There's just no slowing down Elvis Costello. After launching his "Spectacle" TV series in December and releasing his latest studio effort, "Secret, Profane &...
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"Why don't you come back, baby? Why don't you go away?" Elvis Costello sings in the duet "Go Away" with indie rock favorite Jenny Lewis on his recent CD, "Momofuku." Rock...
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Bono's adding to his résumé for sainthood. For today's 20th anniversary of World AIDS Day, the U2 frontman and all-around good guy is helping launch...
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During an interview with Elton John for the debut of his new Sundance Channel show "Spectacle," Elvis Costello didn't ask about stage costumes, boyfriends or "Island Girl."...
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Twelve previously unreleased tracks, including an early version of "Ooby Dooby" and a demo of "Claudette," highlight a four-disc Roy Orbison boxed set due in stores on...
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Elvis Costello's next solo studio album, curiously dubbed "Momofuku," will arrive April 22, and plans are for the set to be released only on vinyl, with a digital...
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Nominees announced Thursday in top categories for the 50th Annual Grammy Awards:
Record of the Year: "Irreplaceable," Beyonce; "The Pretender," Foo Fighters; "Umbrella,"...
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The first "Saturday Night Live"
CD of live performances in nearly 10 years will be sold
exclusively at Target retail stores, beginning Sunday.
Priced at $13.98, "Live...
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Seeing the great Diana
Krall again, now that she's a mother, is a real kick in the
head, as Dean Martin used to say.
And the way she talked about maternity would have...
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Warren Weitzman is 40 years old, and there's no way he's going to share a portable toilet and camp out with thousands of other people just to see The Police perform at the...
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Singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile's
self-titled 2005 Columbia debut had a relatively quiet rollout.
Released on the label's Red Ink imprint, the album, which has
sold...
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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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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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The only child of pop songwriter
Burt Bacharach and actress Angie Dickinson has committed
suicide after a lifetime struggling with a form of autism, a
spokeswoman for the...
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The Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival is negotiating to buy the 500-acre farm where the first five festivals were held to be the event's permanent home, the landowner has...
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Billboard presents a look at the
music you'll be hearing a lot about in the first quarter:
JOHN MELLENCAMP
"Freedom's Road" (Universal, January 23)
Mellencamp's first...
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We know that the Rolling Stones,
Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw/Faith Hill and Dave Matthews Band
will sell the heck out of tickets in 2007.
But there is always a dark horse...
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Hopefully, between the two of them, Elvis Costello and Diana Krall know plenty of lullabies.
The musically inclined couple welcomed their first children together Wednesday...
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Elvis Costello and wife Diana Krall are the parents of twin boys.
The new arrivals — named Dexter Henry Lorcan and Frank Harlan James — were born on Wednesday,...
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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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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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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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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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UK rock outfit Razorlight has
returned to U.S. shores to promote its self-titled second
effort, though its stay may be brief.
Originally intending to tour the U.S. with...
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One of America's most venerable and
best-known city orchestras, the Boston Pops, is letting its
hair down.
Famous for light classical music and family pop tunes...
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Diana Krall and husband Elvis Costello announced Sunday that the jazz singer is pregnant and due in December — just in time for their third wedding anniversary.
A...
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The fifth annual Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival grossed $15 million, according to a report on Billboard.com.
About 80,000 fans attended the sold-out, four-day festival...
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A tribute to Milt
Jackson served as a counterbalance for everything that was
wrong with the 28th edition of the Playboy Jazz Festival, sold
out, scorching and sad.
Stefon...
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As Beck took the stage at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, he had dancers in bear suits and a band that played on water glasses and dinner plates.
He also had a...
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Get ready, Tennessee; here come Radiohead, Tom Petty and 70,000
tour wookiees.
Now in its fifth year, Bonnaroo Music and Arts
Festival will be welcoming fans back to...
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Tony Bennett has recruited more than a dozen music heavyweights, including Bono, Paul McCartney and Barbra Streisand, to sing on his new album, "Tony Bennett: Duets/An...
