Scan the list of Latin nominees
for Sunday's Grammy Awards, and you'll find it hews closely to
those vying for Latin Grammys last fall -- with some
exceptions.
Though...
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Pop diva Mariah Carey, whose
commercial success has not translated into awards show acclaim,
was snubbed at the American Music Awards on Tuesday, despite
scoring three...
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Fans of ABC's "Grey's Anatomy" have
been given a crash course in rock band the Fray, thanks to a
pair of videos produced by the broadcast network and the
group's Epic...
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For more than a dozen artists, nominations for the American Music Awards came in twos and threes.
Mariah Carey, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Black Eyed Peas and...
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When Warner Music Group created a
record label with Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs last year, industry
insiders said the company was taking a big risk with a star who
may have lost...
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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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Rob Thomas, the lead singer of Matchbox Twenty, has a cool complex. He knows he's not cool and that he fronts an un-cool band.
But when you've sold more than 25 million...
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Grammy winner Rob Thomas will tour with Jewel starting May 23 in Clearwater, Fla.
Jewel's new album, "Goodbye Alice in Wonderland," is set for release May 2. Thomas, who...
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It's rock vs. rap for this year's Billboard Music Awards,
with underdog Green Day hoping to out-trophy 50 Cent, who had near total
domination of the 2005 sales charts.
...
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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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Despite the success of frontman Rob Thomas' solo career, there's no question Matchbox Twenty will regroup for another album. However, Thomas said that the new project isn't...
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Kanye West's "Gold Digger" featuring
Jamie Foxx logged a fifth consecutive week at No. 1 on the Hot
100 singles chart Thursday, while Mariah Carey's "Shake It Off"
was No. 2...
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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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After two release date changes, full
details of Santana's upcoming album, "All That I Am," have
finally gelled.
The 13-track set is due November 1 from Arista, and...
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Celebrities including Ellen DeGeneres, Jay Leno, Master P and Dave Matthews are contributing star power to relief efforts for victims of Hurricane Katrina.
DeGeneres, a...
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Hurricane Katrina telethons reminiscent of benefits for tsunami and 9/11 victims will feature artists including Wynton Marsalis and Green Day, while Jerry Lewis' annual...
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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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Rob Thomas is going it alone, taking his best-selling solo act on the road.
Well, sort of alone. He's taking along his wife. And his dog. And his new band.
The matchbox...
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David Bowie, Destiny's Child, Duran
Duran, Gwen Stefani, Nelly and Tim McGraw lead the lineup for
the Fashion Rocks concert, which will be held Sept. 8 at New
York's Radio...
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It's an odd cast of characters: an
Armenian-American thrash-rock quartet; a cartoon band that
exists mainly in cyberspace; a pair of supposed siblings (or
exes) with a...
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After striking a sore note with viewers over their shoddy coverage
of the Live 8 concerts last weekend, MTV and VH1 are making an effort to
get back on key.
The...
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In the television equivalent of a do-over, the MTV Networks said they would air 10 commercial-free hours of performances Saturday from last weekend's Live 8...
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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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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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And for the halftime show, Mike Tyson will chomp off one lucky
fan's ear...
Just days after pleading no contest to a
slugging a Nashville strip club deejay during a bar...
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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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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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Now that she's been emancipated, there's no stopping Mimi.
Mariah Carey's The Emancipation of Mimi returned to the
top of the Billboard 200 album chart, moving 172,000...
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Like the Audioslave album title says, rock music is finally out of
exile.
The band's sophomore release, Out of Exile, has
become the sixth rock album in a row to debut...
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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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Rock is enjoying a resurgence at the top of the album charts, thanks to some much-anticipated veteran acts. System of a Down debuted at No. 1 on latest Billboard album...
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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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Gwen Stefani held onto the
Billboard Hot 100 singles chart crown for a third week Thursday
with "Hollaback Girl" despite a strong contender in Ciara's
"Oh" featuring...
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Nine Inch Nails have taken a bite out of the competition.
The industrial alt-rock mavens' first official studio release
in six years, With Teeth, debuted atop the pop...
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This isn't the first time that
the Boss has followed an acoustic path, but "Devils & Dust"
marks the first time that route leads Bruce Springsteen to No.
1 on The Billboard...
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Bruce Springsteen might be unplugged, but he's still the Boss.
Devils & Dust, the new solo acoustic release from New
Jersey's favorite son, led the way as the first of...
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Bruce Springsteen)'s new album, "Devils & Dust," has left the competition in the dust.
Springsteen's first new album in three years debuted at the top of the album charts,...
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The new Rob Thomas album, Something To Be, debuted at Number One Wednesday (April 27) on Billboard's Top 200 album chart, selling nearly 252,000 copies just a week after its...
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Warner Music, preparing to go
public soon, scored a hit this week as two of its artists
debuted among the top five bestselling U.S. albums, more than
any other music...
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It seems Rob Thomas doesn't need the whole matchbox to light
things up.
In his first solo outing, Rob Thomas accomplished
something his band Matchbox Twenty never did:...
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Clear Channel Communications plans
to make a big push into Internet radio next month with a new
music-performance series that will be syndicated weekly to
hundreds of its...
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Life is still sweet atop the
Billboard Hot 100 for 50 Cent, who is No. 1 for the fourth
consecutive week with "Candy Shop" featuring Olivia.
The rapper is creeping up on...
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Warner Music Group Corp., one of the world's largest record companies, on Friday disclosed plans to go public, filing with regulators to sell up to $750 million worth of...
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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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With Michael Jackson 's child-molestation trial under way, The Associated Press asked "The Question" at the Grammys : Where does Michael Jackson's career go from...
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You only need one word to sum up
the year in pop 2004: Usher. Clearly, it was his house. The
rest of us were just overnight visitors.
It began innocently enough, right at...
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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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Warner Music Group reported a narrower loss Monday, crediting a restructuring effort that cut costs.
The privately held New York-based firm, home to artists like Madonna ...
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AC/DC formed in Sydney in 1974, but
it's the Australian city of Melbourne that has honored the
veteran hard rock band with its own street.
On Oct. 1, Melbourne City...
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R.E.M . hopes to get up close and
personal with fans by staging its most intimate North American
tour in 15 years.
The 29-city trek, which began Oct. 13 at Los Angeles'...
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Fashion rocks — and Beyonce put on shimmery hot-pants and Rod Stewart wore a three-piece suit with a pocket square to prove it.
Beyonce and Stewart, along with Avril...
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Carlos Santana has begun collecting
songs for his next studio album.
"I'm going to complete the next Santana album with (BMG
chairman/CEO) Mr. Clive Davis," Santana told...
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The 2004 Songwriters Hall of Fame
Awards dinner June 10 in New York will be another star-studded
affair. But this year's ceremony, which honors songwriting
legends, also...
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Rob Thomas remembers the lean days before matchbox twenty blew up into a household name.
Now the band is giving a struggling musician the chance to take center stage...
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No doubt a lot of folks will be
talking about projected sales for Usher's "Confessions" when it
hits stores March 23. But another R&B artist bows his sophomore
set that same...
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Solo albums by band vocalists
have become a rite of passage.
Inevitably, it turns out, singing other people's songs or
having to collaborate with one's bandmates can...
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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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As the spectacle of Michael Jackson 's arrest was beamed to viewers around the world, fans rallied to the pop icon's defense while his entertainment industry peers mostly...
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