SXSW 2010: Music fest's best (Entertainment Weekly) - Music Mix covers the weekend in Austin: Alex Chilton tribute, Smokey Robinson, Muse, Courtney Love, more
Work on film has Currie ready to make more music (Chicago Sun-Times) - The impending release of "The Runaways" film is bringing singer Cherie Currie back to music as well as bookstores.Currie -- whose autobiography, Neon Angel: A Memoir of a Runaway (It Books, $24.99) is the basis for the movie -- says that working with actress Dakota Fanning , who depicts her, and getting back into the studio with Joan Jett to work on the soundtrack has rekindled her appetite to ...
Texas music fest gets big dose of Colorado flavors (Denver Post) - Denver's mammoth presence at this year's South by Southwest music festival and conference made it clear: While Colorado has never been a dominating national player in independent music, Mile High artists are out to change that.
Music legend Phil Spector roughed up for mouthing off to fellow inmate, says pal Steven Escobar (New York Daily News) - Has Phil Spector gotten a bloody taste of jail-yard justice? The hot-tempered music legend is minding his tongue after having several teeth knocked out by a fellow inmate at the state prison in Corcoran, Calif., two Spector confidants tell us.
Lady Gaga fires back in NY court at music producer (WTOL 11 Toledo) - Song writer and music producer Rob Fusari filed the lawsuit Wednesday in New York City against the Grammy Award-winning performer. He said his protege and former girlfriend ditched him as her career soared.
Adjustments in attitudes, laws will mold music's future (The Tennessean) - Mitch Bainwol, chairman and CEO of the Recording Industry Association of America, believes politics and music share a common bond.
5,000 expected to attend three-day Ribble Valley music festival (Lancashire Telegraph) - MORE THAN 5,000 music fans are expected to descend on the Ribble Valley for a three-day music festival.
Middle school students perform âMusic in Meâ (The Sentinel) - Students at Lamberton Middle School in the Carlisle Area School District recently staged performances of this yearâs musical, âMusic in Me.â
Canadian soul singer Melanie Fiona travels in time between where music has been and where it's going (New York Daily News) - Melanie Fiona travels through time in her music. Play her records and you're trans-ported back to the DayGlo days of mod '60s soul, a time when snappy Motown songs ruled the charts and shiny go-go boots defined the fashion.
Eastman alumni filling niche in classical music (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle) - Signal, with several ties to Eastman School of Music, is one of the up-and-coming groups in contemporary classical music.
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