Linkin Park show to air in theaters, online

Linkin Park fans looking to hear the band's new material performed live will have their chance tonight. Linkin Park's show last Friday at Webster Hall in New York City will be broadcast online at AOL Music and in nearly 100 movie theaters in the US. The theater event will feature never-before-seen bonus footage from the making of the new Linkin Park album, Minutes to Midnight, which hits stores tomorrow. Check here for theaters showing the concert and to buy tickets for $12.50 apiece.

The webcast will begin at 9:30 p.m. ET at AOL Music Live and be available to stream for free and on-demand. "We are pleased to provide fans with a preview of Linkin Park's much anticipated new album," AOL Entertainment's Mike Rich said in a statement. "In addition, we'll be providing Linkin Park fans with unparalleled multimedia offerings leading up to and post concert."

McCartney goes digital, hints at Beatles move online

Paul McCartney's recently announced move away from Capitol Records and to Starbucks' Hear Music label isn't the only major change for the legendary artist. McCartney's new album--and first for Hear Music--will be also be his first available as a digital download. The album, Memory Almost Full, will be his first solo release available for download and streaming on PCs and mobile phones. It is set to hit stores June 5. Starbucks plans to give Memory Almost Full prime positioning in its Hear Music area in the Apple iTunes Store.

And although the deal is believed to be only for the new album and not for McCartney's back catalog, he did tell Billboard that the Beatles' long-delayed move to digital stores could be on the way. "I don't want to pre-empt anything, but we're well on the way to something happening there, which is very exciting," he said.

Internet radio bills make way through Congress

Two bills are making their way through Congress that seek to curtail the Copyright Royalty Board's landmark changes to the royalty rates paid by Internet radio broadcasters. US Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Sam Brownback (R-KS) have introduced legislation to vacate the CRB decision, which would increase Internet radio sound recording royalties by 300 percent to 1,200 percent.

"Our bill is about standing up for folks ranging from a small Webcaster in a basement in Corvallis to an innovative startup in Beaverton to a new band trying to be heard in Portland to a huge music fan in Coos Bay" Wyden said in a statement. "Keeping Internet radio alive is part of a broader issue that is important to me--keeping the e-commerce engine running by preventing discrimination against it."

The proposed Senate legislation is a companion to a House of Representatives bill that was initiated by Reps. Jay Inslee (D-WA) and Don Manzullo (R-IL). That bill, the Internet Radio Equality Act, now has more than 63 Congressional cosponsors from both sides of the aisle.