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Ten years ago, as the Internet began to mushroom in popularity and emerging technologies enabled consumers to make nearly perfect copies of digital content, the recording industry embarked on a two-pronged strategy in response to the changing business environment. First, it emphasized copy-control technologies, often referred to as digital rights management (DRM), that many in the industry believed would allow it re-assert control over music copying. Second, it lobbied the Canadian government for a private copying levy to compensate for the music copying that it could not control. While the industry’s approach proved successful on the legal front — the… Read more »

Starbucks Entertainment announced today that it will release a CD of 15 original tracks by Starbucks partners (employees). The first-of-its-kind compilation is the result of a company-wide contest that invited Starbucks partners to submit original solo or band recordings. “Off the Clock Vol. 1: New Music from Up & Coming Starbucks Artists” will be available exclusively at Starbucks Company-operated locations in the U.S. and Canada beginning April 3, 2007. This newest venture continues Starbucks unwavering support of new talent — in this case, from within its own family of partners.”Off the Clock Vol. 1: New Music from Up & Coming… Read more »

Cartel are not the sort of guys you’d expect to catch on an episode of MTV’s “Cribs.” For one, they all live under the same ancient roof: a home guitarist Nic Hudson inherited from his grandmother last year. They don’t rock the bling, nor do they drive fancy automobiles. In fact, up until the show’s taping, the band had just a ramshackle touring van and drummer Kevin Sanders’ Volkswagen Golf to get them from point A to point B. But that didn’t stop Cartel from opening their doors to the “Cribs” cameras; the band will be featured on an upcoming… Read more »

Avril Lavigne has penciled in an April 17 release for her new RCA album, “The Best Damn Thing.” As previously reported , the first single is “Girlfriend”; it will arrive March 5 at U.S. radio outlets, and its accompanying video will premiere Feb. 26 on MTV. With its handclaps and bad-girl vibe, the track is reminiscent of Toni Basil’s “Mickey,” as Lavigne pushes past rival ladies to demand attention from a new guy: “She’s like, so whatever / you could do so much better,” she sings of her competition. Two other tracks previewed by Billboard.com follow in a similar style:… Read more »

Washington – Underwriters for Warner Music Group Corp. on Monday set the terms of the record company’s pending initial public offering at 32.6 million shares with an estimated price range of $22 to $24 a share. According to an amended prospectus filed Monday with the Securities and Exchange Commission, 5.43 million of the total shares are being offered by selling holders. Warner Music Group acquired substantially all of Time Warner Inc.’s music division in March 2004 for $2.6 billion. The company is backed by a group of investors that includes the company’s chief executive, Edgar Bronfman Jr., as well as… Read more »

San Diego – You know it was a powerful show if every single seat in the arena is still occupied by fans singing at the top of their lungs even after the band is done and the house lights go up. That was the scene Monday at the San Diego Sports Arena, where U2 kicked off their Vertigo Tour with a two-hour celebration of the new and the old and a few favorites in between, including a grand finale of “40” that felt more like the end of an Easter service than a rock concert the night after. “We haven’t… Read more »

Melisma/Atlantic recording artist Rob Thomas has announced plans for his first-ever solo concert tour. The special 11-city, cross-country itinerary heralds the April 19th release of Thomas’ debut solo album, “…SOMETHING TO BE.” The tour kicks off on Friday, April 15th at The Fillmore in San Francisco and wraps up on April 30th at the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C. The shows will mark Thomas’ first club tour since matchbox twenty’s first national trek eight years ago. “Lonely No More,” the first single from “…SOMETHING TO BE,” has proved to be an immediate smash at pop radio across the country. The… Read more »

Los Angeles – Early purchasers of Ozzy Osbourne’s March 22 boxed set, “Prince of Darkness,” will get a little bonus. The initial pressing of the set will include a buy-one-get-one-free coupon for this summer’s Ozzfest, valued at $40. To redeem, customers go to the ozzfest.com Web site and punch in the code on the coupon. The Epic four-disc set covers Osbourne’s solo years. It includes a disc of new recordings by Osbourne of his favorite tunes by other artists, including the Rolling Stones’ “Sympathy for the Devil” and Eric Burdon ‘s “Good Times.” The set’s suggested list price is $49.98,… Read more »

The Take Action Tour (www.takeactiontour.com) kicked off in DC with an evening of hard-hitting music from Sugarcult, The Early November, Hawthorne Heights, Hopesfall and Gym Class Heros. The event is the brainchild of Louis Posen, president and founder of punk/hard-core label Hopeless Records. In 1998, five years after forming Hopeless, Posen formed Sub City Records, an offshoot label that donates 5 percent of its prof- its to charity, according to the Web site. In 1999, Sub City took its socially conscious act on the road. The idea of the Take Action Tour is to connect Sub City bands – and… Read more »

New York/London – EMI Music Publishing will begin a three-year transition Feb. 1 as it grooms its next chairman/CEO. Roger Faxon, the chief financial officer at London-based EMI Group PLC, will return to the publishing unit in New York – where he had spent three years as CFO – to become its worldwide president/COO and eventual successor to veteran chairman Martin Bandier. Bandier will remain the company’s chairman/CEO until April 1, 2006, when the two will share the CEO title. Faxon will become sole CEO April 1, 2007, while Bandier will remain as full-time chairman until March 31, 2008. After… Read more »