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CHINA SINGS A NEW TUNE: PAY ROYALTIES

Fee collection standards set up for recording artists Songwriters and recording artists whose music is played in China can look forward to a very happy New Year. Fee collection standards are being set up, which means the country's radio and TV stations will have to start paying royalties for the music they broadcast.

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BLUE NOTE TUNES STAFF

Zieman named VP of marketing for the Manhattan group As EMI's Blue Note Label Group adjusts to its role as a multigenre division dedicated to the adult music market, company has made serial hires and promoted several employees.

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CONCORD RESURRECTS STAX

Hayes, Stone signed to soul label Concord Records has revived soul label Stax and signed Isaac Hayes and Angie Stone as the imprint's first artists. Label will participate in several events in Memphis, where the original Stax was based, as well as a feature-length doc on the Stax story, to which Concord will own the rights.
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ROADRUNNER JOINS WARNER

Hard rock imprint home to Nickelback, SlipknotReaching back to a relationship forged when he ran Universal Music's Island Def Jam, Lyor Cohen has brought the hard-rock label Roadrunner into the Warner Music Group fold.

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ROLLING STONE DAILY: THE NEWSLETTER

Today's Top Rock Headlines The newsletter, it's a-changin': Get ready, because the daily newsletter is about to go under the knife. Stay tuned...and find out more about these stories right now at http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily.

TAPES 'N TAPES GET STRANDED, ROBBED IN THE LAND DOWN UNDER

We'd like to declare 2006 the Year of the Looted Tour Van, with TAPES 'N TAPES being the latest in a long line of robbery victims from DANZIG to DINOSAUR JR., GRIZZLY BEAR to THE GRATES.

This one's especially nasty too, as it has left at least one member passport-less and stuck sorting out customs details in Australia.

SHELF LIFE: ARCTIC MONKEYS NEARLY DONE WITH NEW ALBUM, RADIOHEAD NEARLY NOT

ARCTIC MONKEYS drummer MATT HELDERS has told "The Sun" that his merry band of hype whores are "nearly finished" with their new album. May the backlash begin ... Speaking of vitriol, THOM YORKE is mad at the press for speculating about songs that may or may not end up on RADIOHEAD's next record. Get the quotes and our analysis on Rock Daily.

CLASSIC ROCK LEGENDS SUE CONCERT ARCHIVER

Members of LED ZEPPELIN and THE DOORS are among the acts suing the owner of the Wolfgang Vault Web site for profiting "from the extraordinary success of these musicians." Read more at Rock Daily.

ROADRUNNER GETS GOBBLED UP BY WARNER

Check out Rock Daily to see why heavy metal was just purchased by corporate America.

MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE MAP OUT 2007 TOUR, PROMISE LOADS OF PINK FLOYD-NESS

Our favorite QUEEN tribute band, MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE, has announced the first leg of its 2007 North American tour, telling Bilboard.com that "it's going to be theatrical without detracting from [the music]." Read the full statement at rollingstone.com/rockdaily, our compulsively updated blog.

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Hey guys, a lot of cool stuff brewing in Anberlin land. We’ll try and get to it all here.First off, we’re very excited about our new record CITIES! It will be in stores everywhere on Feb. 20, and as sort of a pre-release sneak at the record, we’re offering a digital EP on sale through iTunes starting on Dec.28.

This will have one song from our upcoming new album CITIES called “Godspeed”, a song not included on the record called “The Haunting”, as well as a video snippet on the making-of.

In tour news, we can’t be more excited to finally set out on a long overdue headlining tour. Woohoo!! As some of you already know, we will be heading out with longtime friends Bayside. We’re also excited to bring along the lovely Meg & Dia.

The tour will start Feb.21 in Charlotte, and more dates are being booked as we speak. We will let you know about pre-sale sometime later next week. Can’t wait to see you guys on this tour!

In case some of you noticed, we had some problems with our myspace last week and were unable to add any friends or get into our account in general. So if any of you sent friend requests or know someone who did, please resend and we will get you guys added.In related news, we have added “Christmas, Baby Please Come Home” to our myspace, so have fun and stick it on your pages!

