Mar 12 2010
Reuters - At the end of "Pirate Radio" -- the 2009 feature film about a '60s illegal rock 'n' roll radio station in Europe's North Sea -- an array of albums is displayed: iconic symbols of musical independence that bucked the status quo. Among the albums on display is Public Enemy's 1990 treatise, "Fear of a Black Planet."
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Mar 12 2010
Reuters - As Drive-By Truckers prepare for the release Tuesday (March 16) of their album "The Big To-Do," its follow-up is practically in the can.
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Mar 12 2010
Reuters - When Asleep at the Wheel frontman Ray Benson started a band in Paw Paw, West Virginia, in 1970, he had no idea that 40 years later he would still be at the helm of one of America's most adventurous musical outfits.
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Mar 12 2010
AP - LOS ANGELES (AP — Tweens probably don't know who Patsy Cline is, which is why Lilly Scott thinks she was voted off "American Idol" Thursday night.
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Mar 12 2010
Reuters - To celebrate the 200th birthday of Frederic Chopin, Decca Records and Deutsche Grammophon are putting 21st-century marketing to work.
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Mar 12 2010
Reuters - With his Public Image Ltd. back in action on the road, John Lydon is also looking forward to recording new music with the band.
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Mar 12 2010
AP - Lawyers for legendary music producer Phil Spector have asked an appellate court to throw out his second-degree murder conviction on grounds of judicial error and prosecutorial misconduct.
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Mar 12 2010
AP - Iggy Pop was starting to feel like the Susan Lucci of rock 'n' roll.
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Mar 12 2010
AP - The 22 pieces of custom-made furniture Michael Jackson commissioned for his London home are going on the auction block.
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Mar 12 2010
AP - A member of the pop group Girlicious has been charged in California with drug possession with the intent to sell after Glendale police allegedly found a dozen plastic bags of cocaine in her Gucci purse.
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