Before he was an actor, before he made TV shows and movies with his own production company, before he had a record label, Ice Cube was a rapper.
Cube was just a kid in 1988 when he and NWA helped launch the gangsta rap genre with “Straight Outta Compton,” a raw collection of catchy rhymes about […]
Paul Simon, B.B King, Tony Bennett, Elvis Costello and Etta James are among the stars slated to perform at the 27th Annual Festival International de Jazz de Montreal.
The event — in Montreal, naturally — will run from June 28 through July 9. It will present more than 140 indoor concerts.
Blues legend King will open the […]
Rapper LL Cool J and R&B crooner Bill Withers will be honored for their musical contributions by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, the organization announced Friday.
LL Cool J will receive the Golden Note award and Withers will be presented with the Rhythm & Soul Heritage award at a June 26 ceremony at […]
When the World Cup begins June 9, four Latin countries will be competing, and two of them — Brazil and Argentina — will have a serious shot at winning.
But while fans cheer, the music industry in Latin America will probably be singing the blues as paralysis of any non-soccer-related activity sets in. If past cups […]
Chalk it up to a corporate merger, limited promotion or maybe just a record that was too different from her first — whatever the reason, Nelly Furtado’s last record tanked. Most artists would love to sell 400,000 copies of a record in the United States, as Furtado did on her second release, “Folklore” (DreamWorks), […]
Zac Hanson of pop group Hanson will marry longtime girlfriend, Kate Tucker, this weekend, the group’s publicist said.
Katie McNeil said, Hanson, 20, and Tucker, 22, his girlfriend of five years, will marry Saturday in Atlanta.
“The couple is planning an intimate ceremony with close family and friends,” McNeil said in an e-mail.
The Stones are finally rolling.
Temporarily postponed after guitarist
Keith Richards accidentally injured his head in a fall while on holiday in Fiji, the Rolling Stones’ A Bigger Bang trek is starting up again with a newly revamped schedule that will take the World’s Greatest Rock and Roll Band to over 11 European countries.
Confirming on the […]
At first blush, a new opera meditating on the life and death of Spanish poet/playwright Federico Garcia Lorca seems an unlikely choice to be a chart hit. But Osvaldo Golijov’s “Ainadamar” is precisely that.
Released last month by Deutsche Grammophon (DG), the opera’s world-premiere recording features soprano Dawn Upshaw, mezzo-soprano Kelley O’Connor and soprano Jessica Rivera […]
As the recording industry tries to block file trading of songs across peer-to-peer networks, blogs and other viral distribution channels, the major labels suddenly have a whole new piracy concern: music videos.
The rise of user-generated content sites like YouTube, MySpace, Google Video and iFilm has sparked a revolution in the viral sharing of music videos […]
Paul Simon, B.B King, Tony Bennett, Elvis Costello and Etta James are among the stars slated to perform at the 27th Annual Festival International de Jazz de Montreal.
The event — in Montreal, naturally — will run from June 28 through July 9. It will present more than 140 indoor concerts.
Blues legend King will open the […]
The Zombies are very much alive. Rod Argent, founder of the seminal British rock group, will follow up a summer run as a member of
Ringo Starr’s All-Starr Band with a U.S. tour by the Zombies.
“I never wanted to just re-form the Zombies,” Argent says, adding that the reunion had to include “doing some new stuff […]
Uri Geller’s dream of turning the first home Elvis Presley owned into a museum dedicated to the paranormal has been dealt a setback nearly as bizarre as the spoon-bending trick that made the Israeli-born psychic famous.
Geller, who thought he had purchased the Memphis property in an eBay auction last month for $905,100, learned on Friday […]
So here it is, the second album from The Futureheads. 6 years since forming, 12 record releases, 5 UK tours, 4 US tours, 3 top 20 singles and 250,000 debut albums sold worldwide, where did it all begin? After meeting at the Sunderland City Detatched Youth Project, a lottery funded music scheme for getting […]
The documented origins of AFI stretch back to 1991 when Ukiah, California, teens Davey Havok and Adam Carson formed the band and released a debut split 7″ the following year with fellow Ukiah High students Loose Change (whose lineup at the time featured future AFI guitarist Jade Puget) titled• um• Dork (hey, they were in […]
