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Live Nation has inked another blockbuster deal with one of the biggest names in music. Just five months after its $120 million pact with Madonna, the concert promotion giant announced a deal today with U2. The 12-year agreement, for which terms were not disclosed, puts Live Nation in charge of U2’s merchandising, digital, and branding rights.
Unlike the Madonna deal, however, it does not include album distribution and publishing, which will still be handled by Universal Music Group.
“We’ve been dating for over twenty years now, it’s about time we tied the knot,” U2 frontman Bono said, in a statement, of his band’s longstanding relationship with Live Nation.
Dave Matthews Band, Ticketmaster teams up
In yet another innovative deal between a massively popular band and a concert promotion giant, the Dave Matthews Band and Ticketmaster have teamed up to offer concertgoers an exclusive digital album culled from the band’s upcoming 40-city North American tour.
Fans who purchase tickets through Ticketmaster will receive a unique barcode in mid-September that can be redeemed for the digital album on iTunes. The album will go on sale to the general public a month later. The offer is only valid for venues ticketed by Ticketmaster.
DMB’s three-month summer tour will begin May 30-31 outside Pittsburgh, and will feature material from its next studio album, its first since 2005’s Stand Up. Opening acts on the tour will include Willie Nelson, the Black Crowes, Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, O.A.R., Michael Franti and Spearhead, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, Paolo Nutini, Gomez, and Ingrid Michaelson.
Beanie Sigel heads back to prison
After he allegedly gave probation officials false urine samples and also tested positive five times this month for Xanax and Percocet, Beanie Sigel is headed back to prison. The rapper–real name Dwight Grant–was sentenced to three months in prison Friday for violating his probation.

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Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Nancy Margaret Russo said Sean Levert recently admitted to having a $50-a-day marijuana addiction.
He said the habit began when he was 14.
He also had high blood pressure and wasn’t taking medication for it, Russo said in a telephone interview this morning.
Levert died late Sunday in Lutheran Hospital, where he was taken after he became ill in the Cuyahoga County jail. An autopsy is being conducted today. A spokesman for the coroner’s office said no “foul play or trauma” is suspected in Levert’s death.
Last Monday, Russo sentenced Levert, 39, to 22 months in prison for failing to pay nearly $90,000 to three children. The oldest child, Keith Potts, is an adult and in prison. Potts’ mother, Robbie Cayson, 39, was arrested in February and charged with leading a criminal gang.
Levert told Russo that the only medication he took was an occasional Xanax, which treats insomnia and anxiety.
He tested positive for marijuana while out on bond on the child support charges.
Court records show he had been convicted a half-dozen times of driving with a suspended license. He was convicted of being impaired while driving in 1993 and having an open beer can in his car in 1995, when he was also convicted of drug abuse. He successfully completed a two-year substance abuse treatment program.
Russo declared Levert indigent so that his money would go toward child support instead of fines and court costs, she said.
Cayson-Hutchin’s mother and numerous young relatives gawked from the house next door as police ushered eight people to a paddy wagon on Lenacrave Avenue. Her daughter and grandsons did nothing wrong, she said.
“The police took all my grandkids,” she said through her door. “They ain’t no gang.”
LMFAO - they’re good boys, right granny? Good to hear these thuglets and their skank mother are off the streets. Lock these social diseases up as long as possible.

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