Mix Tape: Remembering Live Aid, Suffering Live Nation

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-Old enough to remember Live Aid? An upcoming biopic titled When Harvey Met Bob will tell the story of how music promoter Harvey Goldsmith and musician Bob Geldof organized that 1985 worldwide event.

-Cancellations and low ticket sales for various acts have impacted Live Nation’s bottom line. The concert promoter’s adjusted operating income is predicted to be down at least $40 million from last year.

-According to Amy Winehouse, her next album will be out in “six months at the most.” The singer says the sound will be “very much the same” as her last release “where there’s a lot of jukebox stuff and songs that are ... just jukebox, really.”

-Vampire Weekend is the subject of a bloody lawsuit. The woman pictured on the cover of Contra claims her picture was illegally used after someone forged a signature on the release form.

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Mix Tape: No Junos for Bieber, New Music from the Stones

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-A judge has dismissed a lawsuit Carly Simon filed against Starbucks. The singer had accused the company of failing to promote her new album. (Starbucks backed out of the industry days before her CD was released.)

-Can’t a 16-year-old Canadian pop star get any respect? He may know how to get girls screaming, but Justin Bieber doesn’t know how to win a Juno Award. He was just shut out during this weekend’s ceremony.

-“Operation Save Chris Brown’s Image” has just entered its next phase: Raise money for Haiti. Brown is now scheduled to host “Virginia Stand Up! A Call to Action” on May 15 in Richmond.

-May 17’s re-release of Exile on Main Street will feature a number of never-before-heard Rolling Stones tracks including “Plundered My Soul,” “Dancing in the Light,” “Following the River” and “Pass The Wine.” “So Divine (Aladdin Story)” will also be used on the May 2 episode of Cold Case.

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Mix Tape: Garth Brooks Hits Vegas, Def Leppard is Sued

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-Apparently retirement didn’t sit with Garth Brooks very well. The country singer began a lengthy stay as the Wynn Hotel’s headliner this weekend.

-Can Jennifer Lopez stay on her feet this time? Find out when the “Louboutins” singer and Mary J. Blige perform on So You Think You Can Dance’s season finale this Wednesday.

-Def Leppard’s former manager, Trudy Green, is suing the band and their accountant for non-payment. Love hurts.

-Billboard recently charted the top One-Hit Wonders of the decade. Somebody out there is having a really “Bad Day.”

-Speaking of the decade, Newsweek chose their Best Albums of the past ten years. Anyone else surprised by the Kelly Clarkson mention?

-Although they already have two children together, Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder and his girlfriend, Jill McCormick, are finally getting around to that wedding thing. The longtime couple became engaged a week ago.

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No Doubt Suing Activision Over Band Hero

Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Artist News, Rock,

No Doubt are suing the makers of a music video game.

The American rock group agreed to have their name and likenesses used in Band Hero, but the band’s manager, Jim Guerinot, said they were “mortified” to find out that players could use singer Gwen Stefani to perform other artists’ songs. “They’re just like, ‘What? We didn’t sign up for this,’ ” Guerinot said.

No Doubt - whose hits include “Don’t Speak” and “Just A Girl” - are suing the game’s manufacturers Activision for breach of contract and fraudulent inducement. Activision said it “believes it is within its legal rights with respect to the use and portrayal of the band.”

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