Search

The Damned Philadelphia Brooklyn Bowl, US 29/10/23 The Damned played nearly all their latest, Darkadelic, a trim Dave Vanian stalking about in black, sounding better than ever. First out was [...]

California State Sen. Kevin Murray will join the William Morris Agency as a senior VP, beginning Jan. 1. Murray will work primarily in the company's corporate consulting division, William Morris [...]

Music retailers haven't had it easy lately. Traditional brick-and-mortar sales are down 25% since 2000, and the number of music retailers operating in the United States has dropped by roughly [...]

Phil Quartararo has expanded his role as executive VP of EMI Music North America by joining the office of the chairman. In his new capacity, Quartararo will report to chairman/CEO [...]

INXS is using the reality show 'Rock Star: INXS' to replace frontman Michael Hutchence, who committed suicide in 1997. The show, which premiered July 11 on CBS, follows the band [...]

Sony BMG Music Entertainment has created a new classical music division, Sony BMG Masterworks. The new division will combine the assets of the former BMG Classics and Sony Classical, including [...]

Ticketmaster added new social features in hopes of better connecting fans with the concerts they want to see. The features are essentially an extension of the iLike service that lets [...]

The Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN) held its annual awards gala Nov. 23, handing out prizes to Rush, Feist, Stompin' Tom Connors, Gordon Lightfoot, Finger [...]

Sony Corp. says that its planned entertainment content distribution service for network-compatible TVs and other devices will launch next year. Sony plans to launch a new online service to distribute [...]

During the last U.K. stop of her l Am ... tour at the Trent FM Arena in Nottingham, England, Beyonce announced that she plans to release a new album next [...]

Live Nation and iTunes are teaming to sell downloadable concert footage. Under the deal, Live Nation will provide iTunes with exclusive downloadable videos of select concerts performed at more than [...]

Adam Lambert appeared on CBS' 'The Early Show' Nov. 25 after ABC canceled the singer's scheduled appearance on that day's 'Good Morning America' in the wake of his controversial performance [...]

Warner Music Group reported a quarterly loss due to higher interest expense and charges for job cuts. The company noted that the shrinking demand for CDs and the weak economy [...]

Edgar Berger has been named CEO of Sony Music Entertainment for Germany, Switzerland and Austria. it is a newly created position that will extend his management oversight to also cover [...]

Boutique booking firm the Kork Agency has merged with the Agency Group. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The Kork team will move into the Agency Group's Los [...]

New Edition will be presented with the Golden Note Award at ASCAP's 21st annual Rhythm & Soul Music Awards. The ceremony, which also honors the organization's top songwriters and publishers [...]

The Songwriters Hall of Fame will honor the song 'Take Me Out to the Ballgame' with the Towering Song Award at this year's gala. The honor is presented each year [...]

Napster expanded its mobile relationship with Japanese operator NTT DoCoMo with an over-the-air video service. DoCoMo is the only operator that offers a true all-you-can-eat music subscription service to its [...]

CMT has entered into an agreement with NBC to rebroadcast episodes of 'Nashville Star,' the music reality series that moves from USA Network to NBC for its new season. The [...]

In the coming months, MTV will premiere series from 50 Cent, Cisco Adler and Shwayze, and will revamp SeaR 'Diddy' Combs' 'Making the Band.' MTV is also developing new programming [...]

The RIAA dropped its lawsuit against AIIofMP3.com, the Russian digital music service that shut down last July. The trade group told Bloomberg that the move was due to the fact [...]

Live Nation unveiled a Facebook application that lets users search for and buy concert tickets directly from their profile on the popular social networking site. The application is an extension [...]

Usher's 'Here I Stand' is poised for a No. 1 debut on the Billboard 200 next week, as the set tops Nielsen SoundScan's Building chart, released May 28. Unweighted first-day [...]

A concert including alt-country singer Kathleen Edwards and rock band the Trews will hit London's Trafalgar Square June 30. The concert, called Canada Rocks Trafalgar Square, is free and is [...]

Ozzy Osbourne, Metallica, Jonathan Davis of Korn, Serj Tankian, Hellyeah, Sevendust and Shadows Fall, among others, are scheduled to appear at this year's one-off Ozzfest, to be held Aug. 9 [...]

