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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Digital Trends – As reported this week by CNET, Microsoft is apparently chatting with several record labels regarding the development of a music application that would be more similar to Pandora, Spotify, Rdio, MOG and other streaming music, subscription services than the Zune Music Pass. Conceptually, Microsoft would brand this service with the [...]

Dierks Bentley, “Home” (Capitol Nashville) A banjo kicks off Dierks Bentley’s new album “Home,” recalling a backwoods sound prevalent on his previous, bluegrass-inspired album “Up on the Ridge.” The similarities stop there. The bluegrass album generated rave reviews and but no radio hits. With “Home,” Bentley returns to contemporary country music and the top of [...]

(Reuters) ? Beyond Oblivion, a digital music startup backed by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp and investment bank Allen & Co Director Stanley Shuman has filed for bankruptcy protection after spending millions of dollars building a service that never saw the light of day. Journalists were given a preview of the New York start-up service that [...]

David Archuleta broke down in tears last night following a major announcement: he’s leaving the music scene for a couple years to pursue a higher calling. The former American Idol runner-up told a crowd in his home state of Utah that he’s taking an extended professional break in order to fulfill his two-year obligation to [...]

LOS ANGELES ? The executors of Michael Jackson’s estate will no longer have to pay some legal expenses and other costs out of their own pockets after a judge approved changes Monday to the estate that has earned hundreds of millions of dollars since the pop star’s death. The changes approved by Superior Court Judge [...]