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Check out a cool India band (based on it's website!). Their name's the best and they know how to market themselves. Pretty impressive! - KK

City pubs come alive at rock nights : Smartzone : HindustanTimes.com: "City pubs come alive at rock nights Malvika Nanda Popular rockers Them Clones, performing at The Mezz this weekend, are just one of the groups who play at city pubs during rock nights Enlarge With the mushrooming of pubs in the Capital, musicians have a platform to stretch their repertoire beyond the campus. Last weekend Turquoise Cottage played host to Mumbai band Zero and this year’s IIT rock contest winner Split. “Thursday nights are Rock nights anyway but we also have a live act at least once a month,� says Gaurav Soral of the Turquoise Cottage."

More Zero stuff! - KK

The Music Magazine -- India's first and finest music e-zine - Review of Zero's "Hook": "Rajeev Talwar: Vocals Warren Mendonsa: Guitars Girish 'Bobby' Talwar: Bass, Backing Vocals Siddhart Cuotto: Drums, Backing vocals Simplicity is the soul of Bombay-based rock band Zero's latest EP Hook. The black-and-white cover itself is ample testament to this minimalism. But let me warn you not to take 'minimalism' as an adjective in the same vein as when it is used to tactfully describe bands that can only play three chords. No, there's nothing punk about these guys. But neither is there anything even vaguely resembling Tales From Topographic Oceans. If you are looking for progressive flights of fancy, sci-fi lyrics and the like, you will have to look elsewhere. But if you are on the hunt for some kick-backside rock 'n' roll, look no further."

Ramanji and Sumit, check the review of Zero's latest album called "Hook". As we thought about it, the critics have gone hard on their lyrics. But even the band admits that it's awful at lyrics. To me, the most interesting part of the whole review was where the guy said that the band used a Drum Machine (yeah, SUMiT picked it up!!!) instead of a live drum recording! - KK

PCWorld.com - Napster Goes Back to School: "Napster Goes Back to School Penn State will offer recently relaunched music service to students. Laura Rohde, IDG News Service Thursday, November 06, 2003 Students at Pennsylvania State University will soon be able to listen to digital music through the recently relaunched Napster 2.0 free of charge. Advertisement The existence of Penn State's new online music service with Napster was confirmed Thursday by an announcement posted on the University's Web site."

Music companies fear new 100-hour discs
19:00 12 March 03 Exclusive from New Scientist Print Edition

The music industry this week condemned the launch of two recording systems that will let people copy between 30 and 100 hours of music onto a single disc. The launches, from electronics giants Sony and Philips, are being seen as a potential pirates' charter.

"It's a no-brainer. Anything which lets people pirate more music like this has to be very bad news for the music industry," says a spokesman for Britain's record industry trade association, the BPI.

The launches come as the global music industry suffers its worst downturn since the CD format was introduced. Free online downloading and disc copying have been widely blamed for the slump in sales.

Sony's system will use the ultra-efficient data compression system used in MiniDiscs, to squeeze 30 hours of MP3 music onto a single blank CD. The discs will play on a new generation of personal stereos, which cost less than £100. Philips's system uses a computer DVD recorder to save at least 100 hours of MP3 music on a blank DVD, which will play on a new portable DVD player.

Business model

Why Sony should want to launch a recorder that might make piracy easier may seem surprising, as its Sony Music division makes and sells CDs. While Sony Music did not want to comment on its sister company's launch, Mike Tsurumi, a president of Sony Consumer Electronics in Berlin, insists that the move makes sense. "The music companies need to change their business model," he says.

Tsurumi's colleague Simon Mori expects people to move towards downloading and paying for music from official music websites. One such site, dotmusic.com, was launched last week by telecoms company BT and 30 record firms, though at £1.49 per track, buying music this way is hardly cheap.

The International Federation for the Phonographic Industry, which is relentless in its pursuit of music pirates, has not yet said how it will react to the new recorders.


Barry Fox, Berlin

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A couple years ago, Napster founder Shawn Fanning sauntered onto MTV in a Metallica t-shirt, daring the band that most vehemently opposed piracy to knock him off his perch. So much for the rebel yell. Napster is reborn and, this time, it's shilling for the Man. Fanning might be cashing in, but Metallica gets the last laugh after all.

