Check out the act Kill The Alarm (KTA) fronted by New Jersey native, Garen Gueyikian. An edgy mix between Green Day and Matchbox 20, Kill The Alarm has created a solid buzz in New York City, helping them sell out their CD Release Party weeks in advance. Within the past month KTA has been featured at the top of Purevolume, YouTube, and Alternative Addiction and has quickly begun to attract label interest.

Produced by Jon Kaplan (Lola Ray, The Damnwells, Gavin Degraw), their debut album, “Fire Away,” is filled with hits.

Kill The Alarm just sold out NYC 2/17 at Arlene’s Grocery and is playing again on 2/25 at BB King’s followed by an extensive northeast tour this spring.

Check out the tracks Call On Me and Fire Away
Preview the Full Album

For more information contact Veken Gueyikian.

XM Satellite must defend a copyright infringement lawsuit brought by record labels owned by Sony BMG Music and EMI, a judge ruled. The suit is over an XM service that allows users to download libraries of songs. Once you download the songs, you will never need to purchase these songs from labels.

U.S. District Judge Deborah Batts in New York today turned aside XM’s request to dismiss the lawsuit, which accuses XM of copyright infringement and seeks undetermined monetary damages. She disagreed with XM’s argument that the service is akin to a traditional cassette player. (reporting by Cecile Daurat)

Check out new music from alternative rock act Copper hailing from TN. In 2005 Copper was selected from 3000 participants as the winner of J. D’Addario/Guitar.com/FUSE Were Listening contest. Epic flew out last night to catch the performance at Blue Cat (TN). Check out the track Broken Sky .  For more information contact Dan Friedman

Satellite Radio Holdings wouldn’t win approval of a merger under current U.S. Federal Communications Commission rules, agency Chairman Kevin Martin said. A ban on a single owner for both satellite services written into the regulations that authorized the two nationwide licenses, Martin said. (Palazzo)

Analysts and Industry experts worry that Nicoli the new CEO of EMI won’t steer the mother ship to safety. Nicoli focused on food, with a stint at sweets group Rowntree Mackintosh and then almost 20 years at United Biscuits, eight of them as CEO. Nicoli’s expertise appears to be on the business side of EMI rather than in spotting new talent and managing artists.