How to Download MP3s From Streaming Music Sites (Wired News)
Your favorite music sites let you listen to songs all day for free, but only as a stream -- if you want to load one of those songs onto your iPod and take it with you, you'll have to go buy it. But your browser stores streamed MP3s temporarily on your hard drive. Learn where to look and save them for later with our guide.
Music festivals cater to young, old, in-between (MSNBC)
Moms push strollers through throngs of bare-chested, tattooed twenty-somethings while guys sporting mohawks and ripped jeans sip beer. Welcome to the new face of music festivals, where everyone from kids in diapers to retirees come to rock out.
Michael Phelps to host Saturday Night Live, present at Video Music Awards (Dallas Morning News)
LOS ANGELES — He does comedy, writes books, and mixes it up with the hottest stars in music and Hollywood. With all this, who needs swimming? Certainly not Michael Phelps — not anymore, at least. But as a presenter at the 2008 Video Music Awards, all that fresh Olympic bling will certainly help.
Politics and music intersect with Rage (Pioneer Press)
These days, the rock scene is low on mysterious figures. As the music has lost its countercultural edge, many of its champions have transformed into average celebrities, happy to speak into any microphone that wanders by. That's not true of Zack de la Rocha: The Rage Against the Machine vocalist is the rare rock star who keeps his distance from the hype.
Michael Jackson at 50: The music is still welcome even if the man is not (The Palm Beach Post)
"Michael Jackson is one of the greatest talents known to music history."
DNC Music Minute: 'Yes We Can' (NPR)
As part of the program's Music Minute from the Democratic National Convention, listen to a portion of the song, Yes We Can , by popular musician Will-I-Am. The song was based on a speech given by democratic candidate Barack Obama.
MUSIC NOTES: Blackwater Sol in St. Augustine (The Florida Times-Union)
Now that things are drying out, music is really picking up. It has the makings of a busy fall.
EFF Urges Copyright Office to Fix Digital Music Mess, but Carefully (Electronic Frontier Foundations)
In comments filed today, EFF joined with other public interest and consumer groups in urging the Copyright Office to clarify the process for licensing digital music services, but to steer clear of larger digital copyright controversies.
Vietnamese pop star prepares for music gala in Beijing (Vietnam Net)
VietNamNet Bridge - Ho Quynh Huong, one of Viet Nam ’s most renowned pop singers, is busy training for a music gala to be held in Beijing on September 16 to pay tribute to the recently-concluded Olympics.
Watch Selena Gomez Dance With a Mop in New Music Video (US Weekly)
Selena Gomez isn't afraid to get dirty in her new music video! The 16-year-old dresses up like a maid and dances with a mop while singing her new song, "Tell Me Something I Don't Know," which includes lyrics like "Betcha not to treat me like a child, baby" (Watch above). See behind-the-scenes photos of Selena Gomez's video. The tune will appear in her movie, Another Cinderella Story, ...
