Hypebot’s Music Industry QuickNews For Wednesday April 19, 2006

• Gnarls Barkley, the collaboration between Danger Mouse and Cee-Lo will debut their full album digitally on MySpace. Starting here will be a three-day streaming exclusive on myspace.com/gnarlsbarkley.  This follows the act’s single becoming the first ever to hit #1 in the UK as a digital only release. The full CD release titled St. Elsewhere will hit physical retail stores May 9th. window. (Digital Music News)
• Gawker reports that The Village Voice’s venerable rock critic Robert Christgau is about to be let go following yesterday exit by music editor Chuck Eddy as owners New Times shake things up.
• Burst, the inventors of a technology that helps music files travel over the net, is suing Apple for copyright infringement.  (More via Yahoo/PC World.)
• Apple has a quarterly earnings call right after Wall Street closes today.  Anyone can dial in at 5 pm EST to (913) 981-5522 to listen in.  Analysts expect strong earnings.
• Warner Music’s earnings call is just before the market opens on Friday at 8:30AM EST at 800-857-2625 or 210-234-6601 or via webcast at wmg.com.