Alanis Morissette was so happy for a while. And there was no new music. Then early last year, the 34-year-old singer-songwriter split with her actor fiance Ryan Reynolds...
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Alanis Morissette is not the person Rob Thomas thought she was. Matchbox Twenty and its lead singer once saw her as a Zenlike soul, Morissette told Newsweek for its issue...
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For musicians just getting a start, Alanis Morissette has a time-management tip from the professional trenches. "I have to check my Web site to find out what I'm...
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Sure, Alanis Morissette has an album coming out next month, but you have to wonder about the timing of this revelation: The Canadian pop singer says a recent breakup led to...
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OTTAWA (AP) — Grammy Award-winning and Ottawa-born recording star Alanis Morissette sang both national anthems before Game 4. It's an encore of sorts after Morissette...
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Liz Phair and Ryan Adams are among
the guests on actress/musician Minnie Driver's second album,
"Sea Stories."
The 12-track collection of songs penned by Driver will...
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On the bright side, maybe Alanis Morissette will be returning to platinum-selling angst-filled form.
The Grammy winner and fiancé Ryan Reynolds have split up...
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Under pressure from Christian
conservative groups accusing pop star Madonna of sacrilege, a
U.S. television network said on Thursday it removed footage of
the singer...
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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...
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Two filmmakers are so
worried about the handling of late INXS singer Michael
Hutchence's legacy that they are making a movie about the
Australian rocker before it gets...
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With all the former pop princesses spending more time in the tabloids than on the charts (Britney trying to tame Kevin, Christina celebrating a new marriage, Jessica ending...
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In less than a year's time, Mariah Carey managed to escape pop's most dreaded fate — faded superstar — to become its reigning queen, ruling the record charts with...
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Apparently pop stardom is as easy as Simon Says.
The
Simon Cowell-shepherded pop opera foursome of Il Divo is following in
the footsteps of Kelly Clarkson, Clay Aiken,...
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Alanis Morissette may be engaged to Canadian actor Ryan Reynolds, but that doesn't mean she didn't experiment with women during her teens and twenties. In a recent interview...
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SINGLE: JUST FEEL BETTER. Santana's previous "I'm
Feeling You," the been-there-heard-that first single from his
new "All That I Am," showed that any acclaimed musician...
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As is her wont, Madonna will be stuffing plenty of stockings this
holiday season.
The Material Girl scored her third
consecutive chart-topper with Confessions on a...
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Cyndi Lauper, "The Body Acoustic" (Epic)
On her new disc "The Body Acoustic," 52-year-old Cyndi Lauper recasts a slew of her old hits — from "She Bop" to "True...
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It seems the Rolling Stones have learned their lesson when it
comes to exclusivity.
The rock legends are preparing to
release an album of rare tracks via a partnership...
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The Rolling Stones will release an
album of rare tracks next month in partnership with coffee
retailer Starbucks Corp. and the group's Virgin Records label,
the partners...
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The federal government is reviewing Starbucks Corp.'s proposal to establish a retail music business in Toronto and wants to see if it will offer adequate Canadian content...
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A quick rundown of the three subjects of the latest Directors Label DVD releases: ___
STEPHANE SEDNAOUI
WHO: "The first thing about Stephane Sednaoui is that he is much...
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Canadians attempting to buy Bob Dylan albums may temporarily be
left blowing in the wind.
One of the nation's largest record
chains, HMV Canada, has pulled the entire...
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The Gap is filling up with a new batch of music stars.
Alanis Morissette, Jason Mraz, Joss Stone, John Legend, Liz Phair, Keith Urban, Destiny's Child's Michelle...
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Bob Dylan must have a weak spot for coffeehouses.
The folk-rock icon, who got his start plying tunes in Greenwich Village
cafes, has become the latest artist to sign a...
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Counterculture legend Bob Dylan on
Monday became the latest musician to sign up with Starbucks
Corp. in an exclusive CD deal that follows the runaway success
of a Ray...
