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MUSIC DISCOVERY ON TV SEEMS so straightforward on paper: A viewer hears a song of interest and seamlessly taps into a wealth of information, then purchases the song or adds [...]

Well, I'm going back down, Maybe one more time. Deep down borne, October Road ... Oh promised land, And me still standing. It's a test of time, it's a real [...]

Jack White says that he and Brendan Benson, who began writing together in 2004, mix things up to avoid patterns that could stifle their creativity. 'It has been very fruitful [...]

DURAN DURAN Paper Gods Warner Bros. *** 1/2 British pop legends party like it's 1989 on guest-filled album THESE ARE FABULOUSLY PHONY times, and that's just fine with Duran Duran. [...]

PAPER TONGUES Paper Tongues Producers: various A&M/Octone Release Date: March 30 Before a chance run-in with 'American Idol' judge Randy Jackson helped land them a recording contract, Paper Tongues grew [...]

John Mayer 'Paper Doll' (4:16) PRODUCERS: John Mayer, Don Was WRITER: John Mayer PUBLISHER: Specific Harm Music, administered by Sony/ATV Tunes (ASCAP) Columbia John Mayer's career has hit some unfortunate [...]

NEW YORK - With the struggle over family values at the forefront of our national dialog, Paramount Home Video weighs in with an honest movie about the bond between a [...]

ALISON KRAUSS & UNION STATION Paper Airplane Producers: Alison Krauss & Union Station Rounder Records Release Date: April 12 It's been seven years since Alison Krauss & Union Station last [...]

WIZ KHALIFA Rolling Papers Producers: various Rostrum/Atlantic Release Date: March 29 If the whole hip-hop thing somehow doesn't work out for Wiz Khalifa, he should consider becoming a motivational speaker. [...]

Yellowcard Paper Walls Producer: Neal Avron Capitol Release Date: July 17 At the start of 'Paper Walls,' Ryan Key sings, 'We've been here many times before.' No kidding. How many [...]

FRANCESCA BATTISTELLI My Paper Heart Producer:/an Eskelin Fervent/Curb/Warner Bros. Release Date: July 22 * Battistelli makes her Fervent debut with this engaging collection, showcasing her emotion-laden voice and intuitive songwriting [...]

LIL' MO Pain & Paper Producers: various Honey Child/Koch Release Date: Aug. 28 ** On her indie debut, much like her previous albums, Long Island, N.Y.-bred Lil' Mo emotively relates [...]

AUCKLAND--New Zealand has taken the first step toward bringing its copyright laws into the digital age with the release of two government discussion papers. The Ministry of Economic Development's Digital [...]

Industry Awaits Details On Reform Of Ownership Regulations LONDON--The U.K.'s commercial radio sector has been expressing its disappointment that the government's White Paper on Communications Reform has ducked the question [...]

Ah, December, the month of Santa and reindeer, the menorah and dreidels ... and rappers, of course. The week after Christmas has been a big one for rap album sales […]

Billboard created the FutureSound conference to encourage dialogue among the stakeholders in the traditional music industry, the nascent digital music business and the investors who find and fund new technologies. [...]

Sometimes bands take drastic measures to get their music to the right people: following a music supervisor to her car, mobbing a pregnant executive at a conference or slipping a [...]

The music industry's year-old journey to find environmentally friendly packaging to replace the unrecyclable jewelbox is still being slowed by the problem of achieving that goal in a cost-effective manner--but [...]

09-03 Disney filed formal papers opposing EDM artist Deadmau5's attempted registration of a mark consisting of a caricature of a mouse head with black ears, black face, white eyes and […]

Ahead of his first tour in three years, following his recovery from vocal surgery, John Mayer blasts onto Hot Rock Songs at No. 10 with 'Paper Doll.' The song previews [...]

USHER Papers (4:22) Producers: Sean 'the Pen' Garrett, Team S. Dot, Zaytoven Writers: various Publishers: various LaFace/Jive With its layered harmonies, mellow production and lyrics of heartache, Usher's 'Papers' closely [...]

T.I. Paper Trail Producers: various Grand Hustle/Atlantic Release Date: Sept. 30 It's been a tumultuous year of offstage drama for T.I., but 'Paper Trail' finds him back in the driver's [...]

M.I.A. Paper Planes (3:22) Producers: Diplo, Switch Writer: M.I.A. Publisher: not listed Interscope Originally released last year, 'Paper Planes' is now scoring across multiple formats--rock, top 40 and dance--thanks to [...]

