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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Rock band Van Halen on Thursday postponed more than 30 concert dates of their U.S. summer tour, leading to speculation the "Runnin' with the Devil" group was feuding again. The band's official website, van-halen.com, took down all its dates after June 26, listing only 15 … [Read more...]
(Reuters) - Donna Summer, whose music dominated the 1970s disco era, died of cancer on Thursday at age 63, leaving a legacy of hit singles like "Love to Love You Baby," "Last Dance" and "Bad Girls." Summer, who won five Grammys and sold more than 130 million records worldwide, died surrounded by … [Read more...]
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Chuck Brown, known as the "Godfather of Go-Go" for the subgenre of funk music he helped create, died on Wednesday at the Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore after being admitted earlier this month suffering from pneumonia. A spokeswoman for the hospital … [Read more...]
By Tim Kenneally - LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - The MTV Video Music Awards ceremony is getting some roomier new digs. MTV's annual awards ceremony is moving to Los Angeles' Staples Center this year, giving it a lot more elbow room than its previous location, the Nokia Theatre. The Staples … [Read more...]
LAS VEGAS, May 15 (UPI) -- Jordin Sparks and John Legend are to perform a tribute to late pop icon Whitney Houston at Sunday's Billboard Music Awards show in Las Vegas, ABC said Tuesday. Houston is to be posthumously honored with the 2012 Billboard Millennium Award at the event, which her … [Read more...]
By Steve Gorman - LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Bassist Donald "Duck" Dunn, a member of Booker T. & the MGs whose thick bottom grooves anchored many of the classic soul hits from the 1960s, has died on tour in Japan, his friend and bandmate Steve Cropper said on Sunday. Dunn was 70. Dunn, an … [Read more...]
(Reuters) - Actress and singer Zooey Deschanel, the star of the hit television show "New Girl," will portray country music legend Loretta Lynn on Broadway in the upcoming stage adaptation of the award-winning film "Coal Miner's Daughter." Lynn made the announcement in a statement after … [Read more...]
By Piya Sinha-Roy - LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - To hear Tenacious D tell it, hard rock music is dead and they plan to resurrect it. That's no joke. Comedy-rock duo Tenacious D, formed 18 years ago by actors Jack Black and Kyle Gass, drop their third album, "Rize of the Fenix," next Tuesday, aiming … [Read more...]
By Catherine Bremer - PARIS (Reuters) - Punk music pioneer Iggy Pop - famous for onstage mayhem like smearing his sinewy torso with olive oil and diving headfirst into crowds - is mellowing in old age with a solo album of crooning classic covers, half of them in French. But at 65 years old it's … [Read more...]
LOS ANGELES, May 9 (UPI) -- Jermaine Paul, a father of four and former backup singer for Alicia Keys, has won Season 2 of the competition series "The Voice" in Los Angeles. "You did it! You did it!" his coach, country music star Blake Shelton, yelled upon hearing Paul's fate. Paul walked away from … [Read more...]
By Kimberly Potts - LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - For the second time this year, high altitudes wreaked havoc on "30 Rock" star Tracy Morgan, who had to be briefly hospitalized on Saturday when he became dehydrated and suffered flu-like symptoms in Denver. But the comedian, who had to miss a … [Read more...]
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York's legendary punk-rock music venue CBGB's may be on its way back -- in a new location with new music. New club investors are currently pursuing a permanent downtown Manhattan venue for the club that shuttered its doors in 2006, according to a club spokesman, who … [Read more...]
LOS ANGELES, May 5 (UPI) -- American pop group No Doubt announced on its Web site it will release its first studio album of fresh material in more than a decade this fall. The as-yet-untitled CD is to go on sale Sept. 25. "We are incredibly excited to share the new music with you. Ear candy … [Read more...]
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Adam Yauch, a founding member of pioneering hip-hop group the Beastie Boys, has died at age 47 after treatment for cancer, according to media reports. The website of rap mogul Russell Simmons, globalgrind.com, posted a headline saying it had "confirmed this very sad news," … [Read more...]
(Reuters) - Michael Jackson is dancing again, on Pepsi cans. The soft drink maker and the estate for the late pop star on Thursday unveiled plans to put the singer's silhouette on one billion soft drink cans in a global pop culture ad campaign. The late King of Pop, who pitched Pepsi in 1980s … [Read more...]
By Piya Sinha-Roy - LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Jack White scored his first No. 1 album ever on Wednesday as his debut solo "Blunderbuss" topped the Billboard 200, while the record also reigned over music charts in the United Kingdom, Canada and Switzerland in its initial week. "Blunderbuss," which … [Read more...]
