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		<title>Sister Sledge Files Class Action v. Warner Music: &#8220;We Are NOT Family&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:02:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Friedman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Popular seventies recording act Sister Sledge&#8211;&#8221;We Are Family&#8221; was their monster hit&#8211; and country star Ronnie Blakely of the movie &#8220;Nashville&#8221;&#8211;have filed a class action suit against Warner Music Group. This is a big deal. The suit is based on Emimem&#8217;s successful similar suit against Universal Music Group from last year. It&#8217;s based on the record companies&#8217; alleged non payment of royalties on digital downloads, mostly to &#8220;legacy&#8221; artists whose contracts never foresaw the advent of ITunes and the disappearance of physical records. The Warner suit has far reaching implications because it encompasses not just Warner, but its especially lucrative catalog business via Atlantic Records (Aretha Franklin, Sam &#38; Dave, Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett) and Rhino Records (which has repackaged all that material for decades). It&#8217;s also a class action suit, which means dozens of artists from the heyday of Warner-Elektra-Atlantic-Rhino can join the suit as it progresses. Damning for WMG are former CEO Edgar Bronfman&#8217;s quarterly proclamations to shareholders over the last six years that &#8220;digital sales are booming&#8221; (I&#8217;m paraphrasing) while everything else was in the toilet. Recordings [...]]]></description>
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		<title>McCartney MusiCares Show: James Taylor, Norah Jones, Coldplay Featured</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:40:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Friedman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Literally everyone in the music biz wants to be part of MusiCares&#8217;s Person of the Year show with Paul McCartney on February 10th in L.A. I can tell you that James Taylor was first to sign up. He gets to sing &#8220;Yesterday,&#8221; which is like the greatest honor. Coldplay, Norah Jones, and the Foo Fighters are still deciding their songs. There are a lot more names in the bin, too. But NOT names elsewhere reported: Rihanna, Jason Aldean, Kelly Clarkson,Bruno Mars, Nicki Minaj, and Taylor Swift. This was someone&#8217;s misinformation. McCartney, by the way, expressed an interest in Kanye West. It&#8217;s not clear if he&#8217;s available. So far not on the schedule are Ringo Starr or Eric Clapton, but that could change. Clapton plays on two tracks from Paul&#8217;s new album, &#8220;Kisses on the Bottom,&#8221; so he might just show up and surprise everyone. There&#8217;s also a question about Stevie Wonder, who also plays on the album. What I do know is that Paul is putting on a real show after he&#8217;s received his tribute, with Diana Krall and her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Springsteen Video Here; James McCartney 1st American Tour</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Friedman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lots of music news this morning: James McCartney, son of Paul, is finally in the spotlight. He&#8217;s performing twice at Sundance at the ASCAP Cafe, and then launching his first American tour. He comes to New York&#8217;s Rockwood Club on February 1st. He&#8217;ll also be playing &#8220;Letterman&#8221; that week. James has always been something of a mystery, with sister Stella a huge fashion designer, and Mary and Heather already known for their various activities like photography and pottery. But James has held back. In the last couple of years he&#8217;s had low profile releases on ITunes and has built a fan base. Now, bully for him, he&#8217;s ready to go wider. A press release says &#8220;the shows are in honor of his recent release, &#8216;The Complete EP Collection&#8217; (Engine Company), which combines McCartney&#8217;s two previous EP&#8217;s with five never-heard bonus tracks. The special two-disc set was produced by David Kahne and Paul McCartney.&#8221; Let&#8217;s wish him well. It isn&#8217;t easy for anyone in the music biz right now&#8230; &#8230;BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN has a new album, due March 6th called &#8220;Wrecking Ball.