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Singer breaking from Net to mainstream

News Singer-songwriter Geoff Byrd may be the first artist to break into the mainstream music world from the Internet, but he's learning that there's still no free ride. As an unsigned artist on the GarageBand.com Web site, his music was consistently...

27 April 2005, 12:58

News.blog: Last.fm launches indie cash back scheme

News Back in January, social music service Last.fm announced that it would be launching something called the Artist On Wednesday, the service announced that the Artist Royalty Program had gone live and that more than 450,000 tracks have been uploaded in...

Tags: artist, royalty, upload, streaming

10 July 2008, 10:09

Sundance festival sees scope in new tech

News Ian Calderon, who heads up digital initiatives for the Sundance Film Institute, sees technology as an independent filmmaker's paintbrush, a tool that helps the artist tell a story. In her documentary, Strange Culture, actors interpret the legally...

18 January 2007, 10:25

Photos: Art of the video game

News Titan's Head', by Eduardo Gonzalez, was the artist's ticket to a job in a games unit at Sony. Into the Fray', by artist Daryl Mandryk, was inspired by Buena Vista Games' Turok. Into the Pixel is a juried exhibition that recognises videogame artists...

16 May 2006, 13:03

Start-ups let fans sell music online

News The idea draws in part from the venerable 'street team' promotions in which fans -- or at least people who might plausibly be fans of a band -- are deputised by record labels to talk up an artist or album among their peers.

17 August 2005, 10:43

iPod to transmit to radios?

News The invention, described as a "method for data transmission utilising a portable multimedia device", also taps an FM radio technology known as the Radio Data System (RDS) to wirelessly transmit data, such as artist and song title, to a receiver.

11 January 2006, 9:33

Sundance holds screening in 'Second Life'

News The film, Strange Culture, is director Lynn Hershman Leeson's unconventional documentary of an ordeal still plaguing Massachusetts artist and professor Steve Kurtz, who was there for the screening and question-and-answer session.

25 January 2007, 7:41

Creative wins patent for MP3 player interface

News For example, when a person selects the name of an artist, the player than displays a list of albums for that artist. Creative Technology said on Tuesday it has been awarded a patent for a user interface found in its portable media players and in...

1 September 2005, 9:42

Apple settles with Creative for $100m

News The patent covers an interface that lets users navigate through a tree of expanding options, such as selecting an artist, then a particular album by that artist, then a specific song from that album, said Phil O'Shaughnessy, a Creative spokesman.

24 August 2006, 10:31

Warner Music and Skype ring up deal

News To help promote the service, its online retail store will include a 'Featured Artist' section designed to showcase work from a single artist and include a link to a Web page where ring tones from that artist's music can be purchased.

31 January 2006, 9:40

Photos: Windows Media Player 11 unveiled

News If you have more than one album for an artist, you get a neat, stacked and fanned album-art effect. You can drag and drop albums, whole artist collections or individual tracks into this pane. Individual artist pages offer abundant information...

16 May 2006, 13:09

News.blog: Google offers to track your music habits

News Google Music Trends lists the top artist and song choices broken down by genre, as well as their movement in popularity on the chart. The specifics of the artist and songs each subscriber listens to, however, are listed on their personalised search...

18 August 2006, 10:49

Photos: Tech and art combine at Sundance

News Steinkamp said the project is a "dedication and a portrait of a teacher and artist I admire". However, since the LED boards are in between the viewer and the image, one has to look through a curtain of LED to see the image", according to materials...

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22 January 2008, 9:16

Vintage acts challenge YouTube

News But what could hurt the artist is when someone sees this video and thinks that the Village People have somehow endorsed Hitler or the Nazis. A multi-platinum artist can say 'You can't license the use of my recordings for commercials'.

17 September 2007, 11:51

Tate Modern Web site rehung

News The Series, which has already featured artist Tracy Emin, aims to explore the work of a single artist through interviews, their personal commentary and information on their works. Tate Modern has unveiled a revamp of its online offerings to...

27 June 2006, 10:52