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There’ll be no “Music” in New Jersey Friday night. A case of laryngitis forced Madonna to cancel her August 3 show at the Continental Airlines Arena. The show, the second of two sold-out concerts at the arena, will not be rescheduled, according to a statement from promoter Clear Channel Entertainment. Refunds will be available at the point of purchase, and online and telephone orders will be automatically refunded. Madonna’s next show will be August 7 in Boston, a concert originally set for August 6. The singer opened the U.S. leg of her Drowned World Tour on July 21 in Philadelphia… 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 »

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 »

Continuing its mission of bringing music fans closer to the artists they love, global music media company GetMusic kicks off a stellar summer of unique programming, live events and interactive content with extensive coverage of the two-day KIIS-FM Wango Tango music festival in Los Angeles this weekend. In addition to interviewing artists for the site, GetMusic will be the exclusive sponsor of the event’s autograph-signing tent for fans on both Saturday and Sunday, June 16 and 17. Some of today’s most popular artists are scheduled to stop by, including Dream, Eden’s Crush, Samantha Mumba, 3LW and Nikka Costa. On Monday,… Read more »

Depeche Mode, the influential British technopop band that flourished in the 1980s, kicks off a five-month tour in Canada this week with a new album and what one founding member said is a hard-earned feeling of serenity. “It is the first time for a long, long time, in about 15 years probably, that all three members of Depeche Mode are happy and stable in their private and working lives,” keyboardist Andrew Fletcher, 39, told Reuters in an interview. “It is enjoyable to be in Depeche Mode at the moment, and I would not have said that five years ago.” Fletcher,… Read more »

Chart-topping musical group O-Town will set out on an impressive nationwide summer tour in support of their Platinum selling debut album O-Town. The tour launches in Los Angeles, CA on July 6th and rounds out in September in Boston, MA. Following the success of their #1 selling single “Liquid Dreams”, O-Town are enjoying the success of their second smash single “All or Nothing” which is among the top three most requested songs on Top 40 radio. Concurrently, the stunning “All or Nothing” video directed by Marcus Raboy has been a top five request on MTV’s Total Request Live for over… Read more »

Taiwan high-speed Internet access firm GigaMedia Ltd. said on Monday it would sell part of its music Web site to record label EMI Group Plc in a strategic alliance to jointly offer music downloads. U.S.-listed Giga said it spun off its Juice.com music site into a separate company capitalized at T$100 million and EMI would take a minority stake in the firm. Officials declined to give financial details of the agreement. “The alliance supports our goal of creating new platforms to promote our artists and distribute their music in a secure, protected, and commercially viable manner,” Mathew Allison, president of… Read more »

Embattled song-swap company Napster Inc. is talking with many technology companies, including Microsoft Corp., as part of its efforts to design a fee-charging service that pays royalties to artists and record labels, a spokeswoman said Friday. “Napster has been talking with Microsoft, along with a number of other technology companies, about how several of their products might be incorporated into the new Napster service. Those conversations are ongoing,” the spokeswoman said. She declined to elaborate but sources said that Napster has already spoken with dozens of technology firms. Microsoft officials were not immediately available. Napster has said it hopes to… Read more »

The New York City Police Department has a message for the city’s hip-hop community: we’re watching you. Based on what it claims is a “culture of violence” in the hip-hop world, the police’s gang intelligence unit has begun watching nightclubs frequented by celebrity musicians. Police are also compiling a dossier on rappers and others in the music industry with criminal histories. “It would be ignorant for us to ignore the fact that there have been violent incidents where the only common denominator is the music industry,” police spokesperson Sgt. Brian Burke said Friday (April 20). “In an effort to ensure… Read more »

Universal Music Group, confirmed today that it intends to buy EMusic.com Inc. for nearly $23 million cash. News of the possible acquisition surfaced late last week, but rumor that the proposed buyer was Universal, a unit of France’s Vivendi Universal, could not be verified until the music giant’s announcement of the deal. The company intends to start a tender offer for EMusic’s outstanding shares for 57 cents each. With the news, shares of EMusic, whose sites include RollingStone.com and DownBeat.com, were trading at 53 cents, up 10 cents from Friday’s close. Prior to EMusic’s disclosure of its acquisition talks, its… Read more »