If Led Zeppelin tours in 2008, it won't be during May: Singer Robert Plant has reserved that month for a European jaunt with Alison Krauss.
Plant, fresh off a hugely...
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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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Arthur Lee, the eccentric
singer/guitarist with influential 1960s rock band Love, has
died in a Memphis hospital after a battle with leukemia, his
manager said on Friday. He...
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Musician Jeff Buckley is
getting the biopic treatment.
Writer-director Brian Jun, whose "Steel City" was nominated
for the grand jury prize at January's Sundance Film...
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Guess who's still alive?
After a nearly four-year break
from recording, Pearl Jam has announced plans to release its eighth
official studio album on May 2, followed by...
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The surviving members of legendary rock band Led Zeppelin have been invited to the land of ice and snow to collect Sweden's most prestigious music award and a check for 1...
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After weeks of doubts, Sao
Paulo's mayor had agreed to allow U.S. rockers Pearl Jam to
perform in the Brazilian city's biggest stadium.
More than 40,000 fans are expected...
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Do rock stars really need to learn how to scream? It's doubtful Robert Plant needed coaching to shriek "baaaaay-beeeeey," or that Zack de la Rocha ever needed a lesson. But...
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Upcoming celebrity benefits to raise money for relief efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina:
• Kevin Smith is holding an online auction on his Web site,...
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Robert Plant is donating proceeds from sales of a four-song CD to an Arizona-based charitable organization that aids people in remote regions of Ethiopia, Mali and...
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Nelson Mandela joined some of
the world's top musicians on Saturday in pressing the rich
world to act against AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa.
"We live in a world where the...
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Nelson Mandela and international music stars pressed the world's richest nations to save lives with increased action against AIDS and poverty at a benefit concert under the...
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The Dave Matthews Band did it again.
The jam-rock kings
beat out nerd-rock kings Weezer to land the number one spot on
Billboard's Top 200 album chart for the week...
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Outside of being the title of his newest release, "Mighty Rearranger" serves fairly well as a neat synopsis of Robert Plant's career evolution.
After all, of all the blues...
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Elton John has found Sanctuary.
The British pop icon
has agree to sell Twenty-First Artists Ltd., the management company he
co-owns, to Sanctuary Group, a British based...
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If the 19th Annual South by Southwest Music Conference & Festival
is any indication, things are still big in Texas.
The Austin
confab starts Wednesday, with thousands...
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Sometimes, it takes a lifetime to be recognized.
Led
Zeppelin and Janis Joplin--who amazingly never won a competitive
Grammy--lead the list of recipients of this year's...
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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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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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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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Given that it's been blown wide open that Ashlee Simpson lip-synchs, a New York group is offering her fans the chance to try what they feel is "real" music.
HOPE, or...
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Hundreds of fans
joined friends and family on Friday for the funeral service of
John Peel, the legendary disc jockey credited with transforming
Britain's popular music...
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Former Led Zeppelin frontman Robert
Plant will deliver the keynote address at the South by
Southwest Music and Media Conference in Austin on March 17.
He will also...
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Violinist Rachel Barton Pine is on a quest to spread classical music. She goes on rock stations and plays heavy metal songs on her Guarneri violin, then throws in a little...
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Actor and blues aficionado Dan Aykroyd has teamed with radio producer Ben Manilla to write
"Elwood's Blues: Interviews With the Blues Legends & Stars,"
due Nov. 1 from...
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The much-anticipated
music DVD from Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page and Robert Plant , "No
Quarter: Unledded," is set to hit retail selves Oct. 26,
preceded the night before by a...
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Jimmy Page hasn't yet made it up the stairway to heaven, but he's the first to reach the new British Walk of Fame.
The former Led Zeppelin guitarist cast his hand prints...
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The long-awaited DVD of former Led
Zeppelin mainmen Jimmy Page and Robert Plant 's "Unledded" will
be released Oct. 20, according to the project's mix engineer,
Kevin...
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Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready
will preview tracks from the group's upcoming double-disc
concert set "Live at Benaroya Hall" via a live, one-hour radio
broadcast...
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Prince is turning down his mojo.
