Wow, somebody cleans up good! Sporting a new fresh-faced look at the BAFTA/LA Comedy Awards Thursday night, Joss Stone almost seems to be channeling Mandy Moore. ...
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Organizers of the South African
leg of the Live Earth concerts have arranged a new venue in a
bid to stimulate lagging ticket sales.
The July 7 show, which is being...
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The Grammy, coming up on its 50th birthday, is finally getting a home of its own.
A Grammy museum, now under construction here, is scheduled to open in September 2008,...
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This was not the sound
of young America.
Last year's "American Idol" winner, Taylor Hicks, drew an
older crowd about 10 to 15 years his senior Friday night,
filling...
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The last time Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs took on major recording companies, he refused to budge on his 99-cent price for a song on iTunes.
As a new round of talks...
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U.S. rapper Kanye West and British
rocker Rod Stewart have been added to the lineup of artists
performing at a July 1 concert to mark the 10th anniversary of
Princess...
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When Joss Stone hit the stage at a concert hall recently, it was clear long before she opened her mouth that something had changed.
Gone were the long gypsy skirts and...
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From Grammy Award nominee to free
agent: singer-songwriter Tamar survived a wild ride on the
music industry roller coaster last year, finding her solo
project shelved but...
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When she made her debut
several years back at only 15, Brit belter Joss Stone was an
instant wow, a young girl mining soul's past with a voice
beyond her years.
Now 19,...
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With global music sales down for
a seventh straight year, the talk at an annual industry meeting
in Cannes, France, has become heated over how to develop
digital sales...
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Tickets for a pop concert to mark the
10th anniversary of Princess Diana's death sold out in minutes
on Wednesday, organizers said.
The concert, organized by Diana's sons...
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Pop goes the memorial service.
Princes William and Harry have confirmed earlier reports that they will honor Princess Diana this summer with a tribute concert designed to...
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Here's the complete list of nominees for the 49th Annual Grammy Awards. The awards will be presented Feb. 11 in Los Angeles:
Album Of The Year
Taking the Long Way,...
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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...
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Katharine McPhee, her mother said proudly, is the first "hometown girl" to make it big on "American Idol."
But McPhee is different from the many small-town hopefuls who...
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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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Reclusive funk music pioneer Sly
Stone stole the show in bizarre fashion at the Grammy Awards on
Wednesday, surprising everyone by making his first major public
appearance...
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Sometimes, the members of U2 can't make it on their own--they
need help hauling all those heavy Grammys around.
The
veteran Irish rockers were the big winners Wednesday...
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Sly Stone, the J.D. Salinger of funk, was drawn out of seclusion by a Grammys tribute.
The reclusive pioneer of a hugely influential soul-rock-funk fusion made his first...
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The biggest mystery at Wednesday
night's Grammy Awards has nothing to do with how many of
music's top prizes leading nominees Mariah Carey, Kanye West
and John Legend will...
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They may not have flashed any body parts — except for Mick Jagger's well-toned stomach — but the Rolling Stones made ABC glad it imposed a five-second tape delay...
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The Queen of Soul was not pleased.
With the Super Bowl coming to her hometown, Aretha Franklin said she was initially disappointed by the NFL's choice of musical...
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The NFL offended the Queen of Soul, but now all is forgiven. Aretha Franklin, who will perform the national anthem at Sunday's Super Bowl here in her hometown, initially...
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Aaron Neville, whose home was damaged by Hurricane Katrina, will perform the national anthem at next month's Super Bowl.
The NFL selected Neville in part to honor the...
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How big of impact did the hurriane-wrought devastation have on
Hollywood? So big even miserly record labels are coming together to help
out hurricane victims.
Like the...
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Come to Melissa Etheridge's and you might smell something funny.
In an interview with NBC's Dateline airing this weekend,
the rocker opens up about her high-profile...
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Hurricane Katrina's news coverage may have come and gone, but the
Hollywood benefits live on.
Grammy winners Wyclef Jean and
Norah Jones are the latest celebs to be...
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In March, U2 was inducted into the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by Bruce Springsteen. By turns
eloquent and funny, Springsteen's induction speech concluded
with a mention of...
