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Entertainment calendar (San Jose Mercury News) POP MUSIC, ETC. Major Bay Area concerts Feb. 22 Jaguares. 8:30 The Catalyst Club, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $51, $47 advance; $2 from the cost of each goes to Amnesty International. (866) 384-3060, http://catalyst.inhouse tickets.com. Come see, or be, a star in the NOC (Equinox) Six guys, five guitars and one harmonica rocked the stage in the Student Center Atrium on Thursday night. And ladies, take note: four of these soulful singers and strummers are single. Q&A: Taking Back Sunday (Penn State Collegian) Tell all your friends that Taking Back Sunday will be where you want to be and louder now than ever at the Bryce Jordan Center on February 22nd with openers Underoath and Armor for Sleep. Suretone Records and ARTISTdirect Announce Groundbreaking Peer-to-Peer and Vi... SANTA MONICA, Calif.----The ARTISTdirect Network, the world's largest independent music destination on the Web, today announced an innovative new peer-to-peer and video content initiative, which will both create a revenue stream and protect artists' rights. Music Labels Offer Teasers to Download (New York Times) The expansion of the online marketplace, coupled with ever-worsening CD sales, is now all but forcing the music companies to tread on ground they once viewed as off limits. Rubin Turns To Linkin Park, Weezer After Winning Buckets Of Grammys (MTV Musi... After winning five Grammys, Rick Rubin is turning to his 2007 roster, which includes Linkin Park, Metallica and Weezer. Cosmosis beats back the cold: 7-member group warms up crowd fast with music t... When the founding members of Cosmosis set out to put a band together, creating a rather ginormous ensemble wasn't their goal.It just sort of happened. Overture Directly Tomusic Fans Via Web (RedNova) By Jeff Leeds For all the disquiet the Internet has fostered in the music business, almost every rock star and record-label executive is intrigued with the prospect of marketing to music fans directly instead of wrangling over exposure with radio programmers and retailers. Shots still echoing (New York Daily News) For Matthew Gross, the memory of what happened when a gunman opened fire on the observation deck of the Empire State Building a decade ago is shattered like a broken mirror. Rubin Turns To Linkin Park, Weezer After Winning Buckets Of Grammys (Vh1) Rick Rubin never having won the Producer of the Year Grammy was the musical equivalent of Martin Scorsese never having won the best-director Oscar. And on Sunday, two weeks before Scorsese is expected to finally get his prize, Rubin was at last Newsfeed display by CaRP |