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Rock band Pink Floyd launched a High Court action against EMI yesterday in a dispute over the calculation of online royalty payments and marketing of their music. The band, whose Dark Side Of The Moon is one of the best-selling albums in music history, is seeking a ruling on two key issues. Robert Howe QC, appearing for the group, said they wanted to "know where they stand as a matter of contract". The case concerns how online royalties are to be calculated. Mr Howe said it also concerned EMI's "entitlement to...

Portrait of the Writer as a Domesticated Animal, as in the French writer Lydie Salvayre's other novels, treats us to a meditative work of fiction narrated by someone trying to find their foothold in the void. This time, Salvayre's void is high finance and the "free market". An unnamed female narrator has agreed to write...

They're calling her Lady Kanye, but she has very little in common with the eccentric hip-hop star except a healthy sense of self-righteousness and a tendency, when her hackles get raised, to flout the saccharine conventions of showbusiness. A writer, film producer, and former journalist called Elinor Burkett was yesterday coming to terms with overnight celebrity after making a brief but memorably combative...

Royal Festival Hall, London As his work with the Concertgebouw orchestra proves, Mariss Jansons could not conduct a dull concert if he tried, while his "other" band, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, has one of the most cultivated orchestral sounds in Europe. But it was not obvious what the point really was of this one-off visit from Munich for less than an hour and a quarter of...

Music videos out this week include two efforts from American rapper Lil Wayne, including a clip that also features Eminem. Also: The Spanish-language version of "We Are the World" unites 50 Latin music stars to benefit Haiti earthquake relief. Lil Wayne/Young...

Sadler's Wells, London Trying too hard ... Mary O'Sullivan as Norina and Keel Watson as Don Pasquale. Photograph: Donald Cooper There is a particularly tricky moment for director and cast to negotiate in the second act of this small but perfectly formed comedy by Donizetti, which William Oldroyd is staging for English Touring 's spring tour. The elderly Don Pasquale has married a much younger woman to spite his indolent nephew, who is thereby disinherited. But as soon as the papers are signed, Pasquale's new...

On a set disconcertingly reminiscent of that for The Weakest Link, culture secretary and his opposite numbers – for the Tories, and Don Foster for the Lib Dems – last...

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Symphony Hall, Birmingham Hard to believe, but it is 12 years since Simon Rattle stepped down as music director of the City of Birmingham Symphony. He has maintained his links with the orchestra he nurtured so carefully to international status, though it is four years since he last conducted a CBSO concert. Rattle's return to Symphony Hall for two performances of Bach's St...

Clinical psychologist Brian Rock finds HBO's therapy drama to be a highly realistic portrayal of his profession Therapeutic value ... Gabriel Byrne in In Treatment. Photograph: c.HBO/Everett / Rex Features Therapists and analysts are often inaccurately portrayed, but this is one of the most realistic shows I have seen. I'm not surprised it comes from the stable, which gave us The Sopranos, in which Tony also attends therapy. Buy it from...

Fifty "women to watch" have been selected for the Cultural Leadership Programme by a panel of judges including choreographer Wayne McGregor,...

Photo: Flanigan/FilmMagic Stone Temple Pilots are giving fans a first listen to their upcoming self-titled album — the band’s first in nine years — at the South by Southwest Music Festival in Austin, Texas next week, at a show presented by StubHub. And Rolling Stone, StubHub, and Hotels.com are giving away the ultimate STP at SXSW getaway package. One lucky winner and a guest will score two VIP tickets to STP’s gig at Austin Music Hall on March 18th and round-trip airfare from their hometown to Austin from StubHub, the world’s largest ticket marketplace, plus SXSW transportation and two nights at the Westin at The Domain courtesy of Hotels.com, home of thousands of...

Photo: Waisman/FilmMagic Has it been your lifelong wish to become a member of the Smashing Pumpkins? Billy Corgan is back in the business of making dreams come true, announcing the band will hold auditions to find a new bassist and keyboardist for his ever-changing lineup. Last year Corgan held auditions to replace drummer Jimmy Chamberlin and ultimately hired...

You’ve already feasted your eyes on MGMT’s WTF album cover for their upcoming album Congratulations, and now you can hear what the band’s been cooking up for their April 13th LP with “Flash Delirium.” MGMT...

NEW YORK-The New York premieres of Bernstein's "A Quiet Place" and Stephen Schwartz's "Seance on a Wet Afternoon," the world stage premiere of John Zorn's "La Machine de l'etre" and the U.S. stage premiere of Morton...

 

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