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A constellation of music icons, celebrities and dignitaries gathered for simultaneous shows at Madison Square Garden and Radio City Music Hall to raise money for victims of...
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After two release date changes, full
details of Santana's upcoming album, "All That I Am," have
finally gelled.
The 13-track set is due November 1 from Arista, and...
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Tom Waits, Dave Matthews, Trey Anastasio, John Mayer Trio, Joss Stone and the Meters have
signed on for a September 20 benefit concert for Hurricane
Katrina victims at New...
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Tom Waits, Dave Matthews, Trey Anastasio, John Mayer Trio, Joss Stone and the Meters have
signed on for a September 20 benefit concert for Hurricane
Katrina victims at New...
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Marion "Suge" Knight might be hobbled, but he isn't cowed.
The oversized hip-hop mogul has been released from a Miami
hospital, where he had been laid up after getting...
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Country artist Shania Twain heads
an all-female lineup joining the vixens of Wisteria Lane. Her
new song, "Shoes," is the debut single from a September 20
Hollywood Records...
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Hilary Duff is big. Mariah Carey is bigger.
As Duff's
Most Wanted logged its second straight week atop the album chart,
Carey made history again over on the singles...
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Marion "Suge" Knight survived the drive-by shooting that killed his
pal Tupac Shakur nine years ago. Now, the rap mogul and trouble magnet
is recovering from an apparent...
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The new Shania Twain single "Shoes"
will lead the album "Music From and Inspired by Desperate
Housewives," due September 20 via Disney's Hollywood Records.
Its...
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David Bowie, Destiny's Child, Duran
Duran, Gwen Stefani, Nelly and Tim McGraw lead the lineup for
the Fashion Rocks concert, which will be held Sept. 8 at New
York's Radio...
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Melissa Etheridge has beaten breast cancer.
In an
interview that aired Wednesday night on the syndicated TV show
Extra, the "Lucky" crooner announced that she has made...
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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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The birth of the universe was a pretty big deal--but not as
important as the first new Rolling Stones record in eight years.
The Bigger Bang, the band's first studio...
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British rock band Coldplay
was given its third shot at a Mercury Prize Tuesday when its
third album, the multi-million selling "X&Y" was short-listed
for the highly regarded...
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R. Kelly is out of the closet and onto the charts.
Despite a litany of legal troubles, most involving his purported
penchant for videotaping sexual encounters, the R&B...
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The full lineup for Live 8 in London:
Coldplay, Dido, Annie Lennox, Elton John, Keane, Madonna, Mariah Carey, Ms. Dynamite, Paul McCartney, Pink Floyd, Razorlight, R.E.M,...
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Nearly everyone in the world can tune in Saturday to Live 8, the all-star concerts urging a political solution to African poverty. "We want to stand shoulder to shoulder, to...
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THURSDAY, 5:45 p.m.: The empty expanse of cow pasture that was once Manchester is morphing into Tennessee's third largest city. Meanwhile, somewhere near "Centeroo," the...
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The line-up of performers for Bob Geldof's upcoming "Live 8" concert in London for African
poverty relief was criticized by British artist Damon Albarn on
Friday as being...
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Twenty years after the Live Aid concerts, musical superstars are joining in a five-city spectacular to push a political solution for African poverty.
"We don't want...
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If Joss Stone isn't busy, here's something she could probably win. Janis Joplin's estate has announced "Search for the Pearl," a reality TV talent search to find the next...
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The Recording Academy announced Wednesday (February 9) that Grammy nominees Joss Stone, Alicia Keys, John Mayer and Usher have been added to the list of performers at the...
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Maroon 5 has been nominated for three Brit Awards, the U.K. equivalent of the Grammys, according to NME.com. The band has landed nods for Best International Group, Best...
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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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Fashion rocks — and Beyonce put on shimmery hot-pants and Rod Stewart wore a three-piece suit with a pocket square to prove it.
Beyonce and Stewart, along with Avril...
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Carlos Santana has begun collecting
songs for his next studio album.
"I'm going to complete the next Santana album with (BMG
chairman/CEO) Mr. Clive Davis," Santana told...
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