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Enrique Iglesias co-wrote Jennifer Lopez's current single, "Dance Again," and now the two longtime friends are taking the next step in a musical collaboration. They will be co-headlining a tour that kicks off July 14th in Montreal and wraps up September 2nd in Orlando. "Jennifer and I have known each other for quite some years, we both spoke about it, and we thought it was a good idea," Iglesias said of the pairing during a conference call with...

Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts has been making a big splash in New York City with his band the A, B, C & D of Boogie Woogie. The band, which was formed in 2009, has mostly performed in Europe, but made its U.S. debut on June 27, 2012, by doing a two-set show as part of Lincoln Center's "Midsummer Night Swing" series. In addition, A, B, C & D of Boogie Woogie made its U.S. TV debut performing on NBC's New York City-based variety series "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon" on June 29, 2012, the same date that the band kicked off a four-night stint at New York City's Iridium Jazz Club. The A, B, C & D of Boogie Woogie is doing eight sets (two sets per night) from June 29 to July 2,...

Whether it’s browsing through paintings in a garden setting or enjoying big band music in a pretty park, summertime is ideal for enjoying the visual and performing arts. There’s no better example than the Cityfolk Festival in downtown Dayton, which wraps up today, from 1 to 10 p.m. at Riverscape MetroPark in downtown Dayton. The festive event offers a wide variety of ethnic music and dance performances, and everyone gets into the act. The event will culminate with the Dayton fireworks at 10 p.m. This region offers a variety of outdoor arts experiences in June, July and August. While it may be most convenient to attend an event in your own neighborhood, there are plenty of unique...

The 1970s was a declining period for the blues in any form, being overshadowed by progressive, glam and country rock, as well as funk and disco. But in the early 1980s, an incredibly talented blues guitarist and his band, Double Trouble, who took their name from an Otis Rush song title, exploded on the scene in Texas.The mesmerizingly adept guitarist and lead singer, Stephen "Stevie" Ray Vaughan, captivated his audiences with a unique style that combined both Texas and Chicago blues. He has been credited with being the main force behind the blues resurgence of that decade, though Albert Collins and Robert Cray also played important parts. Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble busted the...

This week, YouTube announced that they will begin rewarding creators who reach a million subscribers with a big gold-plated "play" button, much like the music industry's gold record. That bit of news, delivered at the opening day of the third annual VidCon in Anaheim, was one obvious indication that the seven-year-old video uploading platform has graduated from cultural phenomenon to monstrously influential media institution, like the old models it's crowding out. While a small parade of YouTube developers rolled out upgrades to the service (including creator dashboards, a search for the site's "Next Comic" and huge new soundstages for videomakers to share in London, L.A. and...

Nashville powerbrokers don’t always embrace acts that add too many outside elements to their beloved country music. However, an eclectic act like the Zac Brown Band occasionally emerges with so much unique talent the music can’t be denied. The band is among several hot acts coming to Hickory Hill Lakes, Ft. Loramie, for the annual...

On the surface, Vince Gill's sold out, all-acoustic marathon concert Friday night at the Opera House was a celebration of string music spirit — a robust but relaxed overview that honored bluegrass standards by Bill Monroe, The Stanley Brothers, Jimmy Martin, The Osborne Brothers and a few fine, like-minded tunes penned by the host. On that score alone, the show came up a solid winner. But the concert reached far deeper. By balancing the bluegrass material with a cordial, unaccompanied...

Here's something that almost never happens these days: Rolling Stones lead singer Mick Jagger being in the same room as his exes Bianca Jagger and Jerry Hall. But according to Us Weekly, all three were at the wedding of Mick and Bianca's daughter, Jade, who married disc jockey Adrian Fillary at the Aynhoe Park Hotel near Banbury, Oxfordshire, England, on June 30, 2012. Mick gave the bride away at the ceremony. The wedding reception took place in the same location. Jade's marriage to Fillary is her first marriage. They began dating in 2011, and he proposed marriage in February 2012. Advertisement British supermodel Kate Moss was also at the wedding, according to Us Weekly. Jade, 40, is the...

Haitian rapper Wyclef Jean ran into immigration trouble in Canada on Friday after misplacing his visa, which authorizes...

Growing up, my mom had just one rule when it came to the movies: my brothers and I were only allowed to go to the theater on a rainy day. In her mind, there was no reason to sit indoors in front of a silver screen when you could be playing...

BET Awards executive producer Stephen Hill sat perched on a makeshift control board in the middle of the Shrine Auditorium on Thursday as production technicians readied the historic venue for the network's 12th annual awards show. The three-hour-plus production will air live on Sunday and feature performances by D'Angelo, Chris Brown, Nicki Minaj and Usher, as well as a tribute to the late Whitney Houston led by her mother, Cissy Houston. One of many crucial questions: Hill needed to know exactly where a mirror ball would be hung for a planned Donna Summer tribute. "The real challenge here is all the coordination," said Hill, who also serves as president of music programming and specials for...

