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Stewart Copeland and the Doors 21st Century have “amicably” settled the lawsuit Copeland filed against the group, according to an announcement from the group’s publicist on Tuesday (June 3). Police drummer Copeland, who played with the reconfigured Doors in 2002, filed the $1 million-plus breach of contract suit on March 7 in Los Angeles after the group replaced him with Ty Dennis earlier this year. Dennis was initially thought to be a temporary replacement while Copeland’s elbow healed from a mountain biking injury, but the group made the move permanent. Terms of the out-of-court agreement were not revealed. Doors keyboardist… Read more »

Pearl Jam is walking the long road…away from their longtime label. The grunge-rock survivors have served notice that they’re exiting the Sony-owned Epic Records after fulfilling the terms of its contract. The Seattle quintet quietly announced the split in the Q&A section of its Sony-run Rumour Pit Website. Sandwiched between questions about where the band is playing concerts and whether it will ever play the controversial anti-White House song “Bu$hleaguer” (answer: “Ya never know…”) is the query: “Have Pearl Jam left their record company yet?” The answer is simply “yes.” Pearl Jam has been in the Epic fold since the… Read more »

Nearly two years after it sued Napster into submission, the recording industry has discovered it’s not enough to try to beat Internet music purveyors whose digital distribution techniques allow copyright violations. It also has to join them. To discourage piracy, the multibillion-dollar industry has in recent months moved beyond lawsuits against file-swapping services. It has employed hacker tactics to flood such sites with bogus files and even taken to suing students who created mini-Napsters on college networks. At the same time, however, the music labels have finally embraced the very online distribution model many had long resisted, one that analysts… Read more »

Incubus has settled its suit with Sony Music, and in return Sony has dropped its counter-suit against the band. A statement reads that they have “amicably resolved their differences,” and that the two will continue to work in good faith with each other. No terms were confirmed by the band’s publicist, but several published reports have Incubus being paid around $8 million for its next album, and $2.5 million for the following two releases. The reports also state that Sony has an option to renew for a fourth album. Sony will eat approximately $3 million in promotional costs. Incubus filed… Read more »

In a year fraught with political turmoil, turbulence and insecurity, music fans turned to their favorite songs to take them away from many of their problems and help them come to terms with others that were impossible to escape. Whether it was Eminem rapping, “Lose yourself in the music,” or Bruce Springsteen singing, “Come on up for the rising/ Come on up, lay your hands in mine,” the messages of unity were universal. At the 45th annual Grammy Awards, held Sunday (February 23) at New York’s Madison Square Garden, apolitical hedonists and social activists alike rallied together to celebrate the… Read more »

U2 and Paul Simon will likely perform their Oscar-nominated songs at the March 23 ceremony, Oscars producer Gil Cates said. “We don’t have any complete confirmations today as to who will perform but it is likely that U2 will perform because their schedule allows for it. It is likely that Paul Simon will perform,” Cates told reporters. “The other thing, Eminem we’re not sure about in terms of the schedule. We haven’t heard.” The three acts are nominated for best original song: U2’s “The Hands That Built America” from “Gangs of New York,” Paul Simon’s “Father and Daughter” from “The… Read more »

Instead of visiting a bounty on any single artist, the nominations announced Tuesday for the 45th Annual Grammy Awards were sprinkled around in an unusually equitable manner-eight musicians tied for the most nominations with sounds as diverse the elegiac rock of Bruce Springsteen, the gossamer, jazzy blends of newcomer Norah Jones and the whipsaw rhymes of Eminem. In year’s past, a glut of nominations would push as single artist such as Lauryn Hill or Carlos Santana above the fold, but this year the flattened field presented more subtle story lines amid the sprawl of 104 categories. Among those themes: The… Read more »

Some popular online services are using a new kind of software to divert sales commissions that would otherwise be paid to small online merchants by big sites like Amazon and eToys. Critics call the software parasite-ware and stealware. But the sites that use the software, which is made by nearly 20 companies and used by dozens, say that it is perfectly legal, because their users agree to the diversion. The amounts involved are estimated by those in the industry to have mounted into the hundreds of thousands of dollars and are likely to continue to grow – in part because… Read more »

LMiV today announced that effective September 30, 2002 it would cease to exist as an independent operating company. The functions and activities that had been managed by LMiV during the past two years will once again be performed by the individual founder companies and their stations. LMiV was created two years ago as an industry solution to the Internet by five media industry leaders – Bonneville International Corporation, Corus Entertainment (NYSE: CJR), Emmis Communications (NASDAQ: EMMS), Entercom Communications (NYSE: ETM), and Jefferson-Pilot Communications (NYSE: JP). “The two things that were of critical importance to the mission of LMiV – the… Read more »

If music Webcasting – the streaming of music over the Internet instead of through radio receivers – makes it through the present decade, it will be no thanks to the federal bureaucracy. A much-dreaded ruling out of Washington, D.C., last month could mean the end of small Webcasters and the crippling of large ones. Webcasting has been under the shadow of this impending ruling since October 1998, when the Digital Millennium Copyright Act declared that Webcasters should pay performance royalties. Now the damage is clear: The government has set the rate. Performance royalties are payments to the owners of copyrighted… Read more »