There’s tons more stuff in the works but this is all that’s fit to print for the time being.

Enjoy the holidays! ~Anberlin

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Hi everyone, It’s been a while since we’ve seen y’all. We’ve been hard at work over the past few months writing new songs for our third album at our rehearsal space in Brooklyn. We will have demo versions of some of our new songs to share on MySpace in the new year. We’re also heading back out on the road to play some US shows in February. The dates are below, you can purchase tickets by checking out the tour section on stellastarr.com.


Upcoming US Tour Dates
2/05/07 San Diego, CA Casbah
2/07/07 Los Angeles, CA Troubadour
2/10/07 San Francisco, CA Bottom of the Hill
2/13/07 Washington, DC Rock N Roll Hotel
2/15/07 Philadelphia, PA North Star Bar
2/16/07 Boston, MA

Middle East
2/22/07 New York,

NY Gramercy Theatre Tickets have just gone on-sale for all shows except for NY which will go on-sale soon. That NY show will be at a new venue called Gramercy Theatre which will open in February 2007.

Check out www.stellastarr.com in the new year for new tour dates and news to be announced. Happy Holidays and here’s to a great 2007. stellastarr*

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Upcoming Tour Dates
2/05/07
San Diego, CACasbah
2/07/07
Los Angeles, CA Troubadour
2/10/07
San Francisco, CA Bottom of the Hill
2/13/07
Washington, DC Rock N Roll Hotel
2/15/07
Philadelphia, PA North Star Bar
2/16/07
Boston, MA Middle East
2/22/07
New York, NY Gramercy Theatre

NEWSSOURCEDOTCOM:NEWS:GROUP:FRANZ FERDINAND

Rock photographer Mick Rock is set to exhibit a collection of his work at the Ray-Ban Wayfarer Sessions at the Electric Ballroom (184 Camden High St) in London.

Franz feature alongside the likes of The Killers and Kaiser Chiefs all wearing the Wayfarer sunglasses that were made iconic by the likes of Bob Dylan in the '60s. The exhibition will also features live performances from The Duke Spirit plus a DJ set from Erol Alkan.Aaaaah, Erol Alkan! Weeeee!

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Maisonette by Clé & Mike Vamp OUT NOW feat. Steve Bug remix

In order not to confuse their latest recording "Maisonette" - a magic piano House tune - with their techier stuff on Poker Flat, the two Berlin based DJs and producers choose their DJ names for the new release on Dessous.

The original mix of "Maisonette" offers this very special new, yet oldschool house feeling which makes the track sound so classy. With his remix Tuning Spork’s Samim takes the track to another level. The b-side is reserved for the great Steve Bug remix!

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V.A. Elaste Vol. 1 - Slow Motion Disco Compolied BY DJ Mooner CPT 239-1 / -2 2LP & CD

The Story of the Italian Cosmic sound in 2 minutes:Italy, 1976: In a luxurious discotheque on the Italian Adriatic coast, every weekend two American DJs called Bob and Tom play records that are just making history in their hometown NYC at the legendary "Loft".

Bob and Tom are resident DJs at "the Baia Degli Angeli", a gigantic club with various floors, fountains, swimming pools and lots of glitz of the Jet set. After the Baia closes due to a drug raid, Daniele Baldelli, inspired by the Baia Sound starts DJing in a new club called Cosmic in Lazise. Not only he´s beat-mixing Funk, Soul and early Disco - Baldelli´s sytle is unique: songs are mixed perfectly in a superslow tempo of 80-105 BPM.

Cosmic is like a wild LSD trip: Afro mixed with German electronics, percussion solos, Bolero with delay effects, 12“s on 33 instead of 45, 70s Krautrock, Industrial... This way of playing records is absolutely new, and Daniele gets quickly famous.

A whole wave of DJs and clubs get inspired by his mixtapes, and soon the whole of northern Italy calls it Cosmic Sound. Unlike Italodisco, Cosmic or Afrofunky " was never exported broadly; it has always stayed a local party phenomenon". That’s one of the reasons why it wasn’t really exploited commercially yet like many other 1980ies genres.

