Shawn Colvin, the Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter, is working on a memoir, "A Few Small Repairs," named for her best-known album and tentatively scheduled to come out...
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Lyle Lovett and Emmylou
Harris will take to the seas together to headline the inaugural
Cayamo music cruise, which will set sail February 4 through
February 10.
With other...
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The Grammy Awards are the music
industry's biggest bash, but the event long ago lost the TV
popularity race to "American Idol."
Last year, the two shows went head-to-head...
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There are a few things Shawn Colvin fans can expect every time she comes forth with new music. One is smart, literate folk-pop of the type she's been making since her 1989...
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Shawn Colvin will ring in the
"second half" of her life with the album "These Four Walls,"
along with a new manager and label.
"It's a major confrontation, knowing that...
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It would be a mistake to peg banjo master Bela Fleck as a bluegrass musician — or a jazz musician, rock musician, blues musician or classical musician, for that...
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Wild-man hip-hopster and Wu-Tang Clan cofounder ODB, whose
sprawling rap sheet long overshadowed his groundbreaking rap credits,
died Saturday after collapsing in a New York...
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The rap artist O.D.B., who lived a life as wild as his lyrics, collapsed and died inside a recording studio Saturday, his record label said. He was 35.
O.D.B. had...
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A newly recorded cover of the
Beatles' "I'll Be Back" graces a hits package from
Grammy-winning singer Shawn Colvin due in stores Nov. 23.
"Polaroids: A Greatest Hits...
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Dualtone Music Group's "The Unbroken
Circle -- The Musical Heritage of the Carter Family" continues
the label's relationship with the surviving Carter kin and
furthers its...
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In an unlikely double-bill, hard
rock band Metallica and folk singer/songwriter Jackson Browne
were honored at performing rights groups ASCAP's annual Pop
Music Awards on...
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Kate Markowitz has done hundreds of
shows in New York, singing backup for the likes of Shawn Colvin
and, for 13 years, James Taylor .
Still, she was admittedly uptight at...
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Eight years after the release of
her critically acclaimed Atlantic debut, "Dreamland," jazz
singer/songwriter Madeleine Peyroux has teamed with Rounder
Records for her...
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Looking for a way to jazz up the upcoming round of holiday parties? Christmas has forever been an excuse for artists to release seasonal records, and this year is shaping...
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New mother and recent Grammy queen Shawn Colvin was getting into the spirit of motherhood and the holidays in June, even before she became a mother in July with the birth...
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Singer-songwriter David Crosby is jumping into the movie business with Stand And Be Counted, a documentary about the role of popular music in social activism and political...
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A very pregnant Shawn Colvin, in Nashville to play the city's first RiverStages festival, joked that "every other thought going through my mind right now is,...
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One of the axioms of the music business--that winning a Grammy will lead to increased sales--has arrived on schedule, one week after the awards show. Bob Dylan, Shawn...
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The results of the myLAUNCH Guess The Grammys contest are in! The envelope, please....
And the lucky winner of $2000 worth of free CDs from myLAUNCH is the member known as...
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The big Grammy winners last night were Shawn Colvin, who in a bit of a surprise swept the Song Of The Year and Record Of The Year categories, and Bob Dylan, who claimed...
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Bob Dylan, Fleetwood Mac, Erykah Badu, the Blues Brothers, Paula Cole, Shawn Colvin, Wyclef Jean, Aretha Franklin, R. Kelly, Sarah McLachlan and Will Smith have been added...
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The premier compilation disc of the year arrives in stores February 10th, offering 11 tracks covering the year's top artists as selected by a group of their peers.
We...
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Other nominations announced yesterday for the 40th annual Grammy Awards:
BEST FEMALE POP VOCAL PERFORMANCE:
"Butterfly" - Mariah Carey, "Where Have All The Cowboys Gone?" -...
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Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds was the leading nominee for the 40th annual Grammy Awards, garnering eight bids, including Album Of The Year.
The nominations, announced...
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Actor Kelsey Grammer will host the 40th annual Grammy Awards, according to sponsors the National Academy Of Recording Arts & Sciences. The three-time Emmy-winner, whose...
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Fiona Apple, Clint Black, Deana Carter, Shawn Colvin, Sammy Hagar, Wyclef Jean, Diana Krall and Usher will read the nominations for the 40th annual Grammy Awards at a New...
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As Fleetwood Mac continue to sell out arenas and scale charts with their hot-ticket reunion tour and accompanying live album The Dance, Atlantic Records' imprint Lava--the...
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