AP - Members of the 1980s rock band whose pyrotechnics sparked a nightclub fire that killed 100 people have agreed to pay $1 million to survivors and victims' relatives, according to court papers filed Tuesday.
AP - Jerry Reed, a singer who became a good ol' boy actor in car chase movies like "Smokey and the Bandit," has died of complications from emphysema at 71.
AP - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has ordered a concert promoter to pay R&B singer-songwriter Ne-Yo $700,000 stemming from A lawsuit filed earlier this year.
Reuters - Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott
Weiland will release his second solo album on November 18, a
decade after his first solo outing hit stores.
E! Online - If Amy Winehouse thinks she can take an unlimited number of sick days without consequence, some French officials have a message for her: au contraire.
Reuters - A year after country group Little
Big Town released its third album through an indie label, it
will be reissued -- with four additional cuts and new artwork
-- by Capitol Records Nashville on October 14.
Reuters - Paperless ticketing is emerging
as a potential weapon in the efforts of some touring acts to
eliminate resellers from the ticket-buying equation.
AP - Jerry Reed, a singer who appeared in the "Smokey and the Bandit" movies, has died of complications from emphysema at age 71, his longtime booking agent said Tuesday. -- read full article
Reuters - The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization
is in talks to sell its catalog of Broadway musical show tunes
and standards to major music companies for between $150 million
and $200 million, according to people familiar with the matter.
AP - The dramatic struggle played out backstage, pitting the great-grandchildren of composer Richard Wagner for control of the legendary festival dedicated to his music.
