Slash Action Figure Pictures Released

Guns 'n Roses sang 'nothing lasts forever' but maybe if you look after him guitarist Slash will! Well at least the action figure of him that will be on sale in Febuary will - and if you can resist playing with him -...

Great Gig in the Sky - Richard Wright of Pink Floyd dies **update**

***10/7/08 BBC Radio tribute "A radio tribute entitled 'Remember A Day: Richard Wright In His Own Words' runs on BBC Radio 2 in the UK this Saturday, 11th October, at 7.00 PM. Including his last ever radio...

Aguilera does exclusive deal with Target

This seems like a new trend that artists and retailers are setting where their albums are sold exclusively through one retailer. I understand how this benefits the retailers as customers are forced into their stores...

Mamma Mia! Opening of ABBA Museum Delayed

Don't despair, ABBA fans, you'll still get your museum of band memorabilia, it just won't be as early as June 2009. In the interim, you can satisfy your ongoing cravings with a dose of ABBA on Broadway or ABBA at the...

MySpace Music: the iTunes Killer?

MySpace began a digital music sales battle with iTunes Thursday when it launched MySpace Music — a "music service formed by the world's second largest social network and all four of the largest recording...

Obama Soundtrack to feature Kanye West and more

This sounds Obamasistible! Pro-Barack rockers, rappers, and singers such as Stevie Wonder, Kanye West, John Legend, Jill Scott, and Sheryl Crow have contributed songs to the album "Yes We Can: Voices of a Grassroots...

Sarah McLachlan: Fumbling Towards Divorce

Having spent 11 years working on building a mystery, holding on and holding it in, with husband Ashwin Sood, Canadian singer Sarah McLachlan has announced that she and Sood are separating. "Canadian pop singer Sarah...

Blogger Arrested Over Leaked Guns N' Roses Songs

It's a criminally tough being a music blogger, isn't it? Always on the hunt for the latest remix, always digging for the dopest download, and ever searching for the most exclusive of mp3s...the leaked album in...

China Blocks Access to iTunes Store

China has blocked access to the entire iTunes store, apparently, because of one controversial album: Songs for Tibet.This is further evidence (as if any were needed), that any suggestion of 'free speech' in China is...

Muxtape Shut Down by RIAA Issues

Muxtape, our favourite office music mixtape source here at NP (and Wired's too apparently), has been shut down by the RIAA. UPDATE | 16:44 PST - The RIAA responds and states that Muxtape is Hosting "Illegal...

New Jonas Brothers Album Headed for #1

I'm obviously out of the tween pop cultural loop if I'm not up on the latest JoBro news, but I've just learned that their new album, A Little Bit Longer, is projected to sell more than 700,000 copies in its first...

Englishman wins Irish race case

Wow, this is a new one. An Englishman has been awarded 20,000 euros ($30,000) because he says he was taunted by his Irish coworkers while working as a pipe fitter in Ireland. He claims that they called him "the Brit" and would consistently recomend that he be sent in for...

Songs about Money (and Happiness?): Kitch pop by Les Parisiennes: L'argent ne...

As I was starting the Grassroots campaign to get Votes for my Consumed to Thrifty Panel at South by Southwest, singer Samantha Murphy got a thread going on the Pholist, the topic: Songs about Money. I did not have a chance to jump in the conversation early, many of my first...

Delaware Festival Honors Bob Marley & Mother

The 14th Annual People's Festival drew thousands from all over the US east coast on Saturday to Wilmington's Tubman-Garrett Riverfront Park to honor the memory of the the mother of Reggae greatest musician, Bob...

Stones Quit EMI and Roll to Universal

The Rolling Stones have followed the lead of other uber-artists like Radiohead and Paul McCartney by giving the boot to EMI and rolling over to a new deal with Universal. As the remaining major labels continue...

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