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Fleetwood Mac, the Anglo-American pop group that shrugged off bitter internal rivalries to emerge as one of music’s great survival stories, is back in the studio recording its first album since a successful 1997 reunion. The band hopes to tour late next summer “with any luck,” co-founder Mick Fleetwood told Reuters, alluding to its wildly unpredictable 34-year progression from British blues combo to California rock institution. But it would not be a Fleetwood Mac project without some drama. In this case, singer/keyboardist Christine McVie, one of three key songwriters, has retired from rock ‘n’ roll. Tired of the travel, she… Read more »

In anticipation of their forthcoming release “Atomic,” Lit have lined up a slew of TV performances and other promotional activities surrounding its October 16 CD release date. “Atomic” is the follow-up to their platinum-plus “A Place In The Sun,” which garnered the hit singles “Miserable,” “Zip-Lock,” and the #1 Billboard Modern Rock song of 1999, “My Own Worst Enemy.” Earlier this summer fans got a taste of “Atomic” with the song “The Last Time Again” when it was featured in the #1 smash comedy movie “American Pie 2.” The official first single, “Lipstick and Bruises,” is currently #11 on Billboard’s… Read more »

Australian pop music duo Savage Garden, with global sales of 20 million records in four years, have split. Band member Darren Hayes will embark on a solo career and Daniel Jones, preferring life outside the public eye, has returned home to Brisbane, where the two first met through an advertisement in a local music magazine. “We achieved something so great in a short period of time that we had to look for something else,” Jones said on Friday. “We’ve both had a lot of success together. We’ll probably have a lot of success independently in the future.” Savage Garden’s single… Read more »

VH1 is going bananas with New York-based music events. On Thursday the music cable channel announced it was joining with Miramax and Cablevision to present a Madison Square Garden benefit concert featuring Paul McCartney and the Who for victims of the attack on the World Trade Center. On Friday, VH1 said it would tape the seventh annual “VH1/Vogue Fashion Awards” in New York on Oct. 19 for cablecasting as a two-hour primetime special Oct. 22. But the plan is to tone down the glitter and frivolity, said Todd Schwartz, executive producer of the awards show, and “tip our hat to… Read more »

In times of trouble, people often turn to music for comfort. Right now, they can also turn to musicians and the music industry for direct aid, as the industry mobilizes to help victims of Tuesday’s terrorist attacks and their families. Most tours and performances scheduled for this week have either been canceled or postponed, but many of the artists who chose to carry on will be donating portions of their concert proceeds to relief efforts. Madonna pledged proceeds from Thursday’s performance at the Staples Center in Los Angeles to disaster victims and their families, according to the Associated Press, while… Read more »

Like all of us, artists in the music industry have had their lives turned upside down in the wake of Tuesday’s terrorist attack on America. Superstars like Madonna and Janet Jackson have had to switch their concert schedules, but more importantly, many performers’ whole way of seeing life has changed. “To be honest, I’ve been scared to come through the Lincoln Tunnel,” Ja Rule, who was raised in New York and now lives in New Jersey, told Carson Daly today on MTV’s “TRL.” “When I came through the tunnel [today], I saw a whole thing of Army [trucks]. It shook… Read more »

Showing no signs of fatigue or question marks about making a show revolve around material from her last two albums, Madonna started her final stop on the Drowned World Tour Sunday with a mesmerizing and confident performance that puts to shame any singer who thinks she might have a shot at Ms. Ciccone’s pop throne. Madonna frames blocks of songs in various settings, using mix-and-match motifs that yield differing results. In the end, she emerges triumphant – a reminder of why her star has never dimmed. Hundred-minute show closes on “Holiday,” Madonna’s first top 40 single from way back in… Read more »

“You Rock My World,” the first single from Michael Jackson’s new album, Invincible, was unexpectedly released to radio outlets on Friday (August 24). As late as Thursday afternoon, Jackson’s label, Epic Records, said that it had not lined up a radio add date for the single. The Rodney Jerkins-produced track was prematurely leaked to radio last week, as two New York radio stations, WJTM-FM and WKTU-FM, began spinning it last Friday (see “Michael Jackson Rocks Fans’ Worlds (A Little Early)”). The stations, both of which employed longtime Jackson friend Frankie Blue as music director, played “You Rock My World” every… Read more »

Antitrust enforcers at the U.S. Justice Department are investigating the online music business, including two new joint ventures in the industry, an industry source said on Monday. The department is in the initial stages of a probe that includes the industry’s Pressplay and MusicNet ventures and, more generally, how major record labels control online distribution of copyrighted music, the source said. “They have launched an investigation.” Spokeswomen for Pressplay and MusicNet declined to comment, as did a spokeswoman for the Justice Department. MusicNet, one of the industry’s answers to the song-swapping service Napster, has the backing of AOL Time Warner… Read more »

The Justice Department opened an antitrust investigation of the online music business, focusing on two new joint ventures backed by five major record labels, the Wall Street Journal reported in its online edition on Monday. The probe, which is in a preliminary stage, is looking into possible anti-competitive problems posed by the joint ventures, lawyers close to the case said Friday, according to the report. The government is also expected to examine the major record companies’ use of copyright rules and licensing practices to control online distribution of their music, according to these people, the report said. The rival joint… Read more »