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Nicolas Kolios always wondered what it would feel like to be a real-life teenage star. Noggin, the 24-hour, educational network from Nickelodeon and Sesame Workshop, gives Nicolas the chance of a lifetime as he hangs out with and “walks in the shoes” of real-life teen pop music star Aaron Carter. The new episode of the network’s original series, “A Walk in Your Shoes” will premiere Monday, October 29 at 8:30 p.m. ET (5:30 p.m. PT) on Noggin. The premiere of “A Walk in Your Shoes” with Aaron Carter will be followed by a live online chat with the pop star… Read more »

Cue ear-splitting shrieks from millions of preteen girls. For Lance Bass, as most adults don’t know, is one-fifth of ‘N Sync, the mega-selling boy-band that has helped keep the music industry afloat in recent years. It’s hard to imagine ‘N Sync winning a Grammy Award for its lightweight pop. So – strange but true – Bass is setting his sights on winning a coveted Academy Award from stuffy Hollywood for his role as a moonlighting movie producer. The 22-year-old Mississippi native set up a movie production company earlier this year, naming it A Happy Place, and is holding meetings like… Read more »

Ever since the success of her 1988 single “Orinoco Flow,” Enya’s been one of the world’s most popular artists, quietly selling more than 50 million albums while staying, for the most part, out of the spotlight. But now, with her latest single – the gently reassuring “Only Time” – becoming part of the soundtrack to the post-September 11 world, Enya’s very much at the center of attention. The singer’s elegant, evocative and ethereal A Day Without Rain, released almost a year ago, will hit #2 on next week’s Billboard 200 albums chart, right between rappers Ja Rule and Bubba Sparxxx.… Read more »

Bassist Jason Newsted toured, recorded and partied with Metallica 24-7 for some 13 years. After quitting the band in February, at least partly because of a ban on side projects, he suddenly found the flexibility to work on multiple projects with different artists. Newsted, 38, is producing an album by punk-metal behemoth Speedealer and anticipating the major-label debut of his trio EchoBrain. Toward the end of the year, he’ll begin producing New York noise-metal band Dragpipe before entering the studio with Voivod to play bass on the band’s allegedly final album. And if he has time, he’ll play drums with… Read more »

MusicNet, Pressplay working out kinks in technology, licensing – now they need paying users. Although the major labels have been making strides in their efforts to deliver music to listeners’ desktops while collecting money for themselves and their artists, the road ahead is still littered with questions, and the labels’ long-promised services still are not a reality. When will music fans see them? When they do, will they be willing to pay for something they now can get for free? Can the industry shoot down all the new hotshot – and free – file-trading services? And whatever happened to Napster,… Read more »

Christina Aguilera’s golden locks, Fred Durst’s backward ball cap, Gwen Stefani’s rainbow makeup and Justin Timberlake’s freshly grown peach fuzz took a back seat Thursday to a look unprecedented even in popular music – blindfolds. “I feel like I’m playing pin the tail on the donkey,” Aguilera quipped in between takes during the first day of shooting proper videos for three all-star remakes of Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On.” Many of the artists who contributed to the project – from Ja Rule to Staind’s Aaron Lewis to Alicia Keys – will don blindfolds for the video shoot, which heads to… Read more »

Contrary to reports that are surfacing, the video clip for Incubus’s “I Wish You Were Here” has not been banned by MTV. The clip is currently at MTV and has been added for heavy rotation. A spokesperson for the band told LAUNCH that the video channel was presented with two versions of the clip. One had a scene emulating an episode from the ’60s TV show The Monkees in which the members of Incubus are chased by a pack of girls off a bridge and are forced to jump into the water below. In light of the September 11 terrorist… Read more »

Macy Gray had a lot to say after touring for two years in support of what was to become her multi-platinum, Grammy winning debut, On How Life Is. The id is the much-anticipated funk-soul-rock-R&B love child of those road days, and now Epic Records is giving fans access to it online at http://www.MacyGray.com. Gray co-produced The id with Darryl Swann (who also leant his knob turning skills on “Life”), and co-executive produced with the legendary Rick Rubin. http://www.MacyGray.com invites you tap into the far reaches of The id and access unreleased tracks, exclusive downloads, contests, special features and more. On… Read more »

Although it probably won’t make Limp Bizkit, Staind or Linkin Park sound anemic by comparison, Paul McCartney’s Driving Rain should rock the house harder than anything the former Beatle has recorded since “Helter Skelter” – or at least “Helen Wheels.” “It’s a more aggressive record, definitely,” said producer David Kahne, who has worked with Sugar Ray, Sublime, the Bangles and Tony Bennett. “It’s got real energetic guitar songs. They’re all original, and there’s a lot of power there. I think he really loved doing that because he hadn’t done it in a while.” While Driving Rain’s guitar-blaring rockers will likely… Read more »

Jane’s Addiction has announced 10 dates for its forthcoming Jubilee Tour with Live. The tour kickoff is scheduled for October 2 at the Centrum in Worcester, Massachusetts. So far, dates run through October 23, but a second leg is in the planning stages. Femi Kuti will appear on dates scheduled between October 6 and October 23. Tickets for the Worcester show and a show at New York’s Madison Square Garden go on sale tomorrow (August 31). One dollar from every ticket sold will go to the Jubilee Foundation, a non-profit organization founded by Jane’s singer Perry Farrell to work with… Read more »