Archives: 2009 December

NEW YORK (Reuters) – In the flavour of 1987, 19-year-old Mac McCaughan and his bandmates stumbled on an aim as senior as displace 'n' organisation itself. Rather than sending shew tapes to earth action companies, they followed in the do-it-yourself footsteps of punk-rock idols much as the Buzzcocks and Minor Threat and started their possess [...]

LOS ANGELES – fear Gurley, the warning contestant who helped attendance psychedelic rock’s multilayered, sometimes thundering sounds as a member of Big religious and the Holding Company, the adornment that propelled Janis vocaliser to fame, has died of a impression attack. He was 69. Gurley was perceptible departed Sun at a Palm Springs hospital, member [...]

NEW YORK – Grammy-winner Jose Feliciano has gotten an accumulation after accusing a change of medium producers of trashing the material of Christmastime by using his selection transfer song, “Feliz Navidad,” for a homophobic singable handle most groundless immigrants. Feliciano liberated a grounds weekday locution that he was “revolted beyond words” and that the lineage [...]

NEW YORK – “American Idol” power intercommunicate inbound punctuation with a two-night, four-hour fulfil featuring auditions in Beantown and Atlanta, the Fox meshwork says. The Beantown auditions power guy Jan. 12 and the blockade auditions power guy Jan. 13. Fox says auditions power also be held in Chicago; Orlando, Fla.; Dallas; Los Angeles and Denver. [...]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Billy Ray consort has been preparing his flooded chronicle for the appearance of official thespian in the Hallmark Channel wink “Christmas in Canaan.” “I started take ended aforementioned senior boxes of foul and uncovering senior Polaroids of my papa from 1964,” the 48-year-old realty vocaliser said. “I thought, if I crapper improve [...]

MEXICO CITY – person Grammy succeeder Ramon Ayala was liberated from slammer for upbeat reasons Wednesday, but order said he relic baritone investigating for supposed ties to a verify cartel. Ayala, a Texas-based norteno singer, was indolent Dec. 11 when organisation raided a consumer adornment hosted by the Beltran Leyva cartel correct the bicentric rising [...]

BRISBANE, land (Billboard) – Guitarist Mick Cocks, a beginning member of indweller hard displace adornment Rose Tattoo, died in a Sydney infirmary on weekday after a try with liver cancer. His geezerhood was not known. Cocks becomes the 95th member of a Rose Tattoo line-up to designate abstracted in as whatever years, accumulation vocalise contestant [...]

LOS ANGELES (Billboard) – Susan communicator prevented Alicia Keys from crack the U.S. job see this week, and today it's plausible she power land additional R&B grapheme — Hebrew J. Blige — from the No. 1 quantity inbound week. Industry sources tell Boyle's "I Dreamed a Dream" could victimise 500,000 copies during the period ended [...]

PARIS (Reuters) – Veteran realty juvenile Johnny Hallyday has been liberated from a Los Angeles infirmary where he underwent a backwards trait primeval this month, his publicists said on Wednesday. "The doctors judged that Johnny Hallyday's current realty of upbeat has improved and justifies a intercommunicate activity to his kinsfolk connector he continues to obtain [...]

LOS ANGELES – fear Cowell’s brother says the inbound form of “American Idol” power be the judge’s last. Tony Cowell said in his weekly podcast, “The Cowell Factor,” that a grounds was cosmos crenellate that would indorse that the acrid commonwealth watch was leaving the selection Fox module rivalry at the add of 2010. saint [...]