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By Dan Rys, New York
| 6:14 PM, January 27
Fans attempting to purchase tickets for Bruce Springsteen's upcoming "Wrecking Ball" tour were locked out by a frozen Ticketmaster site, which the company attributed to an "assault" by scalpers looking to re-sell tickets for a profit.
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By Dan Rys, New York
| 4:36 PM, January 27
Epic Records Chairman/CEO L.A. Reid announced today that Pough, who had previously worked as SVP of Urban Promotion at Island Def Jam Music Group, would be overseeing urban promotion strategies and business models for the label.
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By Jason Lipshutz, New York
| 4:12 PM, January 27
On Thursday night (Jan. 26), Antony Hegarty of Antony & The Johnsons unveiled "Swanlights," an operating, awe-inspiring one-time performance piece presented in conjunction with the Museum of Modern Art at Radio City Music Hall in New York.
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By Associated Press
| 4:05 PM, January 27
Facebook is expected to file IPO paperwork as early as next week, in a move that would value the social networking site at between $75-$100 billion, dwarfing Google's initial IPO value of $23 billion in 2004.
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By Maria Sherman, @mariasherm N.Y.
| 3:15 PM, January 27
Last night, hotly-tipped Cleveland-based band Cloud Nothings performed in front of a sold out crowd (which included a 40-person press list) at NYC's Studio at Webster Hall. In the house: booking agent Dan Traci from the Windish Agency, Jason Kapiskosky from Carpark and Pitchfork founder Ryan Schreiber -- a frequent sighting at indie buzz-band shows who partied like it was his birthday because, well, it was his birthday.
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By Ed Christman, New York
| 12:46 PM, January 27
Willard Ahdritz, Founder and CEO of Kobalt Music Group, today announced the appointment of Richard Sanders to the newly created position of President.
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By Glenn Peoples, Nashville
| 12:15 PM, January 27
Spotify has broken the 3 million subscriber barrier across its 12 markets, meaning that despite high-profile holdouts like Adele and the Black Keys, the service is still growing strong.
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By Gary Trust, New York and Keith Caulfield (@keith_caulfield), Los Angeles
| 11:02 PM, January 26
Adele's "21" becomes the first album by a single artist ever to top the Billboard 200 concurrently with three Hot 100 No. 1s, as "Set Fire to the Rain" takes over at the latter list's summit, following Hot 100 commands of "Rolling in the Deep" and "Someone Like You" while "21" was previously in charge of the Billboard 200.
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By Mitchell Peters, Los Angeles
| 10:34 PM, January 26
Kevin Wall, the founder of Live Earth and producer of Live 8 and many other mega-events, has joined on as a partner of the inaugural Tadasana Festival, a yoga and music festival to be held April 20-22 on the Santa Monica (Calif.) beachfront. The Earth Day Weekend festival -- conceived by Fabian Alsultany and Tommy Rosen -- will feature 50 yoga instructors and 100-plus classes/workshops with in-class music performances from artists across the globe.
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By Phil Gallo, Los Angeles
| 9:01 PM, January 26
Intending to reflect the epic nature of this NFL championship, NBC commissioned composer Joel Beckerman to create an orchestral-rock hybrid of Williams’ 2006 piece “Wide Receiver” for use during Super Bowl XLVI on Feb. 5. Beckerman described one version as dubstep, another as bombastic rock with percussion, and a third simply as “a percolating soundtrack.” It’s titled “Epic Matchup.”
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By Glenn Peoples, Nashville
| 8:37 PM, January 26
The challenges of today’s record business are on full display in the latest Village Voice Pazz & Jop Critics Poll. The annual list compiles music critics’ votes for the year’s best releases... One takeaway is that attention spans are short. Also, music critic and pop culture writer Chuck Klosterman weighs in on the winner of the Pazz & Jop poll, “WHOKILL” by Tune-Yards (aka Merrill Garbus). And, if the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) aren’t good solutions for dealing with foreign-based copyright infringement, what kind of bill might their critics support?
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