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musician stories: 62 news summaries

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Kanye Prevails in Battle of the Hip-Hop Stars

It's still early, but Graduation is outselling
50 Cent's Curtis

Sep 12, 07 10:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - In the much-hyped battled between two music titans, early sales indicate hip-hop fans are going West. Kanye West’s latest album, Graduation, has been outselling rival 50 Cent’s Curtis—by 2 to 1 at one Hollywood store, the LA Times reports—since the two went on sale yesterday.... More »

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50 Cent • Kanye West • Virgin • CDs • musician • hip-hop • music sales • album release • Newbury Comics • Curtis • graduation

Jazz Giant Zawinul Dead at 75

Keyboardist defended 'electric jazz' against purists

Sep 11, 07 7:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - Joe Zawinul, the keyboardist who plugged America into "Electric Jazz" in the 1970s, has died at age 75. Best known for playing jazz-rock fusion with Miles Davis and starting up Weather Report with Wayne Shorter, Zawinul defended his electric sound against jazz purists. "There is no difference between... More »

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obituary • Austria • jazz • musician • Vienna • Joe Zawinul • Miles Davis • Wayne Shorter • electric • Maynard Ferguson • Dinah Washington • Cannonball Adderly

Kid Rock, Tommy Lee Tussle

Pamela's exes brawl at the Video Music Awards

Sep 10, 07 1:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - The audience at the MTV Video Movie Awards experienced some unscheduled excitement last night, in the form of a brawl between Kid Rock and Tommy Lee—both rockers who've been wed to Pamela Anderson. The cause of the scuffle was unclear, but witnesses say Kid walked over to Tommy's table... More »

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MTV Movie Awards • celebrity • fight • musician • Tommy Lee • Kid Rock • Pamela Anderson

Music Vids Shrink as $$$ Fade

As industry changes, artists embrace low budgets, new concepts

Sep 9, 07 4:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - A music industry headed for financial crash-and-burn has radically downsized its once-extravagant videos, the AP reports. Viewers of today’s MTV Video Awards will see more single-camera videos and quirky YouTube-inspired concepts that save cash—all suited for play on small screens. "A comet hit the earth and the... More »

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music industry • Beck • Justin Timberlake • musician • music videos

Opera World Mourns 'King of the High Cs'

Pavarotti's legacy:
That unforgettable, unmistakable sound

Sep 6, 07 8:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - Placido Domingo is the better musician, but no other voice could match the late Luciano Pavarotti's, Anthony Tommasini writes in today's Times. The music critic looks at a career dotted with highs as lofty as the high Cs Pavarotti "tossed off" with "ease, pinging tone and utter glee"... More »

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obituary • opera • Luciano Pavarotti • musician • Placido Domingo • Anthony Tommasini

Only the Good Die Young

Musicians who make it big twice as likely to bow out early

Sep 4, 07 9:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - The cliché "live fast, die young" now has backing from science. More than 1,000 American and European musicians active from 1956 through 1999 came under British researchers' scrutiny, and the stats are grim: The performers were twice as likely as civilians to die young, with drug and alcohol... More »

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drugs • alcohol • celebrity • death • musician

Perfect Pitch Might Come Built Right In

Ability may be in genes, but early musical training a must, too

Sep 1, 07 5:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sounds like absolute pitch—the ability to identify a note without a reference tone—might be genetically determined. “Either you have it or you don’t,” said the lead researcher in a report in Scientific American, who cautioned that even those with the theoretical genetic predisposition must be... More »

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music • genes • musician • perfect pitch • pitch

Richards Throws Stones at Swedish Critics

Reviews of 'superdrunk,' 'confused' performance get guitarist riled up

Aug 29, 07 11:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - Keith Richards, the man who ate a cigarette onstage and snorted his father’s ashes, has reached his limit. The 63-year-old Rolling Stones guitarist wants Swedish newspaper critics to apologize for scathing reviews of a concert this month in which they called Richards “superdrunk” and “a bit confused,... More »

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Keith Richards • Rolling Stones • Sweden • concert • musician

Family Pleads:
Don't Buy CDs

Winehouse drama escalates as in-laws call singer, husband 'drug addicts' on BBC

Aug 28, 07 12:41 PM CDT
(Newser) - The continuing drama surrounding "Rehab" singer Amy Winehouse took a bizarre new turn this morning when her in-laws, in an plea broadcast on the BBC, begged fans not to buy her records. Her husband's parents called for a boycott to force the couple into rehab, the Guardian reports. "... More »

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rehab • drugs • musician • Amy Winehouse • singer • Blake Fielder Civil

Musicians March Silently Through New Orleans

Post-Katrina hard times in the Big Easy threaten legendary jazz scene

Aug 27, 07 1:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - The battered post-Katrina economy drove jazz musicians into the streets of New Orleans yesterday, holding instruments silent at their sides in what they termed a “solidarity march.” Ninety percent of city musicians were living at or below the poverty line even before the hurricane, the Times-Picayune reports, and... More »

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music • Hurricane Katrina • New Orleans • jazz • musician • solidarity march • Katrina aftermath

No Moss, but Rolling Stones May Gather Fine

Richards, Wood defy smoking ban at UK show, plan to continue

Aug 22, 07 5:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - Threat of fines appear unlikely to keep the Rolling Stones from smoking onstage, the Times reports. Guitarists Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood lit up during a show yesterday in London despite frantic warnings from venue staff. "You might say that Keith and Ronnie lighting up while they swap licks... More »

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London • Keith Richards • Rolling Stones • United Kingdom • smoking • England • smoking ban • concert • musician • Ronnie Wood

US Tour?
Winehouse Says
'No, No, No.'

