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- Best music options for New Year’s Eve
- The best pop music of 2008
- There’s still music for the holidays
- RIAA Asks ISPs To Police Music Pirates
Best music options for New Year’s Eve
Chicago Tribune United States
Cynicism creeps in and New Year?s Eve can feel like an annual ripoff the time of year that pressures everyone to have a good time — the time of their lives ! — while spending inflated prices to be entertained. But there?s hope whenever great music is being played and there?s a plethora of it available next Wednesday in the hours leading up to midnight. Here are a few of my choices for the best way to celebrate the arrival of 2009: Magic Slim & the Teardrops at Buddy Guy?s Legends 754 S. Wabash $25 773-427-0033: For a blues fix it?s difficult to top the mighty Slim who has been dishing out classic Chicago house-rocking music with a dash of country and soul for three decades. His opener master guitarist John Primer is another longtime scene fixture and Slim collaborator. Local H at the Bottom Lounge 1375 W.
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The best pop music of 2008
San Francisco Chronicle USA
Despite some minor glitches – such as the sound cutting out twice on Radiohead and intoxicated revelers roaming the streets of the Richmond howling late into the night – the inaugural three-day festival went surprisingly well drawing about 130000 people into the park putting 65 bands on its six stages and finally giving San Francisco the first-class music festival it deserves. LW: If Axl Rose never delivered “Chinese Democracy” it would have become one of rock’s lost treasures inspiring the kind of mythology that followed Neil Young’s “Homegrown” and Pink Floyd’s “Household bjects. ” Instead after 17 years of breathless anticipation whatever passes for Guns N’ Roses these days slipped the disc out through appliance retailer Best Buy revealing something that sounds a lot like Axl now looks: overdone synthetic and emotionally stunted. MST IMPRVED: A year ago Britney Spears’ primary purpose was driving up page views for Perez Hilton.
There’s still music for the holidays
Fresno Bee CA
It’s tough to find the motivation to get out of the house. But if you’re a live music lover here are five reasons you should head out.
RIAA Asks ISPs To Police Music Pirates
CRN NY
The RIAA has taken controversial approaches in going after music pirates creating a firestorm in pursuing cases such as trying to sue a dead person and a 13-year-old girl reported The Wall Street Journal which broke the story Friday. The RIAA’s legal maneuvers during the past five years and 35000 cases later were ineffective and unconstitutional according to critics such as The Electronic Frontier Foundation. “Ending the lawsuit campaign is long overdue” said Fred von Lohmann senior staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation. “The campaign has been by any measure a failure. The lawsuits have not reduced unauthorized file-sharing and have not gotten a single artist paid. In switching tactics the organization is seeking cooperation from ISPs: if an Internet user appears to be pirating music the RIAA will.