AP - Jazz vocalist Ernestine Anderson is facing foreclosure on her home in Seattle in yet another sign that the mortgage loan crisis is hitting traditional working-class neighborhoods hard. -- read full article
Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:01:15 GMT - Yahoo! News: Music News
AP - A violin case slung over her shoulder, 10-year-old Daniela Fagundez trudges home along a row of muddy yards where chickens scratch among banana trees and laundry hangs drying on wire fences.
Reuters - A new Beatles movie depicts
surviving band members, widows and their producer reuniting to
rise above a reputation for discord and collaborate on a lavish
stage show with Cirque de Soleil.
AP - India.Arie on Broadway produced by Whoopi Goldberg. The Grammy-winning singer will make her Broadway debut in a revival of Ntozake Shange's "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf."
Reuters - British rock band Coldplay's new
album debuted at No. 1 on the U.S. pop music chart on Tuesday,
largely bucking the sales slides that have affected other
musicians, the group's label said on Tuesday.
AP - WASHINGTON (AP) Bob Dylan. Yo-Yo Ma. Sheryl Crow. Jay-Z. These aren't musical acts in a summer concert series: They're artists featured on Barack Obama's iPod. -- read full article
Wed, 25 Jun 2008 04:10:20 GMT - Yahoo! News: Music News
Reuters - Rap star Kanye West picked up two
prizes on Tuesday at the BET Awards, an event honoring black
recording artists, actors and athletes, while Alicia Keys was
one of several stars who used the occasion to salute
presidential contender Barack Obama.