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Boston native Joey McIntyre will host the 15th annual Boston Music Awards (BMAs) at the city’s 2,700-seat Orpheum Theatre on Thursday (April 11). Acts scheduled to perform at the event include Godsmack, American Hi-Fi, Reveille, Bill Morrissey, Kay Hanley, Tracy Bonham, Tribe of Judah, Must, the Sheila Devine, Mission Of Burma, and, of course, McIntyre. Staind, Aerosmith, and American Hi-Fi lead the pack of 162 BMA nominees with seven nominations each, with Godsmack close behind with six. Other major label acts receiving multiple nominations include LFO (three), Jo Dee Messina (two), Vertical Horizon (two), Rivers Cuomo of Weezer (two), Reveille… Read more »

Web music firm FullAudio on Thursday said it reached a licensing deal with the Harry Fox Agency Inc., a licensing agent representing more than 160,000 songwriters, for the online subscription service FullAudio plans to launch within weeks. Under this nonexclusive agreement, FullAudio will have access to every musical work authorized by participating publishers licensed by Harry Fox, a subsidiary of the National Music Publishers’ Association. Terms were not disclosed. The agreement also allows FullAudio subscribers to transfer tracks from their PCs to portable devices. FullAudio earlier this week announced it had licensed Warner Music, clinching its third licensing deal with… Read more »

Local management and a Japanese investment firm have bought the Japanese arm of Tower Records Inc., the country’s third-biggest music retailer, from its U.S.-based parent company for $122 million. The deal signs over Tower Records’ 51 outlets in Japan, including its multi-floor flagship store in downtown Tokyo, to Tower Records’ local management team and to Nikko Principal Investments Japan Ltd., a unit of Nikko Cordial Corp. Nikko spokesman Joichi Ito said his company finalized the buyout Thursday with San Francisco-based MTS Inc., parent company of Tower Records. MTS will retain ownership of its Tower Records stores in seven other countries.… Read more »

Five days after being electrocuted onstage in Bangkok, Thailand and rushed to a hospital, Calling guitarist Aaron Kamin returned to his spot aside his fellow band members for a gig in Melbourne, Australia on Tuesday (April 9). Kamin is in “great spirits and doing fine,” a band spokesperson said. Kamin received a jolt while soundchecking for a show on April 4-the sound equipment was “a little old and beat up,” according to Calling frontman Alex Band’s post on the group’s official website (thecallingband.com). Band says that for a brief moment following the incident, he feared the worst. “Me and the… Read more »

Incubus kicks off its largest tour to date at the Memorial Coliseum in Portland, Oregon on Thursday (April 11). The tour, in support of its current album, Morning View, will visit arenas in 49 cities in North America through early July, with open dates on the calendar expected to be filled with yet more shows. Incubus’s hometown friends and soundalikes Hoobastank serve as the opening act from April 11-May 15, while the group’s Epic Records labelmates Phantom Planet sign on May 24-July 3. Frontman Brandon Boyd said that playing in such large venues offers its own unique challenges. “When we… Read more »

Virgin Entertainment Group, North America, announced today its Student Showcase Program that will start this week at Virgin Megastore Boston. The program will allow classical and jazz musicians from local Boston music colleges to perform mini-recitals in front of the Boston community every Thursday, starting April 11, 2002. The program will be kicked off this week as Virgin Entertainment Group presents a scholarship check to Berklee College of Music. To show Virgin Entertainment Group’s appreciation and support of classical and jazz music, Virgin Megastore Boston will host two-hour live performances showcasing students from Berklee College of Music, New England Conservatory… Read more »

Hoobastank is finishing up dates with 311 on Wednesday (April 10) in Kansas City. The band is scheduled join Incubus on the Honda Civic tour on Thursday (April 11) in Portland, Oregon. Incubus vocalist Brandon Boyd and company asked their good friends in Hoobastank to open up for them a few years back even before the band had a recording contract. Hoobastank also opened for its fellow California rockers late last year. LAUNCH asked Hoobastank’s Doug Robb and Dan Estrin how the band’s approach has changed since its run of dates with Incubus last year. “I don’t think our approach… Read more »

Though charges have yet to be filed, R. Kelly continues to defend himself against allegations that he taped himself having sex with underage girls. On Thursday, Kelly proclaimed his innocence again, even as he settled a lawsuit with a woman who accused him of seducing her when she was 17. After protesters shattered R. Kelly CDs at the offices of WGCI-FM in Chicago, urging the station to stop playing his music, Kelly phoned the station to ask his fans to stand by him. The leader of the protest, the Rev. Bamani Obadele, asked Kelly to explain why there was a… Read more »

Thai fans of the Calling were surprised to discover the pop group canceled Thursday’s show, though they couldn’t have been more shocked than lead guitarist Aaron Kamin. Kamin was almost electrocuted during soundcheck at Bangkok’s Brew Pavilion Thursday night (April 4), according to an RCA spokesperson. He was treated at a local hospital and released and is now nursing burns to his hands. The band plans to reschedule the show in the Thai capital. The Calling’s international tour continues April 9 in Melbourne, Australia, and winds down April 30 in Copenhagen, Denmark. It wasn’t known at press time whether Kamin… Read more »

Lou Pearlman, the hitmaker behind the Backstreet Boys and ‘N Sync, has been cleared of allegations that he broke child labor laws. The Florida Department of Labor said there was no evidence that Pearlman and his Orlando-based company, Trans Continental Entertainment, violated such rules as making minors work past 11:30 p.m, as alleged by the mother of two of his former entertainers. Kenneth W. Williams, an administrator in the Labor Department’s Office of Compliance and Enforcement, wrote to Pearlman on Thursday and said the allegations are unproven. “Therefore, we are terminating our investigation and closing our files on this case,”… Read more »