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The Essence Music Festival, which “celebrates
black music and culture and moved to Houston in
2006 after Hurricane Katrina devastated New
Orleans,” returned to the capital of jazz.
Essence stars this year include Kanye West,
Mary J. Blige, Chris Brown, Rihanna, Chris Rock, Keyshia Cole, Jill Scott, Maze
featuring Frankie...
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 More than 35,000 modern-day hippies attended the four-day festival in Rothbury, Michigan, which opened on July 4. The festival managed to reach all its goals: musical, cultural and ecological. The fans could listen to more than 80 acts performing and all tickets were sold in all 50 states, an aspect which made the festival an...
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More money or
more fame? What might have determined Shakira to change from Record Company to
Live Nation?
According to
the Los Angeles Times, Live Nation, the giant concert promoter, has signed a
ten-year contract with Colombian singer Shakira, 31.
Some music
industry experts believe that the contract might be estimating $70...
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The rockers from Bon Jovi are to
play a free concert in Central Park on July
12. The "All-Star Concert in Central Park"
will go on in association with the Major League Baseball All-Star Game, which
is prearranged for July 15 at Yankee Stadium.
In the face of this
collaboration, the New Jersey
band’s lead...
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 Grammy Award-winning guitarist Thomas Morello, best known for his tenure with Rage Against the Machine, will release his next solo album, “The Fabled City.” Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave guitarist is set to release his solo album on September 30 via Epic Records.“My goal was to capture the energy and emotion of The...
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 The rock band Bon Jovi has decided to give a free concert on July 12, in the honor of Major League Baseball’s 79th All-Star Game. The big show will begin at 8 p.m. and more than 60,000 fans are expected to come and see it.
Even if the show is announced to have a free entry, the fans will need a ticket for admission. This ticket...
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US
digital music retailer, Rhapsody America, is the most recent company to adopt MP3 downloads without any copy restraints
and represents a threat to the supremacy of Apple Inc.'s iTunes.
Rhapsody will be supplied with such songs by four major
record labels, Universal, EMI, Sony and Warner, while only one major label
provides...
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 British singer Amy Winehouse had a performance on Saturday,
in front of 80,000 music festival fans at the Glastonbury Festival in Somerset, England,
which included a bit of violence on her part.
At the end of her show, which lasted one hour, she climbed down from the stage
and threw a punch on one of the festivalgoers.
It is not...
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 Since January, Britney Spears’ex-husband has had sole
custody of their two children, Sean Preston and Jayden James.
The two of them and Britney’s father, Jamie, met Thursday in
order to possibly reach an agreement regarding their sons, in advance of a
trial which is to unroll in August, when the judge will decide which part...
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 Pop star Miley Cyrus, 15, was
recently involved in a photo scandal, after her almost nude Vanity Fair
apparition. The “Hannah Montana” star is of the opinion that the so-called
mistake will not have consequences on her career, the happening having made her
“even more related” to the public.
Concerning this matter, she
believes...
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 Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
After the death of Dr. Doom the Fantastic Four fell life is back to
normal for the team. And Reed Richards and Sue Storm Get married.
Little do they know that a new...
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 “SiCKO”: not a Fair Movie
Michael Moore’s controversial
latest documentary about the United
States’ health care system has been recently
categorized as a personal battle of the filmmaker...
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