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Sheila E. Unites Prince Bands | ARTICLE
Drummer/singer Sheila E. is planning a benefit concert in Los Angeles featuring the alumni of Prince's many backing bands. Actress Carmen Electra, discovered and named by Prince in 1991, will host. "It's going to be all the Prince...
July 25, 2003 12:00 AM ET -
Nickelback Choose "Long Road" | ARTICLE
Nickelback's upcoming album, The Long Road, due September 23rd, features some of the heaviest songs the Vancouver-based rock band has ever recorded. "It sounds like Pantera meets Metallica," says Nickelback frontman and songwriter Chad Kroeger. "That comes out of...
July 18, 2003 12:00 AM ET -
Earle's "Blues" on Film | ARTICLE
Just An American Boy, a DVD documenting the period following Steve Earle's release of the controversial song "John Walker's Blues," will be released in September through Artemis/Koch. The film might also make a limited theater run. Directed by Amos Poe (Frogs...
June 10, 2003 12:00 AM ET -
Police: Redding Death Natural | ARTICLE
Irish authorities say that Noel Redding, the British bassist best known for his late-Sixties work with Jimi Hendrix, likely died of "natural" causes. The fifty-seven-year-old was found Sunday at his home in County Cork. "He hadn't been seen since Saturday and...
May 13, 2003 12:00 AM ET -
SARS Hits Toronto Music Biz | ARTICLE
Bright Eyes, Michelle Branch, Kelly Clarkson, Concrete Blonde, Billy Joel and Elton John are among the artists who have cancelled Toronto appearances in the last week due to the SARS outbreak. But, according to those in the city's music business,...
April 29, 2003 12:00 AM ET -
Avril, Shania Lead Juno Noms | ARTICLE
On the strength of her debut Let Go, Avril Lavigne leads the nominees for the 2003 Juno Awards, Canada's version of the Grammys, with nods in six categories, including album, single, new artist and songwriter of the year, as well...
February 12, 2003 12:00 AM ET -
Beyonce Gets Dangerous | ARTICLE
Beyonce Knowles is in the studio this week with Missy Elliott and Timbaland working on tracks for her debut solo album, Dangerously in Love, due next spring. The twenty-one-year-old Destiny's Child star describes the set as "a mix of soul and...
November 12, 2002 12:00 AM ET -
Carter, Pearlman to Settle | ARTICLE
Like the Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync cases in the late Nineties, Aaron Carter's lawsuit against pop music mogul Lou Pearlman is expected to be settled out of court. Filed June 24th in Hillsborough County, Florida, the suit claims Pearlman failed...
October 17, 2002 12:00 AM ET -
Sum 41 Get Infected | ARTICLE
Anna Nicole Smith, drugs and HIV are just some of the diverse subjects punk/pop hooligans Sum 41 tackle on their new album, Does This Look Infected?, due November 26th. The album's first single, "Still Waiting," will hit radio October 15th....
October 3, 2002 12:00 AM ET -
Corey Hart Gets New "Sunglasses" | ARTICLE
Nineteen years after its initial release, Corey Hart's breakthrough single, "Sunglasses at Night," is enjoying renewed popularity thanks to a slew of covers and remixes, including one that features new vocals by Hart himself. The song's familiar synth part is now...
September 30, 2002 12:00 AM ET -
Coldplay Go Backstage With DVD | ARTICLE
Coldplay are working on a live DVD of backstage, onstage and "stupid stuff," according to the band's bassist and de facto cameraman, Guy Berryman. "We want to make it good, not do it for the sake of doing it," Berryman says....
September 27, 2002 12:00 AM ET -
Stones Heat Up Toronto | ARTICLE
In a sweltering Toronto venue, where the heat could've slowed a less accomplished band down, the Rolling Stones delivered a show that puts to shame acts half as old. The last-minute club gig, on August 16th, was a hot ticket...
August 19, 2002 12:00 AM ET -
Solange Knowles Has "Star" Power | ARTICLE
"I gotta do my own thing," sings fifteen-year-old Solange Knowles on the title track of her debut album, Solo Star, due in stores October 22nd. (The track also appeared on last year's Osmosis Jones soundtrack.) Solange, the younger sister of Destiny's...
August 6, 2002 12:00 AM ET -
Enrique's Great Escape | ARTICLE
Enrique Iglesias is not the lovelorn heartthrob he appears to be. In a Toronto hotel room, dressed in a beige Gap sweater and a pair of Levi's, the twenty-six-year-old Spanish-born son of legendary crooner Julio Iglesias prefers...
November 28, 2001 12:00 AM ET -
Early Yorn to Surface | ARTICLE
With his debut album, Musicforthemorningafter, having sold a quarter-million copies, singer-songwriter Pete Yorn hopes to release an album he recorded prior to signing with Columbia Records. "I'm really proud of it," he says of the album, which was...
November 26, 2001 12:00 AM ET -
Wyman Wades in the Blue | ARTICLE
In Bill Wyman's Blues Odyssey: A Journey To Music's Heart & Soul, the former Rolling Stone bassist informs and entertains about the blues, armed with maps, photographs, song timelines, lyric slang definitions, and story after story. A...
October 31, 2001 12:00 AM ET -
Canada Honors Joni Mitchell | ARTICLE
"I'd like that little spot on the sidewalk to be a place where you don't spit," quipped singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, during her thank-you speech at her induction ceremony for Canada's Walk of Fame in Toronto. Mitchell, who...
October 19, 2001 12:00 AM ET -
Blink Drummer Plans New Band | ARTICLE
Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker is planning a side project to tide him over during his primary band's downtime. "After we do Europe next year, we have some time off," he says, "so I'd like to have a little...
August 24, 2001 12:00 AM ET -
Dave Matthews Talks Label | ARTICLE
Dave Matthews' record label, According to Our Records, is one-for-one with the success of first signing David Gray. The British singer-songwriter's latest album, White Ladder, has gone platinum in America and now Matthews is looking at expanding...
March 23, 2001 12:00 AM ET -
The Guess Who Rock Canada | ARTICLE
On the eve of the release of Running Back Thru Canada, the Guess Who's first live album in thirty years, the Canadian rock legends celebrated with an intimate club show at Toronto's legendary El Mocambo, whose stage...
December 5, 2000 12:00 AM ET
