Reuters - Los Lobos will release a children's
album filled with Disney classics in November, a disc that
fulfills the roots-rockers' contract with their Disney-owned
Hollywood Records label. -- read full article
Reuters - Katy Perry's "I Kissed a Girl" is
fast becoming the anthem of the summer, logging a fourth week
at No. 1 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart. -- read full article
AP - MONTREAL (AP) — Paul McCartney told Quebec nationalists on Thursday "to smoke the pipes of peace" over their opposition to his free concert celebrating the city's 400th anniversary.
AP - WASHINGTON (AP) — During his tenure at the Federal Communications Commission, Jonathan Adelstein has been a fierce critic of government policies that allow big media companies to get bigger. So it came as a surprise when the Democratic commissioner put forth a proposal that would allow the nation's only two satellite radio companies to merge.
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.
