Reuters - Swedish jazz pianist and composer
Esbjorn Svensson, who helped break genre boundaries and
attracted a young audience outside the traditional jazz scene,
died in a scuba diving accident on Saturday, his manager said.
AP - Kanye West's late night performance at Bonnaroo was delayed nearly two hours, angering the festival crowd who responded by chanting "Kanye sucks" and pelting the empty stage with glow sticks.
AP - Simply Red has developed a bad case of the blues. But not to fret, the British pop contingent's front man, Mick Hucknall, says that's a good thing. -- read full article
Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:50:54 GMT - Yahoo! News: Music News
AP - Destination festivals are a universe unto their own where the real world is left in the parking lot. But at this year's Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, the outside world and its problems — politics, high gas prices — were always lurking just offstage, and sometimes were front and center.
E! Online - Minutes before he was to hit the stage, Kid Rock pulled out of a performance in England Friday afternoon and was rushed to a hospital and treated for dehydration.
E! Online - Gender-bending is cool for rocker dudes, but apparently not for the next gen. Case in point, Pete Wentz tells In Touch Weekly, "I'd like to know the sex of the baby. It would be a bummer if you bought a boy a bunch of pink stuff!"
AP - Jim Dickinson has played with Dylan, opened for Clapton and helped define the Memphis sound in a 40-year career as a music maverick. But his favorite gig came with the little-known Hardly Can Playboys.
AP - Tens of thousands of people braved heavy rain and thunder Saturday night to see Paul McCartney perform a charity concert on Kiev's central Independence Square.
