Reuters - Apr 14, 2008
David Bowie, Blondie and Gnarls Barkley publisher Chrysalis Group Plc said on Tuesday it had ended talks with would-be buyers after rejecting a 104 million pound ($205.4 million), 155 pence-per-share...
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EMI Group, which recently outlined a painful restructuring plan, has made a bid for independent music label Chrysalis Group PLC, a newspaper reported Friday. The report in The Times also said that Warner...
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David Bowie has donated $10,000 to a legal defense fund for six black teens charged in an alleged attack on a white classmate in the tiny central Louisiana town of Jena. The British rocker s donation...
More »Reuters - Apr 21, 2007
Iggy Pop marked his 60th birthday on Saturday just like any other respectable senior citizen would. The eerily athletic Godfather of Punk stripped down to a tight pair of blue jeans and dived off the...
More »Reuters - Apr 4, 2007
Veteran rock duo They Might Be Giants will return July 10 with their first new rock album in three years, The Else. The 13-track Universal release was produced by the Dust Brothers, who previously...
More »Yahoo! Music - Mar 27, 2007
David Bowie has announced the provisional lineup for his upcoming High Line Festival. Arcade Fire, Air, Deerhoof, the Polyphonic Spree, Secret Machines, and Ricky Gervais are all set to appear. The...
More »E! Online - Mar 27, 2007
David Bowie's always been a space oddity. But little did we know he's into urban oddities as well. After much buzz, the erstwhile Ziggy Stardust has finally revealed the lineup for New...
More »Reuters - Mar 26, 2007
David Bowie will bring hot indie band Arcade Fire, English comedian Ricky Gervais, and an 87-year-old spoken-word poet to the inaugural High Line Festival, which will take place in New York in May, organizers...
More »Reuters - Mar 20, 2007
A frustrated Iggy Pop barked at camera operators and grew tired of answering questions from fans during a secret show with his reunited punk band the Stooges in Los Angeles on Tuesday. The nine-song...
More »Reuters - Mar 18, 2007
Arcade Fire's Intervention is most likely the only Coolest Song there will ever be that waits a minute and a half for the drums to enter. The Montreal-based band is part of the new indie mainstream...
More »E! Online - Mar 5, 2007
Is it a rush of hype to the head or is Coldplay on verge of issuing some "genius" new music? The Grammy-winning, multiplatinum-selling rockers have announced plans to return to the studio...
More »Reuters - Feb 28, 2007
A British court ruled on Wednesday that U.S. rap star Sean Diddy Combs had breached an agreement with a London-based record producer not to use the alias Diddy in Britain. However, the judgment stopped...
More »Reuters - Feb 11, 2007
Music greats such as Joan Baez, The Doors and The Grateful Dead won lifetime achievement awards on Saturday, although many of those honored did not live long enough to receive them. The National Academy...
More »Reuters - Jan 19, 2007
Having toured last year with his A Tribe Called Quest mates for the first time since 2000, Q-Tip is back on the solo beat. The New York-based rapper is gearing up for the spring release of The Renaissance...
More »Reuters - Jan 1, 2007
Billboard presents a look at the music you ll be hearing a lot about in the first quarter: JOHN MELLENCAMP Freedom s Road (Universal, January 23) Mellencamp s first album of originals since 2001...
More »Reuters - Dec 25, 2006
The songs of David Bowie were given a Portuguese makeover by Brazilian artist Seu Jorge, and his album became a surprise success on the year-end Top World Albums chart. Jorge s album, The Life Aquatic...
More »Reuters - Dec 3, 2006
In the Windmill, a dingy pub in south London, a rock band with a smouldering male singer is on stage, driving the sweating crowd wild with raw guitar riffs. Another night on London s thriving gig scene...
More »Yahoo! Music - Oct 11, 2006
David Bowie is to star in a forthcoming episode of SpongeBob Squarepants, it has been announced. The rock n roll legend confirmed news of his appearance in the cult animated show in the blog on his official...
More »Reuters - Oct 11, 2006
British rock legend David Bowie s career will take a dive next year -- as he joins the cast of the popular underwater cartoon SpongeBob SquarePants for a guest appearance. Bowie said on his Web site...
More »Reuters - Oct 10, 2006
Attracting big-name acts like Rod Stewart, the Eagles, Norah Jones, Def Leppard, Tony Bennett, Santana and David Bowie to a tertiary market might be unusual for some venues, but it s not uncommon for...
More »Reuters - Sep 29, 2006
Composer Steve Reich does not expect his memorial piece for Daniel Pearl to stop what he calls the medieval religious war that claimed the reporter s life. He just wants to keep Pearl s name alive....
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