Music industry executives have a saying that you have your entire life to write your first album and 9 months to write your second one. Talk about pressure for a young new act. Over night you are a star. All of a sudden people are taking your band seriously at your label. More and more people are starting to show up at your live shows. Radio starts to play your hit songs. Endorsements, agents, groupies… Life gets complicated quickly for newly popular band.

Anyone with a DVD player (DVD-Audio or even a DVD-Video) and a DTS compatible CD player can enjoy some new and old surround sound favorites from DTS Entertainment. Hitting stores on October 15, 2002 are:

A suit brought against the big five music conglomerates and a handful of the largest music retailers over price fixing has been settled for a groundbreaking $143,100,000. The judge ruling over the case has yet to approve the deal. The crux of the argument against the labels and retailers was that the media conglomerates and retailers agreed to illegally inflate the cost of CDs from 1995 to 2000 resulting in serious claims of anti-trust and price fixing.

During an interview on The Howard Stern Show last week, Hole front-woman, Courtney Love, announced that she and former Nirvana band mates had come to an agreement which will allow a new Nirvana record to make it to store shelves by the holiday season. The reason for the deal according to Love was pure and simple – cash. She claims that the wounds between her and the remaining elements of Nirvana are healed getting along. That includes Foo Fighter’s frontman, Dave Grohl. Source: The Howard Stern Show

Marking one more milestone for the DVD-Audio format and another first for the band Dishwalla, The 5.1 Entertainment Group and immergent Records have created the first DVD-Audio Single. Dishwalla forged in-roads for the format earlier this year with the first Day & Date release of their album Opaline simultaneously on both DVD-Audio and Compact Disc formats.