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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Here are reviews of recently released holiday CDs:
Patti LaBelle, "Miss Patti's Christmas" (Def Soul)
When it comes to Christmas music, Patti LaBelle is almost as...
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Sensing a revolution in the way Internet traffic is managed, rock musicians find themselves in the unusual position of defending the status quo.
Independent, lesser-known...
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Ciara may have evolved, but fans still can't get enough of her goodies.
Two years ago, the Austin-born R&B songbird broke big with her Hot-100 chart-topper "Goodies."...
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As the saying goes, every time an American Idol alum becomes a star, Simon Cowell's ego gets new wings.
"We have our history together, don't we, Jennifer?" the...
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Tori Amos' radical reworking of
"Smells Like Teen Spirit" and the camp rendering of "Dancing in
the Street" by David Bowie and Mick Jagger are among the tracks
collected for...
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You may have seen the recent photos
of Bob Dylan looking uncannily like Charlie Chaplin, and his
44th album, "Modern Times," shares a title with Chaplin's 1936
classic about...
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Neko Case will release her first
studio album in almost four years next month, but the indie
roots rocker has hardly been absent from the scene in that
time.
Case spent...
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The members of Destiny's Child may have gone their separate ways,
but that didn't stop the band from picking up a pair of awards at
Tuesday's American Music Awards.
The...
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This girl is a woman now, but Cyndi Lauper still wants to have fun.
She sure was having it Monday afternoon inside the Los Angeles Shrine Auditorium, cracking jokes with...
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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...
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Cyndi Lauper, "The Body Acoustic" (Epic)
On her new disc "The Body Acoustic," 52-year-old Cyndi Lauper recasts a slew of her old hits — from "She Bop" to "True...
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ARTIST: BON JOVI
ALBUM: HAVE A NICE DAY (ISLAND)
People like Bon Jovi for its power-chord-laden songs and
Jon Bon Jovi's gravelly vocals. But the frontman has...
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Not even the World's Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Band could roll Kanye
West from the top of the charts.
The wave-making rapper's
Late Registration easily held off the new...
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Green Day's boulevard of broken dreams may soon be paved with
Moon Men statuettes.
The punk rockers led the field in
nominations for the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards...
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New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer is expected to announce today an international "payola" settlement with a major record company to limit the industry's ability to...
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They started by predicting a riot, but instead there was brotherly love at the U.S. version of the global Live 8 extravaganza.
"Right now you're watching the biggest...
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The full lineup for Live 8 in Philadelphia:
Black Eyed Peas, Bon Jovi, the Dave Matthews Band, Def Leppard, Destiny's Child, Jars of Clay, Jay-Z, Kaiser Chiefs, Toby...
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Those West End Boys are headed east end on a mission of hope.
The Pet Shop Boys have been tapped to headline the newly added
Moscow installment of Saturday's Live 8...
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Alicia Keys, the Black Eyed Peas, Josh Groban, Def Leppard and Toby Keith have been added to the lineup of Saturday's Live 8 concert in Philadelphia.
Celebrity presenters...
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All you who missed out the ticket lottery or can't swing that
last-minute fare to London to see the anticipated Pink Floyd reunion,
fear not--Live 8 is going to be live in...
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Destiny's Child and Linkin Park have been added to the lineup for the Live 8 concert in Philadelphia on July 2.
The additions were announced Thursday, one day after...
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Eight isn't nearly enough for Bob Geldof.
The charity
rocker behind the massive Live 8 shows aimed at raising awareness in
industrial countries of the problems in the...
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Rapper 50 Cent is pulling out of next month's Live 8 concert because of a scheduling conflict with his new movie.
The shooting schedule for "Get Rich or Die Tryin'" —...
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Everybody knows Bob Geldof doesn't like Mondays. He apparently
can't tolerate scalpers--or their enablers--either.
The
ex-Boomtown Rat turned charity rock icon, lashed...
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The wall has come tumbling down.
