LOS ANGELES (AP) — Three TV networks, cancer research advocates and more than 60 celebrities from music, sports, TV and film made history Friday night with a live...
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Ugly Betty is pretty in pink.
The nominations are in for the 19th Annual GLAAD Media Awards and ABC appears to be leading the pack in presenting positive portrayals of gay...
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Singer Melissa Etheridge beat a bout
of breast cancer and says she used that experience as the
inspiration to write a new album free from commercial pressures
or concerns...
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Barbra Streisand welcomed Nancy Pelosi (news, bio, voting record) to her bluff-top Malibu estate for a fundraising dinner that took in $1.3 million for the Democratic...
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When Al Gore throws a party, he doesn't mess around.
Organizers of the planet-spanning Live Earth concerts revealed on Tuesday the all-star lineups for the U.S....
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Plans by environment crusader Al
Gore for a climate change rock concert at the U.S. Capitol are
running into some Republican opposition.
The former Democratic presidential...
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The Bee Gees will receive a
lifetime achievement award from a music industry group in
Beverly Hills in May, organizers said on Monday.
The pop legends will be presented...
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Former U.S. Vice President and
environment crusader Al Gore still has some pull in Washington,
D.C. -- getting a venue for a rock concert.
The former Democratic...
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Music from politically themed films
scored top Oscars on Sunday, while the winners used their
moment of glory to push issues ranging from global warming to
gay...
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Sure, Melissa Etheridge is used to singing in front of thousands of people. It's just that Meryl Streep, Clint Eastwood and Steven Spielberg aren't usually in the audience,...
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The Oscars are all about movies, of course, but on this night only music filled the golden guy's hallowed hall.
Beyonce, Celine Dion, James Taylor, Randy Newman and...
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David Crosby won't be carrying on anytime soon.
The '60s folk-rock legend was forced to postpone a U.S. tour with longtime music partner Graham Nash, citing "medical...
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Melissa Etheridge knows all about labels. First there was the "rock goddess" with the classic hit, "Come to My Window." Then there was "lesbian singer." Then came "cancer...
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Al Gore announced on Thursday a series of worldwide concerts to focus on the threat of climate change, with a powerhouse lineup from the Red Hot Chili Peppers to Snoop Dogg...
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Rock trio the Police played their
first major public show in more than 20 years on Sunday, when
they opened the Grammy Awards ceremony, whetting fans' appetite
for an...
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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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Melissa Etheridge and her partner, Tammy Lynn Michaels, are the new parents of twins, the couple announced Friday.
Michaels gave birth to a boy and girl Tuesday: son...
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Soul diva India.Arie says a
previously unreleased version of her song "I Am Not My Hair"
will finally be heard -- in a new Lifetime Television movie,
"Why I Wore Lipstick to...
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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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Cheyenne Kimball may have her own MTV reality show and sing pop tunes, but she insists she's not just another blonde pop star.
Instead of comparisons to Ashlee Simpson,...
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Once upon a time,
Melissa Etheridge wanted to be the female Bruce Springsteen.
And for the most part she is, offering uplifting rock anthems
while intensely connecting with...
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Melissa Etheridge's little secret is out. Make that little
secrets.
The veteran rocker and her partner of more than
three years, actress Tammy Lynn Michaels, are...
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After undergoing successful cancer surgery, all Sheryl Crow wants
to do is hit the road.
The 44-year-old singer-songwriter was
forced to scrap a spring tour after she...
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LIFEbeat — the Music Industry Fights AIDS will honor World AIDS Day on Dec. 1 with an Internet auction featuring some 1,000 items from stars in music, film, theater and...
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Melissa Etheridge used medicinal marijuana to help ease the pain and symptoms of chemotherapy during her treatment for breast cancer last year. According to the Associated...
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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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It's good to be right, but it's even better to be right at number
one.
Nickelback's new album, All the Right Reasons,
just became the band's first ever chart-topper....
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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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Nine months after doctors found a
malignant tumor in her breast, rock singer Melissa Etheridge
says she is cancer free and thinking about having a baby with
her partner,...
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Life is still sweet atop the
Billboard Hot 100 for 50 Cent, who is No. 1 for the fourth
consecutive week with "Candy Shop" featuring Olivia.
The rapper is creeping up on...
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The late Ray Charles might have loved company on his final album,
but he's all alone at the top of the charts.
After landing
five posthumous Grammys on Feb. 13,...
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Got beatnik?
A new reality show is determined to
scour the country in search of aspiring singers striving to become the
next Janis Joplin.
The singer, famed for...
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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 47th Annual Grammys on Sunday
were long on tributes and short on controversy thanks to a
self-censored performance by punk trio Green Day and Sheryl
Crow 's peek-a-boo...