Troubled 'Rehab' singer needs to 'address her health,' publicist says

Aug 22, 07 2:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - Another overseas import has been held up due to a high level of suspicious substances -- Amy Winehouse has canceled her U.S. tour to address her "health problems." A publicist's statement made no mention of rehab, but said the chanteuse was advised by doctors to shelve her... More »

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music • MTV • drug use • singers • tour • musician • Amy Winehouse

Dylan Flick Coming Soon to (1 or 2) Screens Near You

Starting small, even with big star power

Aug 21, 07 5:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - A little movie looking for a crowd will open on only 4 screens this fall, but its distributor boasts that “I’m going to play every major city in the United States with this movie.” With Heath Ledger, Christian Bale and Cate Blanchett taking star turns in a... More »

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Academy Awards • film • Bob Dylan • musician • Todd Haynes • Cate Blanchett • Heath Ledger • Christian Bale • Harvey Weinstein • movies • Oscars

Connie Francis Battles Family for Suicide
Fan's Bequest

Obsessed woman left singer $300K

Aug 20, 07 2:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - An obsessed female fan of Connie Francis put $300,000 in assets in the Sixties singer's name—then shot herself days later. Now Francis, known for her old hits "Who's Sorry Now"  and "Where the Boys Are," is suing the fan's family to collect the money.... More »

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CDs • Connie Francis • musician • Patricia Nilson • Gerald Nilson • St Jude Children's Hospital

Springsteen Makes 'Magic' Again

First album in five years due October 2

Aug 16, 07 4:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - Bruce Springsteen will release "Magic"—his first album with his iconic E Street Band in half a decade—on October 2. The 11-track album is produced by Brendan O'Brien, who also produced the Grammy-winning "The Rising," the last Springsteen/E Street collaboration. More »

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music • The Sopranos • Conan O'Brien • Bruce Springsteen • E Street Band • musician • Brendan O'Brien • Max Weinberg • Steve Van Zandt

Max Roach Dies at 83

Star percussionist redefined the genre - more than once

Aug 16, 07 3:18 PM CDT
(Newser) - Max Roach, a drummer who moved to his own beat and became a seminal figure in modern jazz, died today at 83. Roach renovated his genre's traditional instrumentation, and pioneered a layered, contrapuntal style that became the trademark of contemporary percussion. Even his recent albums defied the conventions he helped... More »

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obituary • death • jazz • Max Roach • percussion • drums • musician

Elvis Fans Offer Burning Love

Fans around the world pay tribute, cough up cash to honor the King

Aug 16, 07 6:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - Elvis fans braved 100-degree heat to make the pilgrimage to Graceland for the 30th anniversary of the King's death, lining up last night for a candlelight vigil and chance to pay their respects. Tens of thousands were expected to file past the grave and snap up commemorative T-shirts. More »

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music • rock stars • rock and roll • Elvis Presley • musician • Graceland

Keith Did, In Fact, Snort Dad

But Rolling Stone
can’t get cocaine
satisfaction

Aug 7, 07 5:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - Keith Richards says that—reported denials aside—he did indeed snort his father’s ashes. The Rolling Stones sideman revealed in an interview yesterday that media reports had mixed up the story, and that he’d only meant to deny mixing the remains with a popular opiate. “I said... More »

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drugs • Keith Richards • Rolling Stones • cremation • cocaine • guitarist • musician

Tommy Makem Dies at 74

Aug 3, 07 4:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - Tommy Makem, the great Irish singer and storyteller who, with the Clancy Brothers, led the revival in Irish folk music in the late 1950s and 1960s, died after a long battle with lung cancer yesterday. He was 74. "To hear Tommy Makem sing 'Four Green Fields,' " writes... More »

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cancer • music • lung cancer • obituary • Ireland • Tommy Makem • Clancy Brothers • folk • musician

Radio Should Pay to Play, Artists Argue

Music industry wants
to start collecting AM, FM royalties

Jul 5, 07 6:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - It's time AM and FM radio broadcasters started paying for the music they play, a group of music industry types has decided. They're lobbying Congress to amend the federal law that has exempted terrestrial radio from paying artists' royalties for nearly a century, Business Week reports.   More »

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music • radio • satellite radio • music industry • Recording Industry Association of America • House Judiciary Committee • CDs • royalty • royalties • RIAA • MUSICfirst coalition • terrestrial radio • mp3 • web radio • podcast • singers • digital downloads • artist • musician

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