Rock In Rio 2004 launches in Portugal
LISBOA, Portugal ('Rock In Rio' announcement) - If Rock & Roll can save the world, Rock in Rio 2004 might just be the way to do it! On May 28, Rock in Rio, the world's largest music event, launches in Lisboa, Portugal. The week-long festival features hugely successful artists including Paul McCartney, ...
| BB King honored in Sweden
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (Blues Online Magazine) - Sweden's prestigious Polar Music Prize was on Monday [24 May] presented to B. B. King for his contribution to the blues and to Gyorgy Ligeti for his innovations in classical music. BB King, being honored for his role in spreading the blues, the forerunner ...
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Lenny Kravitz brings Roxie to Warner Bros. records
LOS ANGELES (Warner Bros. press release) - Lenny Kravitz has entered into an exclusive joint venture agreement with Warner Bros. Records for distribution of his newly formed label, Roxie Records. The company will be headquartered in Miami. The internationally renowned, Grammy winning recording artist, ...
| Love all around for Radiohead!
LONDON, UK (Radiohead Offical Fanclub) - Radiohead are to team up with actor Bill Nighy in a bizarre duet of a version of the song from the smash film 'Love Actually' this weekend. The unlikely performance of ballad Love is All Around by the indie band will provide the finale to a star-studded charity ...
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Radiohead's guitarist gets BBC job
LONDON, UK (Radiohead Fans Website/BBC Radio 3) - Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood is to be the BBC's new composer-in-residence. According to BBC Johnny Greenwood will produce modern classical pieces for the BBC Concert Orchestra, with most of his work set to air on BBC Radio 3. Greenwood will not ...
| Allman Brothers 'Stand Back: The Anthology' features all the classics (32 recordings)
LOS ANGELES (Hip-O Records press release) - Thirty-five years after their recording debut, there is still no other group like The Allman Brothers Band - authors of an indispensable style of American music that became known as Southern Rock, they grew into a musical icon culminating with their 1994 induction ...
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Oasis to roll with Ringo's son
LONDON, UK (Oasis Fans Website) - London - British retro rockers Oasis have never hidden their love for the Beatles, with one member even naming his son after John Lennon. Now they have taken the hero worship to a new level - bringing in a second-generation Beatle. Zak Starkey, the son of Beatles drummer ...
| David Bowie invites fans to bootleg his music?
LONDON, UK (David Bowie Official & Fans Website) - The Times in the UK yesterday has published a large piece regarding David Bowie, mash-ups and the whole concept of bedroom DJs. Entitled: Just steal my greatest hits, says Bowie By Adam Sherwin, it's an interesting piece which you can view online by ...
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MC5 returns!
DETROIT, Mich. (70s website) - Pioneering proto-punk Detroit band the MC5 have been name-checked by everyone from The White Stripes to The Flaming Lips to Sum-41 in recent years - and their logo has turned up on t-shirts in unlikely spots like episodes of "Friends" and Justin Timberlake photo shoots. ...
| B.B King delays surgery for concert
NEW YORK (Blues online magazine) - B.B. King will not make it to his annual homecoming in Indianola, Mississippi, in June because he needs cataract surgery and recuperation will be lengthy, his manager said. King, 78, issued a statement through the manager, saying he was disappointed that he would not ...
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Dead Kennedys member wins 'Rock album of the year'!
NEW YORK (Dirrty Records announcement) - Best known as one of the pioneers of American hardcore punk and recently winning Rock Album of the Year for his solo album Sum of Our Surroundings(Dirrty Records), D.H. Peligro's pedigree runs deep. He's the original member/songwriter in the California punk quartet ...
| J.J. Cale is going to release the new album 'To Tulsa and Back' after 8 years
NEW YORK (Conqueroo press release) - "To Tulsa And Back" is J.J. Cale s first new studio album since 1996 s Guitar Man. But as he says, It doesn t seem that long. You just can t rush the good things in life and that includes Cale, who, for his Sanctuary Records debut, went back to his hometown of Tulsa ...
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame class of 2004
CLEVELANT (RNRHOF Official Website) - It's that time of year again, when the eyes of longtime rock fans turn toward the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. "Rock 'n' Roll Never Forgets," but Bob Seger must have been wondering if its Hall of Fame forgot him. Until now, that is! Bob Seger will be ...
| US rocker David Crosby arrested for drug, gun possession
NEW YORK (CSNY Fans Website) - A living myth, the US rocker David Crosby, who gained fame as a member of the Woodstock generation, has been arrested in New York on Saturday for drug and gun possession, a New York City Police Department spokesman said. Crosby, 62, who has twice been inducted into the ...
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Omar & The Howlers are going to release new album 'Boogie Man' due February
NEW YORK (Ruf Records announcement) - Omar & The Howlers, with their bone-rattling display of swinging, rocking, rough & tumble blues, have earned their badge of honor while wowing audiences for over 20 years. Their new release "Boogie Man," set for February 24 release on Ruf Records, is a testament ...
| Warren Zevon's 'The Wind' is going to be released on special vinyl edition
NEW YORK (Artemis Records announcement) - On March 9th, 2004, Artemis Records will release a special limited edition vinyl version of Warren Zevon's 5-time Grammy-nominated album, The Wind. The vinyl will be 180 gram audiophile quality. The Wind has been included in many Best of 2003 music wrap-ups ...
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U2's Bono gets MLK award in US
NEW YORK (U2 Fan Website) - U2 lead singer Bono is this year's honoree at the Martin Luther King Center. Bono has received a Salute To Greatness award from the King Centre in Atlanta for his efforts to combat third world debt and AIDS in Africa. The humanitarian award is one of the highest honours given ...
| Radiohead are back in their own Oxford studio!
LONDON, UK (Radiohead Fan Website) - Great news about Radiohead: the band is planning to release a new album! They are back in their Oxford studio working on songs for their seventh album. The band were supposed to be taking a break after almost a year on tour but have been working on the follow up ...
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Willie Nelson's new song takes anti-war stance
NEW YORK (Willie Nelson Fans Websites) - Willie Nelson realizes his new anti-war ballad, "What Ever Happened to Peace on Earth," could result in criticism from right-wing country music fans. "I sure hope so," Nelson told the Austin (Texas) American-Statesman newspaper. "I don't care if people say, 'Who ...
| Clarence Butler, the legendary bluesman has died
NEW YORK (https://the-blues-blog.blogspot.com) - The Great Butler Twin and legendary harmonica blues man, Clarence Butler, passed away Dec. 22 in Detroit. He is survived by his twin brother Curtis. Curtis and Clarence, sons of an Alabama sharecropper, were born seconds apart on Jan. 21, 1942 (in the ...
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