Reuters - Two days before "Mamma Mia!"
opened in North American theaters, the soundtrack to the
ABBA-inspired musical romance charted higher than any ABBA
album.
Reuters - Ani DiFranco will release her 20th
album since 1990 on September 30, a package that ranks as one
of the folk singer's cheeriest, funkiest and most collaborative
to date. -- read full article
Reuters - Britney Spears is "spending her
summer in the recording studio" working on a new album,
according to a statement issued by her camp Wednesday.
AP - "My heart is with them and all my love goes to them." — Jon Voight, after his daughter, Angelina Jolie, gave birth to twins in the south of France.
Reuters - China will ban all entertainers from
overseas, Hong Kong and Taiwan who have ever attended
activities that "threaten national sovereignty," the government
said on Thursday, after an outburst by Icelandic singer Bjork. -- read full article
Reuters - The lead singer of the popular Canadian
band the Barenaked Ladies will fight a recent cocaine charge in
the United States, the band said in a statement posted on its
website on Thursday.
AP - A biopsy will be performed on the kidney that was removed this week from Boston Symphony Orchestra and Metropolitan Orchestra music director James Levine, his brother said Wednesday.
AP - Bluegrass singer Del McCoury has a funny new song called "40 Acres and a Fool" about a city slicker who hits it big in the stock market and moves to the country to become a rancher.
Reuters - Grammy-winning singer Natalie Cole
has been diagnosed with Hepatitis C and probably contracted the
liver disease from drug use more than 30 years ago, according
to her publicist.
