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Music video pioneer MTV says it is just a matter of time before Asian pop idols make their presence felt on an international stage. “I think we are starting to see an awakening of interest in the West about what’s going on in Asia, spiritually, musically, creatively. You have Madonna singing about Asia, Alanis Morissette singing about India,” Frank Brown, president of MTV Networks Asia, told Reuters in a recent interview. For years now, western pop singers such as Michael Jackson, Madonna and Robbie Williams have been idolized by fans across Asia. But that trend may be changing. “The flow… Read more »

*NSYNC, Ricky Martin, and Enrique Iglesias are among the artists who have contributed tracks to the Maverick Musica collection, pLATINum rhythm, due October 30. Maverick Musica is the new Latin imprint of Madonna’s Maverick Records. The pLATINum rhythm set is highlighted by the previously-unreleased Robbie Rivera remix of Madonna’s “Music” and Ricky Martin’s “Cambia La Piel,” as well as exclusive tracks including *NSYNC’s Spanish-language version of “This I Promise You” (“Yo Te Voy A Amar”) and the Pablo Flores remix of Backstreet Boys’”The One.” Latin superstars Luis Miguel, Alejandro Sanz, and Laura Pausini as well as up-and-comers like Cafe Quijano,… Read more »

A Whodunit mystery has ignited over a manuscript that takes a scathing look at Louis J. Pearlman and his Orlando Florida boy band factory otherwise known as Trans Continental Records. The tell-all is already creating debate over whether it is penned by one of the BackStreet Boys or *NSYNC.   Both of these Pearlman created supergroups have had messy legal clashes with him which they may now want to talk, albeit anonymously. “Obviously I can’t say much about who the author is”, says publicist Robert Lloyd,   “But I can say that the author is not a group but rather… Read more »

The release of Amnesiac on June 5 will bring to a conclusion Radiohead’s three-year saga of what to do after OK Computer. And after going in markedly different directions with Amnesiac and last fall’s Kid A, bassist Colin Greenwood says he expects the group to drift back toward something resembling a standard operating procedure. “We’ve talked about doing a guitar album next,” Greenwood reports. “The reason we did these two records is to show that anything is possible rather than everything is expected; the last thing we wanted to do was go into the studio and make another version of… Read more »

A Hong Kong court has slapped a fine on Cathay Pacific Airways for allowing Russian crew members on pop singer Ricky Martin’s private jet to enter the territory without visas. The airline, which was the ground agent for the Latino sex symbol’s plane, was ordered on Tuesday to pay a fine of $833 for each of the 19 Russians who came to Hong Kong last October without valid travel documents. The penalty totaled $15,833, the airline said on Wednesday. The crew members had traveled to Hong Kong from Korea with the pop star, who was on a world concert tour,… Read more »