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BMG Entertainment’s Buddha Records and digital rights management (DRM) specialist Digital World Services announced today the launch of a secure digital downloads offering as part of the label’s Black Anthology Web site (www.blackanthology.com). Starting today, music fans can download free DRM protected songs from Harry Belafonte’s The Long Road To Freedom: An Anthology of Black Music, a collection of recordings that portrays the music of Black Americans from their earliest arrival in the “New World” through spirituals, blues, and folk music up to the 20th century. The tracks are offered free of charge and are protected by Digital World Services’… Read more »

The board of the academy that presents the Grammys, the music industry’s highest honors, has approved a $650,000 payment to settle claims that its chief executive sexually assaulted and physically abused a female employee, the Los Angeles Times reported Monday. The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences and representatives of academy president and chief executive, Michael Greene, had no comment on the report, which cited Grammy sources. “We don’t have a statement. Today, we’re focusing on the Latin Grammys,” NARAS spokesman Ron Roecker said, referring to the planned announcement Tuesday of the winners of the organization’s second annual Latin… Read more »

Online music services firm Liquid Audio Inc. said on Wednesday it would consider an unsolicited offer from a dissident investor to buy the company for almost $68 million in cash, setting the stage for a potential auction of the struggling firm. The Redwood City, California-based company said its board would consider an unsolicited offer from Steel Partners II to buy the company for $3 per share after the equity fund complained that the company’s management was following a failing strategy in the face of larger competitors. Based on Tuesday’s closing price of $2.55, the cash offer represented a premium of… Read more »

The Grammy Award-winning rap outfit the Roots is reportedly at odds with its MCA Records label. The group and MCA president Jay Boberg aired their differences in a recent interview with entertainment writer Celine Wong. The group’s Black Thought (Tariq Trotter), who has been working on a solo set, shared his thoughts on the current label situation and his forthcoming album, “I know from experience, from being on Geffen and from being on MCA, that whatever I put out basically has to be self-sufficient. My album’s pretty much going to have to be able to sell itself, because it’s going… Read more »

The Grammy Awards, the top honors in the music industry, will take place in Los Angeles next year, the city’s mayor said Wednesday, even as organizers wonder how to announce the winners of the Latin Grammys, which were canceled following the Sept. 11 attacks. “In keeping with tradition, the City of Los Angeles is looking forward to hosting the Grammys for the fourth consecutive year,” Mayor Jim Hahn said in a statement. A source close to the event said the ceremony will take place Feb. 27 at the Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles, site of the last two ceremonies.… Read more »

GoodVibe Recordings & JCOR Entertainment today confirmed that Mystic will be part of the MTV2 and VIBE Magazine “Sisters For Hip-Hop & Soul” Tour. The tour will also feature India.Arie and other special guests and will be hosted by DJ Jazzy Joyce. The club tour kicks off at the Electric Factory in Philadelphia on November 8th and will include dates in New York City, Washington, DC, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Detroit, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Denver, Phoenix, Las Vegas, San Diego, and Los Angeles. Mystic will be touring in support of her critically acclaimed “Cuts For Luck and Scars For… 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 »

In anticipation of their forthcoming release “Atomic,” Lit have lined up a slew of TV performances and other promotional activities surrounding its October 16 CD release date. “Atomic” is the follow-up to their platinum-plus “A Place In The Sun,” which garnered the hit singles “Miserable,” “Zip-Lock,” and the #1 Billboard Modern Rock song of 1999, “My Own Worst Enemy.” Earlier this summer fans got a taste of “Atomic” with the song “The Last Time Again” when it was featured in the #1 smash comedy movie “American Pie 2.” The official first single, “Lipstick and Bruises,” is currently #11 on Billboard’s… Read more »

Echoes, Pink Floyd’s long-awaited “best of” compilation, will hit stores November 6th. The album will include twenty-seven of Floyd’s classic tracks – over 140 minutes of music – mixed together into a single piece. James Guthrie, the band’s longtime producer, did the mixing for the two-disc set, which will also be available on vinyl and cassette. The collection will also feature one track never released on CD. “When the Tiger Broke Free,” written by Roger Waters for the film version of the The Wall in 1982 and released that summer as a seven-inch single, chronicles the death of Water’s father… Read more »

Alanis Morissette, Dave Matthews, Stone Temple Pilots, Moby, and Nelly Furtado are among the acts set to honor John Lennon in front of live and television audiences tonight (October 2). Come Together: A Night For John Lennon’s Words & Music will air live from Manhattan’s Radio City Music Hall on both cable channel TNT and the WB broadcast network at 8 p.m. ET. All performing acts will deliver renditions of Lennon songs, including “Dear Prudence” (Morissette), “In My Life” (Matthews), “Revolution” (Stone Temple Pilots), “Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds” (Marc Anthony), and “Strawberry Fields Forever” (Cyndi Lauper). Others participating… Read more »