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Wednesday, 14 February 2007 |
 Beyonce has hit another high note, claiming the coveted cover shot of
this year's Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue in a yellow-and-pink
bikini. "The Dreamgirl As You've Never Seen Her," a cover headline
teases. There's also a photo spread inside the magazine.
The 25-year-old singer/actress posed on a Florida
beach in the bikini designed by House of Dereon, the fashion label she
started with her mother, Tina Knowles.
The 2007 swimsuit edition continues with a music theme
inside, featuring scantily clad models posing with Kanye West,
Aerosmith, Kenny Chesney, Gnarls Barkley and Panic! At the Disco.
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Wednesday, 14 February 2007 |
 A collection of unreleased music from late singer/songwriter Elliott
Smith will be released this spring. "New Moon" rounds up 24 tracks
recorded between 1994-1997.
The project is due May 8 via Kill Rock
Stars and will also be available as a double vinyl set.
Some of the material is understood to have been
produced by longtime Smith collaborator Rob Schnapf, but final mixing
was undertaken by engineer Larry Crane, who is now the archivist for
the Smith estate.
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Wednesday, 14 February 2007 |
 Toni Braxton has settled her multimillion-dollar lawsuit against her
former personal manager, representatives of both parties said.
Under
the settlement, the 39-year-old R&B singer is free to pursue new
projects following her return of a $375,000 advance to manager Barry
Hankerson, according to Braxton representative Michael Sitrick.
Hankerson had previously demanded an additional $1
million to provide the singer with only a partial release from her
contract, Sitrick said.
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Tuesday, 13 February 2007 |
 Tool,
the White Stripes and Widespread Panic will join the reunited Police at
the 2007 Bonnaroo festival, to be held June 14-17 in Manchester, Tenn.
Other acts on the bill for the event include Wilco,
the Flaming Lips, Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals, Manu Chao,
String Cheese Incident, Franz Ferdinand, Ween, the Roots, Kings Of
Leon, the Black Keys, Wolfmother, Bob Weir & Ratdog, Gov't Mule and
Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers. Tickets go on sale Friday at noon
ET via Bonnaroo.com.
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Tuesday, 13 February 2007 |
 After a few European headlining jaunts and scattered Stateside opening
dates (including the Who and Gnarls Barkley), the time was just right
for a full-scale U.S. Peeping Tom tour.
"It's been funny -- out of the gate this band has been
a hard one to put together with eight or nine people," he says. "It
varies. Every tour I've done has been different members through
different schedules.
Also, we've gotten offers to open for a lot of
different bands and some of them have been exotic and intriguing and
we've chosen to explore those options as opposed to doing our own tour,
so it was put off for those reasons as well."
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Tuesday, 13 February 2007 |
 Bronx singer Remy Ma is putting the finishing touches on a reality show
about her life and is in talks with a major cable network to premiere
it before the end of the year.
"Being that we going through contracts, we can't
really talk about it, but it's gonna be real fun," she tells
Billboard.com. "They follow me around, and there are things that happen
to me along the way. But nothing too extra; I still wanted to have some
piece of privacy so people don't know everything."
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Tuesday, 13 February 2007 |
 Singer and actress Marianne Faithfull plays a grandmother in dire
straights who becomes a sex worker in London's seedy Soho, in a
touching yet hilarious movie that has lit up a hitherto subdued Berlin
film festival.
"Irina Palm" follows Maggie, played by Faithfull, from
the side of her sick grandson's hospital bed to a sex shop where,
desperate to pay for the boy's medical treatment abroad, she accepts a
job where her smooth-skinned hands are a key asset.
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Monday, 12 February 2007 |
 As part of its ever-broadening sonic palette, Papa Roach hopes to
release some acoustic recordings in the future. But their time has not
come yet.
"I don't think our fans are quite ready for this yet,"
frontman Jacoby Shaddix told Billboard.com. "So we've put it on the
back burner, but it's definitely something we're gonna touch on in the
future."
Shaddix said the Sacramento, Calif., quartet recently
recorded three of its songs -- "Scars," the new single "Forever" and
"Not Coming Home" -- acoustically in Scotland, "just to test the waters
and see how they sounded. They came out great. First and foremost, it
was fun, and the sound quality was killer."
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Monday, 12 February 2007 |
 The Dixie Chicks triumphed over their critics, Mary J. Blige played
comeback queen and the Red Hot Chili Peppers reasserted their rock
dominance at the 49th Grammy Awards, held last night (Feb. 11) at the
Staples Center in Los Angeles.
The Chicks won five awards, including
record and song of the year for "Not Ready To Make Nice" and album of
the year for "Taking the Long Way." Blige won best R&B song and
best female R&B vocal performance for "Be Without You" and best
R&B album for "The Breakthrough."
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Monday, 12 February 2007 |
 The 49th Grammy Awards drew as heavily from the past as they did the
present for the performance slate at last night's (Feb. 11) show from
the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
The evening began with the reunited
Police playing "Roxanne" and concluded with four-time winners the Red
Hot Chili Peppers performing "Snow (Hey Oh)" as confetti rained down on
the audience.
The Dixie Chicks gave an impassioned reading of "Not
Ready To Make Nice" in the early going, prior to the track winning both
record and song of the year. Introduced by Prince, Beyonce belted out
"Listen," which she performs in the smash musical "Dreamgirls."
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With two trophies apiece, the Arctic Monkeys and the Killers slayed the
competition at the Brit Awards tonight (Feb. 14) in London.