Archive for April 2008
American Idol cast-off Carly Smithson may have sealed her own fate in choosing to perform Superstar from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar, a song choice suggested by Webber himself.
Yellowcard’s lead singer Ryan Key has revealed that the band will be going on “indefinite hiatus” to “figure out [their] personal lives” when their current tour ends. According to Key, 2007’s Paper Walls, which stalled at #13 on the US Billboard Chart, may be the band’s last album.
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DRM is evil. DRM is evil. DRM is evil.
If you do not yet understand that DRM is evil, please re-read the first paragraph before moving on.
Sony BMG and Universal Music Group have entered into a deal to offer their entire music catalogs for free download to select Nokia mobile phones.
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It seems that Courtney Love has taken a cue from Yoko Ono in scraping every last dime off the grave of a deceased rock superhero regardless of the damage it does to the musician’s legacy.
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American Idol contestant David Cook’s pre-Idol CD Analog Heart was this weekend’s most downloaded offering in Amazon’s MP3 store, besting even the new release by superstar Mariah Carey.
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Your guess is as good as mine as to why Miley Cyrus keeps posing for age-inappropriate photos and then passing them around to the point where they get posted on the internet, but it seems that the Hannah Montana star is headed down the fast-living child star path forged by Britney and Lindsay.
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American Idol season 6 winner Jordin Sparks has canceled upcoming performances due to “an acute vocal cord hemorrhage condition” and the “risk of permanent vocal cord damage” presented by the condition.
Just weeks after firing lead singer Scott Weiland, Velvet Revolver’s search for a new lead singer is going so poorly that guitarist Slash says the band is considering running a web contest to find one.
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Danny Federici, keyboardist for Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band, is dead.