Patti LaBelle’s current tour, “The Gospel According to Patti,” is being canceled, the singer announced Monday.
LaBelle, who cited differences with the tour’s promoter, said she had a good relationship with sponsors and hoped to restart the tour.
“I really had hoped to continue to reach the gospel audience as we had originally planned,” LaBelle said in […]
Fans waiting for the notorious decade-in-the-making Guns N’ Roses album, “Chinese Democracy,” are going to have to wait a little longer. Axl Rose now says it will hit stores March 6.
Seven months ago, the 44-year-old rock recluse emerged from seclusion and claimed “Chinese Democracy” would be out before the end of the year. The Guns […]
Some of rock ‘n’ roll’s biggest names have teamed up to sue the owner of a Web site that specializes in streaming rare concert recordings.
Wolfgang’s Vault offers thousands of recordings of rare audio and video music performances collected over 30 years by Bill Graham, a famous concert promoter who died in 1991.
On Monday, major rock […]
Sensation-seekers looking for trouble Monday at the Deutsche Oper’s revival of Mozart’s “Idomeneo” were disappointed. The controversial scene displaying the severed head of the Prophet Muhammad provoked a few “boos,” but fears of violence proved unfounded, and cheers and applause prevailed among the near-capacity audience.
And with good reason: Good music, on stage and in the […]
After the success of his debut album “Let’s Get It: Thug Motivation 101,” Atlanta’s Young Jeezy quickly crossed over from the rap chart to the popchart.
But hip-hop fans can get testy when artists garner too much mainstream attention too fast. So while Jeezy huddled with big-name producers like Timbaland and Cool & Dre for […]
On the title track of this Shady Records compilation, Eminem declares — less than a year-and-a-half into his wildly overstated “retirement” — that “this music is in us, and it’s not over ’til we say it’s finished.” The evidence on this 22-track set indicates they’re a long way from that point, too. Conceived as […]
Henry Krieger and late partner Tom Eyen’s dazzling music and insightful lyrics propelled the Broadway “Dreamgirls” to six Tony Awards and a Grammy Award for best cast album in 1982. But this soundtrack to the excellent movie version adds a more contemporary tone as production duo the Underdogs subtly inject new life into the […]
This veteran trio continues to deliver some of the best, most relevant music of its esteemed career. Randy Phillips, Shawn Craig and Dan Dean have always had dual careers as pastors in their local churches and singer/songwriters, and this collection serves up several songs that sound like instant church classics. “Saved the Day” is […]
There’s something a little unconvincing about an artistic “evolution” on a young band’s second studio release — especially when the album lives up to its bland title with generic lovelorn lyrics and melodies that are nice but rarely stirring. “De Que Sirve” starts out promisingly with a funky staccato keyboard and string sample, then eschews […]
Like his hammock-rock godfather Jimmy Buffett, Jack Johnson’s palm-trees-and-six-strings vibe obscures what has quietly become a large and successful cottage industry. This soundtrack, released on Johnson’s Brushfire label, once again brings together Johnson’s specialties — surfing, surf films and surfing songs — into a typically breezy, slow-rolling listen. Johnson contributes two new tracks, and […]
The cyberspace saga of the Velvet Underground’s 40-year-old first recording continued Thursday, with a new eBay auction that followed a false winning bid of more than $155,000.
That bid last week bit the dust when a young man in California e-mailed the seller confessing he doesn’t even have enough money to buy gas, never mind the […]
Paris Hilton has jumped to the defense of her friend Britney Spears.
The pair have been splashed across the global press on a series of high-profile night outs in recent weeks, after the pop icon split from her husband Kevin Federline.
However, Hilton has dismissed suggestions that Britney’s antics have made it impossible to be a proper […]
On January 22, 2003, Jet played their very first U.S. show at the 260-capacity club Spaceland in Los Angeles. And nearly four years and a couple million album sales later, the Australian rockers returned to the venue that gave them their American start–although this time, they brought a few high-profile friends with them.
Jet started last […]
Nine Inch Nails will chronicle the tour in support of its 2005 album “With Teeth” on the DVD “Beside You in Time,” due February 27 via Interscope.
The main body of the project features 19 songs, two of which (”Right Where It Belongs” and “Beside You in Time”) can be viewed from alternate camera angles.
Bonus features […]
