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(Reuters) Ray Manzarek, a founding member and keyboardist of 1960s rock group The Doors, died on Monday at age 74, the group's manager Tom Vitorino said. Manzarek died in Rosenheim, Germany, following a battle with bile duct cancer, the band said in a statement. Singer Jim Morrison and … [Read more...]
By Alexei Oreskovic and Edwin Chan - SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) Google Inc launched a music service on Wednesday that allows users to listen to unlimited songs for $9.99 a month, challenging smaller companies like Pandora and Spotify in the market for streaming music. With its new service, … [Read more...]
BRUSSELS (Reuters) Warner Music won EU regulatory approval on Wednesday to buy the Parlophone Label Group from Vivendi's Universal Music Group for 487 million pounds ($743.01 million). World No. 1 recorded music company Universal is selling Parlophone, whose artists include Coldplay and Daft … [Read more...]
By Patricia Reaney (Reuters) Candice Glover, a soul singer from rural South Carolina, was named "American Idol" on Thursday, becoming the first female singer to win the television singing competition since 2007. Glover, 23, defeated country singer Kree Harrison in the popular vote with her … [Read more...]
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) Guitarist Jeff Hanneman of the seminal heavy metal band Slayer died of alcohol-related cirrhosis of the liver, and not as a result of a flesh-eating bacteria, the remaining members of the U.S. band said. Hanneman, a founder of the band, which was known for its fast tempo, … [Read more...]
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) Veteran "American Idol" judge Randy Jackson said on Thursday he was leaving the Fox TV singing contest to focus on his other business ventures. Jackson, who has been a judge on the show since its start in 2002, made the announcement amid falling ratings and rampant rumors … [Read more...]
Offers instant download for funding film By James DeRuvo (doddleNEWS) Every filmmaker knows that Indiegogo is a great portal for crowd funding to raise money for your pet film project. But one director has taken that meme a step further by leveraging the fundraising site for another purpose... … [Read more...]
By David Jones - NEWARK, New Jersey (Reuters) A U.S. magistrate judge sentenced Grammy-winning hip hop artist Lauryn Hill to three months in prison, three months in home confinement and a $60,000 fine on Monday for federal tax evasion. Hill pleaded guilty last year to three counts of failing to … [Read more...]
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) Justin Timberlake will embark on an international tour in October - his first in six years - and will release 10 new songs at the end of September, concert promoter Live Nation said on Monday. "The 20/20 Experience," the singer's first album in seven years, was released in … [Read more...]
By Sue Zeidler - LOS ANGELES (Reuters) Wild horses couldn't drag many of the most die-hard of Rolling Stones fans to the kick-off of the band's North American tour - at least not at prices of up to a whopping $600 a ticket. Three weeks after tickets went on sale, and a day before the British … [Read more...]
ATLANTA (Reuters) - Chris "Mac Daddy" Kelly, one half of the 1990s rap duo Kris Kross, has died at an Atlanta hospital at the age of 34, a Fulton County Medical Examiner's spokesman said on Wednesday. Dumonder Dawson, an investigator for the medical examiner's office, said Kelly died on … [Read more...]
By Mark Hodge (doddleNEWS) Some of the most successful Hollywood remakes involve rebooting the original story and taking it in a completely different direction. Easily, one of the most bizarre examples of this is the hip-hop version of Annie (1982), which is currently in development. The … [Read more...]
LONDON (Reuters) - British film studio Pinewood Shepperton, home of the James Bond movies, plans to build its first movie, television and music studio in the United States, part of an international expansion strategy launched in 2009. The owner of Europe's largest film studio, Pinewood said on … [Read more...]
LONDON (Reuters) - French electronic duo Daft Punk notched up their first number one in Britain's official singles charts on Sunday, dislodging London drum'n'bass quartet Rudimental who were pushed into the number two spot. Daft Punk's song "Get Lucky", featuring the guest vocals of Pharrell … [Read more...]
(Reuters) - The Rolling Stones will play a "surprise" gig for fans in Los Angeles on Saturday, a week ahead of kicking off a U.S. tour to mark 50 years in the music business. Hundreds of fans, alerted on the band's Twitter account, lined up from as early as 5 a.m. on Saturday to get hold of the … [Read more...]
By Bill Trott (Reuters) George Jones, a classic country singer with a voice full of raw honky-tonk emotion and a life full of honky-tonk turmoil, died on Friday at the age of 81, his spokesman said. Jones, whose career spanned more than six decades and included hits such as "He Stopped Loving … [Read more...]
