Due to the fact that Joe, aka MrXero, can't work on today's D Musical Notes, I thought I would step in for just one day and take over. Today's special "Heidi" edition of the notes features: recording artists giving shots in the arm, a Phat sound system for your car, new Mixable CDs, Kid Rock's Cock ... yness, and this weekend's movie box office relsults.

Recording artists file brief supporting Napster

A group of recording stars led by Don Henley Tuesday said they recently filed a brief in a San Francisco federal court that may give song-swap service Napster a shot in the arm in its ongoing copyright infringement battle with the recording industry. The artists contended in their brief filed on Nov. 7 that the big recording labels may not indefinitely own some of the sound recording copyrights they are suing over in the landmark suit against Napster, said Jay Rosenthal, a lawyer for the Recording Artists Coalition (RAC).
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PhatNoise Launches In-car Digital Audio System for MP3 and WMA Music

PhatNoise, Inc. has announced November 15 as release date for its award-winning PhatNoise Car Audio System, the first complete digital media jukebox system for automobiles. The special, limited-edition PhatNoise Car Audio System can be purchased online at www.phatnoise.com for the extremely low, low price of $799 and will also be available nationwide through select high performance distributors.
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Universal Music Group Debuts Mixable CDs

Universal Music Group is giving consumers the chance to play DJ with the debut of Mixable CDs, a new interactive format that lets listeners edit and rearrange their CD's vocal, drum, and instrumental tracks to create custom music remixes on home PCs. The new Mixable CDs, developed by DJ software maker Visiosonic, will play normally in conventional CD players, but listeners preferring a more hands-on audio experience can slide the mix-it-yourself disk into their computer's CD ROM drive, click a button on the CD's Flash menu to install Visiosonic's PCDJ digital music player/mixer, and gain access to dozens of solo tracks and track groupings in encrypted MP3 format which can be mixed to taste using the controls on the PCDJ player.
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Kid Rock's Cocky Delayed By Girls, Money, Fun

Kid Rock is set to drop Cocky, his first album of all-new material since his breakthrough LP, Devil Without a Cause, on November 20. And though last year he released The History of Rock, a mixed bag of old songs, demos and re-makes along with a few new tunes, the reason more than three years stood between studio albums was family.
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Top at the Box Office

Want to see a movie? Here's what was hot at this weekend's box office.

Weekend ending 11/11/2001
1. Monsters, Inc.
2. Shallow Hal
3. The One
4. Domestic Disturbance
5. Heist
6. K-PAX
7. 13 Ghosts
8. Life as a House
9. Riding in Cars With Boys
10. Training Day

You rock Heidi.

Nice pinch hit!

Why thank you very much!

~Heidi

Heidi kicks butt and does it with a happy face..look at her above she is the only dmusic staff member remotely smiling.

Hey Joe, your voice got higher. ..and your face got prettier.

Witch, that's the medication that makes her smile. thank goodness for the medication.

It is a nice smile, tho, ain't it?

I have no face

Whoa I wrote a whole lot more than I have no face... Where'd it all go?
Oh well I'm still doing homework and it's due in like 6 hours. HW sucks ferret balls.