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Iggy Pop was starting to feel like the Susan Lucci of rock 'n' roll.
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After two delays, Lil Wayne finally made our recent cover line Lil Wayne Goes to Jail come true this week. We focused on Weezy’s better days by looking back at his career in photos.
Faith No More announced they’re bringing their reunion show to the East Coast with a show in Brooklyn, New York. [...]
An industry conference with a borderline spring-break-type atmosphere, the annual South by Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas, opens this weekend with interactive and film events. The music business and the media won't descend upon the Texas capital until Tuesday and...
Reuters - To celebrate the 200th birthday of Frederic Chopin, Decca Records and Deutsche Grammophon are putting 21st-century marketing to work.
Slash heard the reports about his former bandmate Axl Rose banning fans
wearing Slash-related T-shirts and top hats from the current Guns N' Roses
tour but he's not sure he believes it.
Mark Holmes, the lead singer of '80s pop band Platinum Blonde broke down
during the group's induction into the Canadian Music and Broadcast Industry
Hall of Fame on Friday afternoon in Toronto, as part of Canadian music week.
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The worst day of the year is upon us: Daylight Savings. This Sunday we’ll lose an hour and feel like crap all week thanks to our sleep deficit. But instead of dwelling on those lost 60 minutes (we hardly knew ya!), we’re going to focus our energy on coming up with the [...]
Reuters - Lawyers for music producer Phil Spector have appealed his conviction for killing a Hollywood actress, claiming the trial judge made several errors including introducing new evidence at his second trial.
Let’s get ready for the weekend with some wild & woolly American new wave from the late 70s/early 80s. I don’t know about you but some days I feel like the B-52’s are the best band of ever. It was super cool to find this video of them playing “Rock Lobster” live at what looks [...]
Brooks & Dunn have landed a star-studded lineup for their "Last Rodeo" concert special to be filmed following the Academy of Country Music Awards in Las Vegas.
Josh Dubovie is voted the winner of this year's Eurovision talent search Your Country Needs You!.

Reuters - With his Public Image Ltd. back in action on the road, John Lydon is also looking forward to recording new music with the band.
Green Day’s American Idiot begins previews on Broadway in two weeks and we’re stoked (obviously) but that’s not the only musical we’ve got our eyes on this spring. Next month the Berkeley Repertory Theater will premiere Girlfriend, a new show built around the perfect pop confections of Matthew Sweet’s 1991 album — a.k.a. the best [...]
Drake hopped a plane from his hometown of Toronto to sunny Los Angeles, where he is shooting the video for “Over” today.
Rap-Up.com has learned that Anthony Mandler is directing the clip for the first single from Drizzy’s debut album Thank Me Later. The filmmaker has helmed videos for Rihanna (“Russian Roulette”), Beyoncé (“Irreplaceable”), Jay-Z [...]
Meat Loaf's musical comeback will be based around a concept album about a dying soldier. The rocker will release "Hang Cool Teddy Bear" in May, and he reveals the whole album is about a mysterious ...
Rumours emerge that Bob Dylan is in line to headline this year's Hop Farm Festival in Kent.

A musical based on the life of Ray Charles is headed to Broadway this fall.
You may have heard her powerful voice when she fills in for Alicia Keys on Jay-Z’s New York anthem “Empire State of Mind.” Now Bridget Kelly is making a name for herself as the First Lady of Roc Nation.
The R&B songstress, who can currently be seen rocking arenas nationwide with her label boss, is [...]
Sharon Osbourne has blasted reports her daughter Kelly's new slimline look is down to surgery - insisting her radiant appearance is because she's in a "good place".
Glendale, Calif. (AP) - A member of the pop group Girlicious has been charged in California with drug possession with the intent to sell after Glendale police allegedly found a dozen plastic bags o...
Lady Gaga upped the ante for supersized music videos last night with her Tarantino homage “Telephone,” which co-stars Beyoncé in a homoerotic rampage of capitalistic ultra-violence. Gaga’s been down this road before — “Paparazzi” was an eight-minute cinematic epic — but Michael Jackson truly pioneered the long music video with “Thriller,” “Bad,” “Ghosts,” “Black or [...]
When Black Rebel Motorcycle Club took the stage of the Echoplex on Thursday night, the group had a few things to prove. After breaking out in 2001 with a huge buzz -- and not just the one coming from that...
Selena Gomez confirms details of her first ever concert in the UK.
T-Pain and Lil Wayne's collaboration album will still be released despite the latter's jail sentence.
Kate Nash reveals that she took a break after her first LP to get away from music and do "normal things".
Around 160 people are arrested following a fan riot outside a Metallica gig in Colombia.
Although temporarily barred from appearing on TV, Conan O’Brien will keep himself visible by launching a comedy tour later this spring. One of his final stops is Bonnaroo, where the comedian will likely perform on the festival’s main stage — à la Chris Rock, who appeared in 2008 — to upwards of 75,000 attendees. [RollingStone.com]
Following [...]
Shakira reveals that she can relate to her new single 'Gypsy' because she is constantly travelling.
Drake lends his voice to a charity single to raise relief for Haiti, along with fellow Canadian artists Justin Bieber, Avril Lavigne, Fefe Dobson, Kardinal Offishall, Nelly Furtado, and more. The song is a remake of K’naan’s inspirational anthem “Wavin’ Flag.”
“Drake absolutely floored me with his intelligence, his funky-ness, his sensitivity, and his brilliant [...]
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Elton John has a famous fan in Lady Gaga, but not everyone appreciates the awesome power of “Tiny Dancer.” A Georgia man was arrested Wednesday for making terrorist threats against Sir Elton. Last month Neal Horsley, 65, posted a YouTube video of himself standing in front of the singer’s Atlanta apartment complex holding [...]
Movie mogul JERRY WEINTRAUB regrets failing to reconcile with late folk singer JOHN DENVER before his fatal 1997 plane crash, because pair ended their business relationship...
Brazilian singer/songwriter and 'father of Bossa Nova' JOHNNY ALF has lost his battle with prostate cancer.Alf, born Alfredo Jose da Silva, died on 4 March (10) in...
Tragic actor COREY HAIM's ex-girlfriend NICOLE EGGERT has launched a one-woman crusade to track down the pervert who ruined the LOST BOYS star's life by molesting him when he...
A representative for KATIE HOLMES has dismissed reports the actress is expecting her second child with husband TOM CRUISE.Recent tabloid reports suggested the Dawson's...
AMANDA SEYFRIED was left red-faced at the premiere of her MEAN GIRLS movie debut in 2004 - because she couldn't afford a stylist and ended up wearing an outfit which...
MATT DAMON's children are unaware their dad is a famous movie star - because they're so used to seeing themselves on screen as a result of new technology.The Bourne...
PATRICK DEMPSEY's time playing a doctor on GREY'S ANATOMY has made him so confident in medical emergencies he dishes out advice to real-life physicians.The actor shot...