You’ll Have To Wait For An Invite To Try Spotify In The U.S.
If Spotify does indeed launch in the U.S. this week, it looks like most of you will have to wait. Mashable is reporting that Spotify will be invite-only at first so the company can scale demand. (And there will probably be a lot at first.)
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i’m getting my undergraduate degrees next year in two completely unrelated fields (psychology and economics). i’d like to do something along the lines of music editing. would i have to start all over again and get a different undergraduate degree? or is it likely for me to get into a master’s program (i know, a lot are very difficult to get into)?
Out & About, 07/09/11
Celebrate Mexican-American culture today with live music, art, food and an inflatable carnival for the kids at the outdoor Rocultura Mexican Cultural Fair in the courtyard behind El Diablo Restaurant, 101 Broadway.
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I’d like to have some kind of job working with music, such as helping to produce it or that type of thing. What sort of college degree would I need to get into that field?
How We Met: Patrick Wolf & Patti Smith
An English singer-songwriter, Wolf combines classical instruments with electronic sampling. He lives in London with his partner I was at a funny time in my life when I met Patti three years ago. I’d recently broken up with my now fiancé and I was in a bit of a mess.
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Support Japanese Earthquake Victims by Purchasing Play For Japan: The Album
In addition to arranging auctions of videogame-related items to raise money for Japanese earthquake victims — more than $122,000 was raised in the process — the Play For Japan campaign also led to Play For Japan: The Album. A collaboration of many well-known composers from throughout the industry, the album is another project seeking to raise money for the relief effort. It was originally …
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Montenegro hosts billionaire Nat Rothschild’s birthday bash
The tiny Mediterranean nation of Montenegro was the setting for the lavish 40th birthday celebrations of financier Nat Rothschild.
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Usually great music comes out of a recession. In this case it’s quite the opposite. Listen to Boom Boom Pow, Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, this new terrible act Kesha. Stop drinking the Kool Aid people. None of these people play instruments and if they do it’s not in the music. Obviously this isn’t a blog, but am I the only one?
I’m having a little bit of trouble finding colleges that offer this. I find colleges that have just music for musicians, but I want the business end of it.