Jay-Z's 'Empire State of Mind' remains atop Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, over Usher's 'Papers,' by the slimmest margin in chart points between the top two songs in six years. With each [...]

Usher introduces his next album with the lead single 'Papers,' which enters Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs at No. 60. The song bows with 3.9 million impressions after being delivered to radio [...]

A potential headache for independent songwriters has emerged at the U.S. Copyright Office, which is contending with a backlog of about half a million paper filings that could require up [...]

T.I. is on the verge of his third No. 1 on the Billboard 200, as 'Paper Trail' tallied first-day sales of 222,000 on Nielsen SoundScan's Oct. 1 Building chart. It's [...]

Yellowcard has set a July 17 release date for its third Capitol album, 'Paper Walls.' As were the band's first two full-lengths, the new album was produced by Neal Avron. [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C.--Malibu Comics Entertainment has joined forces with Gold Mountain Entertainment and International Strategic Marketing to form a new comic book line, Rock-It Comix, which will issue comics with storylines […]

Usher's first single from his upcoming album registers his 10th career No. 1 on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and breaks a tie with R. Kelly for the most chart-toppers since the [...]

DURING THE PAST few years, many labels devoted considerable resources to creating nicer, greener CD packaging. Suddenly, it's no longer as high a priority. 'We're thinking about another kind of [...]

MARTIRES DEL COMPAS No Papeles/No Papers Producer: Julio Revilla World Village Release Date: Aug. 9 There is no shortage of Spanish groups that fuse flamenco with other musical styles. And [...]

British newspaper the Hail on Sunday will back up its controversial Prince covermount CD campaign with a free DVD giveaway of the Brendan Foley-directed film 'The Riddle' in its Sept. [...]

Bidlo Presents Rock Scissors Paper, 'Wildlife'/'Hope' (Shinichi/Yoshitoshj Recordings single). Czech DJ Pavel Bidlo is responsible for the seriously progressive 'Wildlife,' which first caught the ears of production outfit Deep Dish [...]

New York drag comedian and globe-trotting DJ Lady Bunny has appeared on screens large ('To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar') and small ('Sex and the City,' Britney Spears' [...]

LONDON--One of the best-known names in the U.K. budget music market returns this month, with the June 10 re-emergence of the Pickwick Group. The Pickwick label has been on the [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C.--The judge in the Napster copyright infringement case has agreed to a schedule presented by Napster's lawyers that will allow the embattled company to proceed with depositions based on [...]

NEW YORK--When the reviews of his first movie, 1994's Clerks, started popping up, writer/director/actor Kevin Smith remembers one constant: Critics seemed thoroughly unimpressed by the film's pot-peddling slackers Jay and [...]

2 Paper Raids Kick-In U.K. Copyright Law LONDON - The U.K.'s new copyright law has been used for the first time to attack producers of unlicensed posters and other paper [...]

NEW YORK--Radio & Records publisher Bob Wilson hopes to proceed with plans to purchase the trade newspaper, despite the fact that it was taken from parent company Westwood One by [...]

LOS ANGELES--Westwood One, one of the largest radio networks, hopes the sale of its trade newspaper, Radio & Records, will put it on the road to financial recovery. WW1 formally […]

LONDON--Michael Jackson is suing British newspaper the Daily Mirror over claims he has been left 'hideously disfigured' by cosmetic surgery. The newspaper, which has the U.K.'s second-highest circulation, described the […]

When these New Romantics practically invented the '80s, they were dismissed as a moussed, modelizing flash in the pan. Thirty years since, they are happily married to those models, and [...]

ONE TO WATCH Myke Towers FROM Río Piedras, Puerto Rico AGE 27 LABEL Whiteworld Music/Warner FOUNDATION Myke Towers (born Michael Torres) learned to rap on the basketball courts in Río Piedras when he was a kid who delivered papers to make money. He was inspired by reggaetón duos Zion & Lennox and Wisin y Yandel, though later took cues from underground rappers like Venezuela's Canserbero. DISCOVERY In 2018, after a lackluster stint with an independent label, Towers felt he had hit a dead end, so he approached Orlando "Jova" Cepeda and José "Tito" Reyes, founding partners of the Puerto Rico-based label/production/management company Whiteworld Music. [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews the music release "Paper Tongues," from the Paper Tongues.