Tuesday, August 22, 2006
Tower Records files for bankruptcy protection
By Harry Wallop
Business
22 Aug 2006
TOWER Records, which pioneered the music megastore around the world, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for the second time in two years. It has been become the latest and largest victim of the radically changing habits of music listeners,... read more...
Thursday, August 17, 2006
SIX STRINGS ANDAPLANKOFWOOD
YURI KAGEYAMA TOKYO
Bangkok Post
17 Aug 2006
The artificially-aged Gibson Les Paul Special is a replica of the 1960 original, but a US guitar technician made it exactly thewaythe original guitarwould look today, complete with cracked paint and tiny dents, scuffs and scratches. What’smoreunusual,... read more...
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
GOOD TIMES, BAD TIMES
Seven
13 Aug 2006
WHEN THE ROLLING STONES MAKE THEIR MUCH-ANTICIPATED return to the London stage later this month, it will surely be their farewell to the city in which it all began for them, back in the dreary black-and-white world of the early 1960s. For despite their... read more...
