If you're engrossed in the tabloid Internet-gossip that has come to define the celebrity world, then John Mayer's latest CD, "Battle Studies," could provide enough fodder to...
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John Mayer, "Battle Studies" (Columbia) The multitudes root for tousled-hair troubadour John Mayer to break from his tabloids 'n Twitter drama to give us what we've grown...
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Cocktail waitress/actress Scheana Marie may have once had a shot at something with John Mayer, but not anymore. Marie, 23, says in a new interview that the singer, 31, is...
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John Mayer and the Jonas Brothers have the same new woman—Jordin Sparks! The American Idol winner is performing with Mayer tomorrow night at the One Splendid Evening...
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Jennifer Aniston and John Mayer may have called it quits. That's the rumor I'm hearing. A source says the pair's on-again, off-again relationship may have...
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Nobody knows this, but Jennifer Aniston is friends with Brad and Angelina. "The funny thing is that people don't realize we all go away to the Hamptons on the...
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Finding a mate in 2008: That was the theme for many celebrities as they hooked up with new partners and sealed the deal in undercover weddings. Here's a look at four notable...
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It was another date night for Jennifer Aniston and John Mayer. The lovey-dovey duo hit singer-songwriter Ray LaMontagne's concert last night at the Wiltern Theater in...
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In response to Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton's supposition that extra laws aren't needed to quell the paparazzi crush, now that certain starlets are...
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John Mayer is already cheating on Jennifer Aniston—in his dreams. Concertgoers in Mountain View, Calif., got an earful of Mayer's infidelities last night during a...
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With rumors spreading like wildfire, perhaps the best thing to do is spread some more...kinda like firemen setting a backfire to sap a blaze's energy. Maybe that's...
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Jennifer Aniston has resorted to taking the bus these days, and it has nothing to do with the summer's sky-high gas prices. E! News has learned that actress is not...
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Forget the humidity. Things appear to getting downright hot between John Mayer and Jennifer Aniston. According to eyewitnesses, the new couple couldn't seem to keep...
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Another year, another downward turn for the record business. So what will the industry do?
While overall music sales were up 14 percent in 2007, most of that growth was due...
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John Mayer has been blogging about the arrests made at his show in Pennsylvania at the weekend.
Police arrested 63 people at the show at Hershey Park Pavilion on Saturday...
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In a global series of concerts featuring aboriginal dancing, imitation chimpanzee cries and a lot of reunited rock bands, musicians and celebrities called for fans to take...
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It doesn't take a second for David Kells to recall the first concert he ever saw: Aerosmith with Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Starwood Amphitheater, 1990.
Over the next...
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The blues stage will be back when the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival opens Friday, and so will such performers as blues singer Alton "Big Al" Carson and...
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When Al Gore throws a party, he doesn't mess around.
Organizers of the planet-spanning Live Earth concerts revealed on Tuesday the all-star lineups for the U.S....
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It's apropos that soulful
songstress Angie Stone is recording her debut for Concord Music
Group's reactivated Stax Records imprint at the stomping
grounds of another...
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Save the Music, the VH1 foundation dedicated to promoting music education in the nation's public schools, is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a concert featuring John...
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Grammy-winning singer John Mayer has been added to the lineup of the 2007 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.
Mayer, who will perform May 5, joins headliners Rod...
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Al Gore announced on Thursday a series of worldwide concerts to focus on the threat of climate change, with a powerhouse lineup from the Red Hot Chili Peppers to Snoop Dogg...
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The Grammy Awards are the music
industry's biggest bash, but the event long ago lost the TV
popularity race to "American Idol."
Last year, the two shows went head-to-head...
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Mary J. Blige has a leading eight Grammy nominations and her triumphant comeback was the feel-good story of the 2006. So it seems as if her coronation on Grammy night is all...
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High School Musical officially graduated at the top of its class.
The surprise hit soundtrack accompaniment to the Disney Channel's tween song and dance fest finished as...
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The final curtain has fallen on this very public affair.
Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey have settled the division of their assets, according to court documents.
