Nominees announced Thursday in top categories for the 50th Annual Grammy Awards:
Record of the Year: "Irreplaceable," Beyonce; "The Pretender," Foo Fighters; "Umbrella,"...
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Is GirlFrenzy more like a GirlFizzle?
The one-off daylong music festival, set to take place in October and feature an all-estrogen lineup of singers, has been indefinitely...
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Turns out the Spice Girls don't have a monopoly on girl-powered concerts this fall.
Sheryl Crow, Avril Lavigne and Fiona Apple have teamed up for a new femme-fueled...
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Somewhere in her
evolution, Natalie Cole grew a bit confusing.
A pop-savvy brand of strong-female soul ballads and the
ultra-positive "This Will Be" gave her instant cred...
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As he did for the Grammy-winning
soundtrack to 2004's "Garden State," actor/director Zach Braff
has rounded up a range of rock acts for the soundtrack to his
new film, "The...
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As she's gotten older, the stage has become a far more comfortable place for Fiona Apple.
Back in the early 1990s, when Apple was a sultry teen sensation in a world of...
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Singer/songwriter Fiona Apple and
Montreal rock band Arcade Fire are among the finalists for the
inaugural New Pantheon Awards, which continue the mission of
the defunct...
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The emancipation of Mariah
Carey from all things that
Glitter seems
complete.
The songbird soared with eight
Grammy nominations
Thursday, including an Album of the...
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Conflicts: We've all got
'em -- those religious, parental and societal messages that
occasionally cancel each other out. Some folks talk them out
with a psychiatrist, others...
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New York is in the midst of a cabaret
revival this week and rock star Fiona Apple's sister is at
center stage.
Maude Maggart is one of more than 100 cabaret...
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It's good to be right, but it's even better to be right at number
one.
Nickelback's new album, All the Right Reasons,
just became the band's first ever chart-topper....
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Several hundred Fiona Apple fans attended a rare in-store appearance by the elusive singer-songwriter Thursday night. Apple performed a 45-minute set, with most of the...
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In times of war, tragedy and turmoil, many hit songs have eloquently expressed a collective angst. But even though Hurricane Katrina has already inspired several musical...
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Eclectic music producer Jon Brion
remains largely under the radar and unfazed despite being a
central figure in one of the year's biggest hits and one of the
record...
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When Fiona Apple first heard about the Web site freefiona.com, she remembers feeling flattered, overwhelmed — and guilty.
That's because while fans were mounting an...
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Singer/songwriter Fiona Apple,
who just released her first album in six years Tuesday, will
launch a three-week tour November 22 in Portland, Ore.
The dates come in...
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Bettye LaVette landed a top 10
R&B hit with her very first single. In 1962, when she was only
16, her "My Man, He's a Loving Man" peaked at No. 7.
The following 43 years,...
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Jay-Z shot. Trent Reznor spinning upside down. David Bowie teetering on a rooftop. These are just a few of the iconic images Mark Romanek has fashioned as an elite music...
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Fiona Apple has been sprung.
The angsty
singer-songwriter's long-gestating Extraordinary Machine will hit
stores Oct. 4, her label, Epic Records, announced Monday,...
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Fiona Apple is ending her curiously long hiatus from the business of making music. A year after 11 tracks were leaked onto the Internet, drawing praise from critics and...
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In 2000, the Churchills thought they had it made. The New York-based pop band had landed a major-label record deal and were fixed up with producer Mark Hart, former...
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When Casey Stratton was a struggling singer-songwriter a few years ago, he had idealistic notions about artistic integrity. High on his list of what would jeopardize it:...
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Fiona Apple fans wondering when the artist's third CD would see the light of day might want to keep an eye on one enthusiast's online petition.
Dave Muscato, a Missouri...
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The third chart entry proves to
be the charm for Mario, who rises to a new career peak on the
Billboard Hot 100 with "Let Me Love You" (3rd Street/J). The
single moves 3-2,...
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Like that smiling skydiver on the deodorant ads? Can't get enough of his sunny joshing on MTV's "Pimp My Ride"?
Prepare to meet the cunning, sometimes caustic musician...
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Steve Jobs , Bono
and the Edge Tuesday ushered in what Apple's CEO and the two
members of U2 called a new era of digital music.
Before performing two songs from the band's...
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Johnny Cash's guitars, his black
leather boots and a tin cup from Folsom Prison are among the
memorabilia from the late country music star displayed on
Tuesday ahead of an...
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Singer-songwriter Nellie McKay dropped
out of music college with failing grades two years ago but now
the precocious 19-year-old has a double album climbing the
charts amid...
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The first time OutKast got a Grammy nomination for best album, in 2002, hip-hop's eclectic duo was upstaged by the old-time bluegrass of "O Brother, Where Art Thou?"
Two...
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Music pirates beware. Two music giants have just announced plans
to form a powerful alliance in the fight to save the recording
industry.
New York-based Sony Corp...
