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AUSTIN, Texas – Every March, the music industry throws on a pair of shorts, slathers on the SPF 45 and heads on down to Austin for South by Southwest, a weeklong celebration of bands, BBQ and (sometimes free!) beer. It’s a brutal bacchanal and music marathon powered by thousands of acts playing in hundreds of venues – at all hours – plus an unreal number of open-bar tabs and fancy private parties. Sleep is not exactly a top priority, so MTV News has dispatched three of its most tireless reporters into the fray. They’ll be filing reports a few times… Read more »

One of the hottest concert tours has come to an end – Civic Tour featuring Dashboard Confessional. From nightly crowd sing-a-longs to 10 fans so far winning fully customized Dashboard Confessional Honda Civics, this year’s Civic Tour has proved to be a box office and audience success, and continues to keep concertgoers involved. Fans still have one last shot at winning the final customized DC Civic through the “Drive Away With Dashboard Confessional” national online sweepstakes at http://www.civictour.com. Contest ends on September 2, 2004 and is open to licensed drivers 18 and older. “Being on this tour allowed us to… Read more »

It’s a long way from the stage of Madison Square Garden to an HIV clinic in South Africa, or from the thunderous roar of an adoring audience to the buttoned-down halls of the U.S. Senate. For most people, perhaps, but not for Bono. Rock and politics have been strange bedfellows for decades, from folkie Pete Seeger’s civil rights work in the ’60s to Frank Zappa’s censorship battles in the ’80s and Rage Against the Machine’s anti-sweatshop agitation in the ’90s. But whether it’s peace in Ireland or restructuring third-world debt, few rock stars have been able to devote as much… Read more »

One man largely symbolizes the divergent fortunes of sister stations MTV and VH1. Can you believe it’s Ozzy Osbourne? MTV has him, and the reality sitcom starring the frazzled heavy-metal legend and his family has become the kind of water-cooler hit that cable executives only dream of. “The Osbournes” has helped MTV build the biggest audience in its history. VH1 doesn’t have him. It doesn’t have much of anything else that people are talking about, and that’s reflected in sinking ratings and management uncertainty over the future. The two Viacom-owned companies are racing in opposite directions. “Things seem to be… Read more »

Hungry for great music? The Atlantis Music Conference has been serving it up since 1998, and is back to dish it out for a fifth year! First, Atlantis must perfect the menu for 2002, and it starts here, with the artist submission process. Until April 1st, artists can submit their packages for $20, and after that it is only $25 until April 15th, which is the final deadline for all submissions. Submission packages must include an application form, one cassette or CD, press kit and application fee. Always striving to make this process as easy for the artists as possible,… Read more »

For the second year in a row, comedian Jon Stewart will host the Grammys, the music industry’s most prestigious annual awards show. CBS will broadcast the 44th annual Grammy Awards ceremony from the Staples Center in Los Angeles on Feb. 27. “We all are delighted to have Jon return as the host of the Grammys, with his razor-sharp wit and unique connection to our audience,” said Michael Greene, president and chief executive officer for the Grammy-sponsoring National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. A New Jersey native, Stewart currently stars on the Comedy Central cable network’s “The Daily Show With… Read more »

‘NSYNC, Creed, Dave Matthews Band, Marc Anthony and Foo Fighters are among the artists scheduled to perform during a series of 16 nightly concerts at the Olympic Winter Games in February. The Hallmark Olympic Celebration Series will also feature Stone Temple Pilots, Sheryl Crow, Barenaked Ladies, Smash Mouth and Train, the Salt Lake Organizing Committee for the Olympic Winter Games of 2002 (SLOC) announced Tuesday (December 18). The concerts will be held at Olympic Medals Plaza in Salt Lake City, Utah, where the games will be held. With an estimated capacity of 20,000, the plaza will host the largest medal… Read more »

Four of the biggest names in the entertainment industry reveal intimate insights when they join BET Tonight With Ed Gordon for a week of “all-star” celebrity interviews. One of America’s top television interviewers, Gordon sits down this week with Jamie Foxx, R. Kelly, Halle Berry and Will Smith for exclusive insights into their lives and their work. Gordon wraps the week by addressing America’s infatuation with celebrities on his regular Friday night roundtable. Each Friday on the show, Gordon gathers a diverse panel of personalities from various backgrounds for spirited debates on the latest news headlines and topics. The celebrity… Read more »

No, this is not a story about an isolated incident. Although for years rock concerts have been drug and alcohol fests (come on, we’ve all been to them), for some reason dance music related events and clubs have recently been targeted by law authorities nationwide – from superclub Twilo in New York being shut down earlier this year to a yet unsubstantiated Federal case filed in New Orleans against club organizers. You even see the prevailing attitude on nightly news programs and in magazines like Time that dance music events are simply all about the drugs … perhaps all the… Read more »

An array of music stars, from songstress Emmylou Harris to the rock band R.E.M., wrapped up a week of sold-out benefit concerts here Monday, raising $1 million for a United Nations food program, organizers said Monday. The Groundwork 2001 benefit series of six nightly concerts in three Seattle venues, which was streamed across the Internet, opened Oct. 14 with a line-up that included Harris, Dave Matthews and lesser-known talents such as alternative pop artist Daniel Lanois and gospel group Blind Boys of Alabama. “It’s an old trick (to) have the person outside the tent who gets the people inside,” Harris… Read more »