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America Online, Inc. today announced that more than 2.2 million members accessed Radio@AOL in the month of October, according to Nielsen/NetRatings. AOL Music has also introduced new programming to enhance the popular Radio@AOL, which now offers members more than 100 stations of music, news, sports and entertainment. Radio@AOL is AOL’s first built-in radio service and a marquee feature of AOL 7.0, the new version of the AOL Service which launched October 16. “Radio@AOL is a major breakthrough for making online music mainstream,” said Kevin Conroy, Senior Vice President and General Manager of AOL Music. “We are thrilled with members’ enthusiasm… Read more »

Soul Asylum recently celebrated the group’s twentieth anniversary with a show at First Avenue in Minneapolis. “It was extremely touching,” says singer/guitarist Dave Pirner. “It seemed like First Avenue was overflowing with love. I’m getting emotional just thinking about it. I really couldn’t get a grip on the fact that we had been together for that long.” Now that the balloons are popped and the champagne bottles drained, Soul Asylum are back doing what’s kept the group together these last two decades: writing new music. “We don’t know where or when we’re going to put this out,” says Pirner of… Read more »

The birthplace of the world’s most famous band the Beatles remembered George Harrison on Saturday as an inspirational musician, a spiritual man of conviction and a reluctant celebrity. Outside the Liverpool house where Harrison was born 58 years ago, fans from as far afield the United States and Australia braved the northern English cold to pay tribute to the man known as the “Quiet Beatle.” “George: a man of conviction along with John. Rest in peace,” said a note written by a fan placed with a bunch of flowers on the windowsill of the tiny house in Arnold Grove. Eddie… Read more »

“Shhhhh!” is printed across the front of one of the T-shirts Ryan Adams is hawking during his current tour in support of his fabulous second solo disc, “Gold” (Lost Highway). It suggests that fame is the intention of least value for this 27-year-old singer-guitarist, an artist who has managed to fly ever so slightly above the radar as a solo artist and, previously, as leader of Whiskeytown, making one impressive artistic statement after another. On a night when a Mick Jagger performance was the hottest celeb-filled event in town, Adams’ show was the hottest ticket – the House of Blues… Read more »

As showbiz celebrities and hired models watched in awe, Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger let it loose during a rare solo concert at a tiny Los Angeles club Thursday. Jagger’s new album hits stores next week, and he chose the 770-capacity El Rey Theatre near Hollywood as the venue for his only concert performance to promote the release. “This is the world tour for this album, ‘Goddess in the Doorway,”‘ Jagger, 58, told the invite-only crowd. “You can say you were at every gig, OK?” Wearing a sleeveless red T-shirt emblazoned with the Statue of Liberty over the slogan “Liberte,”… Read more »

Nearly twenty-five years after the B-52’s formed in Athens, Georgia, the band’s career will get an overview with the January 15th release of the double-disc anthology Nude on the Moon. In addition to B-52’s standards “Rock Lobster,” “Roam” and “Love Shack,” the compilation will contain rarities, including a previously unreleased version of “Queen of Las Vegas” from sessions the group did with David Byrne for the Mesopotamia EP and a live version of “Is That You Mo-Dean?” recorded in the last year. Singer Fred Schneider says the B-52’s are actively involved in the set, pouring through pictures and assembling liner… Read more »

Sony Music Entertainment (SME) and YourMobile/PWS today announced the launch of a new online commercial wireless service which will offer ringtones – musical options for the ring on mobile phones indicating incoming calls – to music fans for purchase within the United States, at http://wireless.sonymusic.com. The ringtones offered will represent compositions associated with a wide array of SME artists, as well as ringtones representing artists from a variety of other music labels and companies. Thousands of musical ringtones will be immediately available for sale domestically. While the initial launch of the service will focus on the U.S. market, additional ringtone… Read more »

A group of recording stars led by Don Henley on Tuesday said they recently filed a brief in a San Francisco federal court that may give song-swap service Napster a shot in the arm in its ongoing copyright infringement battle with the recording industry. The artists contended in their brief filed on Nov. 7 that the big recording labels may not indefinitely own some of the sound recording copyrights they are suing over in the landmark suit against Napster, said Jay Rosenthal, a lawyer for the Recording Artists Coalition (RAC). The record giants in October requested summary judgement on the… Read more »

Just days after their third, self-titled record is released later this month, Smash Mouth will start recording another one. No, they’re not taking a digital studio on the road and jamming during down time, they’re bringing producer Eric Valentine out with them to work on a live album, which they hope to release by this time next year. “It’s not that easy to make a live record, because you’ve really gotta be on your game,” vocalist Steve Harwell said recently. “But now the shows are good enough to where we can record them and they’ll sound really good.” The disc… Read more »

Radio One, Inc. today announced it is bringing Urban programming, much of it formerly unavailable in thousands of U.S. cities, to every corner of the contiguous 48 states, with the national launch of XM Satellite Radio. Radio One, as a third party XM Radio partner, is providing five channels of programming targeted at the African-American and Urban listener. These formats include African- American Talk, Gospel, Urban Mixes, Hip-Hop and Mainstream Urban. In many places of the country, especially outside of large metropolitan areas, African-American targeted programming is limited or non-existent. Radio One is committed to providing a totally unique radio… Read more »