While...
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Concert tours by the Rolling Stones, Barbra Streisand and country duo Tim McGraw and Faith Hill were among the top-grossing tours in North America in 2006, helping drive...
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Scorned by country music radio, the Dixie Chicks are all right by the Grammys.
The finger-pickin' trio, just about nixed from Nashville for lead singer Natalie Maines'...
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Here's the complete list of nominees for the 49th Annual Grammy Awards. The awards will be presented Feb. 11 in Los Angeles:
Album Of The Year
Taking the Long Way,...
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With music specialty stores dying by
the hundreds this year between the liquidation of Tower and
Musicland, Nordstrom and Sears may be picking up some of the
slack. Both...
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When John Mayer
accepted the Grammy for best male pop vocal performance in 2003
for "Your Body Is a Wonderland," he promised to someday "catch
up" to the award, which he won...
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Ticket sales have been far from spectacular, but Ivan Neville says performing at the same Hurricane Katrina anniversary concert Tuesday night as Stevie Wonder is going to be...
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Laryngitis forced pop singer John Mayer to back out of a performance Saturday night.
Thousands of fans waited at the gates of the Dodge Music Center before organizers...
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Before Hurricane Katrina hit, Tanio
Hingle lived in a house in the Treme section of New Orleans
with his wife and three kids, gigging around town with the New
Birth Brass...
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The Black Eyed Peas will bring their "Monkey Business" tour to China next month.
The Grammy-winning hip-hop group will perform July 18 at Beijing's Exhibition Center...
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Every year, one of the most
heavily debated Grammy Award categories is that of best new
artist.
While all of the candidates vying for the coveted statuette
on February 8...
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Singer-songwriter John Mayer remembers the first time he heard a live performance by blues legend B.B. King.
"I literally cried," Mayer said.
It was a 2003 MusiCares...
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You read it here first. These 10
faces to watch represent Billboard's picks for 2006. They
either have a highly anticipated debut album ready to come out
in the first...
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Got the latest "Death Cab for Cutie" tune on your iPod phone?
That's so 2005.
With the new year about to begin, it's time to upgrade your electronics, reprogram your...
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Kanye West, Shakira, Maroon 5's Adam
Levine and Fall Out Boy lead the lineup for MTV's 14th annual
New Year's Eve broadcast, which will begin at 10:30 p.m. ET.
Common,...
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There's no bucking the System.
System of a Down has
made chart history, becoming the first band to debut two different
studio albums at number one in the Billboard 200...
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John Mayer won't go ballistic if he hears you've outgrown his "Room for Squares" CD. Or that you're so over his Grammy-winning hit "Daughters." Or that you'd rather go deaf...
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While the numbers
for recorded and live music have been mostly down again this
year, one thriving small-town music operation is bucking
industry trends.
More than 500...
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How big of impact did the hurriane-wrought devastation have on
Hollywood? So big even miserly record labels are coming together to help
out hurricane victims.
Like the...
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Fats Domino proved you can go home again. You just might not like
what you see.
The rock 'n' roll pioneer returned to his New
Orleans home Saturday for the first time...
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"You don't know how frigging good
you are. Just be yourself and sing."
That is the advice rock star Graham Nash offered 34 years
ago to a nervous Bill Withers. The...
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A constellation of music icons, celebrities and dignitaries gathered for simultaneous shows at Madison Square Garden and Radio City Music Hall to raise money for victims of...
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Apparently Mariah Carey and American Music Award nominations
belong together.
The R&B diva led the AMA field with
four nominations in all, including nods for Best...
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Tom Waits, Dave Matthews, Trey Anastasio, John Mayer Trio, Joss Stone and the Meters have
signed on for a September 20 benefit concert for Hurricane
Katrina victims at New...
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Tom Waits, Dave Matthews, Trey Anastasio, John Mayer Trio, Joss Stone and the Meters have
signed on for a September 20 benefit concert for Hurricane
Katrina victims at New...
