Music News
Celebrity photographer lights up Paris museum (AP) Oct/01/2008 8:00AM
AP - He's photographed Princess Diana in diamonds, Madonna in lingerie and top model Gisele Bundchen in the buff. AddTo...
4 years after disbanding, Phish to reunite (AP) Oct/01/2008 8:00AM
AP - Phish is getting back together. AddTo...
Celebrity photographer lights up Paris museum Oct/01/2008 8:00AM
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Chili's Flea to study music at University Oct/01/2008 6:00AM
Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea signs up to study at the University of Southern California. AddTo...
Saturdays song used in US 'Ugly Betty' trailer Oct/01/2008 6:00AM
The new single from British girl group The Saturdays is used in a US TV trailer for Ugly Betty. AddTo...
Jennifer Hudson's old dream, music, is a new dream (AP) Oct/01/2008 6:00AM
AP - Two years ago, the biggest question surrounding Jennifer Hudson's career was whether she could act. AddTo...
British band Oasis launching new album on MySpace (AP) Oct/01/2008 6:00AM
AP - British band Oasis is joining the music rush to the Internet. AddTo...
British band Oasis launching new album on MySpace Oct/01/2008 6:00AM
LONDON (AP) - British band Oasis is joining the music rush to the Internet. AddTo...
Various Oct/01/2008 4:00AM
Bespoke round-up of the Jamaican/UK ragga-raving sound. AddTo...
Williams penning album about aliens? Oct/01/2008 4:00AM
Robbie Williams is writing a new album inspired by his interest in aliens, say reports. AddTo...
Foals: 'We'll record new LP in Hawaii' Oct/01/2008 2:00AM
Foals say they want to record their second album somewhere "sunny and relaxed". AddTo...
Numan flies in Oct/01/2008 2:00AM
Gary Numan will tour Australia for the first time in almost 30 years when he returns to the country in March. The electro pioneer, known for his groundbreaking albums Replicas, The Pleasure Principle and Telekon, will play shows in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. He last played in Australian in 1980. One show from that tour, recorded at Sydney's Capitol Theatre, was recently released as the live album Engineers. As well as his older material, Numan will play songs from his most recent albums, Exile, Pure and 2006's Jagged. Numan is set to release two new albums in the coming months. In a soon-to-be-published interview, Numan said he will be playing some of this new material on the tour. AddTo...
Nick Cave to curate All Tomorrow's Australian Parties Oct/01/2008 2:00AM
The UK's most intriguing boutique music festival is to hit Australian shores this summer featuring a line-up hand-picked by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds. The All Tomorrow's Parties concept involves an artist or band being selected to headline and curate the event, and then hand-picking the remainder of the bill. The first announcement of acts for the Australian version of the festival picked by our Nick include a re-formed early line-up of seminal Brisbane band The Saints, Ed Kuepper's other influential act, The Laughing Clowns, and a diverse cross-section of local and international artists including Spiritualized, Silver Apples, Harmonia, James Blood Ulmer, Robert Forster, The Stabs, Rowland S Howard, Afrirampo and F*ck Buttons. The Australian All Tomorrow's Parties festival will be thrown in January 2009 with shows taking place at Mount Buller in Victoria, at Sydney's Cockatoo Island and at a series of shows in Brisbane. AddTo...
Perth not part of Simple Plan Oct/01/2008 2:00AM
The Perth leg of the upcoming Simple Plan tour has been cancelled due to scheduling conflicts. Simple Plan were to have commenced their Australian tour at Metro City on October 14, however unavoidable scheduling conflicts have forced the cancellation of the gig, with the band now set to commence their tour in Newcastle on October 16. The band hopes to return to Perth in the near future. Refunds will be made for all ticket holders for the Perth show, with tickets purchased by cash or EFTPOS to be returned to the Burswood Agency in person or by mail to: Burswood Ticketek Agency Att: Simple Plan Refunds PO Box 210 Burswood WA 6100 AddTo...
Gary Numan Remixes Mandy Kane Oct/01/2008 2:00AM
80s electro-genius Gary Numan has remixed a new song for Australia’s Mandy Kane. AddTo...
Pussycat Dolls To Perform Charity Show In Melbourne Oct/01/2008 2:00AM
Pussycat Dolls will perform a charity fundraiser to assist the National Breast Cancer Foundation in Australia this month. AddTo...
Alice In Chains to record first album in 13 years (Yahoo! Music) Oct/01/2008 12:00AM
Yahoo! Music - Alice In Chains are set to record a new album this year, their first in 13 years. AddTo...
Chris Squire Joins Foo Fighters Oct/01/2008 12:00AM
Chris Squire of Yes fame has a member of Foo Fighters last weekend, for all of two songs. AddTo...
Van Morrison To Perform Astral Weeks With Original Band Oct/01/2008 12:00AM
Van Morrison has reunited his band of 40 years ago to perform his classic album `Astral Weeks` in its entirety next month in LA. AddTo...
Moshcam Launches Oct/01/2008 12:00AM
Moshcam, Australia’s first on demand live concert site has launched. AddTo...
Hall & Oates To Release Troubadour Gig Oct/01/2008 12:00AM
Daryl Hall & John Oates gig at LA’s historical venue The Troubadour will be released on DVD. AddTo...
Janet Jackson released from hospital (AP) Sep/30/2008 10:00PM
AP - Janet Jackson was released from a Montreal hospital just two hours after she arrived, a spokeswoman for the facility said Tuesday, but it was still not clear why she was admitted. AddTo...
Beenie Man cleared of tax evasion in Jamaica (AP) Sep/30/2008 10:00PM
AP - A Jamaican judge has cleared Grammy-winning musician Beenie Man of tax-evasion charges, saying the government never informed him of his legal rights. AddTo...
AC/DC extends tour, joins "Rock Band" (Reuters) Sep/30/2008 10:00PM
Reuters - Hard rock band AC/DC has extended its Black Ice tour of North America into early 2009. New dates begin December 20 in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, and run through January 31 in Nashville. AddTo...
Beenie Man cleared of tax evasion in Jamaica Sep/30/2008 10:00PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) - A Jamaican judge has cleared Grammy-winning musician Beenie Man of tax-evasion charges, saying the government never informed him of his legal rights. AddTo...
Paul McCartney Is The Fireman Sep/30/2008 10:00PM
Paul McCartney is the fireman, and as such is returning to his short lived pseudonym of the 90s for another album next month. AddTo...
Discovering Krautrock -- in Germany (Reuters) Sep/30/2008 8:00PM
Reuters - Few scenes in rock history have won such fame abroad yet been so overlooked at home as the wave of music West Germany spawned in the late 1960s known as Krautrock. Four decades on, that is changing. AddTo...
Springsteen, Joel sign on for Obama benefit (Reuters) Sep/30/2008 8:00PM
Reuters - In what is being billed as the first time they've ever played at the same concert, Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel have signed on for a benefit for Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama on October 16 at New York's Hammerstein Ballroom. AddTo...
Paul McCartney reignites Fireman project (Reuters) Sep/30/2008 8:00PM
Reuters - Paul McCartney is returning to his Fireman alias after a decade away from the musical collaboration with producer Youth. AddTo...
Discovering Krautrock - in Germany (Reuters) Sep/30/2008 8:00PM
Reuters - Few scenes in rock history have won such fame abroad yet been so overlooked at home as the wave of music West Germany spawned in the late 1960s known as Krautrock. Four decades on, that is changing. AddTo...
