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For certain punks, there was no Bad Religion from 1996 through 2001. During that dark period, co-songwriter Brett Gurewitz split the seminal act he co-created with his pals in high school. He was disenchanted with the band’s major-label deal (at Atlantic), overwhelmed by the sudden hugeness of Epitaph – the label he founded to release Bad Religion records and eventually home to Rancid and the Offspring – and increasingly strung out on smack. The band would release two albums in his absence, both guided solely by the vision of Gurewitz’s estranged collaborator, Greg Graffin. Both records – 1996’s Gray Race… Read more »

The back-to-back debut of new video game consoles from Microsoft and Nintendo is expected to fuel strong sales of home entertainment goods as jittery Americans opt to spend more time at home after the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington, analysts said. They said the launch of Microsoft Corp’s Xbox on Thursday and that of Nintendo Co. Ltd’s GameCube – three days later – could even help lift third and fourth-quarter profits for some of the nation’s top consumer electronics stores. The big boost, the analysts said, will also come on a jump in customer traffic to stores… Read more »

Madonna may be the bitchiest and bossiest woman in pop music or the most beloved. She may be an emotionally insecure manipulator – who (shock! horror!) uses men and throws them away. Or she may be just an old-fashioned girl looking for the traditional twosome: love and marriage. But one thing she doesn’t do is kiss and tell – that’s left for the biographer. Two unauthorized biographies published this month both tout supposed fresh new insights into the life and love life of the pop and cultural phenomenon who has reinvented herself with almost every one of her 14 hit… Read more »

Apple Computer Inc. unveiled on Tuesday a portable music player that can hold an entire music collection and takes Apple outside its core computer business for the first time in eight years. Apple’s “iPod” is the size and shape of a deck of cards, with a small LCD screen and round dial on a white front and a stainless steel back. It holds about 1,000 songs in the MP3 music format and has a battery life of 8-10 hours. Apple will begin selling iPods, which only work with its Macintosh computers, on Nov. 10 at a suggested retail price of… Read more »

Microsoft Corp. today announced that as part of its worldwide launch of Windows ® XP in New York, it would host a public concert dedicated to the people of New York City on Thursday, Oct. 25. International recording artist Sting will perform at the midday concert in New York’s Bryant Park. The concert will be webcast around the world on MSN ®, the most popular portal destination on the World Wide Web. “We’re honored to be doing the Windows XP launch in New York and couldn’t be happier that Sting has accepted our invitation to perform,” said Bill Gates, chairman… Read more »

The Grateful Dead played their final show more than six years ago. And thanks to a career-retrospective box set, an endless stream of live CDs, a documentary film featuring late guitarist Jerry Garcia and steady touring by the group’s surviving members and their new ensembles, the Dead’s legacy isn’t close to fading away. A 12-CD box set, The Golden Road (1965-1973), out October 16, chronicles the Dead’s six-year stint on the Warner Bros. label with remastered versions of each album – from Grateful Dead (1967) to History of the Grateful Dead Vol. I (Bear’s Choice) (1973) – along with studio… Read more »

What a dismal future looms ahead for music lovers, if online subscription services turn out anything like promised. Real Networks already has a pay-per-view model – and its own Digital Rights Management framework – in place. And in Napster, the industry has a ‘brand’ name everyone’s heard of, which likewise is gearing itself for a subscription-based model. Yesterday Real Networks announced that it would roll its clients into one application – combining Player and Jukebox – in a textbook exercise in gigantism it calls RealOne. Player has been getting ever more bloated since its debut – although by using it… Read more »

Loudeye has announced plans to acquire Activate, a company that provides webcasting services. Loudeye has made several such acquisitions this year, in July snapping up assets of theDial, a Seattle based Internet radio programming that syndicates original programming; and buying Addition Systems, a streamed advertising firm in June. Commenting on the acquisition, Loudeye chief executive officer John Baker said, “Enterprise streaming is a logical extension of Loudeye’s digital media expertise into a lucrative market on the threshold of accelerated growth. This acquisition will significantly strengthen and diversify Loudeye’s revenue mix and increase future earnings potential by accessing existing corporate budgets… Read more »

Pressplay, a online music joint venture between recording giants Vivendi Universal’s Universal Music and Sony Corp.’s Sony Music, is still on track to launch this fall, a spokesman said Friday. The Pressplay spokesman declined to comment on a specific launch date for the service, which was originally earmarked to launch in September by Vivendi Executive Vice President Edgar Bronfman Jr at an industry conference in July. Many of Pressplay’s employees are based in New York City, where business has been severely disrupted by the attacks on the World Trade Center, the spokesman said. Pressplay and MusicNet, a competing music joint… Read more »

An impressive all-star lineup will take the stage for the 2nd Annual Latin GRAMMY Awards on September 11. Ricky Martin will be making a special appearance and Caetano Veloso is set to perform, it was announced today by Michael Greene, President/CEO of the Recording Academy ® and Latin Recording Academy ®. Marc Anthony, Luis Miguel, Alejandro Sanz with Destiny’s Child, Juanes, Hevia, Santana, Thalia, and Alejandro and Vicente Fernandez are among those performing during the live telecast. The show will be co-hosted by Christina Aguilera and Jimmy Smits, will originate from the Forum in Los Angeles, and be broadcast on… Read more »