Smashing Pumpkins Sue Virgin Records

Unfortunately, my dear Pumpkins, suing the major record label that you've been signed to for almost two decades isn't going to restore your long evaporated indie cred. Have another Pepsi and relax, Billy. "The...

Cachao Lopez, Mambo Progenitor, Dies

Israel Lopez, known as "Cachao" has passed away after a multi-decade, globe-spanning musical career characterized by breaking rules and setting trends."The legendary Cuban musician Israel López, more commonly...

Opinion: Spitzer call girl identified

 OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorIn regards to PEPs story yesterday on Ms. Dupre,the  22 year old Woman, Spitzer paid $4,000 to keep New York Governor Spitzer's "Little Governor Happy" has...

Just Let Go: Studying the Brain on Jazz

Turns out that music really can alter your brain, or at least making it can. A recently-published study tracks the activity in jazz musicians' brains as they do their thing, and it's really cool (that's the...

Trent Reznor makes $750k by giving music away

Is this a viable new model for selling music? Post a few freebies, circulate some cheap digital tunes, and then offer an ultra-mega-super-uber-deluxe package for a few hundred a piece. Where it failed for Niggy...

Bjork's Tibet Protest Offends Chinese Fans

There has been more fallout after Bjork 'declared independence' for Tibet during a concert in Shangha this week. UPDATED | March 4:"Björk is under attack after shouting "Tibet! Tibet!" at the end of her song...

Kid Rock Pleads Not Guilty to Battery

Kid Rock creeps me out. I feel like he's the kind of guy that would try to pick a fight with you for taking too long to pass him the syrup at a waffle house. Wait a minute..."Kid Rock has pleaded not guilty to a...

Jeff Healey Dies March 25, 1966 – March 2, 2008

Award Winning Jeff Healy dies of Cancer, a Cancer which took his eye sight so many years ago as a child.  One can be sure there will be many Guitar players gently weeping"."ENTERTAINMENT COLUMNIST ...

Star-Studded Obama Video Gains Momentum

UPDATED: The Huffington Post is now suggesting that the will.i.am-produced pro-Obama video could significantly impact the outcome of Super Tuesday. Do you agree?"This election cycle marks the first time when...

Edwards drops out of presidential race

"by The Times-Picayune Wednesday January 30, 2008, 7:34 AM By David Hammer and Bill Walsh Staff writers Ending his presidential bid in the same city he started it 13 months earlier, Democrat John Edwards told a crowd at the Musicians' Village in the 9th Ward today that he is...

Madonna is World's Richest Female Musician

The Material Girl does it again, raking in more than $70 million in tour earnings last year.  I wonder what would happen if Streistand, Dion, and Madonna ever went on tour together? That would be one wildly...

Shakira appeals for school aid in storm-hit Bangladesh

"Shakira, a United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) ambassador, arrived on a three-day visit to Bangladesh on Monday and toured several coastal villages.She chatted to children who lost parents and mothers who...

Moby music free for indie movie makers

More Moby in movies? I like that it's free for indie filmmakers, but isn't there enough Moby floating around in the pop culture universe?  Also, I didn't know he was a "dance musician." I thought he was...

Mexico Shocked by Musicians Killings

Mexico has real problems with out of control drug gangs who kill musicians. Journalists and polticians and anyone who gets in their way."MEXICO CITY (AP) - A wave of organized crime violence terrorizing many parts...

US rapper 50 Cent kicks off European tour with Dublin concert

"Reflecting in an interview with Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa ahead of the Dublin concert, 50 Cent said concerts in cities and countries where people do not even speak English have been key to his success as a...
 

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