Reuters - Mar 13, 2009
PJ Harvey stormed onto the music scene in 1992 with Dry, and over the past 17 years she has released one critically acclaimed album after another. She has never had a commercial hit -- her biggest-selling...
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PJ Harvey will return with her first studio album in three years, White Chalk, this fall. The set is due September 24 internationally via Island; a North American release date has yet to be announced....
More »Reuters - Apr 11, 2007
Island Def Jam is reviving the legendary Mercury Records imprint in the United States, eight years after it was mothballed in the wake of a corporate merger. The label continues to operate overseas,...
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 5, 2006
Thousands of concert-goers, mostly in their 20s, returned to Chicago s lakefront Grant Park on Saturday as the three-day music festival Lollapalooza resumed after drawing more than 50,000 people on Friday...
More »Reuters - Apr 14, 2006
Punk icon Iggy Pop says he has been holed up in a little cottage in the boonies on a little river in Florida writing music with his old band the Stooges. Yes, the much-talked about reunion record is...
More »Reuters - Aug 31, 2005
Pianist/songwriter Kate Bush will break a 12-year album drought this fall with the double-disc set Aerial. The album will arrive November 7 in Europe via EMI and a day later in North America via Columbia...
More »AP - Jun 19, 2005
Spin magazine named Radiohead s OK Computer the top album of the past 20 years, praising a futuristic sound that manages to feel alive even when its words are spoken by a robot. The British band s...
More »AP - Feb 2, 2005
The Associated Press crack Grammy team gives their insider analysis on who s going to win on Grammy night Feb. 13 but hey, we wouldn t bet the house on these predictions. Record of the Year:...
More »Reuters - Dec 15, 2004
A trip to The Red Light District scored Ludacris his second consecutive No. 1 album on the U.S. pop charts Wednesday. The Atlanta rapper/actor s fourth Disturbing Tha Peace/Def Jam South effort sold...
More »Reuters - Aug 8, 2004
When filmmaker Allison Anders put together the second annual Don t Knock the Rock Music & Film Festival, she wanted to keep one goal intact: I want to make sure this is a festival for fans first, Anders...
More »E! Online - Jun 30, 2004
Apparently, it s David Bowie s shoulder that s under pressure. The erstwhile Ziggy Stardust was forced to scrap the remainder of the European leg of his Reality tour, days after being hospitalized...
More »E! Online - Jun 22, 2004
Let s just call it Lollapa-loser. Not even a stellar lineup--Morrissey, the Flaming Lips, Sonic Youth, the String Cheese Incident, Wilco and a reunited Pixies--couldn t save this summer s Lollapalooza...
More »E! Online - Jun 16, 2004
How appropriate: Velvet Revolver is number one with a bullet. A full year after officially announcing its lineup of Stone Temple Pilots singer Scott Weiland , Guns N Roses members Duff McKagan , Matt...
More »Reuters - Jun 3, 2004
PJ Harvey dropped in on an intimate audience at New York s Knitting Factory Wednesday to unveil songs from the band s upcoming Island album, Uh Huh Her. The 22-song set kicked off with the album s...
More »AP - Jun 1, 2004
WHAT: Lollapalooza, Perry Ferrell s brainchild, a two-day, traveling hippielike music festival that began in 1991, took a hiatus in 1997 and returned last year. A forum for music, artistic expression...
More »Reuters - May 5, 2004
Into the thrashing, dancing and mud-slinging madness of Britain s outdoor Glastonbury Festival this year will crash the sounds of high culture. Wagner s soaring Ride of the Valkyries will echo across...
More »Reuters - May 4, 2004
Wilco, which was forced to cancel eight concerts while frontman Jeff Tweedy undergoes rehab for a painkiller addiction, will play three dates on the Lollapalooza road show this summer. The group has...
More »E! Online - Apr 29, 2004
Another summer, another Lollapalooza. After getting back on its feet last year following a five-year layoff, alt-rock s seminal touring festival is hitting the road again with another stellar lineup...
More »Reuters - Apr 28, 2004
Broken Social Scene, the Walkmen, the Von Bondies, Bumblebeez, Danger Mouse and the Datsuns have been added to this summer s Lollapalooza festival, Billboard.com has learned. The tour will kick off July...
More »Reuters - Nov 4, 2003
Kings Of Leon, the Darkness, Muse, Felix Da Housecat, Thursday, Afrika Bambaataa, Poison The Well, the Sleepy Jackson, Audio Bullys, David Holmes and Lost Prophets are among the acts that have joined...
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