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It's 40 years since the Beatles'
landmark album "Revolver" hit the charts and, while Liverpool
bands may no longer be top of the world, the music scene in the
Fab Four's...
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Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint, "The River in Reverse" (Verve Forecast)
Nine months after Katrina comes this welcome offspring, an unlikely pairing of musical masters...
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Paul Simon, B.B King, Tony Bennett, Elvis Costello and Etta James are among the stars slated to perform at the 27th Annual Festival International de Jazz de Montreal.
The...
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Elvis Costello and Allen Toussaint had crossed paths before.
More than two decades ago, the British rocker called on the renowned producer, pianist and songwriter to...
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If pop star Michelle Branch and her pal Jessica Harp had their way, their new country album "Stand Still, Look Pretty" would have registered even higher on the twang...
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Even if you don't know T Bone Burnett, you've probably heard his work.
In a varied career spanning decades, Burnett has helmed the hit soundtrack for "O Brother, Where Art...
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It's not as if New Orleans' Queen of Soul, Irma Thomas, was searching for work before Hurricane Katrina hit.
The veteran singer of classic hits like "Time Is On My Side"...
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The first weekend of the
37th annual New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival ended with a
slow, elegiac version of the Crescent City standard "When the
Saints Go Marching In,"...
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It's a collaboration that grew from
Hurricane Katrina, and now Elvis Costello and New Orleans
legend Allen Toussaint have cemented the relationship with
songs that won...
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Warner Music Group is
near finalization of a $67.5 million purchase of the Ryko
Group, the New York-based parent of indie label Rykodisc,
according to...
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Between the Sex Pistols and Ozzy Osbourne, there's an air of malice associated with this year's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame class.
Blondie is doing its part, too.
The...
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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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As a boy growing up in Chicago, Hugh Hefner says he fell in love early — and it wasn't with women.
Well, actually, it was with women. But the founding editor of...
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With his latest CD, "Live With the
Metropole Orkest: My Flame Burns Blue," Elvis Costello builds
another strong case for his prowess as a vibrant jazz...
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Elvis Costello, "My Flame Burns Blue" (Deutsche Grammophon)
Genre-crossing Elvis Costello here succeeds in mixing his serrated rock, sophisticated pop, jazz and classical...
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Sometimes, the members of U2 can't make it on their own--they
need help hauling all those heavy Grammys around.
The
veteran Irish rockers were the big winners Wednesday...
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As Lost Highway Records marks its
fifth anniversary this year, it is also celebrating a
remarkable Grammy Awards achievement. Since its inception, the
label has released 50...
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Tony Bennett breaks with tradition on his Grammy-nominated CD, "The Art of Romance," by doing something he had shied away from throughout a recording career dating back more...
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"What day is it, and in
what month?" Jason Wade asks in the opening line of Lifehouse's
recent Top 5 pop ballad "You and Me."
The answer to that question Monday was "date...
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It could be just what the world needs
now -- Burt Bacharach writing lyrics.
The legendary, 77-year-old composer has found his voice in
a politically charged album "At This...
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When Elvis Costello was asked three years ago by Denmark's Royal Theater to write an opera about Hans Christian Andersen, his first thought was, "Why didn't they choose a...
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When Elvis Costello was contacted three years ago by Denmark's Royal Theater asking him to write an opera about Danish fairy tale writer Hans Christian Andersen, his first...
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Jim James sings on the opening track of My Morning Jacket's solid new album, "Z," "We are the innovators, they are the imitators."
But are they? My Morning Jacket, who...
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It's not often that a Nobel laureate, Pulitzer Prize winners, Grammy winners, Academy Award winners and just about every other kind of winner share a single stage. But a...
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The evening might have
begun with a funeral dirge, but the atmosphere Tuesday night at
Madison Square Garden was hardly funereal.
Rather, this all-star benefit concert for...
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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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With the exception of the now-famous Kanye West outburst, celebrity-driven benefits for Hurricane Katrina victims have followed a familiar formula — musicians singing...
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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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Canadians attempting to buy Bob Dylan albums may temporarily be
left blowing in the wind.
One of the nation's largest record
chains, HMV Canada, has pulled the entire...