The news comes with the announcement that Roxio, makers of popular CD-burning technology, will be rolling out a legal version of Napster later this year. Roxio is already somewhat of a scourge in the major labels' eyes, because it's facilitating the burning of pirated tunes, among other things. According to the company, Napster will be on the up and up. Much like the music industry's own fledgling services, PressPlay and MusicNet, Napster will provide digital downloads for a monthly subscription fee. Roxio is already talking to labels about providing content. Maybe the labels will overlook the burning thing.

This isn't the first time someone's tried to help Napster go legit. Bertelsmann, the media giant, tried in vain to transform the file-sharing site into some kind of commercial project. But that proved more than disastrous. Before Bertelsmann could apply its makeover, Napster was ordered to shut down for facilitating copyright infringement. Since Napster is now being resurrected from the dead, however, Roxio can start with a clean slate. Relatively, that is.

In an amazing stroke of irony, music publishers recently filed a $17 billion lawsuit against Bertelsmann in February for funding the service when it was still illegal. How comical can it get? The big corporation that buys the punk becomes the punk by association. Now another company, Roxio, is wielding the brand to do battle with the meaner, stronger breed of file-trading sites like Kazaa, Morpheus and LimeWire. Napster, one of the most recognizable brands in the high-tech culture, is suddenly hotter than ever.

But that doesn't mean it's going to be any good. I don't care if McDonald's lends its name to a file-trading site, there's still no compelling reason for surfers to pay for online tunes. Yes, it's getting harder to suck down bootlegs -- thanks, in part, to the increased number of spoofs, fake MP3 files, flooding the networks. But with a little due diligence a T.A.T.U. fan doesn't have to work hard to get "All the Things She Said" for nothing.

The biggest irony of all is that the very people who once decried Napster will soon make their songs available for trade through the service. Now it's all too little too lame. If the major labels had hopped on the bandwagon early on, they might have found some creative way to exploit the peer-to-peer networks, rather than seeking ways to shut them down. It was inevitable that they would ultimately seek to cash in on the craze. And this proves, once again, how punk rock rebellion ultimately fuels the very corporations it opposes.

DAVID KUSHNER
(March 3, 2003)

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Britpop bands Coldplay and Oasis Friday celebrated winning top honors at Britain's NME Awards after scooping two prizes each.



The Clash, whose frontman Joe Strummer died from a heart attack two months ago, clinched the GodLike Genius award for their contribution to music, NME said on its Web Site (www.nme.com).

Coldplay's "A Rush of Blood to the Head" won best album of the year award both by the music magazine and in a separate vote by readers.

But Oasis managed to beat Coldplay by winning the UK's best band prize at the awards ceremony Thursday at London's Hammersmith Palais.

Oasis also picked up the artist of the year award and Liam Gallagher won the best haircut award.

Coldplay's Chris Martin won the sexiest man prize, while rocker Avril Lavigne scooped the sexiest woman award.

Ryan Adams was named best solo artist, beating Ms Dynamite and Eminem (news - web sites).

The Osbournes, the hit television show about rocker Ozzy Osbourne and his family, won the best TV show prize with Osbourne named hero of the year.

Music Industry Targets Workplace Downloaders
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LONDON (Reuters) - The recording industry directed its anti-piracy campaign at large companies in the United States, Europe and Asia on Thursday, warning them that employees are illegally downloading music on company time.



The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), a global trade group representing the major music labels, said it had begun issuing brochures to thousands of companies spelling out the legal and technological dangers of giving employees access to online file-sharing networks.

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Green Day's Billie Joe Set For February 19 DUI Hearing
February 13, 8 a.m. ET, Launch

Green Day vocalist/guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong is set for a pre-trial hearing February 19 in Alameda County Superior Court for two misdemeanor counts of driving under the influence of alcohol. Armstrong will not be there as his legal counsel, Laurel L. Headley, is on the case. Armstrong did not attend his arraignment on February 4, but was represented by his counsel. He pled not guilty to both counts.

Armstrong was arrested January 5, 2003 near his home in Berkeley, California, for allegedly driving under the influence of alcohol. Armstrong was stopped near Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley speeding in his black BMW convertible. He failed a sobriety test at the scene, and was then taken into police custody. He was released on $1,200 bail.

-- Darren Davis, New York