Now in its fourth year, the Do LaB’s annual Lightning in a Bottle music and arts festival, held every spring at Santa Barbara County’s own Live Oak Campground, is quite literally about to explode.

The advent of digital downloads has made life tough for record companies. But as cult Libyan artist Ahmed Fakroun has found, they can also rescue careers after years of obscurity.

A new pizza restaurant in a quiet Loyal Heights neighborhood has been stirring up opposition recently with fears of amplified music. Pizzeria Picolino, 6415 32nd Ave. N.W., now under construction in a row of storefronts, has applied for a liquor and music

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When Rob Williams, the senior vice president for music at Real Networks, came by last week to talk about a bunch of announcements by Rhapsody, the music service jointly owned by Real and Viacom, I have to confess that I felt a bit sorry for him.