AP - Dierks Bentley and his band recently jetted to Australia to open six shows for Brooks & Dunn, playing to more than 10,000 people a night in the country's largest cities.
Reuters - British rocker Pete Doherty has been fined by Swiss authorities after his British Airways flight landed in Geneva, police in the city said on Monday. -- read full article
Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:16:14 GMT - Yahoo! News: Music News
Reuters - Kris Allen, winner of U.S. TV's top-rated singing contest "American Idol," has signed a record deal with producer 19 Recordings, and his debut album is expected to be released this coming fall through Jive Records. -- read full article
Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:45:58 GMT - Yahoo! News: Music News
Reuters - An Arizona judge on Monday sentenced rapper DMX to probation for allegedly throwing a food tray at a detention officer inside a Phoenix jail. -- read full article
Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:56:29 GMT - Yahoo! News: Music News
AP - Rapper DMX was sentenced Monday to more than a year of probation, avoiding more time in Arizona jails after spending two years in and out of the state's legal system.
Reuters - The Dirty Projectors' last two releases, "The Getty Address" and "Rise Above," were lo-fi concept albums built around inscrutable song structures. Given the Brooklyn-based indie band's track record, "Stillness Is the Move" -- the group's pop-confection first single from the forthcoming album "Bitte Orca" -- represents a jarring departure. -- read full article
Mon, 08 Jun 2009 01:20:03 GMT - Yahoo! News: Music News
AP - A blind pianist from Japan and a teenager from China won gold medals Sunday at the 13th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, making history as the first winners from any Asian country. -- read full article
Mon, 08 Jun 2009 01:56:53 GMT - Yahoo! News: Music News
Reuters - Talk about a dream come true. Just five months after being granted political asylum in the United States, the Cuban pianist Alfredo Rodriguez won a place on the slate of performers at the 31st annual Playboy Jazz Festival. And that's not all. The jazz/classical enthusiast is also working on his first album with an industry icon: Quincy Jones. -- read full article
Mon, 08 Jun 2009 02:12:22 GMT - Yahoo! News: Music News
Reuters - Mark McGrath, the lead singer of Sugar Ray and former host of the celebrity news show "Extra," has often employed an old political tactic for his career: Set expectations low so success seems all the sweeter. -- read full article
Mon, 08 Jun 2009 02:56:39 GMT - Yahoo! News: Music News