Reuters - Family bluegrass band Cherryholmes
is pulling out all the stops this fall with a new album,
documentary, symphony dates and its first attempt to cross over
to country radio. -- read full article
Reuters - The ninth-best-selling comedy album
of 2008, according to Nielsen SoundScan, is a 5-year-old
release by a man who has been dead for three years. -- read full article
Reuters - Five years after Beto Cuevas told
his bandmates in the wildly successful rock band La Ley that he
wanted to go solo, he's gotten his wish. -- read full article
Reuters - For a band that makes such edgy,
experimental music, TV on the Radio is almost quaint when it
comes to its business strategy. -- read full article
Reuters - Leading R&B drummer Earl Palmer,
best known for his New Orleans recording sessions with the
likes of Fats Domino and Little Richard, died on Friday at his
home in Los Angeles at age 84, his family said. -- read full article
Reuters - R&B/pop singer-songwriter Christina
Milian, who departed the label Def Jam in 2006, has signed a
deal with MySpace Records, Billboard has learned. -- read full article
Reuters - After last year's foray into jazz
with the Dinah Washington tribute album "Destination Moon,"
singer-songwriter Deborah Cox shifts into R&B mode with "The
Promise." -- read full article
AP - Earl Palmer, the session drummer whose pioneering backbeats were recorded on such classics as Little Richard's "Tutti Frutti" and The Righteous Brothers' "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'," has died. He was 84.
AP - Seal, Warren Beatty, Annette Bening and other celebrities gathered to toast movie producer Arnon Milchan during a Hollywood event at Paramount Studios that celebrated the 60th anniversary of Israel.
Reuters - A French municipal library has
discovered a musical score handwritten by Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart in its archives, the Nantes town hall said on Thursday.
E! Online - Not that their tween legions needed any more fuel for their obsession, but the Jonas Brothers have just come up with a foolproof way of ensuring the loyalty of their minions: promising to marry their biggest fans.