Hasidic reggae rapper Matisyahu and rock act Chiodos will join the 2008 Vans Warped tour lineup for limited dates this July. Matisyahu will appear on the traveling rock festival July [...]

Canada has joined China and Russia as one of the top countries where intellectual property protections are most problematic for the American creative community. This distinction comes from the 'Watch [...]

The Denny's food chain is getting into the music business via its just launched 'Adopt-a-Band' program. Participating touring bands can eat at Denny's for free at any time; have their [...]

Avril Lavigne, Feist and Hedley are among the nominees for MuchMusic's People's Choice Awards, to be handed out June 19 during the Canadian broadcaster's 19th annual MuchMusic Video Awards. Lavigne [...]

Executive chairman Guy Hands' reorganization of EMI will not entail job cuts beyond what was already announced, the music major says. A representative for the London-based company dismissed a report [...]

Royalty Logic wants to challenge the very existence of the Copyright Royalty Board, which sets rates for compulsory licenses. The CRB last year denied the company's request to compete with [...]

CBS Corp. will acquire CNET Networks, the parent company of MP3.com, GameSpot.com and TV.com, among others, for $1.8 billion. According to the announcement, with the acquisition of CNET's family of [...]

In the May 17 issue, a number of upcoming releases were attributed to incorrect labels. Albums by Trick Trick, Big Pokey, Diplomats and DJ Khaled will be released by Koch, [...]

Ask A&M/Octone president James Diener the specific strategies behind breaking acts like Maroon 5, Gavin DeGraw and Flyleaf and you get the same answer again and again: Artist development. That [...]

This summer's Rock the Bells tour will feature appearances by A Tribe Called Quest, Nas, Mos Def, De La Soul, Rakim and the reunited Pharcyde, among others. The traveling hip-hop [...]

GetBack Media, a social network geared for people over age 35, launched April 23. The site offers community tools for people ages 35-55. The focus is on pop culture from [...]

Hit songwriter Jeffrey Steele and singer/ songwriter Jewel will join John Rich as judges on NBC's 'Nashville Star' when the talent show debuts June 9. Jewel co-hosted the show last [...]

Starbucks has handed over day-to-day management of the Hear Music record label to the Concord Music Group. As part of the move, Ken Lombard, president of Starbucks Entertainment, has left [...]

New data suggests that U.S. spending on entertainment products and devices is likely to slow down this year. According to research firm the NPD Group, 37% of Americans say they [...]

Not only will Fritos be the 'official snack' of Tim McGraw's Live Your Voice trek, which begins May 9 in Tampa, Fla., but the company will also give the country [...]

A federal court jury in Lufkin, Texas, hit Clear Channel Communications with a judgment for patent infringement, awarding Grantley Patent Holdings $66 million. Grantley claimed that Clear Channel, through its [...]

BET Networks announced its programming slate for the next year, which includes 'Brutha,' a documentary series about five brothers in an R&B group under the guidance of producer Jermaine Dupri, [...]

Snoop Dogg will be the subject of an animated pilot ordered by Comedy Central, which the cable channel unveiled as part of its 2008-09 development slate. The still-unnamed half-hour show [...]

While spending on music fell 10% in 2007, according to new data from NPD Group, videogame spending tripled in the same period and DVD sales were largely flat. Retail sales [...]

Colombia's first digital music store, Comcel Ideas, has been launched by mobile carrier Comcel, and allows full-track downloads of songs via cell phones. The store offers catalog from EMI and [...]

Gibson Guitar and video gamemaker Activision are in a legal dispute over licenses for the 'Guitar Hero' videogame. Gibson claims that Activision's game franchise violates a Gibson patent for simulating [...]

AOL will buy social network Bebo for $850 million in cash, bolstering its consumer Internet offerings even as the media conglomerate mulls splitting off the business. Bebo claims to have [...]

Peermusic has signed Mexican pop idol Gloria Trevi to a worldwide, multi-album co-publishing deal. The association with peermusic began with Trevi's 2007 album on Univision Records, 'Una Rosa Blu.' The [...]

Coldplay, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Jay-Z and Nine Inch Nails will headline the inaugural Pemberton Festival, set for July 25-27 in Pemberton, British Columbia. The festival is produced by [...]

The rights to use the Lennon-McCartney catalog paid off in big ratings for 'American Idol' on the show's March 11 installment. According to initial Nielsen Media Research overnight numbers, 27 [...]