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paul McCartney Set for Grammy Performance, TV Special</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 03:58:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Friedman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Exclusive: Paul McCartney&#8216;s upcoming album of standards, &#8220;Kisses on the Bottom,&#8221; is getting a big push for its February 7th release. &#8220;Kisses,&#8221; which I got to hear recently, will get a TV special taped in Hollywood during Grammy week. And McCartney, I can tell you exclusively, is set to sing his brilliant new song, &#8220;My Valentine,&#8221; on the Grammy Awards February 12th&#8211;two days before Valentine&#8217;s Day. Even better: I can also tell you that &#8220;Kisses&#8221;&#8211;a reference to the x&#8217;s at the bottom of love letters and not anything untoward&#8211;is an exquisite recording made by award winning, legendary producer Tommy LiPuma. LiPuma&#8211;who McCartney has tapped as music director of his MusiCares tribute on February 10th&#8211;has used only the finest musicians in this effort&#8211;Diana Krall and her two bands (studio and touring), father and son guitarists Bucky and John Pizzarelli, and Andy Stein, virtuoso violinist from Commander Cody. Stevie Wonder plays a trademark harmonica solo on a McCartney original, &#8220;Only Our Hearts,&#8221; and Eric Clapton adds his bluesy guitar to a couple of tracks including a sensational  cover of &#8220;Get Yourself Another [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Spider Man&#8221; Musical Actually Be in Lead for Tony Awards</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 21:04:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Friedman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is it possible? Yes, it is. &#8220;Spider Man: Turn off the Dark&#8221;&#8211;expensive, controversial, litigious, accidental, dangerous&#8211;is the lead candidate for Best New Musical at the 2012 Tony Awards. If someone had said this a year ago, there would have been peels of laughter and tomatoes thrown at the stage. But times have changed. Because &#8220;Spider Man&#8221; didn&#8217;t open until June 14th last year, it missed the Tony eligibility&#8211;and it had already played 100 shows by April 30th. But they were previews. Now &#8220;Spider Man&#8221; is breaking box office records at the Foxwoods Theater. Last week it took in $3 million. Three million dollars. So it&#8217;s here to stay. Audiences obviously love it. Meantime, new musicals are scarce. The atrocious &#8220;Lysistrata Jones&#8221; closes soon. Coming this winter are &#8220;Newsies&#8221; and &#8220;Ghost,&#8221; each based on movies. There&#8217;s not a lot of hope there. There&#8217;s some talk that &#8220;Leap of Faith,&#8221; also based on a failed movie, may come in. But it got terrible reviews in Los Angeles. &#8220;Nice Work if You Can Get It,&#8221; a &#8220;new&#8221; Gershwin musical, is a possibility. If [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Van Halen Plays Famous Greenwich Village Club Once Owned by David Lee Roth&#8217;s Uncle</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 05:49:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Friedman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jimmy Fallon, John McEnroe and Patty Smythe, and about 200 other lucky rock fans got a chance to see Van Halen, the 1980s rockers, perform for the first time in eons, last night. The place was Cafe Wha?, the famed tiny Greenwich Village club on MacDougal Street once owned by singer David Lee Roth&#8217;s uncle, Manny Roth. And so, 92 year old Manny Roth made the trip from his home in Ojai, California for the promotional show, with his daughter. David Lee Roth&#8217;s two sisters came as well, making the table where I managed to find a sliver of a seat the official Roth family table. &#8220;I&#8217;m 92 and I&#8217;m still in the game,&#8221; Manny Roth yelled to the audience after his nephew introduced him. But the singer could not hear his uncle over the crowd. Roth said, &#8220;He&#8217;s 92 and he says he&#8217;s having the best time of his life.&#8221; Manny Roth opened Cafe Wha? in 1960. It&#8217;s much the same as it was then: a narrow bunker under the Players&#8217; Theater, with low ceilings and a marble floor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2011 Album Sales Were Up! Beatles Had the #1 Vinyl Record! CD Still Rules!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 01:29:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Friedman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who had the number 1 selling vinyl album&#8211;a record, you know&#8211;for 2011? Why The Beatles, with &#8220;Abbey Road.&#8221; They sold 41,000 copies, and beat contemporary acts Adele, Bon Iver, Mumford and Sons, and the Black Keys. And oh yes, Adele: without her, there would not have been a record industry in 2011. She sold 5.8 million copies of &#8220;21,&#8221; and finished first in almost every category that Nielsen Sound Scan offers except for Holiday Album sales. Adele was followed on the top 10 best selling albums list by Michael Buble, Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, Lil Wayne, Mumford and Sons, Lady Antebellum, Drake, the Glee cast, Jason Aldean, Taylor Swift, and Jay Z and Kanye West.