April 29, 2003

The Austin City Limits Music Festival, in its second year will feature more than 100 artists over three days, September 19-21. The festival is a spin off of the 25 year old Austin City Limits music program on public television. The confirmed artists include: R.E.M., Ben Harper, Jack Johnson, Beth Orton, String Cheese Incident, Beta Band, Spoon, Patty Griffin, Los Lobos, Nickel Creek, Mavis Staples, Alejandro Escovedo, Ween, Robert Randolph and Gomez.
For more info visit – Aclfestival.com.

London-based dance-music brand Ministry of Sound (MoS) has begun offering almost 100,000 tracks for legitimate download from its Web site.MoS relaunched the site Monday, declaring its ambition to become the “No. 1 global legal music download and streaming site.”All five majors are offering content to the service. Users can purchase downloads for 99p ($1.57) apiece from http://www.ministryofsound.com. Tracks can be burned to CD or transferred to a portable device. Alternatively, a monthly payment of 4.99 pounds ($7.94) gives the user 500 credits; permanent downloads cost 100 credits, while 30-day timed-out downloads are 10 each.Pay-per-view streaming for the broadband version of MoS radio is priced at 1.50 pounds ($2.38) for 24 hours of access (during which time users can connect up to 10 times); other pay-per-view content, such as videos and DJ mixes, carries the same price.
Source ETonline.com.

Despite ongoing complaints that the world