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32 videos of Hal Willner’s ’80s series ‘Night Music’ that display his gift for weird, amazing collaborations

We lost Hal Willner yesterday. He was a gifted producer whose greatest skill may have been his ability to bring together disparate talents that you might not think would fit together but turned out to be truly inspired. One of the places where you can really see that in action was Night Music, a musical offshoot of Saturday Night Live that lasted two weird wonderful seasons…

The NY Times names hundreds more artists who lost masters in 2008 UMG fire

Just about every area of recorded music was hit by the fire, from jazz to punk to cabaret to comedy, new wave, historical speeches, metal, hip hop, you name it.

A bunch of artists wrote an open letter to Pandora who support the Internet Radio Fairness Act

This letter, signed by a ton of artists and pictured above, is set to appear in an ad in Billboard:We are big fans of Pandora. That’s why we helped give the company a discount on rates for the past decade…