Word: cd
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...punks have been cowed into silence; rather, their influence in a country where 2 out of 3 are under the age of 30, with many hungry for Western cultural imports, has perhaps never been greater. In the run-up to the presidential election, many young voters were eagerly trading CD mix tapes featuring underground artists - practically all working under pseudonyms - campaigning for the leading opposition candidate, Mir-Hossein Mousavi...
...prereleases and better audio quality than the free service, which forces users to listen to ads after every few songs. Spotify says it can't reveal exactly how many of its members are currently using the premium service, but spokesman Jim Butcher says recent developments, such as the CD-quality streaming, are driving uptake. (See top iPhone applications...
...Phillips pointed out the company spent as much as the city (about $1.2 million - $1.5 million) putting on the free event for the public, covering ticketing expenses and the like. The company could defray some of its own costs with memorial DVD or CD sales, but Phillips declined to discuss specifics. "We have had a lot of calls about that," he says of memorial DVDs...
...into controversy in 1991 when a CD was released that included profane remarks he had made on tape dismissing the band U2. "This is b-------," he said. "Nobody cares. These guys are from England and who gives a s---?'" (See the top 10 celebrity meltdowns...
...outburst punctured a tightly orchestrated effort to show the media the extent of the destruction wrought by the city's small Uighur community on July 5. Reporters were given a CD that showed several minutes of footage of the mostly Uighur rioters attacking civilians and destroying property. Unlike the official response to the deadly unrest last year in Lhasa, the Tibetan capital, when the region was closed to outsiders for several months, journalists in Urumqi were given relatively free rein...