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After seven years of performing, writing songs and recording, identical twins Evan and Jaron Lowenstein are finally enjoying the success of a major radio hit, “Crazy for this Girl,” on Sony/Columbia Records. Born and raised in Atlanta, the brothers were destined for sports careers – they traveled the country as semi-pro baseball players – until Evan decided to drop everything for music after hearing Elvis Costello’s “Allison.” He talked it over with Jaron, and the two decided to pursue writing music and becoming rock stars. But simultaneous actions weren’t a new thing for these twins. Together they thought up the… Read more »

Highly successful, wholly-owned independent record label, Beyond Music, a division of the Left Bank Organization, has entered into a distribution deal with the industry’s leading distribution company, Universal Music & Video Distribution (UMVD), it was jointly announced by Alan Kovac, Chairman and CEO, Beyond Music and Jim Urie, President, UMVD. Beyond Music’s first release through UMVD will be music’s first female’s of rock – the Go-Go’s highly anticipated, all-new studio album in seventeen years, titled God Bless the Go-Go’s which will be released on May 15, 2001. “Unforgiven,” the band’s first single released to radio is seeing a tremendous amount… 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 »

Eager Blink-182 fans have not one, but four new albums to look forward to. Well, sort of. The Southern California punksters’ forthcoming album, Take Off Your Pants and Jacket (due June 12th), will be pressed in four different versions, with three containing a different bonus track and the fourth being a “clean” version without a bonus track. The bonus-track discs will be emblazoned with one of three different symbols: an airplane (signifying “take off”), a pair of pants, and a jacket. Each symbol will correspond to a different bonus track. As originally planned, the three tunes were to be “Fuck… Read more »

In yet another boon to ad insertion companies everywhere, Yahoo! has announced plans to diversify their advertising revenue streams by adding audio advertisements to Yahoo! Broadcast. The new streaming destination being offered by the king of all portals will carry streamed audio and video entertainment from content providers such as National Lampoon, ABCNews.com, Accuweather, CourtTV.com, The Sporting News and Travelocity.com. In 1999, Yahoo! bought its way into the multimedia content and streaming market when it purchased the talent and technology that was Broadcast.com from Mark Cuban, who now owns the Dallas Mavericks. Last month, Yahoo! confirmed that despite the site’s… Read more »

New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival’s Web site – Where else in the world but the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival could Paul Simon, Mystikal, the Dave Matthews Band, Celia Cruz, Femi Kuti, the Neville Brothers, Van Morrison, Al Green, Lucinda Williams and more than 400 other acts mix it up with pheasant gumbo, crawfish bread, oyster po-boys and Cajun boudin? If music is the food of love, and Jazzfest is ground zero for the music-as-feast truism, the 32nd annual event – which takes place over seven days between April 27 and May 6 at the city’s Fair Grounds… Read more »

Interscope Records founder Ted Field has ankled the label he co-chaired for more than a decade to start his own record label and continue in his film endeavors. Field’s parting, which comes a year before the expiration of his contract, is nevertheless said to have the blessing of Interscope co-chairman Jimmy Iovine and Doug Morris, chairman of Interscope parent Universal Music Group. Iovine will run Interscope on his own. Field said he is in the process of raising money to start his new record label, adding that it is “very possible” he will seek to team with Universal for a… Read more »