Today producers as Lindstrom, Prins Thomas or DJ Harvey caught the spirit and labels like Gomma, or Eskimo are deeply inspired and now try to create dance tracks that have a similar atmosphere.

"This compilation is a collection of the original music that was actually played at Discoteca Cosmic. It is playful, experimental, harmonic and most of all it is dance music".

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Muallem - Mutations 3 CPT 237-1 12

"Move along now, plenty to see here". Some say MUALLEM got Dr. Bunsen Honeydew and his assistant Beaker into the remix lab but that’s simply not true. Much better to give the job to NYC undergound disco grandmaster NICK CHACONA. Shanti Dance“ never sounded more inflammable". Sonic gasoline on the dancefloor.MUALLEM’s edit then morphes back into the original super funky album cut. A slice of ultra-rare 70s space disco from THE DROIDS reworked in London, New York and Munich.

It used to be Lieutenant Uhura’s favourite boogie tune, you know.And it just gets better!

THE LIGHT COMMAND (NYC’s ROY DANK) put a fine layer of ice on the vinyl tracks: His version skids skids around with added attituted and plenty of strings attached. Kinda moody, pushy, Detroit. Super!!! as they call it in Bavaria.

Quotes:

"Nick chacona shows his craftmanship again with this neverending journey of disco, electro and house in such a style it blows everyone away..dirty dirty bassline!" Sasse / Mood Music"

Great stuff as usual. Fonkee as hell!" Alex Attias"

Muallem is one of the best artists in circulation." Beppe Loda

"This is funk personified!!!" Michael Stukes °© Mystic Vibes

"Shanti dance ist voll mein Ding!" DJ Friction

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Black Label #11: TJ Kong & Nuno Dos Santos

CPT 231-1 12"

TJ Kong is a new producer and DJ to emerge from the south of the Netherlands. Inspired and influenced by music as diverse as (early) house, minimal, latin, electro, disco and ambient he has been building himself a solid reputation during the last few years. But while he already played a lot of his own tracks, mixes and edits in the club, he had never thought about releasing his music on wax.

Until, early 2006, he played back to back with the talented DJ Nuno Dos Santos (born in Portugal, raised in the Netherlands) who also had been making himself quite a name in The Netherlands: he played every major club, has his own night in 11 (Amsterdam's number one club) and in October 2005 was voted "Talent of the year" by a panel of 50 top names from the Dutch dance scene.

They both immediatley clicked on a personal and musical level and decided to produce some tunes together. A few weeks later the "Circus Bells EP" was finished! And it won't be their last collaboration, a follow-up is already almost finished. So better watch out for TJ Kong & Nuno Dos Santos. SOURCE: COMPOST RECORDS

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MUSIC PIONEER ERTEGUN DIES

Atlantic Records founder worked with Franklin, Coltrane, Led Zeppelin Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun, the maestro of music moguls who introduced the world to some of the finest blues, jazz and rock acts of the past 50 years, died Thursday, almost seven weeks after falling at a Rolling Stones concert in New York. He was 83. SOURCE :VARIETY HEADLINE NEWS

BASEMENT JAXX - Live at Webster Hall

The Basement Jaxx are coming state-side and according to published reports, they're bringing a whole, 12-person gaggle of stage insanity. Over the course of two nights at Webster Hall (Oct 10 & 11), you will be treated to choreographed horns, brightly colored stage antics and moving dance hall jams. SOURCE: BEGGARS.COM

EMI GROUP NIXES PERMIRA BUY

Deal will make EMI the sole owner EMI Group, which Thursday pulled out of takeover talks with private equity firm Permira, is paying ¥21 billion ($179 million) to buy Toshiba's 45% share in Toemi, their Japanese joint venture music company.

