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It was a strange sight Thursday – Steve Jobs touting a Windows product. But the chief executive of Apple Computer Inc. had a perfectly sensible motive. In a move to reach the masses who use computers based on Microsoft Corp. software, Jobs unveiled a Windows-compatible Apple iTunes Music Store, an Internet song-downloading service that has proven successful among Macintosh users. But Mac users comprise only about 3 percent of the computer-buying public, and now Apple is entering a market crowded with rival music services for the Windows world. For its Windows launch, Apple managed to pull some exclusive deals that… Read more »

A crowd infuriated by the last-minute cancellation of a punk rock concert tore through downtown Montreal, overturning cars and smashing into shops, police said Wednesday. Five people were injured. Seven people were arrested in Tuesday night’s violence – one woman for armed assault, and five adults and one minor for mischief and disturbing the peace, police Inspector Yves Surprenant said. “The event surprised us, by its magnitude and the speed with which it happened,” Surprenant said. At least 42 cars and 11 shops were damaged. Some 1,000 people were waiting for the concert to begin when told at about 7:30… Read more »

Hong Kong lawmakers accused the Chinese government of false advertising after it was revealed that The Rolling Stones wouldn’t perform in a concert series, as had been announced. Organizers had said the Stones had committed to play two November dates, part of a government-sponsored concert festival to help Hong Kong refurbish its SARS-battered image. But it was revealed Friday that they had never signed a deal and that negotiations had collapsed. “How could you go around touting the band without a contract in hand?” independent legislator Audrey Eu asked at a Saturday hearing reviewing the finances of the Harbor Fest… Read more »

They teased the release of their third album, The Long Road, with the melodic mid-paced single “Someday,” which delivered everything their fans were used to. Now that the album is on the shelves, Nickelback hope to catch listeners with their pants down. “I like you with your pants around your feet, and I like the dirt that’s on your knees,” Chad Kroeger sings before stabbing guitars puncture the track. “Figured You Out,” one of the heavier songs on the album, will go to radio in early November. A video will be shot in the coming weeks, but a director has… Read more »

After a highly publicized failed attempt last year, ‘N Sync singer Lance Bass still hopes to go into space one day. And if a group of Houston middle school students has any say, Bass will do it in “Lance’s Lab” while eating chicken strips with salsa, wearing stylish pants and T-shirts and listening to and recording music to fight motion sickness. On Wednesday, Bass visited Ortiz Middle School as part of World Space Week, which commemorates the Oct. 4, 1957, launch of Sputnik 1, the first human-made satellite, and the Oct. 10, 1967, signing of a treaty that governs exploration… Read more »

Incubus have set a February 10 release date for their fifth studio album, but one of the new songs is available now. A live version of “Pistola” is featured on Live at Lollapalooza 2003, the first in a new series of sanctioned bootleg CDs available only at www.incubusbootlegs.com. All profits from the bootlegs will go toward the band’s new Make Yourself Foundation, which will disperse funds each year to charities such as the Painted Turtle and Surfrider foundations. “It’s something all of us have been musing about for the last couple of years, because we’ve all been interested in different… Read more »

A Chicago-based web radio host claims he has video footage of both Hell On Earth’s performance, and what is purported to be the suicide that accompanied it, this past Saturday night (October 4), according to the St. Petersburg Times. Shane Bugbee, who hosts an Internet show called Radio Free Satan and has interviewed Hell On Earth frontman Billy Tourtelot, says he uploaded footage of both the band’s show and what appears to be a “sickly-looking” man committing suicide through “some sort of asphyxiation.” Bugbee revealed he won’t confirm the authenticity of the death without more proof. “You know, until a… Read more »

A spokeswoman for Maryland’s first lady said the governor’s wife made “an inadvertent figure of speech” when she spoke at a domestic violence prevention conference of shooting pop singer Britney Spears. In remarks taped by WFMD-AM in Frederick, Kendel Ehrlich, wife of Republican Gov. Robert Ehrlich, addressed an audience Friday at Hood College in Frederick as part of a program called, “Men and Women: Partners in the Fight Against Domestic Violence.” She talked about the need for “educating our women to get as much schooling as possible, to not become dependent on anyone else.” “It is incredibly important to get… Read more »

Blink-182 recently spent the night in jail. No, not as inmates. That was their teenage years (Tom DeLonge when he was 18, Travis Barker 15, to be specific). The older, more mature Blink-182 were only behind bars for the sake of work. The punk trio shot their latest clip, for the new single “Feeling This,” at the abandoned Lincoln Heights Jail north of downtown Los Angeles. “The idea is that it’s a very institutionalized school,” singer/bassist Mark Hoppus explained on the set. “It’s kind of a combination of prep school and reform school, and it’s very repressed and kids are… Read more »

Shout it on out: Tears for Fears is back. After reuniting for a weekend benefit, Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith, the original Tears for Fears, are heading back to the studio to record their first album together in more than a decade. The duo performed together for the first time in years at this past weekend’s Andre Agassi’s Grand Slam for Children Benefit in Las Vegas. By Monday, Arista Records President and CEO Antonio “L.A. Reid” had announced that the newly reformed band had signed with the label and will release a new album this spring. A 2004 is also… Read more »