Reuters - May 23, 2008
Aimee Mann named her new release @#%&! Smilers as a tongue-in-cheek protest of people who constantly prod others to put on a happy face, even when they don't feel like it. But as Mann herself admits...
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Here are reviews of recently released holiday CDs: Patti LaBelle, Miss Patti s Christmas (Def Soul) When it comes to Christmas music, Patti LaBelle is almost as experienced as the jolly fat man himself...
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As he did for the Grammy-winning soundtrack to 2004 s Garden State, actor/director Zach Braff has rounded up a range of rock acts for the soundtrack to his new film, The Last Kiss. In addition to songs...
More »E! Online - Oct 21, 2005
MTV s Latin American Music Video Awards have already been washed out by Wilma. So have the Beach Boys and ZZ Top. As the latest major hurricane of the season bears down on the Gulf Coast, officials...
More »Reuters - Oct 6, 2005
Eclectic music producer Jon Brion remains largely under the radar and unfazed despite being a central figure in one of the year s biggest hits and one of the record industry s biggest controversies....
More »Reuters - Sep 25, 2005
Bettye LaVette landed a top 10 R&B hit with her very first single. In 1962, when she was only 16, her My Man, He s a Loving Man peaked at No. 7. The following 43 years, however, have not been as kind...
More »Reuters - Aug 30, 2005
Even when she s in love, Juliana Hatfield is miserable. Not that she always realizes it. The durable singer-songwriter, who says she is always frustrated and anxious and pissed-off and depressed, has...
More »E! Online - Aug 15, 2005
Fiona Apple has been sprung. The angsty singer-songwriter s long-gestating Extraordinary Machine will hit stores Oct. 4, her label, Epic Records, announced Monday, ending months of speculation that...
More »AP - Aug 15, 2005
Fiona Apple is ending her curiously long hiatus from the business of making music. A year after 11 tracks were leaked onto the Internet, drawing praise from critics and fans, Epic Records announced Monday...
More »AP - Aug 10, 2005
In 2000, the Churchills thought they had it made. The New York-based pop band had landed a major-label record deal and were fixed up with producer Mark Hart, former keyboardist with the seminal Australian...
More »E! Online - May 11, 2005
Nine Inch Nails have taken a bite out of the competition. The industrial alt-rock mavens first official studio release in six years, With Teeth, debuted atop the pop charts for the week ending Sunday...
More »AP - May 3, 2005
Here s an image hard to get out of your head: wiry singer-songwriter Aimee Mann), chronicler of the emotionally fragile, whaling the tar out of somebody in a boxing ring. You re as likely to find her...
More »AP - Apr 29, 2005
A die-hard Beatles fan, Jim Boggia wasn t satisfied with throwing Get Back on the CD player to celebrate an anniversary of the band s final live performance on the rooftop of a London music studio....
More »Reuters - Mar 8, 2005
Singer-songwriter Michael Penn utilized the post-World War II state of 1947 Los Angeles as the context for his new studio album, Mr. Hollywood, Jr. -- 1947. The set is due June 28 via Penn s own Mimeograph...
More »AP - Dec 15, 2004
Like that smiling skydiver on the deodorant ads? Can t get enough of his sunny joshing on MTV s Pimp My Ride ? Prepare to meet the cunning, sometimes caustic musician Xzibit was before becoming an actor...
More »Reuters - Nov 15, 2004
Singer/songwriter Aimee Mann revisits an earlier time and place on her next Superego album, The Forgotten Arm, due in March. It s a concept album and the concept, the vibe of the album, kind of dictated...
More »Reuters - Oct 22, 2004
There is a temptation to joke that William Shatner has gone where no artist has gone before with his new album Has Been. But the forever Star Trek star has, in fact, previously recorded his inimitable...
More »AP - Oct 15, 2004
Just in time for Halloween comes a CD from a guy more likely to inspire a holiday costume than a musical following — William Shatner . The one-time James T. Kirk of Star Trek fame has released an...
More »Reuters - Jun 23, 2004
Ben Folds is pushing back the release date of his next solo album to early 2005 in order to give Star Trek veteran William Shatner s upcoming collection, Has Been, his full attention. The set is being...
More »Reuters - Mar 26, 2004
Performers at the nation s biggest gathering of bands here always face Vegas-style odds. Yet acts ranging from major-label properties to unsigned regional groups -- more than 1,200 in all this year --...
More »USRN - Oct 21, 2002
(10/21/02, 12 p.m. ET) -- Aimee Mann will appear on the November 19 episode of UPN s Buffy The Vampire Slayer, performing at the show s hang-out nightclub, the Bronze, in the fictitious town of Sunnydale...
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