AP - In a small, unadorned studio far removed from cameras, spotlights and songs ending with an instant review, the top 10 "American Idol" finalists are getting ready for a nationwide tour.
Reuters - Bruce Springsteen will play an extra-long set and the sun will shine at the world's biggest green field arts and music festival this year, Glastonbury Festival founder Michael Eavis said.
AP - From the moment she rolls on stage in a 1929 Buick for the opening party scene of Verdi's "La Traviata," Anna Netrebko pretty much obliterates everything in her path.
AP - Police have charged the tour manager of the Black Eyed Peas with assault after he allegedly gave celebrity blogger Perez Hilton a black eye outside a Toronto nightclub.
Reuters - Chris Daughtry is famous -- hard not to be, what with the "American Idol" thing and the heartthrob thing and Grammy Award nomination thing and the gazillion records sold thing.
Reuters - It all started with a lost voice and a missing tour bus. Alison Mosshart sings for the Kills, the dirty blues-rock band that opened for the Raconteurs last fall, when Jack White lost his voice. -- read full article
Mon, 22 Jun 2009 03:02:40 GMT - Yahoo! News: Music News
Reuters - Rock band Nickelback swept Canada's MuchMusic Video Awards Sunday, as their hit "Gotta Be Somebody" won for best video, best rock video and best postproduction.
AP - Madonna's new daughter has flown out of her native Malawi on a private jet headed for London, an airport employee and a person familiar with Madonna's adoption proceedings in this southern African country said Saturday.
Reuters - Eg White isn't a household name, yet his songs are famous throughout the world, including co-writes like Adele's "Chasing Pavements" and Duffy's "Warwick Avenue." -- read full article
Sun, 21 Jun 2009 03:11:12 GMT - Yahoo! News: Music News
Reuters - When guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and vocalist/lyricist Cedric Bixler-Zavala left At the Drive-In to form the Mars Volta, the duo burst out of the confines of post-punk into a kind of sprawling, Latin-infused prog that has been called everything from utterly brilliant to completely inscrutable. -- read full article
Sun, 21 Jun 2009 03:15:27 GMT - Yahoo! News: Music News