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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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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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CBGB's may be down, but if you ask its supporters the legendary New
York venue is certainly not out.
The landlord of the club
credited with spawning seminal punk rock...
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PBS goes honky-tonk tonight when the "American Masters" series airs "Hank Williams: Honky Tonk Blues."
The one-hour documentary includes the first-ever on-camera interview...
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Punk acts young, old and reunited
have pledged their support for embattled New York club CBGB,
which is fighting to renew a soon-to-expire lease and may be
forced to close...
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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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Was Paul McCartney supposed to play at a concert benefiting victims of the Bluebird Canyon landslide? An event organizer claims the former Beatle promised to perform over...
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Thousands of music fans face a damp
start to this year's Glastonbury festival with torrential rain
and thunderstorms forecast for its opening on Friday.
As many as 150,000...
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Can it really be the
Playboy Jazz Festival without Bill Cosby, absent for the first
time this year as its master of ceremonies? Well, jazz lovers
will just have to wait till...
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The Boss is paying the cost for some racy lyrics and anti-corporate
politics.
Starbucks says it will not stock Bruce Springsteen's
just-released Devils & Dust, in part...
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This town hasn't been the most hospitable place for rock 'n' rollers.
The Byrds were razzed about their long hair when they played the Grand Ole Opry. Jimi Hendrix got his...
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The movies have been
very good to T Bone Burnett, but he's scratching his
record-making itch again.
The lanky Texas-born musician-producer was barracked at the
Village...
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Gretchen Wilson emerged as a
big winner at the 2005 CMT Music Awards, taking home two of the
nine fan-voted awards -- breakthrough video of the year for her
debut clip,...
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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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When Solomon Burke calls, even the
most aloof rock stars pick up the phone.
The R&B heavyweight who wrote and sang the oft-covered tune
"Everybody Needs Somebody to Love"...
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It's mid-afternoon and Sara Quin is on the Bowery Ballroom stage in New York City, squinting up at a black cloth. The backdrop is festooned with what may be a tipped blood...
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Elvis Costello & The Imposters have announced a U.S. tour in support of their Grammy-nominated album, "The Delivery Man."
Costello and his band will begin the tour on...
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In 2001, Martin Amis, Rick Moody and other authors and artists gathered in New York to honor a peer they regarded as a giant of the times. They compared him to Walt Whitman,...
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Wynton Marsalis is arguably the most
recognized name in jazz, for his achievements as a performer
and ambassador for the genre. His roles as artistic director
for Jazz at...
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The third chart entry proves to
be the charm for Mario, who rises to a new career peak on the
Billboard Hot 100 with "Let Me Love You" (3rd Street/J). The
single moves 3-2,...
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Never one to rest on his laurels,
Elvis Costello has a variety of projects on the horizon,
including a 10-inch vinyl EP of previously unreleased
recordings, two DVDs and a...
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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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61. Salsa/Merengue Album: "Valio La Pena," Marc Anthony; "Travesia," Victor Manuelle; "Autentico," Gilberto Santa Rosa; "Creciendo," Son de Cali; "Across 110th Street,"...
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Kanye West was "robbed" at the American Music Awards. On
Tuesday, he found his reward, nominated for a field-best 10 Grammy
Awards.
The rapper's The College...
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Since establishing himself as a solo
artist, Sting's tour's have become grand affairs featuring
large bands. That will change in April, when he launches the
Broken Music...
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Infinity Broadcasting is not
commenting on a New York Times story that claims the company
fired its top Rochester, N.Y., programer for accepting gifts
from record...
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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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It's not like Bill Anderson hasn't had his share of hits — a slew of them in the '60s and '70s, with "Still" and "The Tip of My Fingers" even becoming standards.
Now,...
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Britain's music world heaped tributes
upon the late John Peel, crediting the maverick BBC disc jockey
with transforming the country's popular music scene.
The 65-year-old...
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John Peel, a longtime British Broadcasting Corp. disc jockey whose enthusiasm for the offbeat, the eclectic and the obscure launched the careers of dozens of bands, has...