After nearly a
quarter century of acrimony, the classic lineup of Pink Floyd, including
band cofounder and creative force Roger Waters,...
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Live 8 is up to six.
Annie Lennox, Dido and Travis are
among the artists signing on to headline a sixth Live 8 concert, this
one in the Scottish city of Edinburgh,...
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Bob Geldof is at it again.
Two decades after he
masterminded Live Aid, the largest charity concert ever mounted, to
fight famine in Africa, the 58-year-old...
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Hits from Britney Spears , Jennifer
Lopez , Maroon5, Kelis and Pink are reimagined on the upcoming
compilation "Superstars Remixed," due May 10 from Sony BMG
Strategic...
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Musicians want tsunami victims to know that the tragedy has not
been forgotten.
With news coverage fading fast six weeks
after the earthquake-generated waves killed...
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The Associated Press' crack Grammy team gives their insider analysis on who's going to win on Grammy night Feb. 13 — but hey, we wouldn't bet the house on these...
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Concert-goers and performers alike sang and danced as Canadian artists such as Avril Lavigne and Sarah McLachlan took the stage for a tsunami relief fundraiser.
A...
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Madonna , Elton John , Nelly, Kenny Chesney and other musicians converged on an NBC Universal studio Saturday for a hastily arranged TV benefit concert for tsunami...
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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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The music world may have been slow to respond to the tsunami
tragedy, but a wave of upcoming events aims to help make up the
difference.
While several large-scale...
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Hip-hop rhymers, classical orchestras, church choirs, punk bands and creamy-voiced crooners from Paris to Hong Kong are taking up the fund-raising theme for victims of the...
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From Paris to Beijing, Hong Kong to London and beyond, musicians are beating the drum — literally in their case — for victims of the Asian tsunami with special...
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Veteran pop star Sir Cliff Richard ,
flamboyant singer Boy George and other British musicians plan
to release a song to raise money for victims of the devastating
Asian...
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Snoop Dogg was too hot to drop
from the top of Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart Thursday as
his hit tune "Drop It Like It's Hot" featuring Pharrell logged
a third week at...
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A trip to "The Red Light
District" scored Ludacris his second consecutive No. 1 album on
the U.S. pop charts Wednesday.
The Atlanta rapper/actor's fourth Disturbing Tha...
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The Top 20 Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows in North America. The previous week's ranking is...
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The holiday mood at independent
music retailers is one of cautious optimism, despite Nielsen
SoundScan numbers showing that overall sales at U.S. indie
merchants were down...
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Sarah McLachlan 's new DVD/CD combo offers nothing new. But if nothing else, "Afterglow Live" is a bargain. For about $20 or less, the two-disc set comes with a 15-track...
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Chicago rapper Kanye West, who
survived a near-fatal car crash to score one of the biggest
hits of the year with his debut album, led an eclectic field of
commercially...
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Kanye West was "robbed" at the American Music Awards. On
Tuesday, he found his reward, nominated for a field-best 10 Grammy
Awards.
The rapper's The College...
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With a new live album in stores,
Sarah McLachlan has confirmed plans to take to the road again
in the spring.
The Canadian singer/songwriter will launch a North...
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Infinity Broadcasting is not
commenting on a New York Times story that claims the company
fired its top Rochester, N.Y., programer for accepting gifts
from record...
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With Ashlee Simpson in the news
this week following a disastrous lip-synching appearance on
"Saturday Night Live," Canadian pop singer Avril Lavigne says
it's "pathetic"...
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Rapper Eminem and baritone Josh Groban now have something in common: They are among the nominees for favorite male singer in the People's Choice Awards.
Nominees for the...
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All-star performances and emotional
tributes to hip-hop pioneers highlighted the first VH1 Hip Hop
Honors, Oct. 3 at the Hammerstein Ballroom here. The show
premieres Oct....
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Painful life experiences often
force people to become experts in areas they wish they knew
nothing about.
