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No, this is not a story about an isolated incident. Although for years rock concerts have been drug and alcohol fests (come on, we’ve all been to them), for some reason dance music related events and clubs have recently been targeted by law authorities nationwide – from superclub Twilo in New York being shut down earlier this year to a yet unsubstantiated Federal case filed in New Orleans against club organizers. You even see the prevailing attitude on nightly news programs and in magazines like Time that dance music events are simply all about the drugs … perhaps all the… Read more »

You might think that after parting ways with a major label, Jimmy Eat World would take the opportunity to further indulge in the thoughtful experimentation that marked 1999’s Clarity, their second and final release on Capitol. After all, no label means no more A&R guys frowning at songs like Clarity’s 16-minute-plus “Goodbye Sky Harbor,” with its drum-loop buildup and crescendo of overlapping, programmed vocals. But left to their own devices, Mesa, Arizona’s favorite sons made their most straight-up pop record to date – Bleed American, which hit stores Tuesday. “Things still got pretty gnarly in the studio as far as… Read more »

In a bizarro battle of the bands, U2 will duke it out with an evil version of themselves in their upcoming video for “Elevation” – but not before The Edge is kidnapped by the bandmembers’ doppelg”ngers and then rescued by Angelina Jolie. The clip, to be shot this weekend in Los Angeles, will blend U2 and the upcoming “Tomb Raider” movie into one giant action piece, according to director Joseph Kahn (Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys). Jolie, who stars in the film’s lead role as a real-life version of video game heroine Lara Croft, will provide the thread between the two… Read more »

A New York jury Friday ordered online music company MP3.com Inc. to pay about $300,000 in damages to an independent record label for copyright infringement, as both sides claimed victory in the case and MP3.com said it would appeal. In a lawsuit filed about a year ago, privately owned TVT Records claimed that San Diego-based MP3’s Instant Listening service violated TVT copyrights by making TVT songs available to Web surfers for listening online. A federal judge said that on previous precedent copyright violations had occurred, and a jury was asked to determine damages in a case that went to trial… Read more »

Radio station web sites are succeeding in attracting significant local market audiences, according to The Media Audit. We knew it all along. According to The Media Audit, a syndicated survey of both online and traditional media in more than 80 U.S. markets, twenty three radio station web sites are succeeding in attracting significant local market audiences. According to the survey data, 23 radio web sites in the US are attracting at least two percent of all adults in their immediate market. If the web site audiences were figured as a percent of just those adults with Internet access the percentages… Read more »