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Swedish DJ Eric Prydz rebounded to the
top of the UK pop charts Sunday, bouncing heart-throb Robbie Williams down to number three.
Prydz's "Call on Me" regained its hold...
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As jazz enters its second century, the music that had its humble origins in street parades, dance halls and brothels is moving to one of the world's most prestigious...
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With military-like precision, some
of the most powerful managers and agents in the music business
have plotted a groundbreaking exercise in political activism:
the...
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Jazz singer Norah Jones ' current
album "Feels Like Home" will be re-released Sept. 21 as a
double-disc package featuring three previously unreleased songs
and a DVD.
The...
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While on the road supporting its
latest studio album, "The Ride," Los Lobos is planning on
taping its first DVD, slated for a Christmas 2004 release.
"We are doing two...
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Rhino Records, best-known for
its "retro" music catalog, has launched a pair of new-media
initiatives in the past two weeks.
Rhino, the Burbank, Calif.-based subsidiary of...
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For Kevin Kline , composer Cole
Porter offered an irresistible combination -- immortal music by
a flawed genius with a dark side to all the effervescent
frivolity.
So...
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A trio of the world's top pop
stars are on a mission in Cannes -- teaching the younger
generation to fall in love with the songs of Cole Porter.
Sheryl Crow , Alanis...
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Usher's
new confession: He can't touch Eminem.
Becoming the first new chart topper since March, the
Eminem -led rap group D12 knocked off Usher's Confessions
and took...
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The five members of Los Lobos walk out onto a Los Angeles street for an impromptu photo shoot, causing some drivers to stop and gawk and a few fans in the predominantly...
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Accolades have been coming fast and
furious lately for 57-year-old American composer John Adams.
Last year, he won his first Pulitzer Prize for his Sept.
11, 2001, elegy,...
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Elvis Costello 's split musical personality is showing.
The British songwriter will release two albums this fall — a rock 'n' roll disc and his first full-length...
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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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Elvis Costello , the singer-songwriter
who once crooned "Everyday I Write the Book," is making good on
his word.
Publisher Simon & Schuster confirmed on Thursday that...
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Elvis Costello has agreed to a two-book deal with Simon & Schuster, but don't expect any juicy music industry gossip.
In a statement issued Tuesday, the publisher said...
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Actors Eugene Levy and Catherine
O'Hara are the latest musical performers confirmed for Sunday's
(Feb. 29) 76th Academy Awards ceremony.
The duo will reprise their...
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Sting, Annie Lennox , Alison Krauss,
Elvis Costello and T Bone Burnett will perform nominated songs
during the 76th annual Academy Awards on Feb. 29.
No other performers...
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Elvis Costello isn't too hip to perform at the Oscars .
Costello is nominated for his song "Scarlet Tide," from the film "Cold Mountain." He will play while Alison Krauss...
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Alison Krauss sings two of the best original song Oscar nominees, which puts her up against herself — and she "just can't pick" a favorite of the two, the musician told...
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Island Def Jam Music
Group chief Lyor Cohen is leaving the company he helped build
to become chairman and CEO of Warner Music Group's U.S.
Recorded Music unit.
The move...
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Famed New York nightclub the Bottom
Line closed the doors forever at its Greenwich Village location
Thursday.
Opened nearly 30 years ago by Allan Pepper and...
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Punk/pop outfit the Ataris will
release a concert album, "Live at the Metro," on Feb. 10 via
Columbia.
The 19-track disc was taped last October at Chicago's
Cabaret Metro...
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When producer T Bone Burnett set out to make the soundtrack to the Civil War-era film, "Cold Mountain," he drew as much from his love of rock 'n' roll as from traditional...
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Works by Bob Dylan , Johnny Cash and
George Harrison are among the major catalog titles slated to be
released in the first quarter of 2004.
On Feb. 24, Universal Music...
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It's a rare rainy Sunday
in Los Angeles. Musician, songwriter and producer T Bone
Burnett fixes himself a cup of tea and settles into his
recording studio. He's giddy...
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British pop singer Elvis Costello has
married Canadian jazz artist Diana Krall in a private ceremony
in Britain, Costello's agent said on Thursday.
