Search Results for: from first to last

Live365 received the “People’s Choice” Webby Award for Best Music Site last night during the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences 5th Annual Webby Awards at San Francisco’s War Memorial Opera House. The Webby Award, a leading international honor for websites and individual achievement in technology, is indicative of an explosive year in growth for Live365. The company has increased its total number of Internet radio stations from 14,000 last July to more than 40,000 today. The site provides users with free access to listen to any of their unique stations at anytime, and innovative proprietary technology to create… Read more »

MTV is planning a second round of episodes of its new documentary show “Becoming,” in which fans “become” their favorite musicians. The cable channel picks people up in a limousine, gives them makeovers, teaches them choreography and lets them recreate their favorite videos. Cameras capture the transformation along the way, then MTV shows the finished product. Players are chosen from casting calls, fan Web sites, karaoke bars and college campuses. In the first series of episodes, which started airing last month on Tuesday nights, fans became Britney Spears, the Backstreet Boys, Jennifer Lopez and Blink-182, among others. New episodes will… Read more »

Eminem (real name: Marshall Mathers III) has received a visa from the Australian government to perform at a pair of concerts in the country next week. But along with the approval came a warning to respect the country’s values and its multicultural society. As previously reported, lawmakers and community groups opposed allowing the Grammy-winning rapper into the country with his group D12, saying his songs contain foul, violent, and racist lyrics demeaning to women and gays. Critics said the artist’s repeated brushes with the law should exclude him from a visa on the grounds of bad character. Immigration Minister Philip… Read more »

Britney Spears plays “an innocent girl with a lot of aspirations” in her big-screen debut, according to one of her “What Are Friends For” co-stars. The film, due out early next year, finds Spears’ character, Lucy, on a cross-country adventure seeking musical fame, said Justin Long, who plays her best friend from high school. “It’s like a road trip buddy movie for girls,” said Long, who appeared in “Galaxy Quest” but is best known as Warren Cheswick on the NBC comedy “Ed.” “[Britney] plays a very wide-eyed girl. She’s a great actress. People are going to be surprised.” So how… Read more »

Concert promoters say London is a last-minute town when it comes to ticket buying… but not when it’s O-Town fans doing the buying.  It took just 100 minutes for the first of tomorrow’s two Centennial Hall shows by the boy band machine to sell out two months ago. The second show went almost as quickly to fans who had lined up unsuccessfully for that first show. That’s more than 3,000 tickets.  As the late, great Jim Morrison of the Doors used to intone, the men don’t know, but the little girls understand.  The thing that sets this American five-piece group… Read more »

XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. yesterday reported financial and operating results for the second quarter ending June 30, 2001. During the quarter, XM Radio achieved several critical milestones including successfully launching its second satellite, “Roll,” signing programming deals with leading brand names including MTV, VH1, CNBC, and CNET, and launching a redesigned website in preparation for commercial launch planned for late this summer. With all that activity, and not a single paying subscriber, it stands to reason that the company suffered losses in consolidated operating loss (EBIT), consolidated net losses, and consolidated net loss available to common shareholders. For the… Read more »

In case you’re not convinced that Britney Spears really does love rock and roll, the pop princess, who covered the Rolling Stones’ “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” on her last album, has put another dime in the jukebox and come up with an even more telling rock classic for her next one. Spears has recorded Joan Jett and the Blackhearts’ 1981 hit “I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll” with hitmaker Rodney Jerkins for a scene in her upcoming movie, “What Friends Are For,” as well as for her still-untitled third album, which a Jive Records spokesperson said is tentatively due November… Read more »

Rock singer Melissa Etheridge has been ordered to bed with a bad case of the flu, but she won’t miss any of her upcoming tour dates, her publicist said Tuesday. The raspy-voiced rocker is following her doctor’s advice to take two weeks of bed rest now in order to fully recover in time to hit the road next month, with an opening show scheduled for Aug. 4 in Washington, D.C., the publicist said. While the tour should not be affected, the flu did force Etheridge, 40, to cancel several recent in-store appearances to promote her latest album, “Skin,” and her… Read more »

Colombian rock artist Juanes was nominatedTuesday for six Latin Grammy awards, including record of the year, album of the year, song of the year and best new artist, the Latin Recording Academy announced. The 27-year-old artist “was stunned, those guys kept saying my name again and again.” Juanes began his music career with a band in Colombia 15 years ago. Even though he never considered giving up, the most trying part of his journey to success was having patience, he told reporters after the announcements. Another strong contender in the Sept. 11 awards in Miami will be Spanish artist Alejandro… Read more »

In case you’re not convinced that Britney Spears really does love rock and roll, the pop princess, who covered the Rolling Stones’ “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” on her last album, has put another dime in the jukebox and come up with an even more telling rock classic for her next one. Spears has recorded Joan Jett and the Blackhearts’ 1981 hit “I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll” with hitmaker Rodney Jerkins for a scene in her upcoming movie, “What Friends Are For,” as well as for her still-untitled third album, which a Jive Records spokesperson said is tentatively due November… Read more »