(Forty years ago that list would have been Carole King, Rod Stewart, Marvin Gaye, the Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney, Aretha Franklin, Santana, the Eagles, Elton John, the score to &#8220;Jesus Christ Superstar.&#8221; Just sayin&#8217;.) Here&#8217;s something on the SoundScan totals: on digital sales, catalog downloads were up 11% over last year and beat downloads of current music. And for everyone who says digital downloading has knocked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>While You Were Away: Madonna, Lady Gaga, Star-less Star Trek and More</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 23:37:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Friedman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just getting back from the endless vacation? Even today it seemed like the Christmas-New Years truce was still in effect. Well, you missed a few things you could have learned here first and exclusively. For example: we reported that Madonna is still giving buckets of money to Kabbalah. http://www.showbiz411.com/2011/12/21/madonna-gives-another-830k-to-cultish-kabbalah-center-causes. and that the new &#8220;Star Trek&#8221; movie will not have any of the actors from the original &#8220;Star Trek.&#8221; http://www.showbiz411.com/2011/12/20/next-star-trek-adventure-no-original-cast-members Lady Gaga released a nice new Xmas song to her fans with the F word in the title and the word whore in the verses: http://www.showbiz411.com/2011/12/26/lady-gagas-f-word-christmas-song-present-to-fans and Paul McCartney has chosen legendary producer Tommy LiPuma to oversee his MusiCares Person of the Year show in February. LiPuma also produced Paul&#8217;s new album, due in February http://www.showbiz411.com/2011/12/20/paul-mccartney-new-album-some-song-titles-musicians-info-etc &#160; &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Justin Bieber&#8217;s Beatle Chords, Lady Gaga&#8217;s Ping Pong Paddle Mask</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 05:32:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Friedman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dick Clark&#8216;s kinda sad Rockin&#8217; New Years Eve with Ryan Seacrest was an Interscope special on Saturday night. From Times Square: Lady Gaga was interviewed by Seacrest while wearing some kind of silky white Versace gown and a Ping Pong paddle mask. When she returned to sing her medley, she was in a whole different get up: all black with a hood and black party mask. The hood lifted up. It looked like Gaga, who can sing, actually sang, since she did not do much dancing. (It&#8217;s nearly impossible to sing and simultaneously perform the calisthenics known as dancing these days.) Good for her. Justin Bieber was not so lucky. His rendition of &#8220;Let it Be&#8221; certainly seemed performed to a track, even though there was a band on stage. IParticularly unconvincing was Bieber supposedly playing a piano while he warbled. The cameras made sure not to show much of his fingers on the keys, and when they did, he was barely touching them. He also slouches at the piano in a way that would make pounding out that song [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rapper 50 Cent Tweets: &#8220;I Need a Record Deal&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:58:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Friedman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(refresh browser for updates) Rapper 50 Cent&#8211;Curtis James Jackson&#8211; is an extremely successful entrepreneur at this point. But now he is looking for a record label deal. In the last couple of years, &#8220;Fiddy.&#8221; as he&#8217;s sub-nicknamed, has made a big career of being smart about investments and the internet. He&#8217;s got a line of headphones that just came out and is doing well. He was shrewd with Vitamin Water. Today, 50 Cent has put an entire album called &#8220;The Big 10&#8243; out for free download on his Facebook page. But he&#8217;s also tweeting up a storm tonight. On Twitter, @50 Cent, the rapper and occasional movie actor has sent out these messages: &#8220;Music was so much fun for me now the people and politics involved disgust me. I&#8217;m putting out a song tonight FT EM at 12:00 PM happy new year.&#8221; 50 Cent has been on Dr. Dre&#8217;s Aftermath Records, which is distributed by Universal&#8217;s Interscopt. But now he&#8217;s trying to get in touch with  Interscope&#8217;s Jimmy Iovine about a deal.  Maybe he&#8217;s getting away from Dr. Dre. It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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