"I have a responsibility to (young fans) to perform in a manner that I would like my children to be performed in front of," he says in an...
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The newly private Warner Music
Group, having significantly reduced its worldwide staff, is now
turning its cost-cutting efforts toward its artists.
As part of the...
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Former Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page and conductor Elgar Howarth will award the 2004 Polar Music Prize to bluesman B.B. King and composer Gyoergy Ligeti, organizers...
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Multimedia pioneer Todd
Rundgren has gone back to the basics by releasing his first new
studio album in nearly a decade.
"Liars" is a concept album chock-full of...
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Performers at the nation's
biggest gathering of bands here always face Vegas-style odds.
Yet acts ranging from major-label properties to unsigned
regional groups -- more...
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The Who, David Bowie and
Stereophonics are confirmed to headline the 2004 edition of the
U.K.'s Isle of Wight Festival.
Stereophonics will play June 11, followed by the...
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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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Drummer Tony Thompson, who died
in an Encino, Calif., hospital Wednesday, proved his
freewheeling musical approach at his first audition for Chic,
according to...
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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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Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page is again denying rumors that the surviving bandmembers will reunite in the near future. Page recently told Music Week that the only way...
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U2's Bono, Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant, and Jeff Beck are among the guests appearing on British bandleader Jools Holland's next album, Small World Big Band Volume Two:...
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Cutting Crew founder-guitarist Kevin Macmichael died on New Year's Eve after a two-year battle with lung cancer. He was 51. The group was best-known for the 1986 Number One...
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Is Led Zeppelin going to give a "whole lotta love" to its fans again next year? Sources in the band's management tell LAUNCH that a reunion of singer Robert Plant, guitarist...
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The Who kicks off the next leg of its North American tour Friday (July 26) at the Tweeter Center in Mansfield, Massachusetts. Joining the Who for these dates is former Led...
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Robert Plant kicks off a North American tour this weekend in support of the newly released Dreamland, his first solo album in nine years. The former Led Zeppelin singer...
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Out Tuesday (July 16) is Dreamland, the first solo album in nine years by former Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant. The 11-song set features an abundance of remakes of some...
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Among the stranger cover versions released this year is Dolly Parton's rendition of Led Zeppelin's "Stairway To Heaven," from her latest album Halos & Horns. Parton's...
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Led Zeppelin raised eyebrows last fall by licensing "Rock And Roll" to Cadillac for a TV commercial campaign for a reportedly "ridiculous" amount of money. It marked the...
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Robert Plant's new solo album, Dreamland, comes out Tuesday (July 16). To promote it, the former Led Zeppelin frontman will be on the road with the Who, opening shows on...
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Former Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant has signed on for a cameo on the new album by British modern rockers Primal Scream. Plant plays harmonica on the track "The Lord Is...
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Robert Plant has signed on as the opening act for most of the shows on the Who's U.S. summer tour. Plant and his band Strange Sensation, which played a handful of dates in...
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Robert Plant and Jimmy Page have agreed to put aside their personal issues and reunite, at least for one show. The former Led Zeppelin bandmates will share the stage at the...
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Robert Plant is heading to North America for a series of shows with his new band. Robert Plant & His Strange Sensations features bassist Charlie Jones, who recorded with...
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The vocal stylings of Peter Gabriel and former Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant are showcased on the upcoming album from world music pioneers Afro Celt Sound System. Set...
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While Jimmy Page has been tearing up stages around the U.S. with the Black Crowes--at least before he hurt his back and had to take a few weeks off (LAUNCH, 8/14)--his...
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Robert Plant isn't working with Jimmy Page at the moment, but he's still in a music-making mode. He's booked a pair of summer gigs in England for the Priory Of Brian, his...
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What really happened between Jimmy Page and Robert Plant during 1999? The two former Led Zeppelin songwriting partners began working together again in 1994, releasing the...
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Beck, Robert Plant, Wilco, and Robyn Hitchcock are among the artists that will be featured on More Oar, a tribute album to former Moby Grape frontman Skip Spence, due in...
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Remember when Bruce Springsteen was called "the new Bob Dylan"? How about when the Knack was called "the new Beatles"? Perhaps, when the Counting Crows' Adam Duritz was...
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