Stacie Orrico has enraged the organisers of an Australian music festival by cancelling her tour of the country.
The ‘Stuck’ singer was due to headline the Australian Gospel Music Festival (AGMF) in April, but has postponed her Southern hemisphere dates and performance at the event in Toowoobma, southern Queensland.
Organisers hope to find a replacement, but […]
Powderfinger front man Bernard Fanning secretly married his Spanish girlfriend Andrea Portela Moreno over the New Year holidays.
The rocker and Moreno tied the knot in Fanning’s hometown of Brisbane, Australia.
The couple reportedly met in Spain in 2005 when Fanning was visiting in between writing and recording his debut solo album ‘Tea & Sympathy.’
October last year after successfully overcoming his drink and drug problems in rehab, and prompted speculation the band had been dropped by their label Atlantic records.
However, the three remaining members of the rock act have announced they’ve begun work recording a new album.
The material will be released by the band under a different name […]
How can you spend your summer vacation, if you’re 12 to 15: Go to “American Idol” camp.
Idol Camp, a performing arts summer camp for kids who crave more than kayaking and hiking, is opening in Massachusetts, it was announced Thursday by series creator 19 Entertainment and co-producer FremantleMedia.
The camp’s limited enrollment isn’t audition-based and won’t […]
Yoko Ono doesn’t see many parallels between today’s celebrity war protesters and her late husband John Lennon’s activism against the Vietnam War — but says that’s because the times today are so different.
“I think there are many people who want world peace and want to address it by peaceful means,” Ono told The Associated […]
A movie about Milli Vanilli is in the pipeline, according to reports emerging from Hollywood.
The film will detail the rise and fall of the late-’80s duo, who became international stars only to be exposed as pop frauds.
Jeff Nathanson, writer of Catch Me If You Can, is understood to be behind the biopic, which has the […]
Britney Spears appeared in a tattoo parlor in the San Fernando Valley with her head shaved completely bald.
Video on KABC-TV showed the newly shorn Spears with tiny tattoos on the back of her neck as she sits Friday night for a new tattoo — a pair of red and pink lips.
“She just wanted something […]
Smashing Pumpkins have announced the title and release date of their new album. Billy Corgan’s reformed rock heroes will release the follow-up to MACHINA/The Machines Of God in July.
The band’s first album in seven years is called Zeitgeist, according to a posting on the Pumpkins’ MySpace page.
There is still some confusion around the make-up of […]
Winners in major categories at the 49th AnnualGrammy Awards:
Album of the Year: “Taking the Long Way,” Dixie Chicks.
Record of the Year: “Not Ready to Make Nice,” Dixie Chicks.
Song of the Year: “Not Ready to Make Nice,” Martie Maguire, Natalie Maines, Emily Robison and Dan Wilson (Dixie Chicks).
New Artist: Carrie Underwood.
Pop Vocal Album: “Continuum,”John Mayer.
Rock Album: […]
Gnarls Barkley’s unlikely but unstoppable crossover continued at the Grammys Sunday night, where the duo won two awards.
The collaboration between Cee-Lo and Danger Mouse won best alternative music album for their “St. Elsewhere” and best urban/alternative performance for the sensational single “Crazy.” Their mature, show-stopping performance of their hit song was also one of […]
The Dixie Chicks completed a defiant comeback, winning five Grammy awards after being shunned by the American country music establishment over the group’s anti-Bush commentsleading up to the Iraq invasion.
The Texas trio won record and song of the year Sunday for the no-regrets anthem “Not Ready to Make Nice.” They also won best country album […]
The always-ambitious Fall Out Boy played three shows in three cities in three time zones yesterday! All to promote the band’s new album, Infinity On High, which arrived in stores on Tuesday. The MTV-sponsored free gigs began appropriately enough at the TRL studios in Times Square first thing in the morning, where the band […]
Reunited rock trio the Police are expected to announce a 30th anniversary world tour during a news conference in Los Angeles on Monday, the day after the group opens the
Grammy Awards.
The 11 a.m. PST press conference and “special announcement” by frontman Sting, drummer
Stewart Copeland and guitarist Andy Summers will take place at the Whisky […]
Jazz singer/pianist Norah Jones’ first album in three years opened at No. 1 on the U.S. pop charts Wednesday, but its first-week sales were less than half those of its predecessor, according to Billboard.
Observers had hoped that “Not Too Late” would provide some rare good news for the ailing music business given Jones’ broad […]