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Some artists would mark
the 10-year anniversary of their most successful album with an
all-bells-and-whistles tour. Alanis Morissette picked a cozier
concert setting to...
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Alanis Morissette oughta know that her decision to hawk her latest
CD through Starbucks was perceived as a slap in the face to traditional
music retailers.
In response,...
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Canadian music retailer HMV
Canada on Monday pulled all of Alanis Morissette's albums from
its shelves in protest at her exclusive agreement to sell an
acoustic version of...
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Starbucks Hear Music,
the record arm of the coffee retailer, is launching two
projects with Concord Records, its partner in the wildly
successful 2004 Ray Charles album...
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Jason Mraz returned to his old high school, but it wasn't for a reunion: He presented the school choir with a copy of a song they recorded for his upcoming album.
Mraz...
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Some stars downgrade the importance of their biggest hits on tour, trotting them out only in abbreviated forms or during medleys, so they can focus on their new...
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A superstar act in your camp has
almost completed a new album. Do you drop it in or near the
fourth quarter with the huge traffic it enjoys during the
holiday selling season...
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This Pill is going down easier.
To mark the 10th
anniversary of the album that catapulted her to stardom and emasculated
men everywhere via the hit single "You Oughta...
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You only need one word to sum up
the year in pop 2004: Usher. Clearly, it was his house. The
rest of us were just overnight visitors.
It began innocently enough, right at...
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The third chart entry proves to
be the charm for Mario, who rises to a new career peak on the
Billboard Hot 100 with "Let Me Love You" (3rd Street/J). The
single moves 3-2,...
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Snoop Dogg was too hot to drop
from the top of Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart Thursday as
his hit tune "Drop It Like It's Hot" featuring Pharrell logged
a third week at...
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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...
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The music industry needs
courage in order to get out of the artistic and financial
doldrums, according to Glen Ballard, a songwriter/producer who
has worked with Alanis...
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Usher won Hip-Hop Artist of the Year and Hip-Hop Song of the Year at the Radio Music Awards Monday night. Linkin Park grabbed the Alternative Rock Song of the Year and Rock...
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The Roots, the Dead's Mickey Hart ,
the Coup, Michelle Shocked and Third Eye Blind are the first
acts to sign on for the second We the Planet Music and...
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You oughta know, Alanis Morissette has canceled an upcoming
concert in Indonesia amid terrorism fears.
The
Canadian-born songbird was set to perform Sunday in...
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Downloading free music
will be a usual order of business for college students
returning to classes in the coming weeks, but this school year
will be different at 20...
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With the music industry looking to cut costs amid lower profit margins, record companies see fewer incentives to investing in artist-run label projects.
Twelve years ago,...
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Isn't it ironic? Alanis Morissette , who made her name with poignant, angry songs about wrecked relationships, is engaged. The 30-year-old singer says her boyfriend, actor...
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Warner Music Group has agreed to buy Madonna out of Maverick Records, the label she co-founded 12 years ago, to end the legal battle that pitted the music conglomerate...
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She might still be a Material Girl, but Madonna 's no longer a
Maverick.
Ending a nasty legal battle over the future of
her Maverick Records, Madonna and Warner Bros....
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Rhino Records, best-known for
its "retro" music catalog, has launched a pair of new-media
initiatives in the past two weeks.
Rhino, the Burbank, Calif.-based subsidiary of...
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Canadian pop singer Alanis
Morissette , on the campaign trail for her newly released album,
got an early 30th birthday gift from fans during a quick midday
concert at a Los...
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Blues legend B.B. King and
avant-garde Hungarian composer Gyorgy Ligeti were honored in
Stockholm Wednesday with the 13th annual Polar Music Prize.
King and Ligeti were...
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Just because you have the method doesn't mean you can be the man.
Despite a strong showing by rapper-actor Method
Man, the artist on top of Billboard's Top 200 album...