Such is the case with entertainment reporter/personality
Leeza...
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U.S. antitrust authorities on
Wednesday approved a deal for record companies Sony Music and
BMG to merge, creating a rival to market leader Universal
Music.
The U.S....
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Irish rock band U2 might rush
release its upcoming album as a legal download on Apple's
iTunes music store if unfinished material from a CD copy that
went missing ends up...
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Reports of the demise of Arista
Records have been premature.
The label -- which has lost many of its superstar acts to
other BMG labels in recent months as part of its...
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Rhino Records, best-known for
its "retro" music catalog, has launched a pair of new-media
initiatives in the past two weeks.
Rhino, the Burbank, Calif.-based subsidiary of...
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WHO: Sarah McLachlan . The Lilith Fair founder took six years off to raise a family. Now the emotive Canadian-born singer-songwriter is back to breathe new life into her...
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Are you better off than you were
four years ago? If you asked acoustic piano manufacturers and
retailers, the answer most likely would be no.
Aside from being a musical...
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BMG North America said Wednesday it has begun folding its music labels into two record companies to cut costs and focus more resources on artist development. The...
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BMG North America on Wednesday said
it reorganized its U.S. labels and operations and put Arista
Records under the RCA Music Group umbrella.
Arista had been without a head...
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RCA Victor Group's rebirth as a
stand-alone division of RCA Records is a harbinger of an
impending massive reorganization at sister label Arista
Records, according to...
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Sting, Annie Lennox , Alison Krauss,
Elvis Costello and T Bone Burnett will perform nominated songs
during the 76th annual Academy Awards on Feb. 29.
No other performers...
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Clive Davis is back on top again.
Just four years
after he was unceremoniously ousted
as president and CEO of Arista Records in favor of Antonio "L.A." Reid,
Arista...
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Opposition to the proposed
merger of Sony Music and BMG is mounting in Europe.
Several organizations and individuals are expected to
object to the merger plan presented by...
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Antonio "L.A." Reid, who took the helm at Arista Records nearly four years ago and oversaw platinum successes from acts including OutKast, Pink and Avril Lavigne , has left...
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Here's another stat for shot-nine-times rapper 50
Cent's collection: One. As in, number one.
The
27-year-old's solo debut, Get
Rich or Die Tryin', was 2003's...
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Everything old is new again.
For nine weeks, beginning in the Billboard for the week of
Oct. 4, remixes of Elvis Presley 's "Rubberneckin"' and the
Rolling Stones'...
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Complete list of nominees in 105 categories announced Thursday for the 46th annual Grammy Awards, to be presented Feb. 8 in Los Angeles:
1. Record of the Year: "Crazy in...
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Jay-Z sure knows how to make
an exit.
The retiring rapper is going out on top, as his
swan song, The
Black Album, beat out five other huge new releases last week...
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Publishing executive John Rollins, who witnessed the infancy of Vibe and Spin magazines, had a revelation one day when he dropped a Buena Vista Social Club album into his CD...
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Toby Keith knows how to shock 'em. Despite being the biggest
loser at last week's Country
Music Association Awards, Keith wound up the biggest winner on the
album chart.
...
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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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Talk about a photo finish. OutKast, Rod Stewart and Clay Aiken
ended the weekly album chart derby in a virtual dead heat, with fewer
than 750 copies separating the three.
...
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Sting, Sarah McLachlan , Eric Clapton
and Barbra Streisand are among the artists who have donated
songs to a new compilation aimed at raising funds for Save...
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Six years is a long time between
studio albums -- but sometimes life gets in the way.
Canadian pop powerhouse Sarah McLachlan actually spent
about 2-1/2 years working on...
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Sarah McLachlan is scheduled to perform at the City Of Hope Spirit Of Life event on Thursday (October 9) in Los Angeles, California. The charity gala, which will honor the...
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Sarah McLachlan's "Fallen" is the first single from her first new studio album in six years, Afterglow. The track is receiving considerable radio airplay, and is the Number...
