Top Stories: March 11, 2010

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• Pink Floyd Halt Single-Song Downloads
• News Ticker: Beck, Rock Band 3
• Actor Corey Haim Dead at 38
• Kate Nash Talks My Best Friend Is You
• OK Go Split With EMI, Form New Label
• Faith No More Announce East Coast Show
• Lady Antebellum Retake Number One
• U2’s Spider-Man Loses Evan Rachel Wood
• New Videos: Big Boi, She and Him
• Breaking: Midlake
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• News Ticker: DMX, Lady Gaga, Stars
• Watch Exclusive New Runaways Clip
• Beastie Boys Delay Hot Sauce to Late 2010
• Exclusive Premiere: Yeasayer’s “O.N.E.”
• MGMT Unveil New Song “Flash Delirium”
• Smashing Pumpkins Seek Two New Members
• LCD Soundsystem Debut Greenberg Tune
• Hear Dr. Dog’s New “Stranger”
• Samberg, Parnell Revive “Lazy Sunday”
• Win a Trip to See STP at SXSW!
• Coyne Wants Timberlake in Lips Film
• Lil Wayne Begins Year-Long Jail Term
• T.I. Announces Return With “I’m Back”
• Foo Fighters Team With Vig For Heavy Disc
• Win the White Stripes’ Box Set

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Pink Floyd Win Battle to Halt Single-Song Download Sales

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Pink Floyd have won their lawsuit over single-song downloads against EMI, effectively halting the digital sale of the band’s individual tracks. As Rolling Stone reported yesterday, under the terms of a 1999 contract that predated iTunes and other digital-music retailers, the band mandated its songs could not be offered outside the context of their original albums. EMI argued that the contract only covered physical and not digital releases. In the end, the judge sided with preserving Pink Floyd’s artistic vision, the BBC reports.

Check out Rolling Stone’s collection of Pink Floyd photos.

The judge also ordered EMI to pay roughly $60,000 for the band’s legal fees immediately while the court determines how much the label, to which Floyd signed in 1967, should pay in fines and damages. Also at issue: how much money Pink Floyd should receive in digital royalties, because the 1999 contract did not foresee the advent of downloadable music. Millions of dollars could be at stake; only the Beatles’ back catalog is more profitable than Pink Floyd’s.

With the ruling, it’s now last call for fans who want to legally download “The Narrow Way, Pt. 3″ without investing in the rest of Ummagumma, since at press time both iTunes and the Amazon MP3 store were still offering up Pink Floyd’s tracks as single song downloads. Expect this to change in the near future.

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Pink Floyd Win Battle to Halt Single-Song Download Sales

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Check out Rolling Stone’s collection of Pink Floyd photos.

News Ticker: Beck, “Rock Band 3,” Phil Collins

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Beck’s next Record Club project will feature St. Vincent, the Liars and Os Mutantes, Pitchfork reports, though it’s unclear which classic album they’ve tackled.

If you’ve already mastered Rock Band 2, there’s good news on the horizon: Rock Band 3 will be out in time for the 2010 holidays. A statement on the game’s Facebook page promises the new title will “innovate and revolutionize the music genre once again.” Green Day: Rock Band will arrive June 8th.

In addition to being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Genesis next week, Phil Collins will be honored at June 17th’s Songwriters Hall of Fame gala in New York with the Johnny Mercer Award.

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News Ticker: Beck, “Rock Band 3,” Phil Collins

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Beck’s next Record Club project will feature St. Vincent, the Liars and Os Mutantes, Pitchfork reports, though it’s unclear which classic album they’ve tackled.

News Ticker: Beck, “Rock Band 3,” Phil Collins

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Beck’s next Record Club project will feature St. Vincent, the Liars and Os Mutantes, Pitchfork reports, though it’s unclear which classic album they’ve tackled.

News Ticker: Beck, “Rock Band 3,” Phil Collins

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Beck’s next Record Club project will feature St. Vincent, the Liars and Os Mutantes, Pitchfork reports, though it’s unclear which classic album they’ve tackled.

News Ticker: Beck, “Rock Band 3,” Phil Collins

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Beck’s next Record Club project will feature St. Vincent, the Liars and Os Mutantes, Pitchfork reports, though it’s unclear which classic album they’ve tackled.

News Ticker: Beck, “Rock Band 3,” Phil Collins

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Photo: Getty

Beck’s next Record Club project will feature St. Vincent, the Liars and Os Mutantes, Pitchfork reports, though it’s unclear which classic album they’ve tackled.

Pink Floyd Win Battle to Halt Single-Song Download Sales

webc — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:22:42 +0000

Check out Rolling Stone’s collection of Pink Floyd photos.

News Ticker: Beck, “Rock Band 3,” Phil Collins

webc — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:22:42 +0000

Photo: Getty

Beck’s next Record Club project will feature St. Vincent, the Liars and Os Mutantes, Pitchfork reports, though it’s unclear which classic album they’ve tackled.

News Ticker: Beck, “Rock Band 3,” Phil Collins

webc — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:22:42 +0000

Photo: Getty

Beck’s next Record Club project will feature St. Vincent, the Liars and Os Mutantes, Pitchfork reports, though it’s unclear which classic album they’ve tackled.

News Ticker: Beck, “Rock Band 3,” Phil Collins

webc — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:22:42 +0000

Photo: Getty

Beck’s next Record Club project will feature St. Vincent, the Liars and Os Mutantes, Pitchfork reports, though it’s unclear which classic album they’ve tackled.

News Ticker: Beck, “Rock Band 3,” Phil Collins

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Beck’s next Record Club project will feature St. Vincent, the Liars and Os Mutantes, Pitchfork reports, though it’s unclear which classic album they’ve tackled.