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The Man in Black is reaching out to fans from beyond the grave.
Next month Johnny
Cash not only becomes the focus of an all-star
concert, but also a just-announced...
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Fiona Apple continues to tour in support of her latest album,
When The Pawn..., and tonight she plays at Denver's Fillmore Auditorium. Apple has announced a second set of...
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Calling it her "worst stage nightmare" and "a very un-musical spectacle" that "needed to be aborted," Fiona Apple apologized profusely for her performance in New York last...
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One night after nearly imploding onstage during a New York City gig marred by bad sound, tantrums, and tears (LAUNCH, 3/1),
Fiona Apple performed without a hint of...
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At New York City's Roseland Ballroom on Wednesday (March 1), talk was still emanating from all corners about
Fiona Apple's temper tantrum the night before
(LAUNCH, 3/1). ...
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Fiona Apple turned a performance marred by sound problems into an emotional train wreck that included tears, apologies, and threats toward music journalists in attendance...
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Britney Spears, Fiona Apple, Cher, and Celine Dion appear on Mr. Blackwell's "Worst-Dressed Women of 1999" list, but it was Cher's negative fashion sense that was "strong...
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Today (Nov. 9) marks the arrival of singer Fiona Apple's sophomore album, When The Pawn Hits The Conflicts He Thinks Like A King What He Knows Throws The Blows When He Goes...
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Courtesy of RockOnTV (www.rockontv.com):
NBC:
The Tonight Show With Jay Leno - Fiona Apple guests. (To read a Fiona Apple feature, click here.)
SYN*:
Oprah - Mariah Carey...
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NBC:
Late Night With Conan O'Brien - Cafe Tacuba guests.
MUCH USA:
VideoFlow - Features an interview with Public Enemy. (To read a...
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When Fiona Apple released her debut album, Tidal, a few years back, there were some who criticized her. The reasons still evade Apple, but she takes pride in the fact that...
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Fiona Apple will release the follow-up to her smash debut, Tidal, on Nov. 9. It's been a while since she's released an album, almost as long as the title of her new...
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LAUNCH is offering free downloads of the Fiona Apple tracks "Fast As You Can" and "Love Ridden," from her upcoming album, When The Pawn Hits..., due Nov. 9.
The tracks are...
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Courtesy of RockOnTV (www.rockontv.com):
HBO:
The Sissy Duckling - Once upon a time, a duck named Elmer didn't want to play sports, he liked to play make-believe instead....
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The first single from Fiona Apple's upcoming album When The Pawn Hits... is titled "Fast As You Can." However, fans may have a hard time saying the full title of the album,...
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The first new recordings by pop waif Fiona Apple since she achieved stardom with Tidal will be included on the Pleasantville soundtrack, which is due September 29 on Work...
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And you thought Fiona
Apple would be most likely to say something outrageous about the Grammys.
As it turns out, Grammy head Mike Greene's angry words to a mayoral aide...
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The premier compilation disc of the year arrives in stores February 10th, offering 11 tracks covering the year's top artists as selected by a group of their peers.
We...
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Given her speech at the MTV Awards and her somewhat loopy interview in the current Rolling Stone, you'd think Fiona Apple would have been the one to stick foot-in-mouth at...
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Other nominations announced yesterday for the 40th annual Grammy Awards:
BEST FEMALE POP VOCAL PERFORMANCE:
"Butterfly" - Mariah Carey, "Where Have All The Cowboys Gone?" -...
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Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds was the leading nominee for the 40th annual Grammy Awards, garnering eight bids, including Album Of The Year.
The nominations, announced...
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Actor Kelsey Grammer will host the 40th annual Grammy Awards, according to sponsors the National Academy Of Recording Arts & Sciences. The three-time Emmy-winner, whose...
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Fiona Apple, Clint Black, Deana Carter, Shawn Colvin, Sammy Hagar, Wyclef Jean, Diana Krall and Usher will read the nominations for the 40th annual Grammy Awards at a New...
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Sister Hazel, Diana Krall, the Mavericks, Fiona Apple, Keiko Matsui, Jeff Foxworthy, Linda Eder and Ricardo Lemvo are among the artists set for the 40th annual National...
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Jane's Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro wanted to make a lasting impression on songbird Fiona Apple at last Friday's Almost Acoustic Christmas show in L.A., so in addition...
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Newly madeover cover girl Courtney Love was the big winner at this year's VH1 Fashion Awards, which were hosted by smooth-talker Harry
Connick, Jr. and up-and-coming...
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To commemorate Thanksgiving, spindly spitfire Fiona
Apple is protesting the butchering of Butterball turkeys on behalf of People For The Ethical Treatment Of Animals...
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Not that you won't get plenty more chances to find this out for yourself when MTV re-runs the MTV Video Music Awards 50 times a day for the next six months, but in case you...
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Spindly spitfire Fiona Apple posted an open letter yesterday on Sony Music's web site to justify her somewhat rude, or at least confusing, acceptance speech at the MTV...
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