The Universal Music Group has notified Apple that it will not renew its contract to sell music through iTunes. Rather, it plans to market certain artists at will, which could allow the conglomerate to remove music currently on iTunes with little to no notice. Contract negotiations have obviously soured between the two companies, causing Universal’s […]

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Sonic Youth guitarist Thurston Moore thinks it’s amusing that people are horrified by the upcoming union of a Sonic Youth song and the world’s most powerful iced coffee maker. The band is slated to record a song for the Hits Are for Squares compilation on Starbucks’ Hear Music label, which is scheduled for release next […]

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Band of Horses leader Ben Bridwell spoke to NME about his band’s follow-up to Everything All the Time: “We have a few more things to add, but it’s pretty much in the can,” said Bridwell. “We’re just doing the final tweaking and mixing in Seattle.” The band has moved to the East coast since its […]

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Sony BMG is pulling its plans to release Prince’s new record, Planet Earth, after learning about his plans to give away 2 million copies with ‘The Mail on Sunday’ in the UK. Record stores no likey when artists pull this type of bullshit. Prince may not care about brick and mortar stores anymore, but this […]

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Despite having released Dylanesqye – a Bob Dylan covers record – only yesterday, Bryan Ferry hopes to return to the studio with his Roxy Music bandmates as soon as his current tour ends to complete the group’s first album since 1982’s Avalon. The band worked on several ideas last year in the studio, but Ferry […]

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Robert Plant has shot down the news story that’s been circulating all week that claimed the remaining members of Led Zeppelin were reforming for a memorial concert honoring Atlantic Records’ founder Ahmet Ertegun. Plant said he has heard nothing about such a show, adding, “If there was one, then there wouldn’t be enough doctors to […]

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Japanese noise experimentalists Boredoms have always taken the road dared to be traveled, and the band’s plans for July 7, 2007 are no exception. With 77 drummers in tow, the band will perform 77BOADRUM as a one-time-only, free show in the Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park section of Brooklyn Bridge Park. 74 players from New York’s […]

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