Last year, sibling trio Hanson spent time lecturing performance and entertainment law students in college about its bumpy five-year arc of major-label heartache, chronicled in the documentary “Strong Enough to Break.”
But this year, fans can expect talking, walking and rocking from the band in the form of a new album, “The Walk,” as well […]
Baby Spice is about to pass on her moniker to someone more suitable.
Former Spice Girl Emma Bunton announced Friday she’s expecting her first child with her boyfriend of more than eight years, British boy-band alum Jade Jones.
“We are so happy, it’s unbelievable news!” Bunton and Jones said in a posting on her Website. “We’re really […]
The Police have booked rehearsal space for their upcoming reunion tour, according to reports.
The news seems to confirm claims that the band are on the brink of reforming, more than 20 years since they last played live.
Sting, Andy Summers, and Stewart Copeland are expected to reunite at Lions Gate Studios in Vancouver in the coming […]
David Darnell Brown, a rapper known as Young Buck who records on 50 Cent’s G-Unit Record label, was arrested on a warrant for failing to appear in court on a previous driving violation, police said.
The 25-year-old was stopped Friday after an officer said he observed Brown weaving in his black Cadillac Escalade near downtown Nashville.
Brown […]
B.B. King was discharged from a Galveston hospital Saturday following treatment for a fever and was “back to his old self,” a spokeswoman for his management agency said.
The 81-year-old, Grammy-winning bluesman was “feeling fabulous,” said Tina France, vice president of Lieberman Management of New York.
King had been scheduled to perform Thursday at the Grand Opera […]
Jennifer Lopez catapulted her acting career with her starring role in “Selena,” a biopic on the Latin Tejano star who sang in Spanish and was on the verge of an English-language crossover prior to her death. Ten years after “Selena,” and following a multiplatinum recording career in English, Lopez is ready to sing en Espanol […]
Chinese Internet search service Baidu.com Inc. said on Tuesday it was launching an advertising-supported online music service in mainland China with Britain’s EMI Music.
The service will provide a stream of free online music, the company said, but would only include Chinese-language music, which people could listen to but not download.
EMI and Baidu would also […]
When trying to quantify the heat surrounding the Disney Channel’s hit series “Hannah Montana” try this one on for size: The Walt Disney Records soundtrack to the show, starring Miley Cyrus as a high school student by day, pop star by night, has sold more than 1.9 million units since its release last November. It […]
Country star Tim McGraw will release his next album, featuring a pair of duets with wife Faith Hill, on March 27.
“Let It Go” (Curb Records) will be the follow-up to 2004’s “Live Like You Were Dying.” McGraw is backed by his touring band, the Dancehall Doctors, marking the group’s third appearance on his recordings. Hill […]
Some music merchandisers are alarmed by an accelerated decline in R&B sales — the broad category that also includes rap and hip-hop, Billboard magazine reports.
With the exception of new age, the smallest genre tracked by Nielsen SoundScan, R&B and rap suffered the biggest declines in 2006 of all styles of music.
R&B, with album scans of […]
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth bestowed awards on Saturday on singer Rod Stewart, soccer star Steven Gerrard and her own granddaughter - world equestrian champion Zara Phillips.
The Queen also granted medals to filmmaker Peter Greenaway, actors Hugh Laurie and Penelope Keith and authors Alexander McCall Smith and Colin Thubron in her New Year’s honours list.
Entrepreneur James Dyson, […]
A troupe of dancers in skin-colored body suits had Japanese national broadcaster NHK apologizing to viewers of its New Year’s Eve music special for what seemed to be a full-scale Janet Jackson-style wardrobe malfunction.
The dancers, who all appeared to be topless and wore skimpy bikini-style bottoms and feathered head-dresses, covered the stage during a performance […]
Looks like Tom Petty won’t back down after all. The veteran rocker says he’s not retiring, despite a Rolling Stone article in July that suggested otherwise.
Petty said 2006 was one of the most rewarding years in his career, and he expects the ride to continue in 2007.
“You never know how things are going to […]
It was more than a loss of two innovative players on the Detroit hip-hop scene.
Producer and rapper Jay Dee and rapper and label owner Proof championed Detroit music — and helped export the city’s musical imprint to a national audience.
They died within two months of each other in 2006, Jay Dee in February from complications […]
