 Lineup

SXSW is the pre-eminent festival of its kind, mixing up a maddeningly overwhelming cocktail of three distinct conferences into one massive music, film, and interactive love-in that takes place each spring in...

Sonic Youth plan art show tour

I wonder if the art will be in keeping with Sonic Youth's more pastoral recent work, or if it will be as caustic as the band's earlier stuff.  I'm guessing probably both, but I have to say I've been enjoying...

SC Woman Reportedly Scammed Out of Life Savings

" By Jeffery S. Williams There's a search underway in Columbia, South Carolina for two scam artists who stole $86,000 from a senior citizen.Police say the woman in the yellow sweater stole the victim's...

[Theo van Gogh and] "Education By Murder" in Holland

Some four years ago, Dutch society was jolted by a savage daylight stabbing of a highly controversial film maker theo van Gogh.Related to Vincent, van gogh had made a name for himself  with an agressive,...

Age-A Drawing, new styles for new beginnings.

 It's time to find new ways of showing what we are about. Looking to the west you will see the latest developments in our society, ranging from the latest pop culture, to the newest underground movements....

'Punter power' for theatre, galleries, museums ... and football

"A fan should sit on the board of every football club while actors, artists and musicians should be drafted in to help run Britain's arts institutions, the new Culture Secretary says. In his first interview since taking over the post last week, Andy Burnham told The Observer...

Play entire tracks on last.fm--Free!

"As of today, you can play full-length tracks and entire albums for free on the Last.fm website."

Re-Making the Brand: P Diddy Becomes Sean John

You've got to love hip-hop moguls...one brand is never enough! "Pop has always been full of chameleons: artists who constantly reinvent themselves to keep us guessing (we guess). Examples include Bob Dylan, the...

Hip-Hop respecognized at Smithsonian

First exhibit of its kind.  The Man took a while to catch on to this new "rapping" trend."Grandmaster Flash, the Furious 5, LL Cool J, Common, Erykah Badu and other artists will be featured in a new...

EMI to cut up to a third of workforce in restructuring

The years of plenty of cash have long gone for the recording companies with the advent of downloads and free music via YouTube and MySpace.  EMI should have cut their cost years ago, but one gem remains their property portfolio which is worth millions.... "The new owners...

Sony BMG Joins Amazon to Sell DRM-Free Music

Sony BMG is the final major label to join Amazon's digital music store in selling music free from restrictive copy-protections, known as Digital Rights Management (DRM). Unlike iTunes and other digital music...

Amazon signs Sony download deal

"Fans of Beyonce, Britney Spears and the Foo Fighters will soon be able to download tracks from these artists that lack copy protection. Sony has announced a deal to put its entire catalogue of tracks on the Amazon MP3 store by the end of January. All of the songs on Amazon's...

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