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The cartoon ogre tale "Shrek 2," Tom Hanks ' crime comedy "The Ladykillers" and Michael Moore 's "Fahrenheit 9/11," a scathing attack on the White House, were among films...
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For Kevin Kline , composer Cole
Porter offered an irresistible combination -- immortal music by
a flawed genius with a dark side to all the effervescent
frivolity.
So...
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A trio of the world's top pop
stars are on a mission in Cannes -- teaching the younger
generation to fall in love with the songs of Cole Porter.
Sheryl Crow , Alanis...
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A Delaware Chancery Court judge
has ruled that Los Angeles should be the venue for the hearing
of the bitter legal clash between Warner Music Group (WMG) and
top Warner act...
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It feels like the first time. So
says Alanis Morissette about her new album, "So-Called Chaos."
And Guy Oseary, CEO of Maverick Recording, Morissette's label,
couldn't...
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Alanis Morissette recently changed one of the lyrics on her new single, "Everything," which appears on her upcoming album So-Called Chaos due out on May 18. Instead of...
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European Union president Ireland has
canceled a major open-air concert in Dublin that was to be the
centerpiece of its celebrations to mark the historic
enlargement of the...
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Madonna 's Maverick Records label sued Warner Music Group and Time Warner Inc. for breach of contract on Thursday, accusing the record company and its former parent of...
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Madonna 's Maverick Recording Co.
aimed its legal guns at Warner Music on Thursday with a breach
of contract lawsuit seeking $200 million in damages and an end
to the...
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When it comes to American politics,
Marx had it nailed. No, not Karl Marx, who penned the Communist
Manifesto; Groucho Marx , the king of wisecracks.
"Politics," he said,...
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Starbucks Corp on Tuesday
unveiled a new kind of coffee shop serving up custom music CDs
along with foamy coffee drinks.
Years of customer queries about the music piped...
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When Alanis Morissette was putting the finishing touches on her new album, So-Called Chaos, due out on May 18, she decided to change the lyrics to her single "Everything,"...
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Janet
Jackson is returning to America's airwaves...but she's not being
trusted with a live performance just yet.
She of the
infamous wardrobe
malfunction will perform a...
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The red-velvet formality of Hanoi's Opera House took on a different groove for a night, becoming the backdrop for the rousing beats and catchy rhymes of the Black Eyed...
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Fresh from the November release of
his self-titled album, Kid Rock is preparing for an arena tour
in 2004. The trek will begin with a Jan. 22-23 stand in
Saginaw, Mich.; 11...
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Elvis Costello, Sheryl Crow, Vivian Green, Diana Krall, Alanis Morissette, and Robbie Williams will sing and dance to the music of Cole Porter in the MGM big-screen musical...
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Alanis Morissette begins recording the follow-up to her 2002 album Under Rug Swept at the end of April. Morissette will record the album at a studio in Los Angeles, and has...
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Peter Gabriel, Chuck D, and Alanis Morissette will be honored at the 10th Annual Rock The Vote Patrick Lippert Awards. The awards ceremony takes place February 22 at New...
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Alanis Morissette once again hooked up with Francis Lawrence to shoot the clip for her next single, "Precious Illusions." The pair rolled tape in Los Angeles late last...
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Alanis Morissette will perform a concert of songs chosen entirely by her fans. The show will be taped in New York City on June 11 for airing on the Oxygen cable television...
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Episodes of the music/travel television series Music In High Places featuring Alanis Morissette and the Deftones will be released in DVD and VHS formats on August 27 from...
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Alanis Morissette has added a second leg to her North American itinerary in support of Under Rug Swept for the first half of June while also scratching a half-dozen concerts...
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Alanis Morissette has mapped out the beginnings of a U.S. tour in support of her latest album, Under Rug Swept, with shows spanning from Southern California to the Southeast...
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Alanis Morissette residing on the top of the charts--as she is thanks to the debut last week of her latest album, Under Rug Swept--is hardly a new experience for the...
