DRM: What does it mean to me?
Apple Inc. announced yesterday the launch of iTunes Plus, a new worldwide portal for the company's popular iTunes Music Store that will sell only DRM-free music. The premium tracks will go for $1.39, 40 cents more than most regular songs, and be encoded at a higher bit rate. But no more geek talk. Here's what you need to know
PATRICK WHITE
From Friday's Globe and Mail
June 1, 2007 at 9:07 AM EDT
What is DRM?
DRM stands for digital rights management, an all-encompassing term for the meddlesome scrambling and inscription systems that control what you can do with digital audio and video files. The most common form of DRM limits the number of times you can copy a file. Found on CDs and DVDs, DRM can also restrict the use of a digital file to a single device or a single continent
Rocking with the classics
WHAT would a music teacher do if a student, when asked to name three composers of classical music, nominated Paul McCartney, Elvis Costello and Joni Mitchell?
In all likelihood they'd give them a tick, because far from being the exclusive realm of Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms, the world of classical music is becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish from the domain of commercial pop.
Just take a look at this year's Queensland Orchestra season, where Herbie Hancock has just featured, Queen's greatest hits are around the corner, and the year closes with The Whitlams.
A few years back, that would have seemed as improbable as the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra working with The Hilltop Hoods (yes, they are, right now), or the English National Opera presenting a new opera about Colone
QUEEN + Paul Rodgers to Tour winter 2007?
Roger Hints that "Queen + Paul Rodgers" to tour winter 2007
Under Pressure on BBC1's "Any Dream Will Do?"
The four semi-finalists sing "Under Pressure"
June 26 release date for QUEEN's "Collector's Box" DVD set!! ......
Not sure if many people have seeb this or not, just incase, here ya go! :) on June 26 they will release a QUEEN's "Collector's Box" DVD set........
Collector's Room: Queen
An interview with brazilian collector A.H.Seligman
MUSE BEMUSED BY ROGER TAYLOR'S WEMBLEY 'ADVICE'
Rockers MUSE were left bemused after asking QUEEN's ROGER TAYLOR for tips on playing at famed stadium Wembley - he said the venue was "s**t."
Lurex plays in Belo Horizonte - Brazil
Brazilian Queen cover band Lurex plays this Friday at the Stonehenge bar, in Belo Horizonte (MG)- Brazil
Queen hit, like you've never heard it before!
Bohemian Rhapsody launched Queen to stardom, now the handclap king has recorded a new version: Watch the video
Interview to Brazilian site by coverQUEEN
The band coverQUEEN, granted an exclusive interview for the Lady Taylor, of the site www.queenbrazil.com. In briefing, we will be publishing it also in the Portuguese language.
Big success for Rock at the Racecourse
07 June 2007
THE venue is more used to the sounds of joyous punters cheering their winning mount or unlucky tipsters crying into their beer.
But it was the music of legendary bands Queen and the Bee Gees which filled the air as about 2,500 music fans from toddlers to pensioners attended the first Rock At The Racecourse at Fakenham.
And organisers were so pleased with the turnout and reaction that they hope to make it an annual event at the popular racecourse.
“It went really well and the atmosphere was brilliant,” was Russells' Promotions joint managing director Andy Russell's simple verdict on Friday night's event.
“It was the first year we have held it here and to get those sort of figures gives us a great platform for next year.”
Rock in Rio for DVD Release
Mika channels his inner Freddie
Mika knows how to make an entrance. With Dolly Parton's "9 to 5" blasting out of the speakers, the gangly Lebanese-born British singer leapt across the stage at the Fillmore on Saturday.
Bulgaria loves "The Show Must Go On"!
Music Idol fans vote for Queen song at the final of Music Idol Bulgaria
Great music should be ours as well
IT may be the fault of convention, rather than the Gold Coast Convention Centre, that causes Gold Coasters to be denied the pleasure of seeing top-shelf, new age orchestral works in their own city.
My night in Bowie's bed
Determined to make my name as a rock columnist, I had immersed myself in the London music scene and was doing freelance work in the press office at London's Capital Radio.
Freddie Mercury’s Piano For Sale
You Brits or well-heeled international richies may want to check this out:
Couple set to rock audience
Audiences at the Norfolk premiere of the West End sell-out show We Will Rock You can expect a special connection between leading lady and man Scaramouche and Galileo.