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After several years away from the public eye, Sarah McLachlan will return with an album of all new material in November. The first single from the as-of-yet untitled release...
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Avril Lavigne, Sum 41, and Sarah McLachlan are just a few of the artists who will help their home country of Canada, and especially the city of Toronto, by performing a...
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Avril Lavigne, Sum 41, and Sarah McLachlan are just a few of the artists who will help their home country of Canada, and especially the city of Toronto, by performing a...
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For The Kids, featuring children's music by popular rock acts such as Sarah McLachlan, Cake, and Five For Fighting, arrived in stores Tuesday (November 5) from Nettwerk...
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Sarah McLachlan will make a brief return to the spotlight early next month with a version of the Kermit The Frog-sung Muppets' classic, "The Rainbow Connection." The song...
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Five of Canada's leading musicians--Sarah McLachlan, Bryan Adams, the Barenaked Ladies, Chantal Kreviazuk, and Jann Arden--will perform in a landmark October 10 concert...
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Multiplatinum recording artist and Lilith Fair concert founder Sarah McLachlan has another title to lay claim to: Mom. The Canadian singer-songwriter gave birth to her first...
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Songs previously unreleased in the United States by Coldplay, Sarah McLachlan, and Dido will be included on the soundtrack to the sci-fi teen television drama, Roswell, due...
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Sarah McLachlan has written a plea to the United States government in support of People For The Ethical Treatment Of Animals (PETA) and the plight of several polar bears...
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Paula Cole, Sarah McLachlan, and Melissa Etheridge are the big guns for Friday night's (April 6) Rock For Choice benefit at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles.
Cole...
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Sometime Fleetwood Mac frontwoman Stevie Nicks is poised to release Trouble In Shangri-La, her first solo album since 1994's Street Angel. The album is slated for a May 1...
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Sarah McLachlan, Dido, and Carly Simon join Sixpence None The Richer vocalist Leigh Nash on the soundtrack to the film Bounce. Others to be featured include Beth Orton,...
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Songs by Sarah McLachlan and Cheryl Wheeler will be removed from a controversial "training" video that featured the aftermath of last year's Columbine High School tragedy,...
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Sarah McLachlan's record label Arista Records has released a statement demanding that her song "I Will Remember You" be removed from a videotape created by a firefighter in...
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Sarah McLachlan was among 81 Canadians to be appointed to the Order of Canada on Tuesday (Jan. 11). The Order of Canada is the nation's highest honor; it seeks to...
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It has been quite a run for Sarah McLachlan, who rose to prominence in the second half of this decade through her wistful rock and as the woman in charge of Lilith Fair,...
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Guitar master Carlos Santana
is not an artist normally mentioned in the genre of alternative rock, but his 10 Grammy nominations today (Jan. 4) -- tops for all artists...
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A British Columbia Supreme Court Judge has dismissed claims by plaintiff Daryl Neudorf that he co-wrote songs on Sarah McLachlan's first album, Touch, which was released in...
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Shania Twain and Lilith Fair founder Sarah McLachlan were the big winners on Monday (Nov. 8) at the 1999 SOCAN Awards.
Three songs written by Twain and her husband Robert...
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Multiplatinum singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan is making a foray into another entertainment medium. The Lilith Fair founder is taking a stab as a book author, along with...
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Grammy Award-winner Sarah McLachlan is featured on the soundtrack to the new computer-animated film, Toy Story 2, which stars Tom Hanks and Tim Allen.
In the film,...
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Paul McCartney, Ellen Degeneres, Alec Baldwin, Jamie Lee Curtis, Brian McKnight, Sarah McLachlan, Lisa Rinna, Harry Hamlin, Anne Heche, Gillian Anderson, Kevin Nealon, and...
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Sarah McLachlan, along with special guest DJ Perry Farrell, the Flys, Remy Zero, Leah Andreone, Jaded, the Frias Brothers, the Toledo Show, and other "special guests" are...
