Starbucks Brewing Hits

Coffee chain gets behind Antigone Rising

The long island all-female band Antigone Rising had just performed three songs for Starbucks executives at their record label's New York offices. The Starbucks team huddled briefly, then offered to release an Antigone Rising CD exclusively at the coffee chain, which serves 33 million customers a week. It was a huge break for a hard-rock band that has sold just 20,000 albums on its own. But before signing, singer Kristen Henderson had a question for the Starbucks execs. "I asked, If they were at a Starbucks, would they know how to go behind the counter and make the coffee themselves?" she says. "They said they would. That was reason enough. I liked these guys. It was really important to us that it was, like, a grass-roots mentality." (More on the Antigone Rising Story)

Fraud charges for Starbucks employee

By Monica Soto Ouchi
A federal grand jury charged a Starbucks human-resources employee with giving her co-workers' personal information to others, who then used it to make $1.5 million in illegal bank withdrawals.
Seattle Times

Hotline: You oughta know Alanis is coming

By Dean Johnson
Thursday, April 21, 2005

Alanis Morissette will embark on her first acoustic tour this summer in support of a newly recorded acoustic edition of her landmark 1995 debut album, ``Jagged Little Pill.'' She is scheduled to do a show at the Wang Theatre on June 17, though no ticket information for the Boston show has been released.
The tour will begin June 7 in Toronto, followed by the new album six days later. The set will be sold exclusively by Starbucks for the first six weeks.
``We'll play the album from start to finish,'' she told Billboard, ``although we'll probably play around some with the order. We'll also throw in some other songs from the last 10 years.'' Morissette said she is not saying goodbye to these songs: ``I'll be playing them until I'm dead.''