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  How does the music industry work? Planet Money started a record label to find out

  NPR - Erika Beras , Sarah Gonzalez

  Earlier this year, a musician named Kinny Landrum sent Planet Money an email, and he made an unusual proposal. Back in the 1970s, Kinny explained, he was the keyboardist for an instrumental funk band called Sugar Daddy and the Gumbo Roux. This was the height of the "stagflation" era, when stagnating …

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  A punk rock museum is opening in 2023, funded by members of NOFX, Bad Religion, Foo Fighters... but not Green Day

  loudersound.com - By Paul Brannigan

  As NOFX wind down their career ahead ahead of their promise to quit in 2023, band leader 'Fat Mike' Burkett is intent upon preserving the legacy of …

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  Live music crisis: Animal Collective the latest to cancel a tour due to "unsustainable costs" in snowballing trend

  musicradar.com - By Will Groves

  Animal Collective have become the latest act to highlight the unsustainability of touring for many artists in 2022, citing soaring costs as they …

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  Oakland couple opens Bay Area's first listening bar dedicated to vinyl records

  CBS News - By Devin Fehely

  OAKLAND (KPIX) -- An Oakland couple walked away from jobs in the tech industry to open the Bay Area's first HiFi listening bar dedicated playing …

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  Who invented music? The search for stone flutes, clay whistles and the dawn of song

  theconversation.com - Laura Dallman

  Who invented music? – Rom, age 7, Las Vegas, Nevada The short answer is: No one knows who invented music. No historical evidence exists to tell us …

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  Kamal Haasan: Independent music has potential to grow bigger than cinema - Glamsham

  glamsham.com

  The 18th season of Bigg Boss, which began on October 6 with Salman Khan as The new season of Bigg Boss 18, hosted by Salman Khan, is already …