Reuters - If Mount Rushmore featured rock 'n' rollers instead of U.S. presidents, the faces of Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen would surely be carved there. -- read full article
Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:19:58 GMT - Yahoo! News: Music News
Reuters - Top black performers paid high tribute to fallen pop star Michael Jackson at Sunday's BET Awards where his sister Janet Jackson and father Joe Jackson made their first public appearances since the singer's death. -- read full article
Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:25:29 GMT - Yahoo! News: Music News
AP - Michael Jackson's mother, Katherine, is taking care of the singer's three children and the family will go to court Monday in part to protect her rights to custody, the family's spokesman said.
Reuters - Some of the biggest names in rock have banded together to form a new supergroup. They call it Chickenfoot, a name they readily admit is "silly."
E! Online - Hours after proclaiming Dr. Conrad Murray is nothing more than a witness to Michael Jackson's death, the physician's attorney is now insisting that the doctor did not give or prescribe the pop icon Demerol or OxyContin.
AP - Michael Jackson's mother asked a Superior Court judge on Monday to name her administrator of her late son's estate so she can ensure the King of Pop's three children are its beneficiaries.
Reuters - David Garrett has a No. 1 album on his hands. The classical violinist's self-titled U.S. debut has been No. 1 on Billboard's Top Classical Crossover Albums chart for three weeks. But this isn't Garrett's first brush with stardom. -- read full article
Mon, 29 Jun 2009 03:23:21 GMT - Yahoo! News: Music News
Reuters - Country singer Tracy Lawrence's life has had an interesting trajectory, from hero to hellraiser to heaven-bound family man. The latest chapter is chronicled on "The Rock," his first Christian album. -- read full article
Mon, 29 Jun 2009 03:24:50 GMT - Yahoo! News: Music News
Reuters - Most guitarists would be perturbed to discover that their label was issuing their band's latest album with a bonus CD of the songs stripped of the guitar.
Reuters - Susanna Hoffs, the petite rock singer/guitarist whose band the Bangles remains one of the most enduring all-girl groups in history, has always had an ear for a good cover. "I taught myself music by listening to music," she says. "I would become obsessed with certain songs, and I taught myself how to sing by copying records." -- read full article
Mon, 29 Jun 2009 03:30:49 GMT - Yahoo! News: Music News