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Local management and a Japanese investment firm have bought the Japanese arm of Tower Records Inc., the country’s third-biggest music retailer, from its U.S.-based parent company for $122 million. The deal signs over Tower Records’ 51 outlets in Japan, including its multi-floor flagship store in downtown Tokyo, to Tower Records’ local management team and to Nikko Principal Investments Japan Ltd., a unit of Nikko Cordial Corp. Nikko spokesman Joichi Ito said his company finalized the buyout Thursday with San Francisco-based MTS Inc., parent company of Tower Records. MTS will retain ownership of its Tower Records stores in seven other countries.… Read more »

At the rate they’re going, B2K may soon have to do all their public appearances via satellite. The young pop/R&B quartet’s current tour with IMX had to be moved from clubs to theaters because of the crowds they were attracting, and on Monday an in-store appearance in Concord, California, was cut short when some fans didn’t want to wait their turn in line. B2K, who released their self-titled debut March 12, were signing autographs at the Sun Valley Mall Sam Goody store when some of the more than 1,000 fans waiting outside bumrushed to the front, according to a mall… Read more »

Footwear company Vans Inc. is making one more giant leap into the music business, teaming up with Pennywise punk rocker Jim Lindberg to form Vans Records, a label that will mine the lucrative skateboard, snowboard and surf culture. The Santa Fe Springs, Calif.-based firm is no stranger to the music world, having sponsored the Warped Tour for the past six years. The road show drew more than 450,000 fans in 2001, and has helped Vans capitalize on the synergy between music and the seven “core sports” for which it makes footwear and apparel: skate-, surf-, wake- and snowboarding, as well… Read more »

Green Day drummer Tre Cool checked in with fans via the band’s official Web site (www.greenday.com), giving them a vague update on the progress of the band’s upcoming new album. “This is what’s fucking going fucking on,” says Tre Cool. “We’re practicing every fucking day and we sound pretty good I might add. We officially put up the list of songs for the new record now on the wall of our jam space – sort of a tradition. We put a list up there and we add songs when we get them writ. So we’ve got some songs writ and… Read more »

Singles feathered on MTV’s immensely popular “Total Request Live” (TRL) show will be available in compilation form March 26 via UTV Records’ “The Best of TRL Pop,” a single-disc set celebrating the stars whose videos have been the show’s staples. There are no exclusives or rarities here, just the show’s most popular singles in their original studio incarnations, from Smash Mouth’s ubiquitous “All Star” and Sisqo’s equally universal “Thong Song” to Enrique Iglesias’ No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 smash “Be With You” and Willa Ford’s “I Wanna Be Bad.” All the big boy bands are here too, including ‘N Sync,… Read more »

Columbia Records is releasing The Pledge Of Allegiance Tour Live Concert Recording, a sonic document of some of the most riveting performances from the historic hardcore aggro-music festival tour of 2001. Artists on the album include System Of A Down, Slipknot, Mudvayne, American Head Charge, and No One. The Pledge Of Allegiance Tour Live Concert Recording is in stores on Tuesday, March 26. For seven mind-bending weeks in September-October 2001, System Of A Down and Slipknot joined forces with some of America’s heaviest new bands for the very first “Pledge Of Allegiance” metal touring festival. The inaugural tour of what… Read more »

In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, EpicRecords.com has donned a new hue, a new site intro, and two new promotions to celebrate the many themes and universality of love. The now-blushing EpicRecords.com has launched the “Language Of Love” Sweepstakes featuring 14 individual contests, showcasing 14 artists, exploring 14 degrees of love from Lost to True to Family to Unrequited. A highlight of the promotion is the online premiere of “A New Day Has Come,” the title track from quintessential love-songstress, Celine Dion’s forthcoming release that arrives in US stores on March 26. The “Language Of Love” Sweepstakes is being cross-promoted… Read more »

Celine Dion’s first studio album since 1997’s multiplatinum Let’s Talk About Love will finally hit stores on March 26. A New Day Has Come, which will mark the end of the pop singer’s two-year hiatus, will feature 16 songs, including covers of Etta James’ “At Last” and Nat King Cole’s “Nature Boy,” according to Epic Records. The album’s title track will be the first single and will arrive at radio stations this week. On April 7, Dion will perform that song and others on a one-hour CBS special, also titled “A New Day Has Come” (MTV’s parent company, Viacom, also… Read more »

New material from Mystikal, Juvenile, Green Day, Eve 6 and others will surface next month on the soundtrack to the comedy “The New Guy.” Mystikal wrote the title song for the movie, which stars DJ Qualls (“Road Trip”) and Eddie Griffin (“Double Take”) and features cameos from several artists, including Tommy Lee, Jermaine Dupri, Henry Rollins and Kool Moe Dee. OPM and Rehab also wrote songs especially for “The New Guy,” according to an Epic Records spokesperson. Other artists who lent previously unreleased songs to soundtrack are Nine Days, Vertical Horizon, SR-71 and Wheatus. A new remix of Outkast’s hit… Read more »

Online file-sharing service Napster and the record industry squared off again in federal appeals court on Monday over the fine points of enforcing the court-ordered restrictions on Napster’s now-idled service. A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, sitting in Pasadena, California, heard about an hour of arguments from the two sides on how to share the burden between them in policing Napster to prevent copyrighted material from being illegally exchanged. A spokesman for Napster, which has been out of operation since July, said the service argued for three main points: that the RIAA should be required to… Read more »