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New Faces: Franz Ferdinand | ARTICLE

Earlier this year, Scottish art-funk band Franz Ferdinand found itself in strange company: The quartet's song "Take Me Out" -- released on the small Domino label -- landed at Number Three on the British singles chart, just...
March 10, 2004 12:00 AM ET
Q&A: Amy Lee | ARTICLE

Underneath her oversize beige sweater, Amy Lee is all glammed up: pinkish-red eye shadow, a black dress with a bondage-inspired bustier and her trademark gauzy wristbands. She's just come from Late Show With David Letterman, where her...
March 10, 2004 12:00 AM ET
What's Next for the Who | ARTICLE

More than twenty years after the Who released their last studio album -- 1982's It's Hard -- Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey are working on a new one. According to a source in Townshend's camp, the guitarist has...
February 25, 2004 12:00 AM ET
Clapton Back at Crossroads | ARTICLE

"I should have done it a long time ago," says Eric Clapton about his tribute to the man who first inspired him to pick up a guitar, Robert Johnson. The album, titled Me and Mr. Johnson, is...
February 12, 2004 12:00 AM ET
Mick Jagger: Call Him Sir Mick | ARTICLE

"It was all rather wonderfully formal," said Mick Jagger after being knighted by Prince Charles on December 12th. In honor of the occasion....
January 22, 2004 2:50 PM ET
Justin Timberlake: The New King of Pop | ARTICLE

At the butcher shop, a steakhouse in downtown Memphis, a banquet size table is crowded with people who are all somehow associated with...
December 25, 2003 3:25 PM ET
Lennon's "Legend" Continues | ARTICLE

"It was quite something to watch all the stuff," says Yoko Ono of combing through archival footage for the new Lennon Legend -- The Very Best of John Lennon DVD. "It was quite difficult, actually." The disc -- a companion piece...
December 21, 2003 12:00 AM ET
Folklore | ALBUM REVIEW

It's been three years since Nelly Furtado's debut — enough time for her to sell 2 million CDs, win a Grammy and have a baby. But the song remains the same: A slick multiculti hodgepodge, Folklore is...
November 20, 2003 12:00 AM ET
Blink-182 | ALBUM REVIEW

Blink-182's protracted adolescence has finally ended. There is nary a goofy moment on the San Diego punk-pop band's fifth album, which is more experimental and harder-hitting than anything else it has done. On "I Miss You," the...
November 19, 2003 12:00 AM ET
Sony-BMG Deal Means Layoffs | ARTICLE

By this time next year, the music industry could be in the hands of three huge companies. On November 6th, Sony Music and the Bertelsmann Music Group announced their intention to merge. The combined company, to be...
November 19, 2003 12:00 AM ET
Stones Pulled From Stores | ARTICLE

Don't be surprised if you can't find any music by the Rolling Stones in your local record store during the coming months: In late October, many retailers pulled the band's albums from their shelves after the Stones struck a deal...
November 5, 2003 12:00 AM ET
Green Day, Kid Rock and Others Pull Their Songs from the Net | ARTICLE

Don't bother searching online music services for Linkin Park, Green Day or Metallica. Those heavyweight artists and several others are refusing...
July 24, 2003 1:40 PM ET
Music Business in Misery | ARTICLE

When the record industry announced in June that it would begin filing individual lawsuits against hundreds of illegal file-swappers, it was not just a bad PR move, it was a signal that the music business is more desperate than ever....
July 18, 2003 12:00 AM ET
Chilis, Metallica Go Offline | ARTICLE

Don't bother searching online music services for Linkin Park, Green Day or Metallica. Those heavyweight artists and several others are refusing to make their songs available as a la carte downloads, insisting that services sell their entire albums or nothing...
July 1, 2003 12:00 AM ET
Pete Townshend Cleared on Porn Rap | ARTICLE

Four months after Pete Townshend, 58, was arrested for viewing child pornography on the Internet, London police have decided not to charge the...
June 12, 2003 12:00 PM ET
Pete Townshend Speaks Out | ARTICLE

Pete Townshend, publicly silent since he was cleared on child porn charges earlier this month, shared his plans for the future with Rolling Stone via email (below). In January, the fifty-eight-year-old Townshend admitted accessing illicit photos while doing research for a...
May 20, 2003 12:00 AM ET
Cat Power: Are You Mad at Me? | ARTICLE

Do you know this trick?" asks Chan Marshall, holding a table knife several inches from her face and inspecting her crooked smile in the...
May 1, 2003 1:30 PM ET
Senate Just Says No to Clubs | ARTICLE

Dance clubs, concert halls and even outdoor festivals are in danger of being put out of business thanks to a new piece of legislation that passed in Congress on April 10th. According to the bill, any individual who owns or...
April 21, 2003 12:00 PM ET
Britney Enlists Matrix | ARTICLE

A friend once said to me, "If you can stick it out in this business ten years, something extraordinary will happen to you," says Lauren Christy of the songwriting and production team the Matrix, a voluptuous Brit with dyed-black hair...
February 28, 2003 12:00 AM ET
Remembering The Bee Gees' Maurice Gibb | ARTICLE

Singer Maurice Gibb, of disco kings the Bee Gees, died in a Miami hospital on January 12th after suffering complications from an intestinal blockage....
February 20, 2003 11:35 AM ET