Reuters - Dec 31, 2006
We know that the Rolling Stones, Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw/Faith Hill and Dave Matthews Band will sell the heck out of tickets in 2007. But there is always a dark horse that rises seemingly out of nowhere...
More »Reuters - Aug 20, 2006
You can almost visualize the guy who provides the voice of Jack FM -- and when he crows about the station playing what we want, you want to smack that smug smile off his face. It s been 17 months since...
More »Reuters - Sep 22, 2005
The Voodoo Music Experience, which was to be held in New Orleans October 29-30, has been moved to Memphis Tom Lee Park in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Nine Inch Nails, which was on the New Orleans...
More »Reuters - Aug 9, 2005
David Bowie, Destiny s Child, Duran Duran, Gwen Stefani, Nelly and Tim McGraw lead the lineup for the Fashion Rocks concert, which will be held Sept. 8 at New York s Radio City Music Hall during the city...
More »Reuters - Jul 25, 2005
Lollapalooza staged its return during the weekend in the true underdog spirit of the counterculture it has always supported. Transformed into a single-site event at Chicago s Grant Park, the two-day...
More »Reuters - Jun 23, 2005
Perry Farrell will use next month s revived Lollapalooza festival in Chicago to unveil his new music/theater project, Satellite Party. He will be backed by former Extreme guitarist Nuno Bettencourt,...
More »Reuters - Jun 23, 2005
Perry Farrell will use next month s revived Lollapalooza festival in Chicago to unveil his new music/theater project, Satellite Party. He will be backed by former Extreme guitarist Nuno Bettencourt,...
More »E! Online - Jun 16, 2005
Perry Farrell is promising a whole new party at this year s Lollapalooza festival. The former Jane s Addiction frontman and Lollapalooza cofounder plans to debut the Satellite Party, his new band...
More »AP - May 26, 2005
Not every hot musical concert will be coming to a town near you. Some of the summer s most anticipated gigs are not tours, but destination music festivals. Among the biggest this year are the return of...
More »Reuters - May 25, 2005
Although he s entering his fifth decade, Billy Idol is a testament to the youth-preserving effects of rock n roll and a hedonistic lifestyle. Possessing a voice that can still growl with libidinous...
More »AP - May 20, 2005
The Vans Warped tour has become a venerable traveling punk rock circus as it heads into its 11th year, with a lineup of over 85 bands on six stages that includes The Offspring, Fall Out Boy and even the...
More »E! Online - Apr 22, 2005
Chicago is apparently Perry Farrell s kind of town. The Jane s Addiction frontman and Lollapalooza cofounder has dusted off his famed music festival for a two-day run in the Windy City this summer...
More »AP - Apr 22, 2005
Taking a cue from earlier tours, Lollapalooza s organizers on Friday announced a diverse lineup for this summer s reworked festival. Performers July 23 and 24 in Chicago s Grant Park will include the...
More »AP - Apr 6, 2005
Few musicians can boast the level of success that Billy Idol) attained in the 80s and early 90s. Unfortunately, the live hard and die young punk rock ethos doesn t come with a middle-age survival guide...
More »E! Online - Mar 30, 2005
Leave it to 50 Cent to turn this past month into the March Massacre. For the fourth straight week, 50 Cent s The Massacre remained the album that no one could unseat from the top of the charts. According...
More »Reuters - Mar 23, 2005
Although sales amounted to less than half those of the previous week, enough copies of 50 Cent s The Massacre made their way into the hands of consumers to keep the title at No. 1 on the Billboard 200...
More »AP - Sep 9, 2004
Fashion rocks and Beyonce put on shimmery hot-pants and Rod Stewart wore a three-piece suit with a pocket square to prove it. Beyonce and Stewart, along with Avril Lavigne , Mary J. Blige, Alicia...
More »Reuters - Aug 27, 2004
Britney Spears , Lenny Kravitz and Christina Aguilera have scrapped tours. Lollapalooza crashed and burned. The U.S. touring market has been in dire straits all summer. But a savior showed up in the...
More »Reuters - Jun 26, 2004
Instant Live, Clear Channel Entertainment s live concert CD program, has signed its first major-label artist. Billboard has learned that Atlantic Records artist Jewel will sell live CDs at select dates...
More »Reuters - May 31, 2004
Clear Channel Communications Inc. is under fire from smaller rivals worried that it will shut them out of the quickly growing business of offering live-concert CDs immediately after shows. San Antonio...
More »Reuters - May 4, 2004
Even though the third American Idol won t be chosen for another three weeks, the top 10 finalists have made plans for a summer North American tour together. As has become tradition, the top contestants...
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