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"Beatles For Sale"Beatles for Sale
The company that owns Beatles copyrights is now licensing their most famous tunes. Today, find out why the most valuable (and fiercely protected) back catalogue in music history will be turning up in more movies, TV ads, and Hip Hop Tracks. And later: we speak with a professor whose ultra-rare folk music field recordings have just been released as a boxed set.
All You Need is.. Luvs?
The company that owns Beatles copyrights is now allowing rappers to interpret their most famous hooks. Billboard legal analyst Susan Butler, and Rob Kaplan, director of music production at ad agency Mcgarrybowen, join us to discuss why Beatles music might soon be turning up in everything from movies to Luvs diaper commercials. Plus: your calls.
Weigh in: Does licensing Beatles' songs for advertisements tarnish the band's legacy?
The Art of Field Recording
During his career as a painter and University of Georgia art professor, Art Rosenbaum spent his off hours making field recordings of folk music. He joins us to share stories and songs from a new box set, The Art of Field Recording: Vol. 1, which compiles recordings from the Eisenhower administration through the present.
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In Studio: The Decemberists
The Portland, Ore., band's latest album, "The Hazards of Love," is a concept album with a mythological flair. They joined Soundcheck to play live for a studio audience in WNYC's Greene Space.
Sound Off
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Throughout May, Soundcheck presents “Sound Off” a Friday series on the many aspects of noise in music and our lives. The series -- which coincides with “Better Hearing and Speech Month” -- looks at issues like New York’s noisiest neighborhoods, the latest research on iPods and hearing loss, and what happens when noise becomes a musical ingredient.
