AP - A New Jersey concert promoter has sued entertainer Michael Jackson for $40 million for allegedly breaching a contract to play a reunion concert with other family members. -- read full article
Thu, 11 Jun 2009 03:32:45 GMT - Yahoo! News: Music News
AP - The half-Filipino lead vocalist for the American pop group Pussycat Dolls says she wants to sing the Philippine national anthem when boxing champion Manny Pacquiao fights again.
AP - Twenty-five culturally significant recordings including a 70-year-old radio broadcast of Marian Anderson's recital at the Lincoln Memorial, Dylan Thomas reading of "A Child's Christmas in Wales" and Winston Churchill's post-World War II speech that coined the term Iron Curtain will be preserved in a special sound archive. -- read full article
Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:01:49 GMT - Yahoo! News: Music News
AP - Late-1980s pop artist Henry Lee Summer has a court's permission to enter drug rehabilitation in Nashville, Tenn., while he awaits a trial in Indianapolis on methamphetamine possession and other charges.
AP - Which top-selling artist purportedly had his new single yanked from some radio stations playlists in retaliation for supporting royalties for musicians? -- read full article
Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:17:26 GMT - Yahoo! News: Music News
Reuters - If someone had told Swedish soprano Agneta Eichenholz she'd make her debut with Britain's Royal Opera singing the lead in Alban Berg's sinister and dark "Lulu," she'd have thought it was a prank. -- read full article
Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:56:54 GMT - Yahoo! News: Music News