Ballybunion tunes up for a killer Queen experience
NOSTAGLIC Kerry music fans are in for a treat on the double this month as Ballybunion’s Tinte·n Theatre welcomes not one but two blasts from the past.
Queen at Download 2007
The band HELLYEAH cover Stone Cold Crazy
Roger Taylor comming Hungary with the Eddie Jordan Band
Roger Taylor is comming to Hungary with the Eddie Jordan Band and Damin Hill on the F1 race (Hungaroring).
"A Life In His Own Words" will be published in Italy by Mondadori
Yes, now it's confirmed: Mondadori will publish Freddie's "A Life In His Own Words" in Italy
You're My Best Friend in Commercial
Toyota uses You're My Best Friend in its commercial
Queen - Seven Ages of Rock
Queen to be featured on BBC 2 music series tonight
JOSS GOOD FRIENDS..
Lady Diana a huge Freddie Mercury fan. Read more for details.
Don't Stop Me Now on a Peruvian TV Commercial!
Famous Queen's song DON'T STOP ME NOW is appearing now on a tv commercial on peruvian TV!
Watch live how Brian May receives Liverpool John Moores University's Honorary fellowship
Each year the ceremonies are shown live on the university's webcast. The ceremony will take place on July 19th. Visit the LMJU website for more details.
Sharon Osbourne loves Queen!
Orange playlist interviews Sharon Osbourne
Icons of Rock Tour Featuring Killer Queen
In TEXAS, USA .....
The Icons of Rock Summer Tour is coming to Moody Gardens Convention Center featuring the world’s top “Tribute Bands” performing live and showcasing the music and spectacle of Rock’s legendary bands – Queen, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, The Who, The Beatles, and The Rolling Stones. These nationally acclaimed tribute bands are uncanny in their ability to re-create the powerful look and sound of their iconic idols. Each band’s live rock concert, complete with state of the art sound and lighting, delivers an experience that takes you back to front row center for the glory days of rock. This summer Freddie Mercury, Bon Scott, John Bonham, Keith Moon and John Lennon are alive again and reunited with their original band mates through the extraordinary portrayal of some of the wor
"Freddie Mercury: Magic Remixed" on American Television
"Freddie Mercury: Magic Remixed" is playing on the VH1CR channel (channel 473) over the next couple of days.
Queen + Paul Rodgers Nine Songs Into New Album.
According to Billboard.com, a new interveiw with Paul Rodgers has him give away new details into the new Queen album.
Straker's New End performance comes straight from the Hart
Peter Straker welcomes the chance to play in a small, intmate theatre without the use of artificial aids, Bridget Galton writes
A MUSICAL journey through the life and lyrics of Lorenz Hart promises a treat for fans of Broadway show tunes.
Blue Moon, My Funny Valentine, The Lady Is A Tramp and Have You Met Miss Jones? are among the classics performed by the talented cast of five in From The Hart at New End Theatre in Hampstead.
Hart, a gay Jewish New Yorker, met musical genius Richard Rodgers at university. And, for the next 25 years, they formed a successful song-writing partnership.
But the troubled Hart had a fondness for drink and, in November 1943, he was discovered inebriated in the snow after the opening night of A Conneticut Yankee.
He died of pneumonia five days late
MAY + RODGERS READY HARMONIC NEW QUEEN ALBUM
Rock supergroup QUEEN are planning a return to the charts in 2008 after recording nine new songs with singer PAUL RODGERS.
BRIAN MAY STUNNED BY AEROSMITH SHOW
AEROSMITH have been given a huge boost by QUEEN guitarist BRIAN MAY, who is raving about the U.S. rockers on his website.
Another ITALIAN QUEEN PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION by Linda Curtis!
Queen and Freddie fan, Linda, will open the doors to her second one on...
"Flash" featured in promo for new Flash Gordon series in US
a 10 second promo for the new Flash Gordon series scheduled to air in August in the US in online. "Flash's Theme" is used.
STONE ALONE
Joss' big duet with Brian May scrapped.. because he'd rather spend time with the 'real stars' WHAT BRIAN WILL BE DOING INSTEAD
