Lenny Kravitz’s new single "Again" from his forthcoming Greatest Hits album (due in stores October 24) will be the first ever downloadable video on MTV.com and VH1.com. Beginning Friday September 22 at 3 PM Eastern Standard Time, fans will be able to log on to MTV.com or VH1.com and download the video free of charge until October 9th. After that date the video will be available only at the official Lenny Kravitz (www.lennykravitz.com) and Virgin Records America websites (www.virginrecords.com). The video will automatically time out thirty days after its original download date. The promotion ends December 31, 2000. In its first week at radio "Again" was the most added song at the Rock format. The video clip, directed by acclaimed video director Paul Hunter was filmed in New York City's TriBeCa neighborhood and stars Lenny and actress Gina Gershon as two-thirds ...

King Crimson, the most progressive band of the Prog-Rock genre is heading out on tour to support their ConstruKction Of Light CD. Crimson is lead by way-out-there guitarist Robert Fripp and who's out-of-the-box chops are like no other. Crimson has been called thinking man's rock which packs high intensity groves with Martian melodies. With 31 years under their belt, King Crimson puts on quite a show.

THE DEAD ZONE (Paramount Home Entertainment) is director David Cronenberg’s acclaimed 1983 screen version of Stephen King’s book about a man, played by Christopher Walken, who awakens from a coma with psychic abilities. Tom Skerritt and Martin Sheen also star. The DVD comes with English 5.1 Surround Sound and Dolby Surround, as well as a French mono track.

Bob Stuart, co-founder of Meridian and developer of Meridian Lossless Packing which makes high resolution 5.1, 70 minute albums fit on DVD-Audio discs, commented in an interview at last week's CEDIA Expo in Indianapolis that the DVD Watermarking issue isn't as bad, sonically, as everyone is making it out to be. Stuart acknowledges that the watermarking is the last hurdle to the exciting new technology, however he noted that the watermarking is somewhat misunderstood. According to Stuart, watermarking can be intermittently placed in a music playback source specifically at more dynamic sections where the ill effects of the watermarking are less obvious. Watermarking can also be placed in the silence between tracks.

Napster isn’t the only online music site that is in hot water over copyright infringement issues. MP3.com, one of the largest music sites on the Internet was just ordered to pay a hefty fine of approximately $250 million to Universal Music Group. The lawsuit, filed by Seagram’s owned Universal claimed that MP3.com copied 80,000 Compact Discs onto their servers to create their "My MP3.com" system and 5,000 of these CD’s copyrights are owned by Universal Music Group.