This year saw jazz reassert itself as the ambitious and protean American music par excellence, its greatest practitioners reaching stunning new heights.
The U.S. Copyright Royalty Board raised the rates that Pandora and other online radio services must pay for the right to stream songs Wednesday, sending Pandora's shares on a wild ride in after-hours trading.
“In January we will be releasing our new web platform," Radio Hit broadcaster Michelle Fúster told The Tico Times in a phone interview. "The new platform will include various things such as weekly Spotify playlists created by us, guests and other thematic playlists."
The video opens with a drone shot over Costa Rica's pristine Manuel Antonio beach on the Pacific coast and quickly cuts to a stack of Costa Rican colones as AZ's trademark cigar burns next to a Jacuzzi.
In a country where only 3% of most radio stations' playlists are made up of Costa Rican tunes, National Radio is taking a bold stance: 100% of the music they play from now on will be produced in Costa Rica. Give it a listen in our special podcast.
NEW YORK – Andy White, a session musician who played drums on the first Beatles hit but spent his life on the edges of fame, has died, colleagues said Wednesday. He was 85.
