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July 1, 2009 - Universal Audio is expanding its award-winning UAD Powered Plug-Ins platform to laptop users with the release of the UAD-2 SOLO/Laptop, a compact ExpressCard-based DSP Accelerator, now shipping worldwide.

In the first full week after Michael Jackson's death, total album sales shot up to nearly 7 million units, a level not seen since early April.

Gemalto , the world leader in digital security, today announced it has signed a partnership with Universal Music Group , the world's leading music company, to jointly promote the Smart Video Card as a new music distribution channel.

The New Brunswick Court of Appeal has upheld a lower court ruling that awarded about $750,000 to the disgruntled member of a world-famous cymbal-making family.

Nina Rung of Domination TV conducted an interview with the Michigan-based melodic death metal band THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER at the 12th annual Tuska open-air metal festival, which was held June 26-28, 2009 at Kaisaniemi in Helsinki, Finland.

Independent musicians who want to retain the rights to their own songs will now have the opportunity to do so while marketing their offerings through a major label - Universal Music Group.

Fans of television's long-running "Soul Train" will now have the chance to purchase DVDs of the pioneering dance show.

Guitar Center has announced the return of King of the Blues, the nationwide search for the next great undiscovered blues guitar player.

As the musical instruments retail industry faces a significant global downturn, Paul Reed Smith Guitars announced today steps aimed at minimizing the impact of a difficult economy.

Universal Music Group's distribution arm is teaming up with digital track distributor TuneCore, a move it says will give it a leg up in signing up-and-coming artists without a recording deal yet.

Universal Audio reports that its UAD Powered Plug-Ins Platform has surpassed 30,000 users worldwide, making it the second-largest audio plug-in processing platform in the world, second only to Digidesign's TDM.

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Panic at the Disco guitarist Ryan Ross and bassist Jon Walker are leaving the band "to embark on a musical excursion of their own," they announced Monday.

At a bustling factory on the outskirts of this eastern Pennsylvania town, one of the world's oldest guitar makers is using a Depression-era strategy to keep production flowing and avert layoffs.

Mon, Jul 6, 2009 Sun Expanded Coverage Sun fighting home UFC officials have pulled the plug on Fridaya s Limp Bizkit concert at Mandalay Bay.

As predicted, Michael Jackson is once again the King of the Pop charts. Based on preliminary sales numbers from Nielsen SoundScan, the entire top nine positions on Billboard's Top Pop Catalog Albums chart will house Jackson-related titles when the tally is released in the early morning on Wednesday.

Responsible for managing sales in Northeast U.S. Shure Incorporated announced that Rick Renner has joined the company as a Regional Sales Manager, and will be responsible for managing sales for Shure in the Northeast U.S. "It's great to have Rick on our team," said Jim Schanz, Director of U.S. Field Sales.

Shure Incorporated in Niles, Ill., announces that the company is extending its Canadian rebate program of up to $1,200 for the trade-in of Shure 700MHz frequency band wireless systems and related components and for any other manufacturers' qualifying 700MHz frequency band wireless systems and their related components until the end of the calendar ...

MILWAUKEE - " The world's largest and most innovative music print publisher, Hal Leonard Corporation unveiled its completely redesigned website this week.

Yamaha Corporation has selected PV's award-winning TwonkyMedia server software to enable the seamless sharing of digital music content on its new line of home audio products named MusicCAST2, which includes the new MCX-RC100 Network Music Commander and compatible MCX-A300 and MCX-P200 Network Music Players.