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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 three “bootylicious” vocalists from the Grammy-winning R&B act Destiny’s Child are parting ways to pursue solo projects for the near future, they said in a television interview aired on Wednesday. “Well, Destiny’s Child put out four albums in four years, which is unbelievable,” lead singer Beyonce Knowles told cable network E! Entertainment Television in an interview conducted last week. “We’ve been working… nonstop. So I think Destiny’s Child is gonna take a little break.” She added, “I think the great thing about us doing this is we will all have to develop individually. You’re in a group and it’s… Read more »

In an age of chaos and uncertainty, P.O.D.’s new single, “Youth of the Nation,” is being embraced as a rallying cry for frustrated teens – a segment of the population that cares about the future more than its elders sometimes think. The band just finished its Youth of the Nation Tour and recently dropped a video for the song. Instead of dwelling on “Youth,” though, P.O.D. are looking to the future themselves and planning for the release of their next single, “Boom.” “We wanted to go back to the spirit we had with ‘Alive’ and have a song that encourages… Read more »

Jerry Levin, Chief Executive Officer of AOL Time Warner, announced a senior management succession plan for the Company and said AOL Time Warner will begin to implement a six-month transition to a new leadership team. The plan, which Mr. Levin proposed to the Board of Directors and Mr. Case endorsed, grew out of ongoing discussions with the Board over the past year on succession planning. As part of this plan, Mr. Levin announced that after long and careful consideration, he has decided to retire at the time of the Company’s annual meeting in May 2002. Under this succession plan, which… Read more »

British pop singer Elton John, whose string of hits has made him one of the richest stars in the music business, has said it’s time to let the sun go down on his recording career. He stunned his audience at a weekend concert in the United States by saying his latest album, “Songs From The West Coast,” would be his last, his London-based spokesman said. “I’m fed up with it. I like playing to you guys but I hate the record industry,” said John, who has amassed an estimated 150 million pounds ($210 million) fortune in a career spanning more… Read more »

Christmas came early on Tuesday for hundreds of U.S. troops in Kosovo when pop diva Mariah Carey flew in to perform a festive concert for them. “We want to give them a little glamour,” said the 31-year-old singer, sporting stylish military fatigues for her frontline “day out with the boys in the Balkans.” One of the world’s most successful female artists of the past decade took a chartered jet from London to Skopje and then was off by helicopter for a whirlwind tour of bases in Kosovo. Her top priority, she told Reuters on the flight out, was to boost… Read more »

It’s a long way from playing rock ‘n’ roll shows to hobnobbing in the rarefied world of international art auctions. But Mick Fleetwood, the lanky drummer of veteran rock band Fleetwood Mac, has made the transition in several quick strides, co-founding an auction house that specializes in the lucrative field of music and movie memorabilia. Prestigious sales of Picassos and Warhols now compete for investors’ dollars with rock paraphernalia like a John Lennon piano or a Jimi Hendrix guitar. Fleetwood Owen Ltd., which Fleetwood co-founded with veteran auction broker Ted Owen, aims to compete with giants like Sotheby’s Holdings Inc.… Read more »

The world’s big record labels are finally rolling out online subscription services smack in the middle of the holiday season that caps the music industry’s worst year in at least a decade. In coming weeks, music fans – who have for years been pulling everything from Radiohead to Madonna off the Web for free from services like Napster – will be introduced to a new breed of money-for-music services like PressPlay and MusicNet, which have been developed by the major record companies. Several smaller independent firms like FullAudio and Listen.com will soon be launching subscription services too. Industry officials and… Read more »

Approximately two-and-a-half decades after beginning his career, Cure mastermind Robert Smith is working on his first solo album, a collection of collaborations with several of his friends. Smith actually began working on the concept during the making of the last Cure album, last year’s Bloodflowers, but has had to put the project aside three times due to various concerns surrounding his group as well as the availability of others. He said, “The basic songs have been recorded and I’m intending to collaborate with on each one with a different artist. That’s why I have to have, like, a clear run… Read more »

In a world where artistic lifespans are often judged in terms of fads, most pop music acts last no longer than the trends that briefly catapulted them to fame. And those are just the ones that are lucky enough to end up in the “where are they now?” files. It’s rare to find a band like the Bee Gees, who started their musical career when nine-year-old brother Barry was joined by his six-year-old twin siblings Robin and Maurice. The group scored their first No. 1 hit in their native Australia back in 1966 and broke out to a world audience… Read more »