"Diana Krall and...
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Complete list of nominees in 105 categories announced Thursday for the 46th annual Grammy Awards, to be presented Feb. 8 in Los Angeles:
1. Record of the Year: "Crazy in...
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Bruce Springsteen will stage a trio
of holiday concerts next month in his adopted hometown of
Asbury Park, N.J.
The Dec. 5-7 shows at the Asbury Park Convention Hall...
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An edited version of the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony will be shown on VH1 on Sunday (March 16) at 9 p.m. ET. The two-hour program will feature all the...
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AC/DC, the Clash, the Police, Elvis Costello & The Attractions, and the Righteous Brothers were inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame on Monday (March 10). Also...
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AC/DC, the Clash, the Police, Elvis Costello & The Attractions, and the Righteous Brothers were inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame on Monday (March 10). Also going...
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Elvis Costello, Lou Reed, Shawn Colvin, and Public Enemy frontman Chuck D are among the artists set to appear at the Creative Coalition's Seconding The First Gala Concert at...
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Los Angeles pop-rockers Phantom Planet kick off a stint Monday (September 23) as the opening act for one of the group's biggest heroes, Elvis Costello. The band joins...
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Elvis Costello will tape a performance for CBS's The Saturday Early Show in New York City starting at around 11:15 a.m. ET on Friday (April 19). The live performance will...
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The life and music of legendary jazz trumpet player Chet Baker will be celebrated on Chet Baker Live At Ronnie Scott's, a DVD due out April 24 from Rhino Home Video. The DVD...
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New songs by Elvis Costello, Edwin McCain, and Seal will be featured on the soundtrack to the upcoming the Nicholas Cage film The Family Man, due from London-Sire Records...
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Bob Dylan, Patti Smith, and Elvis Costello are the best-known artists featured on a new Grateful Dead tribute album due out this summer.
Stolen Roses, which is slated for...
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Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder
,
Elvis Costello, and the
Kinks are among the artists set to appear on the soundtrack to High Fidelity, an upcoming film about the trials and...
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Elvis Costello
and
Blondie's
Deborah Harry are among the guests on the forthcoming album from Roy Nathanson, who is perhaps best known as the saxophonist in the...
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Courtesy of RockOnTV (www.rockontv.com):
NBC:
Garth Brooks...In The Life Of Chris Gaines - This special features Garth Brooks expanding his musical repertoire and exploring...
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On Sept. 21, Decca Records will release The Sweetest Punch, a collaboration between Elvis Costello and jazz guitarist Bill Frisell. The album is an interpretation of...
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After soul legend Al Green canceled (LAUNCH, 7/23) the task of opening Woodstock on Sunday (July 25) fell to the more-than-capable Willie Nelson, country music's sole...
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Elvis Costello is on the verge of his first ever No. 1 hit in England--or anywhere, for that matter--although it won't be with one of his own songs. Rather, it will be for...
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Elvis Costello is turning into quite the movie man these days. First his rendition of Charles Aznavour's "She" graced the opening and closing credits of the blockbuster...
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Several rock veterans and alt-country stars have gathered to pay tribute to psychedelic country legend Gram Parsons on the upcoming album Return Of The Grievous Angel: A...
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Summer may be three months away, but the festivals are already beginning to take shape. As previously reported, this year's Vans Warped Tour will feature a lineup that...
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Elvis Costello, Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys, and Lulu were among the hundreds of mourners Friday on hand to bid adieu to singer Dusty Springfield, who died of breast...
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When the sequel Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me hits theaters this summer, keep an eye out for a return cameo by Burt Bacharach. This time the veteran tunesmith will...
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The track listing for The Rugrats Movie Soundtrack Album--due Nov. 3 on Interscope--is complete, and it features some heavy-hitters from a variety of musical genres.
The...
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Elvis Costello, most recently seen in the Spice Girls' film playing a bartender, has signed a new deal with PolyGram that will allow him to releasepop, classical and other...
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Late-night host David Letterman has compiled 14 live recordings of musical performances from his Late Show With David Letterman for a new album to be released on Reprise...
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