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The article focuses on the music recordings company Zomba Label Group and its president Barry Weiss. The company specializes in performers popular with teenagers and pre-teenagers, such as Britney Spears. While the music industry as a whole is struggling financially, Zomba is as successful as it has ever been thanks to hits from performers such as Justin Timberlake, R. Kelly, and T-Pain, whose CD is number 1 on the Billboard magazine chart.

The imagination of teenagers is often -- I'm tempted to say always -- the only sure capital they possess apart from the love of their parents, which is a force far beyond their capacity to comprehend or control. During my own adolescence, my imagination, the kingdom inside my own skull, was my sole source of refuge, my fortress of solitude, at times my prison. But a fortress requires a constant line of supply; those who take refuge in attics and cellars require the unceasing aid of confederates; prisoners need advocates, escape plans or simply a window that gives onto the sky. Like all teenagers, I provisioned my garrison with art: books, movies, music, comic books, television, role-playing games. My secret confederates were the works of Monty Python, H. P. Lovecraft, the cartoonist Vaughan Bode and the Ramones, among many others; they kept me watered and fed. They baked files into cakes and, on occasion, for a wondrous moment, made the walls of my prison disappear. Given their nature as human creations, as artifacts and devices of human nature, some of the provisions I consumed were bound to be of a dark, violent, even bloody and horrifying nature; otherwise I would not have cared for them. Tales and displays of violence, blood and horror rang true, answered a need, on some deep, angry level that maybe only those with scant power or capital, regardless of their age, can understand. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The proliferation of ''free'' media on the Internet seems to have convinced an entire generation that the old hacker slogan from a quarter-century ago, ''information wants to be free,'' can be an organizing principle for the information economy of the future. Google brings us abundant ''free'' content while raking in billions from the ads alongside their search results. The Pirate Bay delivers ''free'' music and movies to teenagers while living off the revenue from banner ads. But then there is television. One of the oldest free mediums, it has something to teach us about free information: It can be expensive. And, perhaps, we would be better off if we were allowed to pay for it. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In the front of Ronnie I's Clifton Music is a 2,000-pound granite tombstone dedicated in 1988 to the pioneering rock 'n' roll singer Frankie Lymon of the Teenagers -- bought with $3,000 in donations and then never used when his widow decided she did not want it. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Steve Marino used to consider it a treat when he played on the Congressional Country Club course a few times as a teenager. On Thursday, it was a thrill for him to play bogey-free in the first round of the AT&T National and shoot five-under 65 for a one-shot lead in Bethesda, Md. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

What would brokenhearted Lindsay have to say about the goings-on at this outpost of fish and chips? Would Ryan stare balefully at the recycling truck, thinking about what could have been? The Orange County Board of Supervisors has not said. But the Board voted last week to capitalize on two initials known around the world courtesy of a defunct television show that depicted area teenagers as randy brats with good taste in music. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article presents a first person narrative by Mitch Bainwol, chief executive officer of Recording Industry Association of America on his experiences. Bainwol states that his experience of growing up in many places has been useful to him in politics. He discusses being fascinated with politics in college and joining the music business trade association in 2003. He comments on the piracy issue and suggests that putting teenagers in a creator's place helps them to understand the issue.

The article reviews the music release "Because of You," by Ne-Yo, on CD.

Comments on the influence of several musical groups and recent rude rap music on teenagers' mind set in the U.S.

Comments on the public concern about the influence of hip hop music on teenagers as it evolves into a medium for worshipping misogyny, materialism and murder in the U.S.

Focuses on the jazz band Big Phat Band. How the group has become popular among teenagers; Formation of the group by Gordon Goodwin in 1999; Way that Goodwin markets the band to youngsters; History of the band; Style of music.

Discusses the problems associated with the widespread music piracy internationally. Consideration of the weakness of the laws protecting copyright in countries such as Germany and Indonesia; How factories produce counterfeit compact discs to teenagers; Impact of music piracy on the careers of musicians and pop stars; Popularity of counterfeiting in China; Growth in the broadband market in Europe; How the European Union passed a uniform copyright law that mirrors the U.S. legislation.

Provides observations from teenagers in the United States regarding the illegality of music piracy on the Internet. How the record industry filed suit against 261 people for file-sharing; Percentage of teens who download music from the Internet; How parents and teenagers should discuss the moral issues involved with stealing music; Claims that the recording artists are not affected by the online sharing of music.

Focuses on the influence of emotional music on the online writing habits of teenagers and young adults.

Focuses on Music Television's (MTV) program Total Request Live (TRL). View that teen-pop is being replaced by punk rock leading MTV executives to launch the 'Spankin' New Bands Week' on TRL; How the bands will play a five song set on MTV's sister network MTV2; Discussion of the band 'Donnas.'

Focuses on families with teenagers who attend the Perlman Music Program on Shelter Island, New York. Observation that many of these middle-class mothers have put off their own careers and altered the course of their families' lives to further their children's music careers; Background on the Perlman program; Comments of parents.

Looks at events and developments in the 2000 music recording business of the United States. Proliferation of teenage performers in the music business; Strategic alliances among rappers to mount arena tours with pop production values; Lawsuit filed by the music recording industry against MP3.com and Napster.

Focuses on various teen-age music performers which include 13-year-old LeAnn Rimes, 19-year-old Fiona Apple and others. Types of music performed by the teen-agers; Identification of other performers; Age when some of the teen-agers started to perform; Detailed information on the teen-age performers.