Kev's News
None of the news you want - all the news you need!
Latest News
Archives
Topics
New Tech
Modern Life
Terrorism and You
Health/Environment
Art/Design/Music
Humor
Misc
About
Mailing List
Submit an Item
RSS Feeds
Copyright © 2024
Kevin Hughes
Advertiser
Feed
Star-Bulletin
Feed
HI Headlines
Feed
Pacific Business
Feed
Bytemarks
Feed
Hawaii Stories
Feed
HI Music News
Feed
HI Health Talk
Feed
HI Kingdom
Feed
State Reports
Feed
Craigslist HI
Feed
Search Results
for
song
December 20 to 31, 2005
The greatest opening
song
lines...
Mash-ups, or combinations of
song
s, are going mainstream and making big bucks for some...
April 18 to 24, 2005
ClearChannel will be tagging its music with color codes that reflect "indecent" content. Blue
song
s are OK, while orange
song
s can only be played after 10pm...
April 11 to 17, 2005
Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails made a
song
available in Apple's GarageBand format. This is likely the first time a musician has released the editable digital raw tracks to a
song
online. Let's se...
March 14 to 20, 2005
Some
song
s sung in Simlish are being groomed for mainstream radio play in English, like this one...
February 28 to March 6, 2005
Flirt with iTunes - boy meets girl via music sharing and manages to swipe 700MB of her
song
s as well...
"The Drugs I Need!" http://cu.convio.net/site/PageServer?pagename=Rx_
song
_download&JServSessionIdr001=slppxu14l1.app14...
February 21 to 27, 2005
In a panel at a Web conference in 1995 I talked about the inevitable rise of instant stardom and its perils, once the Web got popular. Here are some of the latest subjects - a very funny online vide...
January 31 to February 6, 2005
A film about Nomi, the strange yet influential bleeding-edge 80's artist: http://thenomi
song
.com/intro.ht...
January 17 to 23, 2005
I had the pleasure of listening to XM Satellite Radio all week (which was bundled with my Alamo rental car) while working in Mountain View, CA. It sounds great and the music choices are wonderful...
January 1 to 9, 2005
Here's what "Auld Lang Syne" really means. The
song
has a long, fascinating history...
December 13 to 19, 2004
Recording Academy members voting for the GRAMMY awards will now be able to listen to all nominated
song
s in the "Record of the Year" category via iTunes...
November 8 to 14, 2004
"The Persuaders" also featured a short clip of Bob Dylan in his Victoria's Secret commercial. The danger is that kids these days only know Bob Dylan as the "Victoria's Secret" guy. There is hope...
October 11 to 17, 2004
"The Sad
song
...
September 27 to October 3, 2004
The latest, greatest singer/
song
writers play the Hotel Cafe. Check out the CD...
August 22 to 29, 2004
Apple now offers
song
s in bulk via their volume discount program...
The hauntingly beautiful
song
writing and sounds of Jolie Holland, ex-Be Good Tanyas member. Her demo album was lauded as among the best of 2003...
July 12 to 18, 2004
Don't forget to hear Molvania's entry into the Eurovision
song
contest - "Elektronik Supersonik"...
June 7 to 13, 2004
The 50 coolest
song
parts...
The newest way in which labels pay to get
song
s played on radio - paid ads...
May 10 to 16, 2004
A high school prom committee falls under legal fire from the RIAA when it distributes a
song
played at the prom to students as a souvenir...
April 5 to 11, 2004
Here's Wing (sorry, not Wings). For your own protection, limit yourself to one of any of the following
song
s...
March 22 to 28, 2004
"Music industry way off track with
song
and dance about falling sales...
March 15 to 21, 2004
Apple sells 50 million
song
s over the Internet...
March 8 to 14, 2004
Hit
song
Science (HSS) analyses music for its "hit" potential, comparing a
song
's qualities to millions of others...
Check out this video clip on HSS from NBC - it shows how musical desirableness is analyzed visually in a 2D graph of 2.5 million
song
s...
George Michael will offer his
song
s freely online from now on, a music industry first for an established artist. Actually this is a great strategy for someone with an already popular back catalog...
February 16 to 22, 2004
Heard the Grammy Award-winning
song
of the Year "Hey Ya", the one with the phrase "shake it like a Polaroid picture?" Thanks to advances in instant photography, doing so can actually damage you...
December 22 to 28, 2003
The top 50 singles of 2003 The best not-so mainstream
song
s from the hip Pitchfork Media...
December 8 to 14, 2003
A good interview showing his thoughts on the music industry: "The response I've been getting from real people is so much more enthusiastic than those people who just wanted to manage my career......
Alexi has become popular on the strength of his self-made year-old 4-
song
album on cdbaby, two
song
s off which have already been featured on national TV shows. Many college/independent DJs and majo...
October 20, 2003
* 10 million
song
s were sold in 4 months...
September 30, 2003
The RIAA withdrew one of their suits due to mistaken identity - This Mac-using grandma was liable for $300 million for stealing
song
s by artists such as the rapper "Trick Daddy"...
September 15, 2003
The iTunes music store just sold its 10 millionth
song
! Yay...
September 8, 2003
Want to know what brands are mentioned the most in popular
song
s these days? Here's a chart, updated weekly...
August 12, 2003
Now that everyone has access to professional-class studio software, we are seeing the rise of "Bastard Pop" -
song
s made of two other
song
s you'd never would have put together. Read the Salon article...
July 16, 2003
"Why," you may wonder, "are you sending me email like this, Kev?" you may ask. I say: because you have a committed interest in keeping the world from being absolutely mediocre. Therefore an...