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In addition to the release of their new album, Murray Street, next month, Sonic Youth have begun work on a trio of reissues, the first of which, Dirty, is scheduled for release this summer. The band has been pouring through unreleased demos and songs for the series, which will see Dirty, Daydream Nation and Goo remastered and reissued with new liner notes and a bonus CD of new material. “It’s pretty much together,” singer-guitarist Thurston Moore says of the new Dirty. “We weren’t too interested in putting live stuff on there; it would take forever to go through it. But… Read more »

Universal Music is in talks with its best-selling rap artist Eminem to deploy copy protection technology on all upcoming CD releases of “The Eminem Show,” marking the biggest move yet to protect its top acts from music piracy, a label official told Reuters Wednesday. Discussions are under way between Universal, a division of French media conglomerate Vivendi Universal, Eminem and his Universal-owned label Interscope Records to make the anticipated top-selling release copy proof, thwarting the industry’s biggest concern – piracy. Universal and Eminem would need to strike an agreement on whether or not to release the security-enhanced CDs in the… Read more »

Former Beatle Paul McCartney won a last-minute court order yesterday (April 29) preventing the auction house Christie’s from selling his handwritten lyrics to the song “Hey Jude.” The sheet of note paper with the scrawled lyrics had been expected to fetch up to $116,000 at an auction scheduled for today, but McCartney took the matter to the High Court, claiming the piece had disappeared from his home. The lyrics will remain at Christie’s London headquarters until ownership is decided by agreement or a trial. Richard Meade, a lawyer for McCartney, said the sheet of paper with the lyrics was either… Read more »

Remember how psyched you were as a kid to build a little car or a castle out of Lego pieces? Bet you never fashioned a fully functioning punk-rock duo and a kaleidoscopic world where they could swim, ride bikes and whale on the drums, though, did you? Don’t feel bad. You probably never got that sophisticated, but pioneering director Michel Gondry did, thanks to the White Stripes. In the eye-popping video for “Fell in Love With a Girl,” a two-minute blast of O.P.P.-like fantasy, the candy-colored pair from Detroit strum, jump and sprint their way through a building-block realm that… Read more »

Celine Dion, a singer who speaks French as her first language, will be the star performer at the Billboard Latin Music Awards this year. Dion will make her musical debut in Spanish at the awards show. The Canadian singer has a big following among American Hispanics. Her sing “My Heart Will Go On” became the first and only English-language track ever to top the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks chart. Other performers at the award show include Marc Anthony, Jaci Velasquez and Thalia. The awards will be handed out May 12 in Miami Beach, Florida. Dion’s latest album is called “A… Read more »

It makes perfect sense that Marc Anthony, Juan Gabriel, Olga Tanon and Cristian are performing at this year’s Billboard Latin Music Awards, but Celine Dion? Yet the French Canadian chanteuse is joining the Latin crooners at this year’s event – recall that she does sing a song in Spanish on her latest LP, A New Day Has Come – and more acts are expected to be announced in the coming weeks. The ceremony takes place May 9 in Miami Beach, Florida. The awards show, now in its 13th year, will follow the Billboard Latin Music Conference, which takes place from… Read more »

For his new album, Heathen, David Bowie has gotten a little “Modern Love” from the likes of Dave Grohl, Moby and Air. The Foo Fighters frontman contributes a guitar line to a track off Bowie’s latest LP, due June 11, according to Bowie’s publicist. Elsewhere on the studio successor to the chameleon of rock’s 1999 album, Hours…, Who guitarist Pete Townshend lends a lick to “Slow Burn,” which Bowie described in a statement as “the most eccentric and aggressive guitar I’ve heard Pete play, quite unlike anything else he’s done recently.” The last time Townshend and Bowie collaborated was on… Read more »

“I only heard it quite recently,” says French composer Jacques Loussier. “In fact, my son had heard it and told me that was my music played on this record, so that is why I’ve been listening to it. And, of course, it’s so obvious that it was a copy of my music.” Loussier is speaking of Eminem’s “Kill You,” a track from the rapper’s 8 million-copy selling The Marshall Mathers LP that Loussier claims contains music lifted from his own composition, “Pulsion.” Loussier filed suit against the rapper and Interscope Records last week in federal court in New York City,… Read more »

You may never have washboard abs like Britney Spears, but soon you can fill your belly at her restaurant. The pop singer is opening an American bistro in midtown Manhattan called Nyla – for New York, Spears’ new home, and Louisiana, her home state. Nyla will occupy space in the Dylan Hotel that formerly housed Virot, an upscale French restaurant that closed shortly after Sept. 11. It’s scheduled to open in May. “Virot didn’t have the hipness I was looking for,” Morris Moinian, owner of the Dylan Hotel and a partner in the restaurant, told The New York Times for… Read more »

George Michael’s latest single “Freeek” has been released, accompanied by a video featuring mating dogs, nudity and swearing, which has kept censors busy in both France and Britain. “I’ve realized that… starting with this single, I’ve actually written some fairly controversial stuff for this album,” the 38-year-old star told BBC radio. “Freeek,” which has been edited by both French and British broadcasters, is Michael’s first self-written single since October 1998. Michael said he had spent nearly five years working on a new album but could not say exactly when fans should expect its release. “For me to get it out… Read more »