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“I never want to say we’re done completely, but we may be,” says Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour. “With the length of time since we’ve done something together, it just doesn’t feel like something I’ve missed very much. I don’t want to be touring anymore. I’m fifty-five; it’s a young man’s game.” Gilmour’s revelation comes with the release of Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd, a lavish and thoughtfully assembled double-CD retrospective tracing the band’s thirty-six-year career – from its apprenticeship in the mid-Sixties London club scene and its psychedelic explorations to its reincarnation as the high priests of Seventies… Read more »

“Everything about this record is turned up a few extra notches,” Creed frontman Scott Stapp tells Billboard about “Weathered,” the modern rock trio’s third Wind-Up set, due Nov. 20. “The uptempo songs rock harder than anything we’ve imagined doing, and the softer, chilled songs have more depth, more complexity. We went for broke on this album – no boundaries, no limits.” The set is getting a huge pre-release boost from the single “My Sacrifice,” which is No. 2 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and No. 5 on Billboard’s Modern Rock Tracks tally. The song is also garnering airplay on… Read more »

HBO and Dolby Laboratories announced today that HBO’s live concert event, “Britney Spears: Live from Las Vegas,” will be broadcast in Dolby ® Digital 5.1 sound on November 18, 8:00 p.m. (ET). This marks the first HBO concert to be offered with Dolby Digital 5.1 sound. Britney Spears performs her first live, full-length television concert from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. This no-holds-barred performance promises to break new boundaries in the superstar singer’s skyrocketing career, and will feature songs from her new album Britney, as well as many of her greatest hits. “A Britney Spears’ concert encompasses an entire… Read more »

PressPlay, an online music venture between Universal Music and Sony Music, said on Thursday it signed licensing deals with six independent record labels that offer music by a wide variety of acts, from rappers 2 Live Crew to country singer Kenny Rogers to jazz legends Charlie Parker and Billie Holiday. PressPlay, set to launch its service to subscribers this fall, noted that its latest deals with Madacy, Navarre, OWIE, Razor & Tie, Roadrunner and Rounder will add music from hundreds of artists to its already large catalog of music for streaming and downloading. The company said the six labels were… Read more »

Beyonce Knowles of the glittery vocal trio Destiny’s Child is no dummy. She knows that as wrenching as it was to go through the acrimonious departure of two co-founding bandmates, the attendant furor sparked welcome publicity for the group. In fact, since the spring of 2000, the reconstituted Destiny’s Child, comprising Knowles, Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams, has become a dominant pop music force. Three multi-platinum albums and a string of hits – “Say My Name,” “Jumpin’, Jumpin’,” “Survivor” and the “Charlie’s Angels” film theme – have kept the threesome at the top of the charts and made them a… Read more »

NetRadio Corporation, a media company that is the leading online distributor of originally programmed audio entertainment through its Web site www.netradio.com, announced today the launch of a new non-traditional rock channel called “Indie Rock” that is programmed by Doc Kane, the newest member of the NetRadio programming team. The new “Indie Rock” channel will be album driven, instead of focusing on ‘the single,’ and will have a track depth that no other traditional radio station can match. Listeners will find the latest new indie music infused with some of the most important barrier breaking songs of the past – some… Read more »

In the years since August 1, 1981, when MTV first went on air by broadcasting a song presciently called “Video Killed the Radio Star,” the cable channel has helped to turn musicians as different as Duran Duran, Guns ‘N’ Roses, Tupac Shakur, Marilyn Manson, and Britney Spears into cultural touchstones. MTV helped to mainstream rap music and to pioneer the trend toward reality television with shows like The Real World. And the channel has been at the center of any number of pop culture brouhahas, whether involving cartoon bad boys Beavis and Butt-head, sexually provocative and spiritually outrageous videos by… Read more »

Electronic music pioneer Aphex Twin will re-emerge from a two-year, self-imposed retirement this autumn, when he releases a sprawling two-disc set to be titled Drukqz. Due in October on the Warp Records label, the album – which hasn’t been given an official release date yet – boasts thirty tracks of new material. The epic release marks the first full-length recording from Aphex Twin since 1996’s acclaimed acid jungle exercise, Richard D. James Album, a set titled after his birth name. Mastered in London last week, the hotly anticipated project marks the return of a man that many credit for expanding… Read more »