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...Music in a deal that lets Skype dip into the label's expansive catalog to offer ringtones to its 74 million users, adding to its premium services - which generate most of Skype's revenues. The Material Girl, Green Day and Mike Jones are headlining Skype and Warner's landmark debut into the $1.2 billion ringtone industry. In fact, at $1.50 a pop, ringtones are like "found money" for both parties, says music-industry analyst Charles Golvin of Forrester Research. "Neither has to do a whole lot of work - just license, sit back and count the money rolling in." Some...
This Brooklyn band released its debut without money--or tinkering--from a record label, and you can hear the absence of both. From Alec Ounsworth's thin, David Byrne-like vocals to the miles of ether between the pop hooks, the album is not exactly market friendly, but abstraction has its rewards. They include the floating ecstasy of the break-up song Over and Over Again (Lost and Found) ("Now where's the woolen sweater/ You mentioned in the letter?/ Imply/ The other guy") and the partial fingerprints of Joy Division and R.E.M. on Upon This Tidal Wave of Young...
...Music in a deal that lets Skype dip into the label's expansive catalog to offer ringtones to its 74 million users, adding to its premium services--which generate most of Skype's revenues. The Material Girl, Green Day and Mike Jones are headlining Skype and Warner's landmark debut into the $1.2 billion ringtone industry. In fact, at $1.50 a pop, ringtones are like "found money" for both parties, says music-industry analyst Charles Golvin of Forrester Research. "Neither has to do a whole lot of work--just license, sit back and count the money rolling...
...Blanks.’ make sure that ‘the’ is in lowercase. We’re grammar Nazis.”Sheesh. Even the indie rock bands at this school are perfectionists.Hoping to make a splash on the national indie scene with a debut EP and a high-profile gig at The Middle East rock club, these four undergraduates can’t seem to make up their minds: one minute, they’re calling the Harvard milieu too closed-off; the next, they’re hosting their CD-release party as a posh...
Harvard sophomore Kaavya Viswanathan ’08 got in, got $500,000, and got a film deal. Her debut novel, called “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life,” will be available in bookstores this spring. The book, which tracks an academically-driven girl of Indian descent as she learns to loosen up, has already been picked up by DreamWorks Studios, who is in talks with Viswanathan about a film adaptation. Contrafilm and Alloy Entertainment will produce, according to Variety. The joint English and American Literature and Language and Economics...