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• Jack Black discovers his country music DNA
NEW YORK - Jack Black may have been schooled in rock, but now he’d like to sing at the Grand Ole Opry with wife Tanya Haden’s family, who recently turned him on to bluegrass music. The 39-year-old actor-musician energetically sings the ...
• Hospital music studio battles cancer with tunes
HOUSTON - Just down the hall from the chemo infusion rooms at Texas Children's Hospital, Jalen Huckabay was about to slip into another world, away from the wearying regimen of pokes, prods and pinches she'd endured since being diagnosed with lymphoma ...
• Apple cuts iTunes pricing, eases copy protection
SAN FRANCISCO - Apple is cutting the price of some songs in its market-leading iTunes online music store to 69 cents and plans to begin selling all tracks without copy protection. At the Macworld Expo trade show Tuesday, Apple's top marketing ...
• Album sales plunge, digital downloads up
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Music sales have continued to slump in 2008 as the increased number of downloads of digital tracks failed to make up for a plunge in the sale of compact discs. Year-end sales figures released Wednesday by The Nielsen Co. show total ...
• Microsoft working to debug Zune players
Microsoft said Wednesday that it was working to fix problems with the 30-gigabyte Zune, following a flood of online customer complaints about the digital music players freezing up. (Msnbc.com is a joint venture of Microsoft and NBC Universal.) “We ...