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Music exec Flom lines up Universal post (Reuters)

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Former Atlantic and Capitol top executive Jason Flom is nearly finished with negotiations that would bring him into the Universal Music Group fold, Billboard has learned.

UMG chairman/CEO Doug Morris was a mentor to Flom when the latter started Lava Records as an imprint of Atlantic and Morris was chairman of Warner Music Group. Flom left his position as chairman/CEO of Capitol Music Group earlier this year, amid layoffs and restructuring at parent company EMI.

A source close to the negotiations said it is likely that Flom will start a new imprint through Universal Republic, headed by president/CEO Monte Lipman.

Morris, for his part, said that Flom would be working in an A&R

NEW YORK (Billboard) - At the Austin City Limits (ACL) Music Festival in Texas at the end of September, sandwiched between a stage and a small recycling center stood a white dome decorated with colorful cloud patterns. Inside the air-conditioned structure, visitors could get customized T-shirts, temporary tattoos and a mixtape of songs by artists performing at the festival.

It was computer maker Dell's Summer Rocks Dome, which the company also parked at other rock festivals as part of a push to bolster its brand's ties to live music.

Dell has been a presenting sponsor on the festival circuit for years, but 2008 marked the first time that the company had established such a prominent physical presen

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Connie Talbot's first release, "Over the Rainbow," has already gone gold in the United Kingdom (100,000 copies) and platinum in Korea (15,000 copies) and has logged more than 46 million hits on YouTube. Not bad for a 7-year-old.

It was Talbot's cherubic, pitch-perfect performance of "Over the Rainbow" on "Britain's Got Talent," spread virally via YouTube, that won the hearts of the world in June 2007. But after she finished second to opera-singing everyman Paul Potts on the U.K. TV show, major labels weren't interested in signing her.

"Most people thought that she had a great chance to win," co-manager John Arnison says. "

LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - About two months before the release of his band's third studio album, "When the World Comes Down," All-American Rejects singer/bassist Tyson Ritter is spending most of his free time drinking beer and engaging in kite-flying wars on the beaches of Northern Florida.

"I've been getting completely hammered and enjoying myself," Ritter says from his home in Destin, Florida. "I'm 24 and I know I'm not going to be able to do this s--t when I'm 50. Sometimes you've got to live."

The All-American Rejects frontman has reason to enjoy his time off. In the two years since the release of its 2005 album, "Move Along," which peaked

ARTIST: KENNY CHESNEY

ALBUM: LUCKY OLD SUN

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Kenny Chesney does his heroes George Strait and Jimmy Buffett proud on his latest set, which has a free-and-easy feel befitting its island inspiration. Like Strait, Chesney has mastered a laid-back vocal delivery that flows easily from song to song. And like Buffett, the East Tennessee native has learned to paint pictures that transport the listener to a more carefree place. There's plenty of guest appearances -- Willie Nelson on "That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Around Heaven All Day)," Dave Matthews on "I'm Alive," Mac McAnally on his own "Down the Road" and the Wailers on current No. 1 single "Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven." But Chesney, who wrote or co-wrote five of

LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Old school can still command attention -- just ask Tina Turner, who recently launched a sold-out world tour at age 68. Hoping to sashay its way into that zeitgeist is futuristic '70s rock-soul-funk trio Labelle.

Best-known for the 1974 No. 1 R&B and pop hit "Lady Marmalade," Patti LaBelle, Nona Hendryx and Sarah Dash return October 21 with their long-awaited reunion album, "Back to Now" (Verve).

Several mini-reunions have transpired since the group's last studio album, 1976's "Chameleon." The trio recorded dance hit "Turn It Out" in 1995 for the movie "To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar" and two TV specia

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