Grammy-winning trumpeter Phil Driscoll reported to federal prison this week to begin a one-year tax evasion sentence after a judge denied his request to remain free while he...
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Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss, who founded A&M Records, will be honored by the Recording Academy with the President's Merit Award for their contributions to popular...
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers are running down a few
thousand Hells Angels.
The Rock and Roll Hall of
Famers are revving up to headline the inaugural Rock'n the...
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers are slated to join Keith Urban, the Black Crowes, Big & Rich and Nickelback at Rock 'n the Valley, a five-day music festival to be held this...
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"American Idol" finalist Taylor Hicks returned home to Alabama on Friday with a made-for-TV visit that included a parade, a visit with the governor and some down-home...
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Music retailers are turning to high-tech firms that combine computer analysis with the art of listening to come up with new music suggestions for consumers based on what...
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Canadian guitarist Domenic "Donnie"
Troiano died May 25 at his home in Toronto after a long fight
with cancer. He was 59.
Born in Modugno, Italy, and a naturalized...
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Apparently the Super Bowl wasn't the only big game last week.
Compton rapper the Game returned to number one with The
Documentary a week after being displaced by country...
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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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Video game publisher Take-Two
Interactive Software Inc. and Interscope Records on Tuesday set
a Dec. 7 release for an eight-CD soundtrack to "Grand Theft
Auto: San Andreas,"...
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Reunited British new wave duo
Tears for Fears will release its first album in 15 years Sept.
14 on a new label launched by Universal Music Enterprises, the
catalog arm of...
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The American Film Institute 's
upcoming TV special focuses on movie songs.
John Travolta hosts "AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Songs:
America's Greatest Music in the Movies,"...
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Ray Charles is being remembered as a musical innovator who blended genres of music to create a new style. Charles died on Thursday of acute liver disease at age 73.
Ray...
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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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Two Southern teenagers who are
contestants on the popular television program "American Idol"
will learn on Wednesday which one will become the country's
next instant pop...
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Once again OutKast
didn't spend too much time cast out of the top slot.
A week
after being displaced
on the album chart by Josh Groban 's Closer,
the Polaroid-shaking...
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Promoting his new album, No Ordinary World, Joe Cocker kicks off a North American tour on Sunday (Sept. 3) in Aspen, Colo., beginning a three-month trek around the...
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An August 22 release date has been set for No Ordinary World, the new album by British song stylist Joe Cocker. The 14-track album features songs by a variety of big-name...
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