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Ray Charles' Genius racked up plenty of company in the form
of gramophone-shaped statuettes.
The late soul legend won a
total of eight awards at the 47th annual Grammy...
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Genius will be served, Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony will be
outed as a couple, and Melissa Etheridge will hit the comeback stage.
Those are three of the storylines...
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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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A German concert promoter has been
ordered to pay $5,300 for "pain and suffering" to a woman who
alleges that her hearing was damaged during a Bon Jovi concert
four...
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Melissa Etheridge is at home in California recovering from two operations to treat breast cancer.
Etheridge, 43, said on her Web site that a tumor and lymph nodes were...
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So far, so good for Melissa Etheridge .
The rocker, who announced last week that she was battling breast cancer,
underwent a successful lumpectomy over the weekend.
...
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Melissa Etheridge is battling breast cancer.
The
raspy-throated rocker has been diagnosed with the disease, forcing her
to scrap an upcoming fall tour, according to a...
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No bride is immune to pre-wedding jitters and singer Melissa Etheridge says she was no exception.
Last fall she married actress Tammy Lynn Michaels and worried about the...
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Take a pretty much unknown white chick belting the blues on an independent record label and you have the makings of a CD that's likely headed for the discount bin. But throw...
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Rob Thomas remembers the lean days before matchbox twenty blew up into a household name.
Now the band is giving a struggling musician the chance to take center stage...
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Forget flowers and chocolate, Norah
Jones is the new Valentine's Day gift of choice.
The
jazzy singer became just the second female artist to sell more than 1
million...
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With Grammy Awards-inspired sales,
two big releases and a gift-buying holiday to boot, business
was booming for music retailers last week.
In addition to the Feb. 8 awards...
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Antonio "L.A." Reid, ousted from the top job at Arista Records barely a month ago, was named chairman of Island Def Jam Music Group on Tuesday, where he will oversee the...
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Island Def Jam Music
Group chief Lyor Cohen is leaving the company he helped build
to become chairman and CEO of Warner Music Group's U.S.
Recorded Music unit.
The move...
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Melissa Etheridge is gearing up for
a rare club tour in support of her upcoming Island album,
"Lucky," due Feb. 10.
The artist will play 21 dates in six U.S. cities,...
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We're guessing even Simon is speechless right about now.
Five months after finishing
runner up to Ruben
Studdard on American
Idol by just 1 percent, Clay
Aiken has shown...
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Melissa Etheridge married Tammy Lynn Michaels in California on Saturday (September 20), despite the fact that the state does not recognize same-sex unions. The 42-year-old...
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Melissa Etheridge is engaged to her girlfriend of two years, Tammy Lynn Michaels, according to E! Online.
Etheridge said that the past two years have been quite a...
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Melissa Etheridge's well-publicized 2000 split from filmmaker Julie Cypher inspired many of the songs on her latest album, 2001's Skin. Etheridge and Cypher share custody of...
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Melissa Etheridge will kick off an extensive summer tour with special guests Meredith Brooks and up-and-coming Island recording artist Rosey on June 7 at Ruth Eckerd Hall in...
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Melissa Etheridge can currently be heard alongside Neil Diamond on a new version of Diamond's 1981 hit, "America," being used for NBC's promotion of the upcoming 2002 Salt...
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Melissa Etheridge surprised New York City holiday shoppers and commuters with a live concert in Grand Central Terminal on Sunday afternoon (December 16). "I am honored to be...
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Melissa Etheridge postponed her show in Dallas Tuesday (September 11) due to the terrorist activity on the East Coast, according to her official website...
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Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Melissa Etheridge is currently recovering from a bout with the flu that has forced her to cancel all of her scheduled public...
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Melissa Etheridge will spend July 18 adding her handprints to the Hollywood Rock Walk, the musician's equivalent to cinema's famed courtyard at the nearby Chinese Theatre....
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Melissa Etheridge is almost ready to reveal her new album, Skin, which is set for a July 10 release. The first single from the album is "Lover Please," and other tracks on...
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Paula Cole, Sarah McLachlan, and Melissa Etheridge are the big guns for Friday night's (April 6) Rock For Choice benefit at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles.
Cole...
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Melissa Etheridge, the Wallflowers, rock legend Chuck Berry, funk musicians George Clinton & Parliament/Funkadelic, disco funk stars the Ohio Players, salsa vocalist...
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Rock For Life will try to put a damper on the Rock For Choice benefit concert, featuring Paula Cole, Sarah McLachlan, Melissa Etheridge, and the Bangles, on April 6 at the...
