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Reports to Air on all ABC News Broadcasts and Platforms Beginning Friday, February 22

Thursday, February 21, 2008 -- With the New York Philharmonic set to perform a live concert from Pyongyang, ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff will report from inside North Korea on the Philharmonic's historic visit, beginning Friday, February 22. While there Woodruff will also report on the ongoing denuclearization process.    » read more »

- New York Mets and Billy Joel add second -- and final -- show Friday, July 18, for last concert ever at Shea Stadium
- Tickets go on sale this Saturday, Feb. 23, at 9 a.m. (EST) at 507TIXX.com

Mar. 15 is the new ticket on sale date for Kenny Chesney's Poets & Pirates concert at AT&T Park

02/14/2008 -- Tickets to the biggest country show to ever come to the Bay Area, Kenney Chesney's Poets & Pirates Tour, will go on sale Saturday, March 15, at 10:00 a.m. on sfgiants.com. Please note that this is a new on sale date from the originally announced date of February 23.    » read more »

London, 21 February 2008 – EMI’s songwriters and artists enjoyed a successful night at the BRIT Awards yesterday with wins for Arctic Monkeys, Take That, Kylie Minogue, Mark Ronson and Kanye West. For the second consecutive year EMI Music Publishing songwriters won BRITs in six of the 12 categories.    » read more »

February 20, 2008, Beverly Hills, CA — The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will kick off its March calendar of public events with “The Art of Sound,” an evening celebrating the Oscar® nominees and winners from the 2007 Sound Editing and Sound Mixing categories, on Saturday, March 8, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.    » read more »

14 February 2008 -- Iron Maiden’s year has got off to a roaring start with the February 4th release of the band’s long-awaited DVD Live After Death smashing straight into the UK music DVD charts at Number One not only outpacing its nearest competitor by three to one, but outselling the rest of the Top 6 combined!    » read more »

First studio album in four years from Lenny Kravitz - It Is Time For A Love Revoution - debuts at number 4 on Billboard album chart

Release of exclusive track to launch twelve-month programme of activity

11 February 2008 -- EMI, the (RED) campaign and Channel 4 today announce their collaboration on the UK release of multi award-winning film WE ARE TOGETHER. The organisations will launch a twelve-month programme of activity with the release of a song from the film’s soundtrack, available as an exclusive MP3 download online.    » read more »

11 February 2008 -- Veteran jazz pianist Herbie Hancock has won the album of the year prize at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards.

Hancock's album - River: The Joni Letters is a tribute to singer/songwriter Joni Mitchell.

Hancock said in his acceptance speech Sunday in the U.S. city of Los Angeles that it had been 43 years since a jazz artist won the top album Grammy.

Troubled artist Amy Winehouse won song of the year for her hit "Rehab", an autobiographical song about drug addiction that closely mirrors her life.    » read more »

5 February 2008, NASHVILLE, TN -- EMI CMG today announced that AT&T will be the presenting sponsor of the “BOOMIN’ BEYOND MEASURE” tour with multi-platinum and award-winning BEC Recordings and ForeFront records’ artists Jeremy Camp and TobyMac. Kicking off this week, February 6th in San Antonio, the tour will also feature special guest, Sparrow Recording artist Matthew West (full routing below).    » read more »

02/05/08 -- Warner/Chappell Music (WCM), the global music publishing arm of Warner Music Group Corp. (NYSE:WMG), today announced a worldwide publishing agreement with Grammy Award-winning producer, hit songwriter and singer, Barry Gibb. As both leading member of the Bee Gees and the co-writer of the group’s remarkable body of work, Gibb has been awarded seven Grammys and was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame along with his brothers in 1997.    » read more »

Nashville, Tennessee, February 4, 2008 - Universal Records South has appointed Arthur Buenahora, Jr. to Vice President of A&R it was announced today by Mark Wright, President for the label. Buenahora will report directly to Mark Wright effective immediately.    » read more »

SpinVox Blog allows band to update website with text ‘in the moment’

LONDON, 4th February 2008 -- As Alphabeat bring their infectious blend of feel-good pop to UK audiences with their first ever national tour, fans can keep up with the band’s activities while they are on the road via a regular tour blog posted on ThisIsAlphabeat.com. From the first night the tour kicks off, the band will be using services from SpinVox and technology from moblog:UK to send in personal text, voice and multimedia messages directly to fans via their website.    » read more »

SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT music videos now on MSN Video

London, 5th February 2008 – The latest music videos, news and information on some of the world’s most popular artists from one of the world’s biggest music companies, SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT, will soon be available on Microsoft Europe’s free, video-on-demand internet channel – MSN Video.    » read more »

Concerts feature even more of Marlins fans' favorite international performers