Coldplay was the hottest iTunes album download this year: Its "Viva la Vida" was crowned the best-selling album of 2008, while Leona Lewis's "Bleeding Love" was named the...
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Mellow music king Jack Johnson gave summer a gentle sendoff Sunday night, turning a massive stage at UCLA's Intramural Field into a breezy beachfront shack. All that...
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Going green has become a focus in recent years for many artists who are trying to help save the environment with everything from carbon offsets, to giving away autographed...
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The charts are officially Jacked! For the second straight week, Jack Johnson and Michael Jackson have the country's bestselling albums and held down the top spots on...
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Talk about the passion.
Hot off an induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and a shiny, happy, if temporary reunion with ex-drummer Bill Berry, R.E.M.'s...
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British rock band the Arctic Monkeys and
their Las Vegas counterparts The Killers triumphed on Wednesday
at the Brit Awards, the UK music industry's biggest night of
the...
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Previously unreleased tracks from
Jack Johnson and Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder will see the
light of day on the soundtrack to the Johnson-spearheaded
surfing documentary...
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During the lengthy
encore of his 2 1/2-hour show Friday at Los Angeles' Greek
Theater, Ben Harper confessed: "I have been accused of playing
too long. That's usually by the...
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The calendar might say it's spring break season, but this week's
album charts is all about high school and report cards.
For
the second time since its release 10 weeks...
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The new mantra of the music industry? Don't trust anyone over 16!
Kids are a potent new army of music fans, a trend that became obvious a few weeks ago when the top three...
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Figures. Now that he's out of Cash Money, Juvenile's Check
is bouncing right to the top.
The New Orleans' rapper, who
rose to prominence on the Cash Money label, has...
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An absent Sex Pistols. A backstabbing Blondie. And a kinder,
gentler Ozzy Osbourne and
Black Sabbath.
Crazy, but
that's how it went Monday night at New York's Waldorf...
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Ne-Yo's so sick that he can't be denied.
The rookie R&B
crooner, whose debut single "So Sick" already topped the
Billboard Hot 100 radio, now has a number one album to...
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Mickey is one happy mouse right about now.
Building
momentum with Radio Disney airplay, the soundtrack to the
Disney
Channel movie High School Musical officially...
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There's some serious monkey business going down on the album
charts.
While Grammy winners got their traditional
post-ceremony sales spikes, the top branch of the...
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'Tis the season to be
jolly, except for most of the bands that played Saturday's
first night of LA modern rock station KROQ's Almost Acoustic
Christmas concert. Nine Inch...
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'Tis the season to be
jolly, except for most of the bands that played Saturday's
first night of LA modern rock station KROQ's Almost Acoustic
Christmas concert. Nine Inch...
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Jack Johnson, Howie Day, Citizen
Cope and O.A.R. are among the artists contributing to a new
compilation intended to aid victims of natural disaster.
"Rock for Relief" is...
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Some of the biggest names in modern
rock, including Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, Coldplay, the
White Stripes, System Of A Down and Korn, have signed on for
Los Angeles...
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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 music industry has a new scapegoat
for its revenue problems: album cover art.
A big barcode splashed on the cover of an '80s compilation
CD is being mistakenly scanned...
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After months of speculation, the
producers of the Bonnaroo festival have confirmed they will
stage a mega-event in Las Vegas around Halloween.
Vegoose is set for Vegas'...
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Paul McCartney, Celine Dion, Maroon 5 and other music acts have donated concert tickets and special experiences in an online auction for Music Clearing Minefields, an...
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Motown Records won't
celebrate its 50th anniversary until 2009, but its Universal
Music Group parent is getting the party started early.
Hip-O Select, Universal's Web-only...
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The smooth, swinging vocals of
Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Wayne Newton evoke the history
of Las Vegas like no others.
For those who visited the city and saw live...
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The s--t storm over a Dave Matthews Band-fueled s--t storm
intensified today as the group's tour bus driver, Stefan Wohl, was
criminally charged with dumping human waste...
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Same Bonnaroo time, same Bonnaroo
place.
The fourth annual Bonnaroo Music Festival will be held June
10-12, 2005, returning to the 700-acre site in rural
Manchester,...
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Prince was crowned as musical royalty
on Monday as he joined the late George Harrison among eight
inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Also honored at the 19th...
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Retro rockers The Darkness won three honors at the Brit Music Awards, the equivalent of the Grammys , and Justin Timberlake and Dido each took two.
The Darkness, a...
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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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