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The new Warner Music Group is dumping about half its roster of artists in order to cut costs. For the artists being cut, this more or less sucks, but it may benefit those artists who remain as each will (in theory) get more attention: More than a thousand employees got …

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Exceptional rabblerousing speech by Rob Light of Creative Artists Agency, delivered at 2004 Concert Industry Consortium: TURBULENT TIMES: Where are the answers? ….Every new technology since the beginning of the last century has caused that generation to scream “the sky is falling.” The silent film business was a wonderful new …

In the wake of 9/11, the line between diligence and paranoia has grown fuzzier than ever, as this story demonstrates: Steve Kurtz, a Buffalo art professor, discovered on the morning of May 11 that his wife of 20 years, Hope Kurtz, had stopped breathing. He called 911. Police and emergency …

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, which goes into effect on November 15, was passed in the wake of the Enron accounting scandal. Interestingly, it will have profound ramifications for the recording industry according to an essay by Richard Menta: The Sarbanes-Oxley act was designed to protect investors by improving the …

Entertainment giant Viacom has been shaken by the resignation of president Mel Karmazin on Tuesday, and chairman of the Viacom Entertainment Group Jonathan Dolgen on Wednesday. HITS Daily Double has a nice summation of the Karmazin situation: Sumner Redstone’s bombshell announcement yesterday that he will relinquish his CEO title at …

I am trying to view the world in a positive light – I have lived the cynical, jaded life in the past and it is ugly, empty and sour. With that in mind, I am trying to think of all the good that a “delegation of peace workers, musicians, artists …

Natalie Davis will be very happy about this: KATHLEEN MARSHALL – “Best Choreographer” DONNA MURPHY – “Best Female Dancer” HUGH JACKMAN – “Best Male Dancer” June 1, 2004, New York, New York — The awardees of the 2004 TDF/ASTAIRE AWARDS, which are presented annually for the “Best Dance on Broadway” …

But she has to sing her songs live and wear “appropriate” clothing – okay she doesn’t really have to sing her songs: Britney Spears’ first China tour has been approved by the Culture Ministry, but they want to know what she’s wearing before she hits the stage, the official China …