music industry

Some of L.A.’s hottest DJs work for a firm from Concord, Ont., finding Muzak for a new generation of shoppers

Jesse Brown weighs in on a recent ruling on digital music and copyright law

If you can’t judge the new generation of divas, teach them

Toronto band makes, promote and distributes its own albums

The national broadcaster is reaching outside its mandate with a free digital music service that has private firms crying foul

‘Bieber’s too young to vote, yet whoever we elect will impact his future and ours’

The highlight of last night’s American Idol was a contestant’s performance of “Footprints in the Sand”, a song that hit big for Leona Lewis as a charity single in 2008. Many viewers were probably surprised to learn that Simon Cowell, a man famous for his no-nonsense, unsentimental persona, actually had a writing credit on this piece of sentimental nonsense.

Speaking on the first day of the World Newspaper Congress in Hyderabad, India, Rupert Murdoch’s US leader accused the press of being the “principal architect of its greatest difficulty today”. …”We are allowing our journalism—billions of dollars worth of it every year—to leak onto the internet. We are surrendering our hard-earned rights to the search engines and aggregators, and the out and out thieves of the digital age.” [link]