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New York – It looks like music retailers will soon be getting their wish: At least one major is getting aggressive with copy-protected CDs. Sony BMG Music Entertainment is stepping up the rollout of what it calls content-enhanced and copy-protected CDs, according to company executives. It began with the Chieftains’ “Live From Dublin” album, released Feb. 22. Upcoming albums that will receive the treatment are from Kasabian (March 8) and Susie Suh (March 29). Sony BMG expects that by year’s end a substantial number of its U.S. releases will employ either Sunncomm’s newly enhanced MediaMax or First4Internet’s XCP to address… Read more »

It’s a good day for pop-punk as Avril Lavigne, Simple Plan and Billy Talent are all up for a handful of Juno awards. This year’s Juno nominees were just announced and leading the charge is Lavigne, one of Canada’s biggest international exports. She’s up for five awards including Artist Of The Year. Toronto rapper K-OS, West Coast jazz star Diana Krall and 2003’s Juno host, Shania Twain, join Simple Plan and Billy Talent with three noms each. Single Of The Year: River Below, Billy Talent; One Thing, Finger Eleven; Crabbuckit, k-os; Not Ready To Go, The Trews; Party For Two,… Read more »

Clear Channel Entertainment is pleased to announce that Dominic Roncace has been appointed Chief Operating Officer for Clear Channel Entertainment’s Music division. In his expanded role, Mr. Roncace is responsible for the overall operations and implementation of the yearly business plan and new business development for the Music division. Clear Channel Entertainment’s Music division includes more than 130 live entertainment venues in North America, including 41 amphitheaters in the United States. Mr. Roncace has more than 16 years of experience managing and overseeing amphitheaters, clubs and theaters throughout the United States, including all aspects of development, design, construction, start-up and… Read more »

According to the Launch Radio Network, this year’s Super Bowl halftime show will not make space to promote awareness of the global AIDS crisis. Bono, has done an incredible job of creating awareness of the worldwide AIDS problem and was reportedly in talks with the NFL for about two years, trying to squeeze his message into the Super Bowl programming. The Super Bowl, of course, is one of the most watched annual televised events in the world and a perfect forum for any awareness campaign. Bono’s plan involved himself and Jennifer Lopezperforming a song called “An American Prayer” (which, as… Read more »

KOCH Entertainment is pleased to announce several new media deals: iTunes, Liquid.com, Audio Lunchbox, Emusic, Music Match, BuyMusic.com and MusicNow (formerly FullAudio). iTunes has launched the new KOCH Entertainment deal with 2Pac’s Nu-Mixx klazzics. Apple’s revolutionary, second generation iTunes Music Store now offers Windows users the same online music store that Mac users love – with the same music catalog, the same personal use rights and the same 99 cents- per-song pricing. An astounding 14 million songs have been purchased and downloaded since the original iTunes Music Store launch in April, solidifying iTunes position as the number one download music… Read more »

Superstar rapper Eminem plans only one U.S. concert this year and it will be in his hometown of Detroit. Also appearing at the July 12 show at the new downtown football stadium will be Missy Elliott and 50 Cent. “His entire North American tour takes place at Ford Field,” Rick Franks of Clear Channel Entertainment told the Detroit Free Press. “We look at it as the highlight of the summer.” Metallica also plans to play in July at Ford Field, which hosted the Rolling Stones in October and holds about 45,000 people for concerts.

The leading trade associations for the music and technology industries, which have been at loggerheads over consumers downloading songs on the Internet, have negotiated a compromise they contend will protect copyrights on movies and music without new government involvement. Lobbyists for some of the nation’s largest technology companies will argue under the new agreement against efforts in Congress to amend U.S. laws to broaden the rights of consumers, such as explicitly permitting viewers to make backup copies of DVDs for personal use or copy songs onto handheld listening devices. “How companies satisfy consumer expectations is a business decision that should… Read more »

Japanese electronic and entertainment giant Sony Corp. will close its Indonesian audio-equipment plant in March and lay off all 1,000 workers, a company official said Tuesday. “The move is part of Sony’s overall effort to reorganize global production,” said Sony spokeswoman Ayako Hashimoto. The production at P.T. Sony Electronics Indonesia will be moved to Sony plants in Malaysia, Mexico, Japan, China and elsewhere, although details are still being worked out, she said. The Indonesian plant in Jakarta produced stereos and other audio equipment valued at about 15 billion yen ($123 million) a year. Since 1999, Sony has been restructuring its… Read more »

Since things went so well during the weekend reunion of the Grateful Dead’s surviving members, the band has decided to go ahead with a fall tour. “All I can say is that the fall tour was set and approved contingent on a good weekend and since it was a far better than good weekend I am certainly confident the shows will go,” said Dennis McNally, the band’s publicist and biographer. McNally said Monday he didn’t know when tickets would go on sale for the 15-show tour of the Midwest and East Coast in November and December. Thousands of Deadheads converged… Read more »

Modern rock act Incubus will kick off a North American tour April 11 in Portland, Ore., in support of its latest Immortal/Epic set “Morning View.” The 50-date tour will be sponsored by Honda Civic, which put Blink-182 and Everclear out on the road last year on separate tours. An exclusive weeklong online ticket pre-sale will launch at 10 a.m. ET Saturday (Feb. 16) at civictour.com. “The band is really excited to be involved with Honda and the Civic Tour because it gives us a chance to play much bigger venues at a ticket price [$25] that we think is very… Read more »