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XM Satellite Radio, the first U.S. digital satellite radio service, will bring music to the New York City Marathon at 10 locations along the 26-mile course, featuring a variety of XM’s 100 channels, which it calls “Radio to the Power of X.” Working with retail partner Best Buy and the New York City Roadrunners Club, XM will broadcast great digital music representative of its 71 music channels – ranging from rock to jazz, hip-hop to country, blues to classical – to help the marathoners as they make their way through the five boroughs of New York. “XM will bring the… Read more »

*NSYNC singer and clothing designer Chris Kirkpatrick debuted his FuMan Skeeto fall and winter women’s clothing line at Planet Hollywood Times Square in New York City yesterday (October 16). The pop music superstar and CEO of FuMan Skeeto Enterprises was inspired to create his own clothing line after years of wearing other people’s designs while performing. Kirkpatrick launched Fu Man Skeeto, Inc. clothing as the first of many projects he is planning under the umbrella of his FuMan Skeeto Enterprises, which he describes as a creative arts and media company. Kirkpatrick explained to LAUNCH why he decided to have a… Read more »

Chart-topping rap group D12, sans co-founder Eminem, added bar mitzvahs to its resume last weekend when the quintet showed up at a country club reception in the Detroit suburb of West Bloomfield. The group was hired by Gary and Lisa Weisman, whose son Ethan is a big hip-hop fan who lists D12 as one of his favorite groups. D12 manager Mark Hicks says the Weismans “bought a lot of shares in the D12 corporation” in order to have the group show up at the party to press the flesh, sign autographs, and take pictures with the nearly 300 guests. It… Read more »

John Mellencamp will celebrate his 50th birthday this weekend with a three-day party in the southern part of Indiana. MellenBash begins Friday (October 5) in Bloomington and wraps up on his birthday, Sunday (October 7), with a tribute concert in his hometown of Seymour that will feature more than 20 local groups, including some featuring members of Mellencamp’s bands past and present, although Mellencamp himself is not scheduled to attend. Proceeds from the event will go to the Southern Indiana Center For The Arts, the outdoor venue where it’s being held, as well as the Farm Aid foundation Mellencamp helped… Read more »

After delaying for two weeks following the terror attack on the United States, XM Satellite Radio today officially launched the first U.S. digital satellite radio service featuring 100 coast-to-coast digital channels of music and information programming. “What we are doing is launching a powerful new communications and entertainment medium-what we call ‘Radio to the Power of X,’” XM President and CEO Hugh Panero said at ceremonies at the company’s headquarters in Northeast Washington D.C. We have music channels to soothe your mind and information channels to fill it.” Noting that the nation must begin to return to a degree of… Read more »

“Things are different now,” a news anchor commented last Tuesday while covering the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, D.C. Those words continue to resonate a week later, with sports, travel and entertainment all vastly affected by the East Coast tragedies. In the music industry, the biggest changes are occurring on the air as radio stations around the country alter their playlists to reflect the radically different context in which pop music is now heard as compared to when the music was originally written and recorded. As Bob Buchmann, program director at WAXQ in New York, put it, “The… Read more »

Clear Channel has identified 150 songs that are considered to be “lyrically inappropriate” for airplay in the wake of the terror attacks carried out in the U.S. on Tuesday, September 11. A Clear Channel spokesperson has confirmed that the list has been circulated among its stations across the country. The lyrical content targeted by the list includes any references to death, flying, September, or general destruction. The popular (and highly political) band Rage Against The Machine received the dubious honor of having their entire catalogue on the list. Pam Taylor, a spokesperson for Clear Channel stations in the San Francisco… Read more »

XM Satellite Radio today received from the Federal Communications Commission nationwide terrestrial network authority necessary to commence commercial operations and has rescheduled launch of the first U.S. digital satellite radio service for Tuesday, Sept. 25. XM had originally scheduled its launch for Sept. 12, but postponed it following the tragic events of last Tuesday in Washington, where the company is based, and in New York. Those events also led to federal shutdown and interruption in the FCC’s repeater network authorization process. “We are grateful that the FCC has moved so expeditiously in the face of the tragic events that have… Read more »

MTV is joining the party surrounding the hot pop song “Because I Got High,” but so far won’t inhale. After negotiating some changes with the artist Afroman’s record label, the network has agreed to play the song’s video – but only in the overnight hours and not on the popular teen show “Total Request Live.” “Because I Got High” appears on the movie soundtrack to “Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back” and has quickly become one of the most requested songs on radio across the country. It presents anagonizing dilemma for programmers and anti-drug activists. Is it an anti-drug song?… Read more »

The Counting Crows will road test material from their upcoming record when they head out on a thirty-four-date tour later this month. The road trip kicks off on August 18th in Englewood, Colorado and wraps up in Lawrence, Kansas on November 7th. Meanwhile, the Crows will continue working on their follow-up to 1999’s This Desert Life, due out next spring. The band has been working on the project in Hollywood with various producers, including Steve Lillywhite, Ethan Johns and Eric Valentine, and former Whiskeytown frontman Ryan Adams will guest on the album. Counting Crows’ Tour Dates: 8/18 – Englewood, CO,… Read more »