SAUSALITO, Calif.–In a tiny private recording studio on the shore of San Francisco Bay, Talking Heads keyboardist Jerry Harrison is systematically giving his old band’s work new sonic life. Newly digitized versions of the band’s recordings glow on a pair of computer monitors–a guitar track here; vocals, bass drum and keyboard there. He and a pair of engineers are recreating …

A Russian digital-music site offering high-quality song downloads for just pennies apiece is the target of a criminal copyright investigation by the local police, recording industry groups said Tuesday. AllofMP3.com has been operating for several years, asking consumers to pay just 2 cents per megabyte of downloads–usually between 4 cents and 10 cents per song. Alongside the catalogue available at …

America Online is disabling a feature of its popular music software that had been used to evade copy-prevention features of digital music services, the company said Friday. The company’s Winamp software was identified by bloggers this week as part of a process that transformed copy-protected music downloads into songs that could be burned by the thousand to CD. The tool …