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While Alanis Morissette enjoys Number One status in the United States with her latest release, Under Rug Swept, the singer-songwriter has also found similar success in...
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Faced with a surge in sales for such Grammy Award favorites as the O Brother Where Are Thou? soundtrack, Alicia Keys's Songs In A Minor, and U2's All That You Can't Leave...
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Alanis Morissette performed a 40-minute set yesterday (February 26) and then signed autographs for fans at Virgin Megastore in New York's Times Square to celebrate her...
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Alanis Morissette returns to action today (February 26) with her fifth album, Under Rug Swept. While the singer-songwriter revisits themes of relationships, she says she's a...
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Alanis Morissette returns tomorrow (February 26) with Under Rug Swept, her fifth album and her first since 1998's Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie.
The collection...
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(2/22/02, 7 a.m. ET) -
Alanis Morissette will perform a free concert at the Virgin Megastore in New York City's Times Square at 6 p.m. ET on Tuesday (February 26)--the...
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While Alanis Morissette awaits the release of her fifth album, Under Rug Swept, which arrives February 26 from Maverick Records, future plans for the star singer-songwriter...
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Alanis Morissette and the Goo Goo Dolls have been added to the festivities surrounding the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. The acts will play back-to-back concerts...
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Alanis Morissette has returned to the charts with "Hands Clean," the first single from her fifth album, Under Rug Swept, due February 26 from Maverick Records. The song...
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Gearing up for the release of her latest album, Under Rug Swept, Alanis Morissette performed an intimate set for approximately 300 industry insiders and a handful of ticket...
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When Alanis Morissette called in the Red Hot Chili Peppers' Flea, Stone Temple Pilots guitarist Dean DeLeo, and others for her upcoming album, Under Rug Swept, she wasn't...
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With the release of Under Rug Swept next month, Alanis Morissette will once again issue an album delving into her romantic relationships, much like her breakthrough album...
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Alanis Morissette's forthcoming album Under Rug Swept is locked in for a February 26 release. It features guest appearances from Stone Temple Pilots guitarist Dean DeLeo,...
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Singer Alanis Morissette's vocals are featured in The Affair Of The Necklace's title track, "Movement I: Mercy." The film opens today (November 30) and is about a French...
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Alanis Morissette is set to lens a new video for "Hands Clean," the first single from the upcoming album Under Rug Swept, in Los Angeles this weekend. She's asking her fans...
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Alanis Morissette will be honored by the United Nations for her continued efforts to promote tolerance through the arts. The Canadian singer-songwriter will receive the...
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Alanis Morissette's upcoming album, Under Rug Swept, has been scheduled for release in February 2002. The album had originally been expected this year.
The final track list...
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Alanis Morissette has now recorded 27 songs with the intention of selecting a dozen for inclusion on her follow-up to her 1998 album, Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie. The...
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Alanis Morissette has released a new song, "Utopia," in light of the recent terror attacks on Washington D.C. and New York City. The song is currently available on Maverick...
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While several of her colleagues are canceling shows, Alanis Morissette is honoring her commitment to perform at Sunday's (September 23) Now And Zen Fest in San Francisco....
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The Voters For Choice benefit concert, featuring Alanis Morissette, members of Blues Traveler, and others, has been postponed due to a variety of reasons, including the...
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Alanis Morissette is in the process of calling her friends in the musical community to come together for a relief concert for victims of the World Trade Center and Pentagon...
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Alanis Morissette was scheduled to appear Wednesday (September 12) in Washington D.C. to present testimony from the artists' point of view in regards to the future of music...
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Alanis Morissette's scheduled headlining appearance at the upcoming Voters For Choice benefit concert came under fire, perhaps predictably, from at least one anti-abortion...
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The preliminary list of performers for the September 20 all-star tribute to John Lennon at New York's Radio City Music Hall, dubbed Come Together: A Night For John Lennon,...
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Alanis Morissette will perform in Anchorage, Alaska on July 31 to support the New Power Project, the new, star-studded pro-environmental organization formed to help counter...
