Wednesday, November 16, 2005 - Posts
Rap stars came to court on Wednesday
in support of two rap mogul brothers accused of living up to
their gangster image by laundering drug money in a case
blurring the image of rap and the drug underworld.
Read More
The
chart-topping R&B superstars gave what was billed as their swan-song
performance Tuesday on Jimmy Kimmel Live.
Read More
Bill Bray, a former Los Angeles
police officer who served as Michael Jackson's longtime
security chief and became a father figure to the onetime child
star, has died at the age of 80.
Read More
Carlos Santana has never been one to follow the record industry map to success.
Read More
Bill Bray, a former Los Angeles
police officer who served as Michael Jackson's longtime
security chief and became a father figure to the onetime child
star, has died at the age of 80.
Read More
The
chart-topping R&B superstars gave what was billed as their swan-song
performance Tuesday on Jimmy Kimmel Live.
Read More
NEW YORK (Billboard) - The diva has returned to the disco.
Read More
More than two months after Hurricane Katrina, all 21-year-old trumpeter Terrell Batiste has is a temporary home, a donated horn and a chance to eke out a living by playing New Orleans music in other parts of America.
Read More
Country star Kenny Chesney topped
the U.S. pop album charts for the second time this year, while
the soundtrack for rapper 50 Cent's new movie opened at No. 2
and Neil Diamond's acoustic set bowed at No. 4.
Read More
A rap music mogul and his brother laundered shopping bags of drug money for a notorious crack kingpin who was masquerading as a music executive, a federal prosecutor told jurors Wednesday.
Read More
A child is killed by a land mine every 18 minutes, guests were told at the fifth annual Adopt-a-Minefield benefit gala hosted by Paul McCartney and his wife, Heather Mills McCartney.
Read More
Stevie Wonder will be honored at the
December 10 Grammy Jam in Los Angeles, a charity event that
will also feature performances by India.Arie, Eric Benet,
Herbie Hancock, and Aaron Neville, among others.
Read More
Michael Jackson has stirred a small controversy in the United Arab Emirates by entering the ladies room in a shopping mall.
Read More
Talk about a comeback kid.
Read More
The chart-topping R&B
superstars gave their swan-song performance Tuesday on Jimmy Kimmel
Live.
Read More
The
country songbird picked up a trio of trophies at the CMA Awards Tuesday
night, including Album of the Year for There's More Where That Came
From and Single of the Year for "I May Hate Myself In the
Morning."
Read More
For Big & Rich, the CMAs in New York was more than unusual — it was out of this world.
Read More
It's only rock 'n' roll — but they didn't like it.
Read More
Barry Manilow re-teams with longtime
collaborator Clive Davis on his new album, "The Greatest Songs
of the Fifties," which revisits hit songs from the pre-rock 'n'
roll era.
Read More
The man who murdered John Lennon
says in newly released audiotapes of interviews he gave more
than a decade ago that his compulsion to kill the rock icon was
like a "runaway train" and that "nothing could have stopped
me."
Read More
Singers Lee Ann Womack and Keith Urban
were the big winners at the Country Music Awards on Tuesday,
held for the first time outside Nashville and transplanted to
New York, a city that does not even have a country radio
station.
Read More
Music company EMI Group PLC posted a 47 percent decline in profit for the first half of its fiscal year Wednesday but reported its first sales growth in five years due to a jump in digital downloads and strong releases from bands Coldplay, Gorillaz and
Read More
The hype may have faded around New
York rock quintet the Strokes, but the band is aiming to create
some buzz during the promo tour for its third album, "First
Impressions of Earth."
Read More
Music publisher Sony BMG, yielding to
consumer concern, said on Wednesday it was recalling music CDs
containing copy-protection software that acts like virus
software and hides deep inside a computer.
Read More
Singers Lee Ann Womack and Keith Urban
were the big winners at the Country Music Awards on Tuesday,
held for the first time outside Nashville and transplanted to
New York, a city that does not even have a country radio
station.
Read More
Winners at Tuesday's 39th annual CMA Awards:
Read More
The CMA Awards held its first shindig in New York with its country twang intact Tuesday night, as Madison Square Garden was transformed into the Grand Ole Opry with rootsy performances from Lee Ann Womack, Gretchen Wilson, Sara Evans and Rascal Flatts
Read More
Barry Manilow re-teams with longtime
collaborator Clive Davis on his new album, "The Greatest Songs
of the Fifties," which revisits hit songs from the pre-rock 'n'
roll era.
Read More
A Chicago jury has returned a guilty verdict in a sex-tape case
involving R. Kelly. Just not that sex-tape case.
Read More
The time of reckoning is at hand for Murder Inc.'s mastermind.
Read More
The
conservative National Legal and Policy Center has filed a complaint
against the rapper over his Vote or Die/Citizen Change campaign during
the 2004 presidential elections.
Read More
With its country twang intact, the CMA Awards held its first shindig in New York Tuesday night, with Madison Square Garden transformed into the Grand Ole Opry with rootsy performances by Lee Ann Womack, Sara Evans and Rascal Flatts.
Read More
Jazz pianist Dave Brubeck is famed
for crossing the globe to play odd venues and celebrate a
diverse series of events, and his latest show is no exception
-- a concert marking the 60th anniversary of the Nuremberg War
Crimes Tribunal.
Read More
The man who murdered John Lennon
says in newly released audiotapes of interviews he gave more
than a decade ago that his compulsion to kill the rock icon was
like a "runaway train" and that "nothing could have stopped
me."
Read More
Latin star Juan Gabriel was injured
after fall from the stage Sunday at Houston's Toyota Center,
just a few minutes into the start of his concert there.
Read More
More than a little bit of
country came to the city Monday night, when the Grand Ole Opry
appeared at New York's Carnegie Hall as part of its 80th
anniversary celebration.
Read More
Billy Joel has begun confirming
dates for his first solo tour in more than six years.
Read More
Some of the biggest names in modern
rock, including Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, Coldplay, the
White Stripes, System Of A Down and Korn, have signed on for
Los Angeles radio station KROQ-FM's annual Almost Acoustic Xmas
show.
Read More