SAN FRANCISCO–It’s the wee hours on an unseasonably balmy November morning. Inside the DNA Lounge in the hip South of Market neighborhood, the festively attired crowd attending the annual Scorpio Ball is bouncing and gyrating to thick bass beats. In front of the sweaty bodies and bathed in the bright stage lights is Bassnectar–otherwise known as Lorin Ashton or, perhaps …

What would the music industry be without a little controversy? Just when you thought Sony BMG Music Entertainment had put its security problems behind it, the record label announced it had found, and fixed, a new risk associated with some of its CDs. The vulnerability could let malicious programmers gain control of computers that have run the software, which is …

Sprint Nextel has launched a music download service that lets customers store up to 1,000 songs on their cell phones, pitting it against Apple Computer’s popular iTunes service. The Sprint Music Store, announced Monday, will allow consumers to browse, preview and, for $2.50 each, download files from the Sprint inventory, which includes songs from EMI Music, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, …