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...midcareer move from indie idol to Avril Lavigne wannabe is in part financially motivated. Phair is a single mom with a 6-year-old son. When she turned in the original material for her fourth album to her record label, Capitol, there were polite nods and a sales prediction--"Goldish," recalls Phair, or around 500,000 copies. In the cruel calculus of the record business--in which everyone gets his cut before the artist and a majority of singers owe their record companies money--gold barely pays the bills. "It takes me a long time to make a record...
...sponsors seem to be moving more and more to sports events." Whatever the logic of the sponsors, jazz remains a tiny but relatively healthy segment of a music industry in general turmoil. Wulf Mueller, vice president for international marketing at Universal Music International, which owns the prestigious Verve label, says his group's jazz sales rose 29% over the past two years, while Universal's overall record sales dropped off 20%. "Jazz doesn't get pirated much, its audience is a little older and a little wealthier, and they like to own things," he says. "The demand for quality music...
While Schreiber dismisses the label “big science”—he said he “cringed” when Vest used the word to describe the institute—he agrees that there is a divide among those interested in “bigger science” and those...
...Koil, the godfathers of this rock scene, still seem more interested in another bottle of Singa Jengke than scoring a major-label deal. That night, as we chill out at their favorite hangout?a sprawling Chinese cemetery on a hill high above the flickering lights of Bandung?and pass around the hooch, it seems like these guys believe being on the fringe is where...
...Florida. Scheduled for touchdown next January, Spirit and its twin, Opportunity, set for launch later this month, will study the geology of Mars, looking for evidence that a vast area of water once existed on its surface. Only three NASA spacecraft have successfully landed on Mars, which some scientists label a "spacecraft graveyard...