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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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Usher, 50 Cent, Mariah Carey and The Game were among the recording artists up for multiple honors Wednesday night at the 2005 World Music Awards, which selects winners based...
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John Mayer has two new projects in the pipeline. The first is a live album with his newly-formed John Mayer Trio, while the second is his next studio CD, titled Continuum....
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Buddy Guy made blues
history with harmonica man Junior Wells, but always reached out
to younger partners like Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck.
His choice for Wednesday's...
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The birth of the universe was a pretty big deal--but not as
important as the first new Rolling Stones record in eight years.
The Bigger Bang, the band's first studio...
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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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New York State Attorney General Eliot
Spitzer plans to announce on Monday a settlement in his probe
of the way music companies influence which songs get played on
the radio,...
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Apparently selling millions of records, winning multiple Grammys
and being adored by throngs of young girls is enough to give you the
blues.
At least that's the case...
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THURSDAY, 5:45 p.m.: The empty expanse of cow pasture that was once Manchester is morphing into Tennessee's third largest city. Meanwhile, somewhere near "Centeroo," the...
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On the cover of an "in case of
emergency" handbook in the reception area of Wind-up Records'
New York headquarters, someone has affixed a yellow Post-it
that reads: "1. Save...
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John Mayer plans to release a new studio album in early 2006, and he already has a name for it -- Continuum. According to RollingStone.com, Mayer plans to experiment with a...
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In its fifth year of preaching the virtue of live performance and grassroots success, Dean Budnick and the rest of the Jammy Awards committee continue to preserve the most...
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Patti Smith), former Phish bassist
Mike Gordon, Huey Lewis and Mavis Staples have joined the
performance lineup for the fifth annual Jammy Awards, honoring
the best in...
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John Mayer likes Trick Daddy's music.
That was one of several eye-openers from the soft-rocker in the latest issue of XXL. In case you're wondering what Mayer is doing in...
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Like many college students, a group from Boston headed south for spring break this week.
But instead of Daytona or Miami, their destination was Nashville, where the...
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Rob Thomas has a problem. He can't stop saying "we" when talking about his upcoming solo album, "Something To Be": We're going on tour. We just shot a video. We...
"I'm...
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John Mayer recently won a Grammy award for his song, "Daughters," but he told AP Radio that when he wrote the song he had selfish intentions.
"I wrote it through the...
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The late Ray Charles might have loved company on his final album,
but he's all alone at the top of the charts.
After landing
five posthumous Grammys on Feb. 13,...
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It was clear that rock was on a Grammy roll when the award for best country album went to a disc produced by a long-haired punk from Detroit. Jack White produced and played...
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Pop musician John Mayer won the
coveted song of the year prize at the 47th annual Grammy Awards
on Sunday for his tune "Daughters."
The other contenders in the category,...
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Genius will be served, Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony will be
outed as a couple, and Melissa Etheridge will hit the comeback stage.
Those are three of the storylines...
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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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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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Grammy Award-winner John Mayer returned to his alma mater to be inducted into its Hall of Fame — and wound up in the headmaster's office.
The 27-year-old guitarist...
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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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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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The Rolling Stones recently
concluded recording sessions for a new album in Paris with
producer Don Was, who worked with them on their two previous
studio releases.
The...
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Country artists need to try harder
when it comes to international markets, according to talent
executive Bruce Allen.
During a recent keynote speech at the Country Music...
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When Southern California resident
Herbie Hancock takes the stage at the Playboy Jazz Festival, it
will, remarkably, be his first appearance at the Hollywood Bowl
two-day...
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Hip-hop collective the Roots have
set a June 29 release date for their next album, "The Tipping
Point."
The Geffen Records release sports guest appearances from
Jean Grae,...
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Jason Mraz has guts. The
singer-songwriter took the stage with only his acoustic guitar
in hand and an accompanist at UCLA's Royce Hall in Westwood and
played for a packed...
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With Grammy Awards-inspired sales,
two big releases and a gift-buying holiday to boot, business
was booming for music retailers last week.
In addition to the Feb. 8 awards...
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