Sony and McDonald’s are discussing a music deal. “The two companies have been hammering out the details of a pact in which McDonald’s would provide fast-food diners with free songs from Sony’s online music store, Sony Connect.”
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Indie Times At SXSW
This year’s SXSW fest in Austin Texas was a raucously independent event. “While few of the 1,261 acts booked to perform during the conference’s four nights of showcases would object to selling a million albums, the festival’s tone was one of modesty and realism as participants shared advice on how to sustain a career with CD sales in the thousands, not the millions, and with a full calendar of performances rather then video shoots. Most bands were more concerned with having gas money to get to the next show than they were with the major labels’ bugaboo, Internet downloading.”
Hytner’s Reinvented National Theatre
Nicholas Hytner has become a star leading London’s National Theatre. “From the start his regime has been charged with a dynamism of purpose, a desire to redefine the National and its role, not just in theatre but the country as a whole. ‘A national theatre has never been more necessary because the very word national is up for grabs and the concept is fraught with possibilities’.”