AP - Jul 24, 2009
Lenny Kravitz s concert in Bosnia offered a rare glimpse of international glamor in a nation still struggling with the aftermath of a devastating ethnic war. The rock star thanked his audience in the...
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Lenny Kravitz is not the kind of person who spends much time thinking about the past. So the rocker found it surreal to work on his latest project, which is, in essence, his first project the...
More »Reuters - Apr 8, 2009
Rock star Lenny Kravitz has received fan mail from the bling bling president himself -- France's Nicolas Sarkozy, dubbed thus for his fondness for fashion and the high life. Kravitz, in Paris to...
More »AP - Feb 12, 2008
Lenny Kravitz was taken to the hospital Tuesday and will postpone his upcoming European tour due to a bout of bronchitis. Kravitz was set to begin the tour this week. It was to run through the end of...
More »E! Online - Feb 12, 2008
Lenny Kravitz's Love Revolution will proceed as soon as he lets his health rule. The retro rocker was hospitalized in Miami on Monday with a severe case of bronchitis, his publicist has announced...
More »Reuters - Feb 11, 2008
Rock star Lenny Kravitz was admitted to a Miami hospital on Monday suffering from severe bronchitis, a spokeswoman for the singer said. The 43-year-old musician had been suffering from a series of severe...
More »Reuters - Dec 30, 2007
What's the biz to do when the top-selling album of 2007 was a Christmas project released in November, Josh Groban's Noel, and the second-best was a soundtrack to Disney's High School Musical...
More »AP - Sep 25, 2007
Lenny Kravitz s upcoming album is titled, It Is Time for a Love Revolution, with songs including Love Love Love and Will You Marry Me. But anyone expecting a confessional on his romantic life may be disappointed...
More »Reuters - Jul 5, 2007
The Live Earth concert in Rio de Janeiro was expected to go ahead after organizers overcame security concerns and a judge lifted a ban on the climate change awareness event on Thursday. The show is...
More »E! Online - Jun 26, 2007
Cross Istanbul off the Live Earth list. Turkey's largest city has dropped plans to host a July 7 concert as part of the planet-spanning effort to raise awareness about global warming. Organizers...
More »AP - Apr 25, 2007
Troy Trombone Shorty Andrews remembers hanging out at local jazz clubs with the Neville Brothers and knocking on the door of trumpeter Kermit Ruffins for help with a song he couldn t quite get. But...
More »AP - Feb 15, 2007
Al Gore announced on Thursday a series of worldwide concerts to focus on the threat of climate change, with a powerhouse lineup from the Red Hot Chili Peppers to Snoop Dogg to Bon Jovi. The 24-hour...
More »Reuters - Sep 3, 2006
Tori Amos radical reworking of Smells Like Teen Spirit and the camp rendering of Dancing in the Street by David Bowie and Mick Jagger are among the tracks collected for a covers compilation CD that will...
More »AP - Aug 28, 2006
Ticket sales have been far from spectacular, but Ivan Neville says performing at the same Hurricane Katrina anniversary concert Tuesday night as Stevie Wonder is going to be incredible no matter how many...
More »Reuters - Aug 28, 2006
You may have seen the recent photos of Bob Dylan looking uncannily like Charlie Chaplin, and his 44th album, Modern Times, shares a title with Chaplin s 1936 classic about automation, big business and...
More »Reuters - Aug 27, 2006
Before Hurricane Katrina hit, Tanio Hingle lived in a house in the Treme section of New Orleans with his wife and three kids, gigging around town with the New Birth Brass Band. The eight-piece played...
More »Reuters - Aug 15, 2006
Karl Wallinger s World Party was more like an exclusive club Monday at the Roxy. Thirteen years ago, when Wallinger and company shared a bill with Lenny Kravitz on a massive outdoor stage at Disney World...
More »Reuters - May 12, 2006
Former teen idol Leif Garrett has been sentenced to 90 days in jail and three years probation on charges stemming from drug possession. Garrett, 44, was sentenced late on Thursday in Los Angeles after...
More »Reuters - Apr 5, 2006
Early in his sold-out set on a rain-soaked Tuesday at the Roxy Theater, Van Hunt performed the song Character, in which he asked, over a smoldering groove, Who are you when heavy weather is blowing?...
More »Reuters - Feb 24, 2006
The most enduring visual memory of Aerosmith s show Wednesday likely will be that of a bareback Joe Perry on his knees on a catwalk, thrashing his clear-bodied guitar with a bright red shirt. It had none...
More »AP - Feb 20, 2006
Bono will donate one of his guitars to benefit Brazil s Zero Hunger campaign, the government s official news agency said Monday. The guitar will be auctioned off after U2 s concerts this week in Sao...
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