In our new issue, Rolling Stone calls music streaming site Grooveshark the “audio version of YouTube,” adding that it’s “the best service for now because of its great selection, but it operates in a legal gray area. Enjoy it while it lasts.” Well, we hoped you enjoyed it: EMI is suing the Florida-based Grooveshark, which has gained a popular following since launching in November 2008, for copyright violation, AllThingsD reports.
The crew cleaning up after this past weekend’s Bonnaroo festival in Manchester, Tennessee, discovered the dead body of a man in his 20s on the camping grounds Tuesday, June 16th, one day after the fest had ended, the Tennessean reports. An autopsy is being conducted to determine cause of death. According to the report, the unidentified man was last seen alive on June 15th at 3 p.m., and police theorize that he was from Alabama.
Free of the limitations of a conventional record contract, Beck has recruited some famous friends to join him for a new project: a Record Club. The Modern Guilt rocker is planning a series of one-day sessions at which he and a crew of collaborators will rerecord classic albums; the songs will be released once a week via his official Website. The singer’s site will experience a complete overhaul to coincide with the Record Club project, which has already lined up MGMT, Devendra Banhart, Jamie Lidell and more.
Despite fracturing his nose and busting his lip after colliding with a stage prop at the Tony Awards, Poison’s Bret Michaels told People that he will not take legal action against the show’s producers. “There’s no lawsuit. I’m not doing any of that. I’m taking the high road,” Michaels said.
Jack White is a famous critic of technology’s effects on the recording and distribution of music. He laid down the White Stripes’ Elephant on pre-1963 analog equipment, and Icky Thump engineer/producer Joe Chiccarelli used a rare 2-inch tape machine and tracked the album in analog. White rush-released the Raconteurs’ Consolers of the Lonely, telling Rolling Stone last year, “It really gets annoying that you have to turn into some computer-whiz salesman once you’re done mixing.”
Before Limp Bizkit emerged from a four-year hiatus with a series of shows last month in Europe, Fred Durst had to get over his hatred of a segment of his own fanbase. “I got abused a lot growing up,” Durst tells Rolling Stone. “For years I looked into the crowd and saw a bunch of bullies and assholes who tortured me and ruined my life. They were using my music as fuel to torture other people, even dressing like me. The music was being misinterpreted and the irony effected me and we stepped away.”
By Michael D. Ayers
NEW YORK (Billboard) - Fans of the Black Crowes will get a double dose of the blues-rock band's music this fall, when the group releases the album "Before the Frost ..."
Fans who purchase the September 1 release will receive unique download codes with which they can obtain a second Crowes record, "... Until The Freeze."
Both new studio albums were recorded at the Woodstock, New York, studios of Levon Helm (The Band) and produced by Paul Stacey, who worked with the Crowes on 2006's "The Lost Crowes" and 2008's "Warpaint."
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sirius XM Radio subscribers will be able to download software on June 18 that lets the satellite radio service's programing play on Apple Inc's iPhone.
"Beginning tomorrow, the (iPhone) App will be available," a customer service representative for the New York-based company said on Wednesday.
The iPhone service, which can also be used by iPod Touch Wi-Fi users, will be free for Sirius customers who subscribe to its Internet option. Others will have to pay about $3 month, the representative said.
NEW YORK (AdWeek) - The near future appears to hold mainly sour notes for the beleaguered music business, according to eMarketer.
U.S. sales of recorded music will slide to $5.5 billion in 2013, down from $7.3 billion in 2009, eMarketer said. This downward trajectory extends a pattern that began in 2000, when sales of physical sound-carriers began to decline after rising dramatically during the heyday of the CD.
By Sue Zeidler
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - They say that if you can remember the '60s, you weren't really there.
But Howard Kaylan, the lead singer with the psychedelic pop band the Turtles, found himself in the center of the action, cavorting with the likes of the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix.
And his memory is undiminished. In fact, he is about to release a DVD dramatizing the Turtles' 1967 adventures in "Swinging London" shortly after his band attained its own short-lived stardom with the No. 1 hit "Happy Together."