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The Beastie Boys, Alanis Morissette, Moby, James Taylor, and Tom Petty are among the artists mobilizing against President George W. Bush's Energy Plan, which they say is...
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Alanis Morissette is set to be the speaker for the Plug.In festival, which takes place in New York July 23-24. The event features industry professionals debating critical...
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Alanis Morissette will play a two-night stand at the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles May 25-26 as a warm-up for a European tour kicking off a week later. The singer-songwriter...
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Alanis Morissette's forthcoming album has been delayed, not only due to the creative process, but also due to record company politics. A spokesperson for Morissette told...
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Alanis Morissette, Shawn Colvin, Brian McKnight, and Collective Soul appeared at the Museum Of Television & Radio in Beverly Hills on Tuesday night (April 17) to talk about...
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Alanis Morissette addressed the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee headed by Orrin Hatch today (April 3) in Washington D.C., speaking about the issue of online distribution of...
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Don Henley was one of several speakers today (April 3) at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing dealing with artist's rights and digital distribution of music. The session,...
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Alanis Morissette will return with a new album this year. She's currently in the studio working on her follow-up to Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie. She's handling the...
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Alanis Morissette's 1995 album Jagged Little Pill was the best seller of the '90s, according to SoundScan numbers released Monday (January 3). The release, the Canadian...
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Alanis Morissette, Sugar Ray, and the Pretenders' Chrissie Hynde are among the artists to be featured on Music In High Places, an upcoming television documentary series...
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(8/22/00, 3 p.m. ET - Alanis Morissette's recently completed One Tour, which included stops in Lebanon, Israel, Turkey, and Croatia, has given the artist some profound...
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An unplugged performance, two video documentaries, and a Q&A with fans were all part of a special appearance billed as "An Intimate Evening With Alanis Morissette" at the...
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"I call this tour "my self-indulgent leg"-- going to places that I"ve been and yearned to return to, or places that I"ve not been and have been drawn to." That"s Alanis...
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Glen Ballard is a busy man, running his label, Java Records, and its pending release of the soundtrack to the animation flick, Titan, A.E., while prepping for his upcoming...
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On Monday (May 22), the Alanis Morissette song "Thank You" captured an American Society of Composers And Performers (ASCAP) award, which went to Morissette and co-writer...
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Alanis Morissette, who's up for a Grammy in the best female pop vocal performance category, will not attend the awards ceremony on February 23 in Los Angeles, reports the...
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Fresh from her big-screen appearance as God in Kevin Smith's Dogma
, Alanis Morissette
has signed on for a two-week run in the Off Broadway performance of The Vagina...
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Alanis Morissette leads the pack with five nominations for the annual Juno Awards, Canada's answer to the Grammys. Morissette's name pops up in the top female vocalist,...
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Courtesy of RockOnTV (www.rockontv.com):
NBC:
The Tonight Show With Jay Leno - Barry White guests. (To read a Barry White feature, click here.)
BRAVO:
Bravo Profiles:...
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VH1:
Behind The Music: Sting - This episode traces Sting's life and career, from his humble beginnings as a milkman's son in...
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NBC:
The Tonight Show With Jay Leno - Alanis Morissette is the musical guest. (To read an Alanis Morissette feature, click...
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Over the weekend, Alanis Morissette taped two sessions in New York City for an episode of MTV's Unplugged. A spokesperson for Maverick Recording Co., Morissette's label,...
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Courtesy of RockOnTV (www.rockontv.com):
NBC:
Today - Barbra Streisand talks about her new CD, marriage, politics, and her career (part 1 of 2).
Conan O'Brien - Musical...
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An Alanis Morissette episode of MTV Unplugged will be broadcast on the network and released as an album by the Maverick Record Co. in November. The album will include all...
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Indie house Lions Gate Productions, which recently released last year's Oscar-winner Affliction, has snapped up the rights to Kevin Smith's controversial religious-themed...
