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Basement Jaxx, the U.K. dance duo known for rollicking, noisy house tracks and circuslike live shows, has completed work on "Scars," the pair's fifth full-length album. "Scars" is due for an October release on XL.

Private equity firm Terra Firma has asked Citigroup to inject up to £300 million ($486.1 million) into debt-laden EMI, according to a report in the Sunday Times.

Canada is expected to kick off the reworking of its Copyright Act next week, a process that will include a series of public consultations across the country, according to sources familiar with the plan.

Jordin Sparks' sophomore album, "Battlefield," was much more peaceable to make than its title might imply.

The exec producer of A&E's Jackson family reality project says she has "months and months" of footage -- potentially including never-before-seen scenes with Michael.

Lady GaGa becomes just the third artist in the 16-year history of the Mainstream Top 40 airplay chart to collect three No. 1 songs from a debut album.

According to the latest annual survey of more than 1,000 music fans by specialist media and technology research agency the Leading Question, in conjunction with Music Ally, file-sharing is proving less popular as a source of music especially among teenagers.

Hundreds of Michael Jackson fans gathered outside London's O2 Arena on Monday to pay their respects to the entertainer on the day he was to have opened a run of 50 concerts at the venue.

BET Networks, in conjunction with Grey Goose vodka, will debut a TV and concert series July 27 dubbed "Rising Icons." Each 30-minute episode will offer a glimpse into the life of an emerging artist by chronicling their journeys at home

A federal judge has sentenced a man who pleaded guilty to leaking part of the Guns N' Roses album "Chinese Democracy" to a year's probation.

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band have added new U.S. concert dates to their 2009 Working On A Dream tour, which returns stateside in late August with three shows at the Comcast Theater in Hartford, Conn.

A vote of the AIM membership has approved a proposal for the U.K. independent music companies' trade body to lobby the BBC to play a wider range of independent music on national top 40 station Radio 1 and AC network

MGMT, Girl Talk, the Flaming Lips, Beirut, the Walkmen, Passion Pit, the Streets, Yo La Tengo and Brazilian Girls are just part of the lineup for the third annual Treasure Island Music Festival.

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is trying to quell the escalating debate over who should pick up the estimated $1.4 million tab for police, traffic control and other services related to Michael Jackson's memorial service. He asserted that the city of Los

A rare performance from folk icon Tim Buckley will see the light this summer, when the Tompkins Square label issues "Live at the Folklore Center, NYC -- March 6, 1967" on Aug. 25.

Warner Music Group's Rhino Entertainment division is introducing a digital sales format called the Digital 45, in celebration of the 60-year anniversary of the 45-single.

Thomas Dolby has remastered and rereleased his first two albums, The Golden Age Of Wireless (1982) and The Flat Earth (1984).The new Collectors Editions are released on CD and as digital downloads. They feature special bonus tracks, personal sleeve notes,