Topic: Music
While audiences at Broadway's "West Side Story" thrill to the on-stage drama, musicians in the orchestra pit are fighting a battle every bit as vicious as the Sharks-Jets rivalry. This is gang warfare of a high-minded sort, pitting some of New York's ...
A long-running legal feud between the four children of a late country music songwriter and their evangelist aunt ended Monday when a judge approved placing the family's share of his catalog into a trust fund for them. The closing of the estate ...
A closed order of French nuns have signed an album deal with Universal Music, the record label announced Sunday, after a worldwide search to find the best female singers of Gregorian Chant. The Benedictine sisters cannot leave their abbey near Avignon, in ...
I came out here to play slots. We're staying a week. My wife saw an ad for the call on TV and said I should try out. I've been a musician since I was 15 years old.I said: I'm retired, why not? ...
The union which represents artists and musicians in Gabon is suing the government over non-payment of authors' rights, the union's chairman Norbert Epandja said Tuesday. "At our general assembly on July 14, the Union of Artists decided to file a complaint against ...
Rapper Dizzee Rascal, soul diva Corinne Bailey Rae and "modfather" Paul Weller were on Tuesday shortlisted for this year's Mercury Prize. Other acts in contention for the prestigious prize, which honours the best British or Irish album released in the last year, ...
NEW YORK (Billboard) - Los Angeles rock band Carney recently wrapped a lengthy tour in support of its debut album, "Mr. Green -- Vol. 1." Instead of taking time off, however, guitarist/vocalist Reeve Carney began flight-training lessons in Las Vegas with Cirque ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - When Island Records recently asked Tom Jones to do a Christmas album, he balked at the idea, opting for a different, spiritual path. On Jones' 36th studio album, "Praise & Blame," which is set for release next week, ...
MONTREUX, Switzerland (Reuters Life!) - The small-scale but often exclusive concerts at the Montreux Jazz Festival, now in its 44th year, continue to be packed even as shows in massive venues are feeling the economic pain. Listeners are still paying top-dollar for ...
Country songwriter Hank Cochran, who wrote Eddy Arnold's "Make the World Go Away," dead at 74Hank Cochran, a songwriter who composed a string of country hits including "Make the World Go Away" for Eddy Arnold, has died. He was 74. Publicist Martha ...
