Bob Dylan, Elton John, Sting, Alanis Morissette, Ricky Martin, Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo to appear on Voices Of Hope, benefiting the Sabera Foundation, set for release November 19 on Ark 21 Records: The 14-track disc was conceived by actress Melanie Griffith and her sister Tracy, who both also perform, as …

Via Glenn Reynolds, Jesse Walker spots hypocrisy in the FCC digital radio approval: The new technology is certain to cause some substantial interference problems, but this didn’t bother the commission — Radio World reports that “If any interference occurs…the commission hopes the parties would work it out. The agency would …

Faith Hill will make her SNL debut this Saturday, October 12 – Sarah Michelle Gellar will host: The singer will perform the title track and one other song from her upcoming album, Cry, which hits retail outlets Tuesday (October 15). LAUNCH spoke with Hill about appearing on the show. “I …

Note the spin – Reuters is neutral? Global music sales spiraled 9.2 percent lower in the first half of 2002 but the battered music industry is holding out for a second-half revival led by Elvis, Coldplay and Shakira, a leading industry body said on Thursday. Rampant piracy, weak economies and …

As if the appearance of P. Diddy wasn’t enough to suck me into the show!! Singer Christina Aguilera will perform alongside some of the biggest names in pop music at the MTV Europe Music Awards next month, MTV said Wednesday. Aguilera will join Coldplay, Enrique Iglesias, Robbie Williams, and Pink …

New distribution deal via DSL: – Listen.com has secured a major distribution channel for its music-subscription service Rhapsody, cutting a deal with high-speed Internet provider Verizon Online DSL. The pact, to be announced Wednesday, makes Rhapsody’s on-demand streams available to Verizon’s 1.5 million DSL customers in the U.S. Service offers …

Independent movie studio puts trailers on file sharing network: To the world’s largest entertainment companies, the controversial Kazaa file-sharing network is Public Enemy No. 1—a wildly popular source of free, downloadable music and movies. But to Lions Gate Entertainment, an independent film studio based in Marina del Rey, Kazaa is …

Freedom of Expression in the Corporate Age. This is an exhibit and website flaunting copyrights: The laws governing “intellectual property” have grown so expansive in recent years that artists need legal experts to sort them all out. Borrowing from another artwork–as jazz musicians did in the 1930s and Looney Tunes …

PW reports that the Nobel Prize has already given a lift to Imre Kertesz’s American publisher: Imre Kertesz, the hungarian novelist who won this year’s Nobel Prize for literature, has been a boon for Northwestern University Press, which publishes him in English. Acting press director Donna Shear says the house …

Just yesterday we noted a strange efflorescence of commodes in the news. It’s happened again: Citing the perception that people like to read on in the john, a German publisher has begun publishing toilet paper literature, including poems by Heinrich Heine and Christian Morgenstern, as well as short mystery stories, …