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A study by market-research firm Odyssey shows that 31% of online users over the age of 16 – or over 40 million U.S. consumers – report they have downloaded or transferred music online in the past six months, and they do so an average of 11 times per week. These findings were part of Odyssey’s Breadbox, a semiannual study of U.S. consumers focused on attitudes toward, and usage of, e-commerce and other retail channels. Affecting The Industry While the music industry tries to restrict file sharing among online users, consumers continue to transfer and download online music. Later this week,… Read more »

Boston native Joey McIntyre will host the 15th annual Boston Music Awards (BMAs) at the city’s 2,700-seat Orpheum Theatre on Thursday (April 11). Acts scheduled to perform at the event include Godsmack, American Hi-Fi, Reveille, Bill Morrissey, Kay Hanley, Tracy Bonham, Tribe of Judah, Must, the Sheila Devine, Mission Of Burma, and, of course, McIntyre. Staind, Aerosmith, and American Hi-Fi lead the pack of 162 BMA nominees with seven nominations each, with Godsmack close behind with six. Other major label acts receiving multiple nominations include LFO (three), Jo Dee Messina (two), Vertical Horizon (two), Rivers Cuomo of Weezer (two), Reveille… Read more »

Even if you don’t know a lick of guitar and couldn’t tell a power chord from a power bar, you can still play with Korn. Five Korn figurines are set to hit store shelves in mid-May, according to a spokesperson for entertainment brand management company the Stronghold Group. Each collectible stands approximately six inches tall and is modeled after caricatures popular in Hong Kong, with overly long arms, huge fists and feet, and scowling facial expressions. Each figure comes equipped with accessories – sunglasses and an H.R. Giger-designed mic stand for Jonathan Davis, drumsticks for David Silveria and a baseball… Read more »

On the same day that the space shuttle Atlantis launched from Cape Canaveral, headed for the International Space Station, ‘NSYNC’s Lance Bass was continuing his own preparations to launch into space toward the same orbiting outpost. On hand Monday for the premiere of “The Sweetest Thing” in New York, Bass said he’s trying to maximize his downtime during ‘NSYNC’s current tour to fit in additional medical tests in the U.S. before he heads to Russia yet again to see if he can qualify for a fall mission aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket. “I’m still testing to see if I can… Read more »

Amazed by the building-block animation in the White Stripes’ “Fell in Love With a Girl” video? Impressed by the choreography in Kylie Minogue’s “Can’t Get You Out of My Head”? Well, you’re not alone. Each year the Music Video Production Association hands out awards to those little-seen yet highly integral members of the music video community – namely, everyone but the musicians themselves. This year Kylie’s choreographer and the Stripes’ special effects artists are among the specialists up for awards in 26 categories, ranging from Director of the Year to Best Video Produced Under $25,000. There are also several best… Read more »

“I only heard it quite recently,” says French composer Jacques Loussier. “In fact, my son had heard it and told me that was my music played on this record, so that is why I’ve been listening to it. And, of course, it’s so obvious that it was a copy of my music.” Loussier is speaking of Eminem’s “Kill You,” a track from the rapper’s 8 million-copy selling The Marshall Mathers LP that Loussier claims contains music lifted from his own composition, “Pulsion.” Loussier filed suit against the rapper and Interscope Records last week in federal court in New York City,… Read more »

Detox is no place for chronic, so expect something different from Dr. Dre on his third and final album. “I’m not talking about lowriders and blunts and all that anymore,” Dre said at his studio recently. “I mean, that’s played. As a matter of fact, I’m tired of hearing other people talk about it, to tell you the truth.” So what is the hip-hop pioneer going to talk about? “I had to come up with something different but still keep it hardcore, so what I decided to do was make my album one story about one person and just do… Read more »

Eminem is being sued by a french composer who claims the popular rap star stole some of his music. The 67-year-old composer Jacques Loussier has accused Eminem of stealing parts of his jazz fusion work for the song “Kill You.” The suit seeks unspecified damages and was filed this past week in New York. It accuses Eminem and Interscope Records of swiping parts of his work for the “The Marshall Mathers LP” album. The song talks about killing women. Among the lines in the song is the lyric: “I’m ready to play, I got the machete from O.J.” Loussier is… Read more »

In the era of MP3s, CD-Rs, iPods and the ubiquitous mix-CD, everyone from Starbucks to your parents has tried their hand at the DJ game, often with perfectly positive results. But after four arduous days of hearing dance music permeate every sonic inch of the Winter Music Conference, this cultural development bolstered the status of every DJ – the real kind – that performed, laying plain the artistry of their craft. That said, the vast majority of WMC parties fell into the risk-free category of monochromatic, genre-based music, whether progressive house, tech-house or any other permutation in between. DJs who… Read more »

Backstreet Boy A.J. McLean is selling his Orlando home, located in Estates At Phillips, and it can be yours for a cool $1.95 million. The two-year-old, two-story contemporary home features 6,200 square feet of living space. The waterfront property has six bedrooms, five full bathrooms, an in-ground screen-enclosed swimming pool, a combination study/den/library, a game room, a THX-equipped theater, a wet bar, a three-car garage, marble floors, a patio, and a boat dock. The home is being sold completely furnished, with a portion of the proceeds benefiting McLean’s charitable organization, the JNN Foundation. Rajia N. Ackley of Ackley Realty in… Read more »