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Lilith Fair will close its doors for good after tonight's show in Edmonton, Alberta. Tour organizer and headliner Sarah McLachlan hopes that a lot of former Lilith...
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Yesterday (Aug. 19) in a joint announcement at the Lilith Fair concert at the New World Music Theater in Chicago, Marilyn Bergman, president of the ASCAP Foundation, and...
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Pop sensation Christina Aguilera has canceled two of her four scheduled dates on the Lilith Fair tour. Replacing her today (Aug. 10) at the Polaris Amphitheater in...
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Jewel's planned performance live in Rockefeller Center as part of NBC's Today Show Outdoor Concert Series was cancelled out of respect for the John F. Kennedy Jr. memorial...
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On Thursday (July 8) in Vancouver, British Columbia, Lilith Fair '99 will kick off, marking the last go-around for the tour Sarah McLachlan founded three years ago.
The...
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Sarah McLachlan's lawyer laid into the testimony of one of the key expert witnesses for Darryl Neudorf, the man suing McLachlan for credit and money for his work on her...
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Pop music fans have learned over the last few years that summer is synonymous with at least two things--hot-selling soundtracks and Lilith Fair-related success stories....
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First it was Rock For Life (LAUNCH, 5/26), now it's Jerry Falwell who is taking shots at Sarah McLachlan's Lilith Fair tour.
In the June issue of the National Liberty...
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Rock For Life, an anti-abortion organization, is urging consumers not to buy the recently released Lilith Fair, A Celebration Of Women In Music, Volume 2 and Volume 3,...
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Beginning on Monday (May 10), Lilith Fair and Ticketmaster will give fans the exclusive opportunity to purchase up to four advance Lilith Fair concert tickets when they...
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Lilith Fair founder and hit singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan is in court in Vancouver battling a lawsuit filed by a musician who claims that he wrote four songs on her...
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Believe it or not, there is a pop music connection to the Starr Report. It seems that Monica Lewinsky provided President Clinton with some of her favorite songs in a note...
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The last time Sarah McLachlan made headlines it was because she had to sit out a Lilith Fair date amid rumors that she was pregnant (myLAUNCH, 7/9). This evening, McLachlan...
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Contrary to rumors that circulated following Sarah McLachlan's decision not to perform at a July 5 Lilith Fair date in Columbus, Ohio, the singer is not...
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All Eyez On Me, the 1996 double-album by late rapper 2Pac, has been certified for sales of 9 million copies by the Recording Industry Association Of America, making it the...
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Thanks to some girl power from Mother Nature, Portland, Ore.'s perennial rain clouds parted just a few hours before the opening of the 1998 Lilith Fair tour Friday at Civic...
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The most successful package tour of last year, the Lilith Fair, kicks off today at 2pm at Civic Stadium in Portland, Ore. Artists on the opening-day line-up include
Erykah...
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Sarah McLachlan will perform four songs in New York's Bryant Park June 1st as part of a special free concert tied into Lilith Fair. The performance is presented by one of...
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The 1997 Consumer profile has been released by the Recording Industry Association Of America, the trade group that does all the muckety-mucking statistics for the major...
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Sarah McLachlan was the queen of this year's Juno Awards, winning four honors, including Album Of The Year (for Surfacing) and Single Of The Year (for "Building A...
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The big Grammy winners last night were Shawn Colvin, who in a bit of a surprise swept the Song Of The Year and Record Of The Year categories, and Bob Dylan, who claimed...
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Bob Dylan, Fleetwood Mac, Erykah Badu, the Blues Brothers, Paula Cole, Shawn Colvin, Wyclef Jean, Aretha Franklin, R. Kelly, Sarah McLachlan and Will Smith have been added...
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(2/4/98) -Arista Records will release a double-album culled from last year's Lilith Fair on 4/28th, about two months before the start of the all-female festival's 1998 tour...
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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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