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Melissa Etheridge will release her first book, an autobiography titled The Truth Is..., concurrently with her upcoming album, Skin, on May 1. The Truth Is... is described as...
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Sheryl Crow, Melissa Etheridge, and Heart appear on the Lifetime Television special Women Rock!: Girls With Guitars, airing tomorrow at 8 p.m. (ET).
They are joined by...
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Female musicians of all stripes banded together to help fight breast cancer at the taping of the Women Rock! television special at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles on...
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Singer Melissa Etheridge and her partner Julie Cypher have issued a joint statement announcing their separation.
The statement reads: "With the utmost of love and respect...
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Melissa Etheridge and Michael McDonald
are just two of the musical celebrities scheduled to appear at a Dream Foundation gala in Santa Monica, California. Funds raised at...
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Democratic vice presidential nominee Joseph Leiberman took center stage at the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles on Wednesday night (August 16) for a speech...
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Melissa Etheridge's performance at the Democratic National Convention at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on Monday (August 14) left her feeling plenty patriotic. She...
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Melissa Etheridge performs live at Manhattan's Rockefeller Plaza this morning (July 8) at 8:30 a.m. ET as part of NBC's Today show summer concert series. Etheridge is the...
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Melissa Etheridge,
Garth Brooks, and
George Michael highlighted a superstar lineup of performers and special guests at the Equality Rocks concert, which drew some 45,000...
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The Equality Rocks concert is all set for Saturday (April 29), and it features the all-star line-up of
Melissa Etheridge,
George Michael,
Garth Brooks,
k.d. Lang,...
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Besides her own albums, one of the most anticipated projects Melissa Etheridge has been involved in was portraying Janis Joplin in a biopic about the fiery rocker's life. ...
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Melissa Etheridge is looking ahead to her next project, and it looks like it may be an acoustic album. Etheridge told LAUNCH: "It's something I'm considering right now. I...
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Bonnie Raitt was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame last night (March 6) by Melissa Etheridge. In her opening lines, Etheridge echoed U2 singer Bono's speech for...
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The evening-ending jam at last night's (March 6) Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Fifteenth Annual Induction Ceremony in New York was the usual all-star affair, with a marching...
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The 11th hour of California politics found
Melissa Etheridge appearing Friday (March 3) night at a Los Angeles rally in opposition to the state's Proposition 22, which...
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Rocker/activist
Melissa Etheridge stood before the media along with Judy Shepard, the mother of murdered Wyoming gay Matthew Shepard, on Friday evening (Jan. 28) in...
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Melissa Etheridge has surprised the world by revealing that the father of her two children with partner Julie Cypher is veteran rocker David Crosby, who's currently...
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Melissa Etheridge and the Red Hot Chili Peppers both received three Grammy nominations, leading the field of rock artists. Etheridge scored with "Angels Will Fall," which...
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Melissa Etheridge will do her part in the Quality Rocks concert at RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C. on April 29. The concert will be held in conjunction with the...
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The GQ Awards were taped this past Thursday night (October 21) at New York's Beacon Theater, and featured performances by Lenny Kravitz, the Goo Goo Dolls and country music...
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Melissa Etheridge fans who can't wait to hear Breakdown, the first new album from the singer since 1995's Your Little Secret, might want to plan a visit to the nearest Hard...
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Members of a Melissa Etheridge fanclub will have first chance at tickets for a world tour supporting her upcoming album, Breakdown.
According to the Melissa Etheridge...
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Courtesy of RockOnTV (www.rockontv.com):
NBC:
The Tonight Show With Jay Leno - Maxwell is the musical guest. (Look for a Maxwell feature this week on...
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Fans anticipated something special last night (Aug. 12) at Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band's final gig in their home state at the Continental Airlines Arena, and they...
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Melissa Etheridge and her partner, music video and movie director/ screenwriter Julie Cypher, were awarded jointly the Stephen F. Kolzak Award, which is given to...
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The Milarepa Fund, the organization founded by the Beastie Boys to stage the Tibetan Freedom Concerts, is kicking off a series of online auctions of music memorabilia. The...
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The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the largest national lesbian and gay political organization, will present singer-songwriter Melissa Etheridge and her partner, filmmaker...
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The Grammy Awards are coming back to Los Angeles after a two-year stint in New York. The 41st Annual Grammy Awards will be held at the Shrine Auditorium on February 24,...
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Singer-songwriter Melissa Etheridge and songwriter Diane Warren will be among this year's honorees at the Los Angeles Chapter of the National Academy Of Recording Arts And...
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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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The Cranberries, Melissa Etheridge and U2 have new bosses.
Island Records has named Davitt Sigerson chairman of Island Records USA and John Barbis president of Island...
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