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Alanis Morissette recently taped a video for her new single, "So Pure," which will premiere when the track hits radio on June 29.
Morissette directed the clip, which...
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Alanis Morissette was forced to cancel a concert in Ljubljana, Slovenia on Friday (June 18) after one of her equipment trucks was stolen in Italy. The singer's management...
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Alanis Morissette and Blur have been added to the Amsterdam bill of this year's Tibetan Freedom Concerts, which will take place on four different continents on June 13...
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An all-star lineup of some of today's biggest rock acts, including Korn, Alanis Morissette, and Pearl Jam, have contributed songs to No Boundaries, a compilation due June...
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Two of the most acclaimed female singer-songwriters of the '90s, Alanis Morissette and Tori Amos, will hit the road together for the "5 ½ Weeks Tour," which will kick...
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A much-talked-about deal between Alanis Morissette and controversial website MP3.com may be bigger than anyone believed. On April 27 in Los Angeles, MP3.com and Atlas/Third...
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Her latest album, Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, which is No. 16 in its sixth week on the chart, may not be performing as well as the record-setting Jagged Little...
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Alanis Morissette's Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie may be No. 1 for the second consecutive week, while R. Kelly's two-CD R. checks in at No. 2, but that's not the big...
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In her current hit "Thank U," Alanis Morissette gives props to India. But on Friday, 300 lucky CD buyers in Argentina will likely be giving thanks to Alanis, when they are...
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It wasn't with the mind-boggling first-week numbers that some predicted, but Alanis Morissette nonetheless debuts on top of the album chart with her second U.S. album,...
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Alanis Morissette is currently on the road playing intimate theater dates, but some lucky VIPs got an even more up-close-and-personal performance Wednesday afternoon at the...
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With the new Alanis Morissette album, Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, due on Nov. 3, and the first single, "Thank U," already burning up the airwaves, radio stations...
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Radiohead and Alanis Morissette have signed on to perform at a concert that will mark the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The concert, which...
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Two of the most acclaimed female rockers of the '90s, Alanis Morissette and PJ Harvey, will be hitting the road in support of their respective forthcoming...
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City Of Angels, which has sold more than 2.9 million units since its release in March according to SoundScan, is not only one of the year's most popular soundtrack albums,...
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With less than 17 months left in the decade, Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill and Garth Brooks's No Fences are tied with the soundtrack to The Bodyguard as the...
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Following in the wake of the long ride at No. 1 of the music from Titanic, soundtracks once again dominated Billboard's album chart this week.
This week's new No. 1 album...
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Sheryl Crow, Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds, R. Kelly and Alanis Morissette were among the top winners at the 46th annual BMI Pop Awards held May 12th at the Beverly Wilshire...
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The Dave Matthews Band's new album, Before These Crowded Streets, finally knocked the Titanic soundtrack from its 16-week run atop the Billboard 200. The album sold more...
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Director Kevin Smith (Chasing Amy, Mallrats, Clerks) has cast Alanis Morissette as God in his next film.
Dogma, currently being filmed in Pittsburgh, is a comedic take on...
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Alanis Morissette, busy in the studio recording her followup to the massive Jagged Little Pill, will issue her first new song since then on March 31st via Warner Bros.
The...
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The first lawsuit ever brought against Internet music pirates has been settled.
Three web site operators that offered free digital downloads of hundreds of popular...
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The man who managed the careers of Alanis Morissette, Seal, Green Day, Weezer and the Goo Goo Dolls has been asked to lead Mickey Mouse's band.
Artist manager Bob Cavallo...
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Arnold Stiefel, whose music management career includes Rod Stewart and the R&B group Shai, has just bought the film rights to Dominick Dunne's O.J.-inspired novel, Another...
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Ice-T, Kurtis Blow and Coolio were among stars expected to be on hand to rap and wrap gifts at the L.A. nightclub Billboard Live the night of December 23rd.
An annual...
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