• Ornette Coleman's Best Albums by Decade: 'Shape of Jazz To Come,' 'Free Jazz' and More

    Ornette Coleman, one of the most innovative and influential figures in the history of jazz, died today of cardiac arrest and Music Times wants to revisit his catalogue across six decades and throw out the best of the bunch for those who haven't checked out his catalogue yet, including smashes such as The Shape of Jazz To Come and Free Jazz.

  • Walmart Ditching Justin Bieber, Celine Dion For In-House DJ

    As by far and away the largest retail store in the world, with revenues worldwide of $482.2 billion in the 2014 fiscal year, Wal-Mart is doing well as a business. It has come under fire over the past decade stemming from its treatment and pay of employees. It has largely ignored those pleas, but signs are that the company is changing. Minimum wage will increase to $10/hour, potentially to get ahead of a federal increase in minimum wage to the same dollar amount, and it changing the music in the stores. The music currently comes from a CD, which plays on loop, consisting of a lot of Celine Dion and some Justin Bieber, a very high concentration of Canadian acts. This has been driving employees crazy and the company announced at its shareholders meeting Wednesday that the company would employ a DJ, who would curate the soundtrack to its U.S. stores. The program is called Wal-Mart radio, which would be played to all U.S.

  • Branding Study Finds Country Women Like Carrie Underwood Resonate Most with Buyers

    A country radio DJ recently made headlines when he declared that if broadcasters were to feature less female-fronted music in their rotations, listener numbers would increase. That statement struck most decent human beings as stupid, and now a study from Creative Artists Agency—a company that specializes in branding—has given some solid proof that the statements were legitimately stupid. Turns out that three of the biggest six names among advertising's six biggest stars are country performers: Carrie Underwood, Reba McEntire and Faith Hill.

  • Moog Music Selling Iconic Synth Company Back to Employees Over Six Years

    Moog Music, perhaps the most famous brand name in the synthesizer market, will be sold off to the company's employees over the next six years, according to current CEO Mike Adams. The plan comes in part as a way of fulfilling founder Robert Moog's dream for the ownership of the company.

  • Lithuanian President Responds To Ten Walls' Homophobic Comments

    Normally heads of states do not bother themselves with drama in the music community, but when they lead a country of about 3 million and it involves one of your more prominent musical exports, they have to pay attention. Lithuanian president Dalia Grybauskaite spoke to journalists in Villnius and among other things, spoke about the recent homophobic comments Lithuanian DJ/producer Ten Walls made on his personal Facebook, saying it will be an opportunity for the country to begin a substantive conversation on intolerance in the country's society.

  • Spring Awakening 2015 Live Stream: Festival Announces Twitch Partnership

    Summer means good weather and a new festival every weekend. Chicago's Spring Awakening is preparing to open its doors in just over 24 hours and it has announced something special for those not in town or unable to score tickets. SAMF has partnered with T-Mobile and Twitch to host a festival live stream on the video streaming service. The three days will be aired on Twitch starting at 5 p.m. Central Time featuring some of the biggest names in electronic music like Tiësto, Zedd, Martin Garrix, Hardwell, Jamie Jones and new addition to the lineup Jack Ü.

  • Ornette Coleman, Saxophonist and Free Jazz Icon, Dead at Age 85

    Ornette Coleman, one of the most influential figures in jazz history, has died at the age of 85 from cardiac arrest, according to The New York Times. The saxophonist would make jazz history at the end of the '50s and during the early '60s with his audio experiments, which would form the foundation of what many now call "free jazz."

  • Is "New Romantics" The Next Taylor Swift Single? Singer Responds

    Taylor Swift has responded to rumors that "New Romantics," one of the three bonus tracks from the deluxe version of 1989, would also be the next single for the performer. Apparently a fan story on Tumblr suggested that Swift had recently wrapped up filming a music video for the track.

  • Carrie Underwood Wins 3 CMT Music Awards; Luke Bryan, Jason Aldean Place

    A good way to win a CMT Music Award might be to just stick Carrie Underwood in your video and run with it...nearly every nomination including the American Idol winner took home a prize on Wednesday night. Underwood herself won for Video of The Year with "Something In The Water" and Female Video of The Year for the same song, while her appearance helped Miranda Lambert to win the Collaborative Video of The Year with "Somethin' Bad." Underwood was also nominated for Female Video for her clip "Little Toy Guns," and alas, she couldn't win twice.
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