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Hollywood Records is offering the entire Diffuser album, “Injury Loves Melody,” as a free download in three formats: MP3, Windows Media and Liquid Audio. This marks the first time a major label has offered a full album download in all three formats. “Injury Loves Melody” will be available in its entirety for the whole month of May. Fans can hear and download the album by visiting sites such as www.diffuseronline.com, www.windowsmedia.com, www.music.msn.com, www.liquid.com, www.launch.com, www.musicmatch.com and Rioport affiliate sites www.mtv.com and www.sonicnet.com. Transworld’s Twec.com has been chosen as the exclusive retail partner for the download. Fans who buy a copy… Read more »

Songbird, the software brainchild of a 20-year-old Internet entrepreneur, was launched on Wednesday with song-swap company Napster firmly in its sights. The technology, billed as the first offered to everyone as an Internet search tool, enables artists and musicians to track down who has done what with their compositions. The software, invented by Utah-based Travis Hill, won the backing of the record industry’s IFPI watchdog and 10 organizations representing artists, songwriters and publishers. Songbird was introduced at IFPI’s London headquarters. “Songbird gives music copyright holders a completely new insight into how Napster is using their music and, if they want… Read more »

Pop superstar Madonna may have found a British school for her baby son Rocco when he is a bit older – by dialing a wrong number. Madonna intended to ring the exclusive Cheltenham Ladies College in western England to talk about enrolling her four-year-old daughter Lourdes, but was accidentally put through to the similarly named Cheltenham College, newspapers reported on Tuesday. School porter Roger Northwood, who took the call, managed to persuade the singer that the private 600-pupil mixed college could suit eight-month-old Rocco when he is 10 years older. “Rocco’s obviously a bit young but Madonna is coming for… Read more »

Long before gun-toting rap stars roamed America, the first manager of the Rolling Stones was terrorizing “Swinging” London, throwing errant journalists out of windows and others off bridges. Accompanied by a thuggish bodyguard, teenage pop Svengali Andrew Loog Oldham was said to be quite the rogue 40 years ago: Sporting a cape, he would careen around the city in his Mini Cooper, speakers blaring from the roof of the tiny car. This is not all completely true – especially the bit about the cape – but the anecdotes and rumors metamorphosed into “facts” over the years, a consequence of the… Read more »

The latest version of Napster’s file-swapping software includes technology that can identify songs by sound, not just their names, the company said Monday. In a posting on its Web site, the company said so-called sound fingerprinting will help the company comply with a federal judge’s order to block the free exchange of copyrighted songs and to add yet-to-be-announced features. Since March, Napster has been excluding copyright songs based on file names, which can vary substantially from user to user. For example, one user may offer the song, “Yesterday,” while another may misspell it “Yesterdy” to make it difficult to block.… Read more »

MUSICMATCH Guide home page – MUSICMATCH gives Go-Go’s fans the chance to hear the highly-anticipated new album, “God Bless the Go-Go’s,” in its entirety from May 7-14, 2001, one week before it is available in stores on May 15. The exclusive CD listening party will be made available by going to www.musicmatch.com and downloading MUSICMATCH Jukebox. Then, check out the MUSICMATCH Guide in the jukebox and be one of the first to hear the Go-Go’s new album. Following a successful tour last year, the Go-Go’s original members – Charlotte Caffey, Belinda Carlisle, Gina Schock, Kathy Valentine and Jane Wiedlin –… Read more »

Columbia/Loud Records’ Stereomud will be headlining what promises to be one of the most aggressive, exultant and satisfying underground hard rock tours of the summer: the “Pain & Suffering” Tour featuring Columbia/Dv8 Records’ Endo. The “Pain & Suffering” Tour kicks off Monday, May 21 at the Bowery Ballroom in Manhattan and will feature either Columbia/Portrait Records’ Spike 1000 or Columbia Records’ Flybanger. Inspiration behind the name of the “Pain & Suffering” Tour can be found in the music of the bands: Stereomud’s current hit, “Pain”; Endo’s first single “Suffer,”; and “Make Me Suffer,” the first single from Spike 1000. Currently… Read more »

The Crowes and Oasis don’t plan on merging into a bluesy Brit-pop supergroup anytime soon, but the two bands will definitely jam onstage together on their joint Tour of Brotherly Love, Gallagher promises. “It’d be rude not to, wouldn’t it,” Gallagher said Wednesday from his manager’s office in London. “I have no doubts in my mind that there’s gonna be various people on stage at various points – as for what we’re gonna do, I don’t know.” The songwriter/guitarist/vocalist said that his top three choices of cover songs to play with the Crowes would be Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven,”… Read more »

Not only are most of Aaron Carter’s fans too young to drink vodka, they’re apparently too young to be in an arena named after one. For one day only, the Smirnoff Music Centre, a 20,000-seat venue in Dallas, won’t be using the name that the Ste. Pierre Smirnoff company purchased last year, according to an arena spokesperson. Instead, the venue will be known as the Music Centre at Fair Park when the teenybopper tour of Aaron Carter, his sister Leslie, and the A*Teens takes the stage July 1. When the company, best known for its vodka, purchased the naming rights… Read more »

Back in 1983, Sting sang about being the “King of Pain.” These days, he’s pain-free, not to mention prosperous. His most recent album, 1999’s “Brand New Day,” is one of the most successful of his career, with more than 7 million copies sold. It won two Grammy Awards and netted him a spot in the pre-game show at this year’s Super Bowl, while his contributions to the soundtrack for Disney’s animated feature “The Emperor’s New Groove” earned him an Oscar nomination. And on Saturday in Washington, D.C., the British musician – who co-founded the Police in 1977 and dissolved the… Read more »