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Grammy chief Michael Greene said in published remarks on Friday he feels “betrayed” by Miami’s civic leaders over the hostile political climate that prompted him to pull the Latin Grammy Awards show out of that city. In a Los Angeles Times interview, Greene said he also doubts the show will be moved any time soon back to Miami, home to such Latin stars as Ricky Martin, Julio Iglesias and Gloria Estefan and the Latin American headquarters for MTV, Sony Music and scores of other record labels. “There would have to be a seismic shift in the political leadership of the… Read more »

The body of the late pop and soul singer Aaliyah was flown back to the United States Tuesday as safety experts examined the plane that crashed in the Bahamas, killing her and eight others. A private jet carrying the body of the 22-year-old singer and movie actress landed at Newark International Airport in New Jersey, and a hearse carried the casket away to an unknown location, according to sources. Several hours earlier, heartbroken fans gathered outside a Nassau funeral home to watch as a black hearse drove away with Aaliyah’s body. At Nassau International Airport, police stood guard while her… Read more »

Backstreet Boy Brian Littrell and his wife Leighanne have formed a music label and entertainment production company called BriLeigh Productions in association with Insight Entertainment Group – a Los Angeles-based management company. Leighanne, the president of BriLeigh, explained: “BriLeigh will be built upon traditional values that allow passionate, talented artists to freely express themselves in a safe and secure environment. We want to be a label that considers its artists part of the family, to nurture the creative side of the relationship as well as the business and marketing aspects necessary in launching a successful project.” BriLeigh will initially concentrate… Read more »

Proper Management, in conjunction with GET Management and the Creative Artist Agency, announces the Songs 4 Worship – The Tour set for this fall with 10 shows in 10 days beginning on Oct. 11, featuring worship leaders Michael W. Smith, Darlene Zschech, Don Moen, Nicole C. Mullen, Caedmon’s Call and Watermark. “Worship music is a true passion of mine,” said Smith, who is releasing his first worship project on Sept. 11, “so to be on tour with this group is such an honor. We are all going to be on stage together every night with the goal of corporate worship,… Read more »

Antitrust enforcers at the U.S. Justice Department are investigating the online music business, including two new joint ventures in the industry, an industry source said on Monday. The department is in the initial stages of a probe that includes the industry’s Pressplay and MusicNet ventures and, more generally, how major record labels control online distribution of copyrighted music, the source said. “They have launched an investigation.” Spokeswomen for Pressplay and MusicNet declined to comment, as did a spokeswoman for the Justice Department. MusicNet, one of the industry’s answers to the song-swapping service Napster, has the backing of AOL Time Warner… Read more »

Fandango began selling tickets today for the nation’s largest-ever live entertainment broadcast: a concert by recording groups Sugar Ray and Uncle Kracker, which will be telecast live from The Tabernacle in Atlanta, Ga., on Aug. 15. Tickets are available at www.fandango.com for 14 Cinemark Theatre locations nationwide. Tickets can be purchased at Fandango’s Web site for $15 each. The concert begins at 8 p.m. Eastern Time and will not only be broadcast as it happens, but will also feature exclusive behind-the-scenes interviews and event coverage that only fans attending the simulcast will be able to see. “Sugar Ray’s concert represents… Read more »

Smash Mouth’s enterprising front man Steve Harwell has teamed with Sound Management CEO Robert Hayes, Tambourine Music president, Scott Kellner, and veteran rocker Jack Blades to form Spun Out Records. With a combination of 30 years experience in the entertainment industry, Hayes and Kellner will control business operations, while Harwell and Blades will handle A&R and creative elements. Spun Out has already signed San Francisco’s pop-rock band, Fuse, rap-rock-funk band Triple Seven, hard rock band Soul Circle and twelve-yearold country pop-singer, Brittany Breed, the winner of Ed McMahons’ “The Next Big Thing.” Blades has twenty successful years in the business,… Read more »

Thanks to a uniform labeling system, you know what you’re getting into when you unwrap a candy bar, stick of gum or even the legendarily mysterious Twinkie. A CD bearing a parental advisory label, however, gives no description of what potentially offensive offerings lie within. That was the main concern of Senators Fred Thompson (R-Tennessee) and Joseph Lieberman (D-Connecticut), among others, at Wednesday’s Senate Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on the effectiveness of rating systems used by the entertainment industry. Though album stickers warn of “explicit content,” they don’t explain exactly what kind of content – violent, sexual or otherwise –… Read more »

Time was, pop stars who hit it big would ride out the success of an album and then lie low for awhile, presumably restoring their creative energies and also whetting the public’s appetite for the next record. Not any more. Today’s acts – wary of fickle fans and short attention spans – are pumping out albums in quick succession so as not to lose the spotlight to someone else. “Unfortunately right now, you have to just hit while you’re hot,” said teen pop starlet Jessica Simpson, who released her self-titled second album in June, a year and a half after… Read more »

Napster Inc. is replacing its leader with an executive from its German backer, who will try to steer the company out of its renegade past into a legitimate service that requires fans to pay for music. Interim CEO Hank Barry, a lawyer who came to Napster from a venture capital firm, will remain with the company in a reduced role, serving on Napster’s board of directors. His replacement is Konrad Hilbers, a veteran of the German media giant Bertelsmann AG, which became the song-swapping company’s primary financial backer last October. Hilbers most recently served as executive vice president and chief… Read more »