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German media conglomerate Bertelsmann AG announced Wednesday it was buying Myplay, whose technology allows music buffs to store songs on the Internet, as part of an effort to consolidate its online music strategy. With the $30 million acquisition, Bertelsmann plans to combine Myplay, a Redwood City, Calif. company, with its other music distribution businesses, which include the online retailer CDNow and its BMG music club, into a new entity called BeMusic. Myplay, which launched in 1999 and has yet to turn a profit, recently laid off nearly half of its staff. Its 31 remaining employees will work for BeMusic. Like… Read more »

French media giant Vivendi Universal said on Sunday it will buy its one-time legal foe MP3.com Inc. for about $372 million in hopes of bolstering its online music business. MP3.com, which operates a music download Web site and a series of other music services, represents one possible springboard for the distribution of music over the Internet for Vivendi Universal, which owns the world’s largest record company, Universal Music Group. Major record companies have been looking for a way to replace the embattled Napster song swapping service, with services of their own. Vivendi said MP3.com could become an integral part of… Read more »

Rock band the Black Crowes, who kicked off a North American tour with Oasis last weekend, took time out Monday to immortalize their handprints in concrete. As about 200 fans looked on, the group’s members dipped their hands in wet concrete at the Rockwalk, joining a display that includes such artists as Willie Dixon, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bonnie Raitt and Black Sabbath. “We’ve had an amazing journey the last 10 years and we couldn’t be happier,” singer Chris Robinson told the fans gathered on Sunset Boulevard outside the guitar store that operates the exhibit. “From Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters… Read more »

MUSICMATCH Guide home page – MUSICMATCH gives Go-Go’s fans the chance to hear the highly-anticipated new album, “God Bless the Go-Go’s,” in its entirety from May 7-14, 2001, one week before it is available in stores on May 15. The exclusive CD listening party will be made available by going to www.musicmatch.com and downloading MUSICMATCH Jukebox. Then, check out the MUSICMATCH Guide in the jukebox and be one of the first to hear the Go-Go’s new album. Following a successful tour last year, the Go-Go’s original members – Charlotte Caffey, Belinda Carlisle, Gina Schock, Kathy Valentine and Jane Wiedlin –… Read more »

www.warpedtour.com – The Vans Warped Tour and Blink-182 come together for a one-time only show on July 14 in Minneapolis, Minn. at Somerset Park. LAUNCH Media Inc. today announced that MCA recording artist Blink-182 will join this summer’s Vans Warped Tour for a one-time only performance in Minneapolis at Somerset Park on July 14. Veterans to the Warped Tour, Blink-182, first played the punk and skate festival back in 1997. Since then, they have experienced worldwide success, with their records reaping platinum status and their concert tours packing ’em in all across Europe, Australia, Asia, and the Americas. Just six… Read more »

Destiny’s Child have been tapped to headline MTV’s inaugural “TRL” tour, which will kick off in mid-July and hit 30 cities. Other artists featured on the bill include Nelly, Eve, Jessica Simpson, Dream and 3LW. The dates and venues for the tour will be announced by Destiny’s Child and “Total Request Live” host Carson Daly on “TRL” on Tuesday, the same day D Child’s new album hits stores. (MTV’s parent company, Viacom, also owns Sonicnet.) Survivor is the group’s third album and first with the lineup of BeyoncÈ Knowles, Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams. The record includes a cover of… Read more »

In what promises to be one of the most exciting concert events of the summer season 200l, singer/songwriter Paul Simon and his 11-piece band will kick-off a 28-city tour of the United States Saturday, June 9th, at the Gorge Amphitheatre in Seattle, Washington. Simon will be joined on the tour by one of rock’s most deeply revered figures, the legendary Brian Wilson, co-founder of The Beach Boys. Wilson will be accompanied by his 10-piece band, which includes the four-member group, The Wondermints. The Paul Simon Summer 200l tour comes hot on the heels of Simon’s Grammy Nomination for Album of… Read more »

Imagine a ruthlessly efficient army of robots running wild through the nation’s record stores, removing every bit of major label product from the shelves, from Britney to Bob Dylan – but leaving behind CDs from independent labels. Since March, that unlikely scenario has taken place, more or less, on the free but legally precarious online music bazaar that is Napster. A court injunction stemming from the major labels’ copyright infringement suit against Napster has forced it to block access to copyrighted songs – but labels have the burden of naming the songs in question. And many small and mid-size indie… Read more »

‘NSYNC will make the songs on Celebrity famous this spring, before the album even comes out. The pop stars say they’ll be generous with music from the record during their upcoming tour, which kicks off more than a month before the LP’s release. “It’s kind of like we’re being Napster on the road,” Chris Kirkpatrick told MTV News’ Chris Connelly at the Blockbuster Entertainment Awards on Tuesday. ‘NSYNC’s PopOdyssey tour gets underway May 18 at Alltel Stadium in Jacksonville, Florida, while the follow-up to No Strings Attached (2000) hits stores on June 26. The boy band is scheduled to play… Read more »

Cable TV’s music channel VH1 Tuesday unveiled a service to sell CDs on the Internet weeks before they hit retail shelves, becoming the latest in a string of announcements to spotlight rapid changes in music. Former Fleetwood Mac singer Stevie Nicks will kick off the service, dubbed “VH1 Hear Music First, on April 16 when she will make her new CD “Trouble in Shangri-La” available to fans at VH1.com before it lands in record stores on May 1. The service allows computer users to surf their way to www.VH1.com, where they can buy a CD for about the same price… Read more »