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GEFFEN OFFERS $2 BILLION FOR L.A. TIMES Tribune reviewing bids for entire corporation before considering offerDavid Geffen has officially entered the Los Angeles Times derby, offering the Tribune Co. $2 billion in cash to buy the newspaper. Geffen's personal wealth is estimated at $4.6 billion.SOURCE:VARIETY HEADLINE NEWS

CBS SPINS DIGITAL RECORD LABEL

Network getting into music business The Eye is adding an ear. CBS will launch a digital record label in January, signing artists with the goal of breaking them via television show placement, iTunes and the Eye web's broadband channel. SOURCE:VARIETY HEADLINE NEWS

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MTV MAKES TIME FOR NINE

Network to reconfigure its entire evening lineup In a bid to stay competitive in primetime, MTV is rejigging its entire evening lineup and making 9 p.m. a new destination for original programming.

INSIDE MOVE: ITUNES DATA PUZZLING

Report says music store's sales declined 58% Apple's iTunes Store in a freefall? Tech media outlets have been abuzz this week over a report from Forrester Research that iTunes music sales declined 58% from January through May. But is it meaningful? .

CIARA SITS ON TOP

Stefani, Eminem round out top of listThe second albums from Ciara and Gwen Stefani and an Eminem mix tape have claimed the top three slots on the nation's album sales chart as 37 of the 44 returning albums in the top 50 registered sales gains.

CHINA LIMITS ONLINE MUSIC

Government imposes controls on downloaded songsIn the latest restriction on foreign entertainment biz in China, the country's culture czars will impose controls on all so-called network music imported into the country and require that all online music be registered with the Ministry of Culture.

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LESS VERVE AT UNIVERSAL MUSIC

Jazz label downsized Verve Records, Universal Music's venerable jazz label, has been downsized and shifted to the domain of Bruce Resnikoff's Universal Music Enterprises.

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Gnarls, Death Cab, Nominated for Grammy Awards

It’s Grammy Nomination day, and if you are too confused/bored by the 104 categories and endless subcategories to care, Filter’s got you all hooked up with our handy guide to the nominations for the artists you love. The big winner in the nominations was Gnarls Barkley with "Crazy" shortlisted as Song Of The Year, St Elsewhere as Album Of The Year and Best Alternative Album, and the duo were nominated for Best Urban/Alternative Performance.

Dangermouse was also honored with a nomination for Producer of the Year for his work on both the Gnarls record and the Rapture’s Pieces Of The People We Love.

Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal featured nods to Death Cab For Cutie’s "I Will Follow You Into The Dark," and Keane’s "Is It Any Wonder?" while Goldfrapp’s “Oh La La” was nominated for Best Dance Recording.

Beck faces some stiff competition for Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance from Bob Dylan, John Mayer, Neil Young, and Tom Petty, and Wolfmother’s "Woman" looks set to rock the Best Hard Rock Performance.

Best Alternative Music Album is anyone's game with the Arctic Monkeys, the Flaming Lips, Gnarls Barkley, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Thom Yorke all nominated, but the Arctic Monkeys and the Flaming Lips will be duking it out with perennial nominee

Joe Satriani for Best Rock Instrumental Performance; their songs "Chun Li's Flying Bird Kick," and "The Wizard Turns On..." were both nominated.

In the Rap/Urban categories, Lupe Fiasco’s "Kick Push" was nominated for Best Rap Solo Performance and Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor got the nod for Best Rap Album, but is up against The Roots Game Theory.

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'GRENADES' ROCKETS THE CHARTS

"Light Grenades," the sixth album from Incubus, debuted at No. 1 this week, a first for the Calabasas, Calif., rock band. The Immortal/Epic release sold 165,000 copies according to Nielsen SoundScan.

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EMI LIKELY TO REJECT EURO BID
Music giant thought to be looking for $5.5 billion offer

EMI is expected to reject a takeover bid from European private equity outfit Permira. The music conglom is thought to be holding out for a bid that would value it at about $5.5 billion.

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DIGITAL GAINS, BUT REVS DROP AT WARNER MUSIC
Warner Music disappointed Wall Street on Friday when it disclosed that revenue had slid in its fiscal fourth quarter, even as the company touted its digital gains.

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