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Music News Notes: July 2, 2009
ALTERNATIVE: REGINA SPEKTOR OPENS AT NUMBER 3 NEW YORK - Regina Spektor’s new album “far” has debuted at number 3 on Billboard’s Top 200. Spektor is on tour in Europe promoting the album. She’ll return to the States with...
Music News Notes: June 29, 2009
OSCARS SONGS LOS ANGELES - There won’t be a best song award given out at the Oscars next year if the academy doesn’t think there are any good nominees. Voters will give each song a score of between six and ten. If a song doesn’t ear...
Music News Notes: June 24, 2009
AC: “YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE” WRITER ACCUSED OF RAPE NEW YORK - The man who wrote the song “You Light Up My Life” has been indicted for rape. Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau says songwriter-director Joseph Brooks is...
Music News Notes: June 22, 2009
COUNTRY: “FOOTLOOSE” - JULIANNE HOUGH LOS ANGELES - Julianne Hough will take her dancing skills to the movies. The Hollywood Reporter says Hough will star opposite Chase Crawford in the remake of “Footloose.” But, there’...
Music News Notes: June 19, 2009
ALTERNATIVE/POP: CARLY SMITHSON FORMS BAND WITH FORMER EVANESCENCE MEMBERS LOS ANGELES - Former “American Idol” contestant Carly Smithson is about to face a ton of comparisons to Amy Lee. The Los Angeles Times reports Smithson is forming ...
Music News Notes: June 18, 2009
ALTERNATIVE: WHITE STRIPES PLAN FILM ABOUT CANADIAN TOUR TORONTO - The White Stripes’ wacky tour of Canada is being made into a documentary. Jack White tells Canadian Press he’s creating a film from footage shot on their 2007 Canadian tou...
Music News Notes: June 16, 2009
AC: CARNIE WILSON HAS A GIRL NEW YORK - Carnie Wilson has a new daughter. Her manager tells People magazine Wilson gave birth to a girl in Los Angeles on Friday. She and her husband, Rob Bonfiglio, have named the baby Luciana Bella, a name they had r...
Music News Notes: June 15, 2009
COUNTRY: SHANIA TWAIN: UPDATING HER FANS ON MYSPACE CYBERSPACE - Shania Twain says she has been inspired to write music by her recent tough times. And while she says she wouldn’t recommend going through a painful divorce as a way to get inspire...
Music News Notes: June 12, 2009
ALTERNATIVE: TOOL’S MAYNARD JAMES KEENAN FEATURED IN WINE DOCUMENTARY LOS ANGELES - Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan is telling his story of producing wine out of an Arizona valley. The documentary “Blood Into Wine” will share Kee...
Music News Notes: June 11, 2009
ALTERNATIVE: SMASHING PUMPKINS GET 19-YEAR-OLD DRUMMER Smashing Pumpkins have picked up a drummer who wasn’t even alive when the band started. The Smashing Pumpkins Web site reports Billy Corgan has been working with 19-year-old Mike Byrne on d...
Music News Notes: June 10, 2009
AC: NATALIE COLE PREPARES FOR PERFORMING AGAIN NEW YORK - Natalie Cole is nearly well enough to perform again. She has scheduled a concert for September 9 in Los Angeles. It will be her first performance since having a kidney transplant last month. C...
Music News Notes: June 8, 2009
ALTERNATIVE: THE LEMONHEADS SUE GM OVER AD LOS ANGELES - Lemonheads frontman Evan Dando says he’s been ripped off — not by another songwriter, but by General Motors. Dando is suing GM and their advertising and licensing firms, claiming GM...
Music News Notes: June 4, 2009
BLUES: KOKO TAYLOR DIES CHICAGO - The Queen of the Blues has died. Koko Taylor died yesterday at a hospital in Chicago from complications from surgery for a gastrointestinal bleed. She was 80. Her best-known song was probably the 1965 hit “Wang...
Music News Notes: June 3, 2009
ALTERNATIVE: EXENE CERVENKA HAS MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS LOS ANGELES - Singer Exene Cervenka of the band X is suffering from multiple sclerosis. She says she has not been feeling well lately and had some medical tests done, and she’s apparently had M...
Music News Notes: June 2, 2009
AC: NEIL DIAMOND PERFORMS ON “BOSTON POPS FIREWORKS SPECTACULAR” BOSTON - Neil Diamond will be part of the Independence Day festivities in Boston. He will perform with the Boston Pops for the “Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular”...
Music News Notes: May 29, 2009
AC: JOSH GROBAN WANTS TO BE ELMO’S FRIEND CHICAGO - Josh Groban would like to be a friend of Elmo. He says he wishes Elmo was his Facebook friend and he’s “never had the privilege of meeting the man himself, or whatever he is.”...
Music News Notes: May 27, 2009
AC: NATALIE COLE IS OUT OF THE HOSPITAL NEW YORK - Natalie Cole is home from the hospital after her kidney transplant. Cole was released Sunday from a hospital in Los Angeles. She had been receiving dialysis three times a week since September. AC: SA...
Music News Notes: May 26, 2009
AC: NATALIE COLE’S SISTER DIES LOS ANGELES - Natalie Cole was at her dying sister’s bedside when the news came that there was a kidney match for Cole. Cole left her sister to get a kidney transplant last Monday. Carol Cole died that same ...
Music News Notes: May 21, 2009
AC: NATALIE COLE GETS NEW KIDNEY LOS ANGELES - Natalie Cole is recovering from a kidney transplant. Her publicist says Cole had successful surgery Tuesday. Cole will postpone her summer tour, which was supposed to start June 5. She had been receiving...
Music News Notes: May 20, 2009
ALTERNATIVE: BLINK-182 PREPARE FOR TOUR LOS ANGELES - The reason Blink-182 are reuniting is simply because it’s the right time. Bassist Mark Hoppus says a lot of stuff that happened four years ago seems trivial now. He says they’ve done t...
