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Fuel has now surpassed two more milestones with its second album, Something Like Human-it has achieved multi-platinum status for sales topping two million and has now been on the Billboard 200 album chart for one year. Fuel guitarist Carl Bell tells LAUNCH that their success is a far cry from the simplest goals of their early days. “I think at that time, we put the first record out, we were just, you know, ‘It’s a major record, we’re on a major record deal,’ and it was all cool, you know? After that it was just gravy, I guess, you know… Read more »

From a chair that looked as if it belongs on the starship Enterprise, Hugh Panero flipped a switch Tuesday and formally launched XM, the first of the nationwide satellite radio services to go on the air. While the ceremony marked XM’s official start, it will not be a national service for some months because the signal is being beamed from the company’s two satellites – “Rock” and “Roll” – to San Diego and Dallas. The company plans to roll out service to the southern half of the United States within a month and to the rest of the nation in… Read more »

The letters and art of “Fifth Beatle” Stuart Sutcliffe are to be put up for bid, auctioneer Fleetwood Owen said Friday. Some 400 items, including correspondence between Sutcliffe and the Beatles, drawings, photographs and his first guitar will be auctioned as one lot in a sealed-bid sale, it said. “The collection is full of wonderful things, wonderful artwork, fabulously interesting letters, poetry, sketchbooks, all delightful and beautiful things to look at,” said Sutcliffe’s sister, Pauline, who is selling the material. Sutcliffe died of a brain hemorrhage six months before the Beatles reached the hit parade in 1962. Sutcliffe, whose short… Read more »

Britney Spears’ video for “I’m a Slave 4 U” – the first of two recently filmed clips from her new album, Britney – might look familiar to fans who saw her debut the song earlier this month at the Video Music Awards. In the clip, Spears and 15 dancers employ the same choreography seen in her VMA performance, only this time the bunch is moving and grooving in an underground Asian bath house. Spears is portrayed as a slave to the music who dances all night until she and the other dancers are sweaty and near dehydration, forcing them to… Read more »

Striking a macabre note, a new album cover by hip-hop band The Coup – whose music has a strong anti-capitalist bent – had until recently depicted the World Trade Center exploding, the band’s label said on Wednesday. “We changed the artwork as soon as we saw what had happened,” said Daria Kelly, director of sales for 75 Ark, the band’s label. Kelly said the picture, which eerily shows group member “Boots” Riley holding a detonator in front of the exploding towers, was yanked from the San Francisco-based company’s Web site at (http://www.75ark.com) by 9:30 a.m. PDT on Tuesday, hours after… Read more »

Sting, the Grammy award-winning Universal Music artist and performer, has partnered with Vizzavi for its first music European-wide webcast. Vizzavi is the rapidly growing internet portal formed by Vodafone Group plc, the world’s largest mobile network operator, and Vivendi Universal, one of the world’s leading media companies. The concert is the actual recording of Sting’s much anticipated new album due for release later this year. This is no ordinary event – the recording will be Sting’s first “live” album since 1986’s Bring on the Night and will be comprised of both his solo work, as well as the hits from… Read more »

In a moonlit courtyard in Tuscany, on the evening of September 11th, 2001, Sting will host a musical evening for 200 fans and friends. With his long-time band and several guest musicians, Sting will perform songs from his triple-platinum album, Brand New Day as well as some of his most celebrated hits. In his inimitable style, Sting will reinvent these songs through reconstructed, intimate arrangements. The performance will be recorded for album release on November 20th entitled… on such a night. Two years of roadwork on stages across the globe in front of over 3 million people have served to… Read more »

VH1 and VH1.com today announced the return of the “My VH1 Music Awards,” the only fully-interactive music awards show created entirely by the fans. “My VH1 Music Awards” will air live on VH1 on December 2nd at 9:00pm (ET) from the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. “My VH1 Music Awards,” which debuted in November, 2000, is designed from start-to-finish by music fans who log on to VH1.com to suggest and vote for categories, nominees, winners, and more. Beginning today, fans can log-on to VH1.com to suggest award categories and nominees for this year’s show. For this year’s ceremony VH1 will… Read more »

Ozzfest 2001 drew to a close Sunday, leaving many fans wondering what the future holds for their favorite bands. Whether it’s working on a new album, heading back out on the road or prepping their next video, to cop a metal cliché from Ozzy’s 1989 solo album, there seems to be no rest for the wicked. For those who missed out on this summer’s hardest happening, the live album Ozzfest 2001: The Second Millennium, featuring live cuts from all the Ozzfest offenders, hits stores Tuesday. Black Sabbath are hoping to book more studio time to finish up their new album,… Read more »

Kicking off its national advertising campaign, XM Satellite Radio will debut its 60-second spot today on more than 19,000 screens in 3,000 theaters across the country, constituting the bulk of movie screens in the nation. XM’s national ad campaign, dubbed “Radio to the Power of X,” is a multimedia effort anchored by a television campaign developed by TBWA/Chiat/Day, and features artists such as BB King, David Bowie, and Snoop Dogg. The ad campaign effort will also include radio, magazines, newspapers, direct mail, outdoor, and online, and is intended to generate momentum for XM’s commercial service launch slated for Sept. 12.… Read more »