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LOS ANGELES CA–The traveling band of merriment known as HELLOGOODBYE will embark on a headlining tour this spring. Kicking off April 4th, the two month tour will encompass the US and Canada, and even jump the pond for the Give It A Name Festival in the UK. Providing HELLOGOODBYE tour support is Boys Like Girls, The Rocket Summer and The Hush Sound. A full itinerary, as well as pre-sale ticket info to come. The Top 20 single, “Here (In Your Arms)” reached gold status the week of February 10th. This is the first gold single in Drive-Thru history including artists… Read more »

Late in the afternoon of Jan. 16, a SWAT team from the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office, backed up by officers from the Clayton County Sheriff’s Office and the local police department, along with a few drug-sniffing dogs, burst into a unmarked recording studio on a short, quiet street in an industrial neighborhood near the Georgia Dome in Atlanta. The officers entered with their guns drawn; the local police chief said later that they were “prepared for the worst.” They had come to serve a warrant for the arrest of the studio’s owners on the grounds that they had violated the… Read more »

Linkin Park are to release their third studio album ahead of a headline slot at this year’s Download Festival. The as-yet-untitled-set is confirmed for release on April 30th, with the U.S. rockers also preparing a single to hit a week prior, on April 23rd. Co-produced by Rick Rubin and the band’s co-lead vocalist Mike Shinoda (who toured his side project throughout 2006), the set is described as ‘unpredictable’ by the band’s other singer Chester Bennington. “[It’s] dark and spooky, poppy and very melodic…” he says. “We’re straying away from a lot of the predictable sounds we’ve had in the past.… Read more »

Sony Corp and Bertelsmann AG have refiled a request for EU regulators to clear a 2004 deal merging their music units, the European Commission said Thursday. Regulators have to re-examine the deal they cleared in July 2004 because an EU court struck down their original approval last July, citing “manifest errors” in how authorities decided that combining the two music majors would not restrict customer choice. The judgment sent lawyers into a flurry because it undermined the legality of the Sony BMG deal that formed the world’s second-largest record label behind Universal, bringing Sony artists like Aerosmith, George Michael and… Read more »

Nearly half of the short films being screened at this month’s Sundance Film Festival will be available for purchase at Apple’s iTunes store under a deal announced Friday. The digital downloads will supplement the free streaming at Sundance’s Web site, which will offer the shorts for only a three-month period beginning Jan. 18, the start of the festival in Park City, Utah. The iTunes downloads are expected to be available for three years and once purchased will play for at least the life of the owner’s computer. “Streaming on our site is not the same as owning, and there seems… Read more »

High School Musical officially graduated at the top of its class. The surprise monster hit soundtrack accompaniment to the Disney Channel’s tween song-and-dance fest, finished as 2006’s chart valedictorian, selling more than 3.7 million copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan figures released Thursday. In the SoundScan era, the only other soundtracks to finish atop the yearend chart were The Bodyguard in 1993 and Titanic in 1998. Remarkably, High School Musical debuted on the charts way down at number 143 in January 2006. The disc increased its position each week, eventually hitting the top spot on two nonconsecutive weeks in March. It… Read more »

New York – The title track and first single from Bruce Springsteen ‘s upcoming album, “Devils & Dust,” will premiere beginning 12:01 a.m. Monday (March 28) via AOL Music’s First Listen initiative. The next day, it will be available for download exclusively from Apple’s iTunes Music Store for a week. “Devils & Dust” is due April 26 via Columbia as a DualDisc with the audio tracks on one side and various bonus content on the DVD side. A deluxe edition featuring expanded packaging also will be available, as well as a double-vinyl version. On the heels of a playback session… Read more »

Los Angeles – Collectibility is coming to the digital music world in the form of iTunes Custom Cards. Apple launched the prepaid cards Thursday at the South by Southwest Music Conference & Festival in Austin, with a limited-edition, numbered series of cards featuring original artwork and download codes specific to more than 200 recording artists. The cards can be used to obtain a specific single from Apple’s iTunes and are being distributed at shows, press conferences and other events throughout the festival. As one example of what is possible from the promotional and marketing perspectives, Virgin/EMI recording artist the Gorillaz… Read more »

CANNES, France – In the music business, it’s a vision that may soon be consigned to history: Grandpa slumping into the recliner, closing his eyes and enjoying a favorite rendition of an operatic solo. For music lovers these days, the sedentary lifestyle is out. A generation after the birth of portable tunes on the Walkman, technology has made music available nearly everywhere for today’s on-the-go consumer – and the recording industry sees a new wave to ride. The buzzwords Sunday at the Midem music industry conference in the French Riviera resort town of Cannes were mobile music, seen as the… Read more »

Barenaked Ladies … Shakespeare. If you think the two don’t go hand in hand, you may be a little miffed when cruising on by the Stratford Festival next year. The band will be helping out the Bard in Stratford’s ’05 season, creating the music for five songs pulled right from the text of As You Like It. “It’s hard to ask for a better co-writer,” singer Steven Page told the Torstar News Service. “Even if he is a little unbending in his approach to collaboration.” With Shakespeare’s centuries-old witticisms and the Ladies’ ‘90s Can-pop sounds, it should turn out to… Read more »