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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Singer-songwriter Aimee Mann and Canadian rockers Barenaked Ladies will perform on the next episode of NBC's The West Wing at 9 p.m. ET on Wednesday (October 2). The...
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Aimee Mann will head east for a brief tour in support of her latest album, Lost In Space, which arrived Tuesday (August 27) from her own SuperEgo Records. The Los Angeles...
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Two previously unreleased Aimee Mann songs will be available on a limited-edition CD single for fans who pre-order Mann's upcoming album, Lost In Space, which is due out...
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The European itinerary of husband-and-wife duo Aimee Mann and Michael Penn has become the latest tour casualty in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks. The 12-show...
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Coldplay and Aimee Mann were among the winners at the Plug 2001 Independent Music Awards, voted on by press, radio, and retail professionals to recognize the best music...
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Aimee Mann's three Grammy Awards announced last week -- two for the song "Save Me," and one for the soundtrack from which it came, Magnolia -- Music From The Motion Picture...
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Aimee Mann, whose current album, Bachelor No. 2, came out on her own Super Ego Records earlier this year, is looking to expand the scope of the label to include other...
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Aimee Mann is asking fans not to purchase the album The Ultimate Collection, calling it a "wretched fraud." The singer-songwriter, known for her career-long battles with...
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Beck, the Red Hot Chili Peppers' Anthony Kiedis, and Aimee Mann, plus a slew of Hollywood stars made appearances at a benefit in Los Angeles Saturday night (November 4) for...
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Beck, Aimee Mann, Rufus Wainwright, and La Supras Elegantes are among those scheduled to perform acoustic music at a November 4 benefit at Los Angeles's Paramour Estate,...
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Songs by Aimee Mann and Joan Osborne are among the 13 cuts on the new compilation, Music From The HBO Series Sex And The City, due in stores on June 6. Mann offers "Calling...
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Aimee Mann has decided to offer her album Bachelor No. 2 to retail outlets around the country. The collection was at first an Internet-only collection available on her...
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Michael Penn
and
Aimee Mann
are currently on the road in a joint tour.However, Penn tells LAUNCH that even though he and Mann are married, the dual show works as two...
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South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone have another reason to smile -- one of the original songs from
South Park: Bigger, Longer And Uncut, "Blame Canada," was...
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After several years of legal entanglements with record labels that prevented her albums from being released, Aimee Mann's return to the pop mainstream continues to thrive,...
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Aimee Mann has seen more than her share of professional setbacks, mostly in the form of legal entanglements with her record labels. Nothing, though, compares to the recent,...
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