AP - Danny Gokey was so shocked by his young wife's sudden death last summer that he couldn't cry during her funeral at Faith Builders International Ministries.
Reuters - Activision Blizzard is releasing three new music-based video games this year -- "DJ Hero," "Guitar Hero 5" and "Band Hero" -- and has confirmed that "Guitar Hero: Van Halen" is on tap. -- read full article
Fri, 08 May 2009 19:38:22 GMT - Yahoo! News: Music News
Reuters - Jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard's first posthumous release, "Without a Song: Live In Europe 1969," will surface on June 2. -- read full article
Fri, 08 May 2009 19:40:24 GMT - Yahoo! News: Music News
AP - Investigators said no one has been cleared in a fire that destroyed 50 Cent's Long Island mansion, despite the rapper's claim that he is not a suspect.
Reuters - It's April in Manhattan but winter is lingering, a fact Billy Joel notices as he looks out the window of his West Village townhouse. -- read full article
Fri, 08 May 2009 20:41:42 GMT - Yahoo! News: Music News
Reuters - Spanish opera singer Jose Carreras, one of the famed "Three Tenors" along with Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti, announced his retirement from opera in a newspaper interview published on Friday. -- read full article
Fri, 08 May 2009 21:08:47 GMT - Yahoo! News: Music News
Reuters - A lineup change, a new label, a film score and a few new songs are in store for fans of indie rock band The Shins, which returned to the road this past week after an eighteen-month break. -- read full article
Fri, 08 May 2009 22:24:28 GMT - Yahoo! News: Music News
Reuters - According to Taking Back Sunday bassist Matt Rubano, one common thread links every song by his New York five-piece, which has experienced more than its fair share of lineup shifts since forming in 1999. -- read full article
Sat, 09 May 2009 03:22:59 GMT - Yahoo! News: Music News
Reuters - Oakland rap legend Del the Funky Homosapien, like all musicians, is coming to grips with a rapidly changing music industry. Unlike most, though, he's looking to himself for the solution, personally bankrolling his new album, "Funk Man (The Stimulus Package)," and releasing it as a free download. -- read full article
Sat, 09 May 2009 03:23:48 GMT - Yahoo! News: Music News
Reuters - Bob Dylan's recent trifecta of "Time Out of Mind," "Love and Theft" and "Modern Times" represents the kind of late-career renaissance so many stars shoot for and nobody achieves. -- read full article
Sat, 09 May 2009 03:46:47 GMT - Yahoo! News: Music News