Artist: IPODAuthor: Deegs
Pop quiz: what music and movie downloading app is installed on over one third of the world"'s computers" according to a new report from Digital Music News and media tracking specialist BigChampagne" The answer isn"'t iTunes" nor is it any other DRM"encumbered media program that has been blessed by Big Content. The answer [...]

Artist: MusicAuthor: Deegs
After 2006""a year when virtually no one managed to launch a digital"music service in competition with Apple"'s dominant iTunes""2007 was a refreshing change of pace.
Several fresh faces emerged onto the digital"music scene this year" buoyed in part by record companies"' newfound willingness to experiment with different business models" but also by the departure [...]

Artist: TicketmasterAuthor: Deegs
In a bid to consolidate its hold on live"music fans" the concert giant Live Nation said on Thursday that it would acquire the software and services to ramp up its ticket"selling operation" potentially positioning the company to compete directly with its longtime contractor" Ticketmaster.
Live Nation"'s entry into ticketing could shake up the hierarchy [...]

Artist: MTVAuthor: Deegs
As part of its quadrennial ""Choose or Lose"" youth voting initiative" MTV has announced a ""Street Team"" of 51 young amateur journalists" one from each state and the District of Columbia" who have been selected to cover the 2008 election and emphasize issues important to the younger generation.
""We couldn"'t ignore the explosion in [...]

Artist: SpearsAuthor: Deegs
Britney"s mum Lynne Spears will be publishing her book" but it won"t be a parenting manual" say her publishers.
Extra reports that although the book has been postponed in the wake of the revelation that Lynne"s 16"year"old daughter Jamie Lynn is pregnant" publishers Thomas Nelson Inc are pressing ahead with the tome.
"The media have [...]

Artist: BeckAuthor: Deegs
Beck"'s classic 1996 album "'Odelay"' is to be re"released next month.
Billboard reports that the double"CD reissue will feature rare tracks" remixes and previously unreleased outtakes.
Among the tracks will be "'Gold Chains"'" "'Inferno"'" "'Burro"' "a version of "'Jackass"' sung in Spanish with a mariachi band"" a cover of Skip James"' "'Devil Got My Woman"' [...]

Artist: KooksAuthor: Deegs
The Kooks have announced details of their new album" which will be released next year.
The album" the follow"up to their bestselling debut "'Inside Out"'" is called "'Konk"'" and is named after Ray Davies"' studio in North London.
"'Konk"' will be released on 14 April.
Among the tracks which will feature on the album are: "'Disappear"'" [...]

Artist: RadioheadAuthor: Deegs
Radiohead perform their new album" "'In Rainbows"'" in a special" pre"taped webcast which premieres on 31 December.
Billboard reports that the hour"long set will air on Current TV and Current.com beginning at 12am "US Eastern Time" on 31 December.
The set will be repeated three times throughout the next day.
The physical release of "'In Rainbows"' [...]

Artist: DolanAuthor: Deegs
The Taoiseach" Bertie Ahern" has led widespread tributes to Joe Dolan" the singer and entertainer who died yesterday afternoon at the age of 68.
A native of Mullingar" Co Westmeath" Joe Dolan died in the Mater Private Hospital in Dublin yesterday afternoon after he suffered a brain haemorrhage.
He had been suffering ill"health for some [...]

Artist: ReganAuthor: Deegs
Irish artists Fionn Regan and The Thrills are among the 54 acts on the longlist for the prestigious Shortlist Music Prize in the US.

Regan is longlisted for his debut album 'The End of History' while The Thrills are longlisted for their latest album 'Teenager'.
Among the judges of the 2008 prize are Snow Patrol's [...]