Popular local indie rock band Fierce Creatures is about to release its much-anticipated new album -- and doing it in style. The band's hosting the...

The Stone Roses played the first in a series of comeback gigs in Manchester last night (June 29). The quartet performed classic tracks including 'I Wanna Be Adored', 'Mersey Paradise' and 'Sally Cinnamon' in front of a crowd of over 70,000 people, with frontman Ian Brown telling fans: "Yeah, as you see we still got it." The band announced that they were reforming last year following a bitter split in 1996. Last night's homecoming concert was their first large-scale show in the UK since the fall-out. It marked the start of a three-night stint topping the bill at Heaton Park, which will be followed by a series of festival dates later in the summer. Brown had previously insisted that he would...

Paul T BradleyNo Age and Tearist Walmart protest at Human Resources Gallery in Chinatown 6/29/12 *Walmart Protest in Chinatown is Turning Into Walstock Free Concert Featuring Tom Morello *Tom Morello Dishes On LA Rising, Politics and Rage's 20th Anniversary Activists and rockers descended upon a gallery in Chinatown last night (which doubled as a human hot...

You already know Chris Hemsworth from movies like The Avengers and Snow White and the Huntsman. You know Liam Hemsworth from The Hunger Games and upcoming The Expendables 2. But there’s a third Hemsworth, too. His name is Luke, he got into acting long before either of his brothers, and in case you didn’t know, he’s planning on joining them in Hollywood later this year. The 31-year-old started acting ten years ago on the Australian soap opera Neighbours, but after years of chasing roles, he tells EW that he became “disillusioned” with the field and decided to open up his own timber-flooring business. While the flooring company (where both Liam and Chris have...

Justin Bieber cut short a pre-taped interview with radio show Mojo in the Morning on Thursday after the host compared him to Justin Timberlake and quizzed him about a potential romance between his mother and One Direction's Harry Styles. Thomas Carballo, the host of the show, was in the...

With nineteen million people watching her little frame, Julia Dale strode to the middle of the court and lifted the microphone gently to her lips. The house lights twinkled and dimmed, a single beam shone down from above and, as a nation's attention focused on a lone 11-year-old girl, she flashed a big toothy smile at the circling TV cameras. Julia started low in her register. Gently keeping pace with a sweeping wave of her left hand, she closed her eyes and bathed in her moment with the charisma and confidence of a bona fide American diva....

Stone Roses comeback gigs at Heaton Park make Manchester the capital of music again Stone Roses fans react to comeback gig Link to this video...

Singer-turned-reality TV show judge Demi Lovato has dismissed reports suggesting she and One Direction member Niall Horan are an item, insisting she has no time for romance. The new X Factor mentor has been linked to the...

NEW YORK — A New York City nightclub shut down after a celebrity-studded, bottle-tossing brawl is on track toward reopening next month. City lawyers told a...

According to Friday estimates, “bear” beats “bare” at the box office — but only by a bit! Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane’s $50 million comedy Ted, which is being distributed by Universal, snuggled up to a huge $20.2 million worth of tickets on Friday. The raunchy laugher, which stars Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, and a bong-smoking teddy, is headed for the second-best debut ever for an R-rated comedy, behind...

Four songs into the Stone Roses' homecoming reunion show last night, frontman Ian Brown looked out over the 75,000-strong crowd in Manchester's Heaton Park and nonchalantly declared, "As you see, we've still got it. . . ." In truth, the crowd had been convinced of the band's continuing worth and relevance long before that – probably even before the initial bassline of traditional set-opener "I Wanna Be Adored" had swirled out into the damp evening air. The first time around, high profile Stone Roses shows had a tendency to end in either myth-enhancing triumph (as with their Spike Island mini-festival in 1990) or reputation-damaging disaster (as with the band's dying swansong at Reading...

One of Nashville's newest venues, High Watt, played host to buzzmaking Indie Rockers The Mynabirds, who are in the midst of a headlining club tour capitalizing on last year's successful tour opening for Bright Eyes, on June 29. Opening acts for this set were family band Matrimony and Sean Bones. Both ably performed their duties of getting the crowd warmed up for the main event, with Matrimony blasting through a short set of Indie Pop originals with a Rock edge and Sean Bones bringing some Rockabilly guitar work to his set of Indie/Americana rock. While both sets had their high points, Matrimony especially seemed tight on this day and they may be a group worth keeping an eye on in the...

Katy Perry has revealed that watching scenes of her split from husband Russell Brand in her new movie was "uncomfortable". The documentary, called Part of Me, chronicles a...

Vampire Weekend's Ezra Koening has said that the follow-up to 2010's Contra is nearing completion. The lead singer of the New York-based four piece claimed that the band have "80%" of the songs written and ready for the next album. Koenig made the comments in an interview for Spin with fellow musician Hamilton Leithauser. The 28-year-old claimed that The Walkmen frontman has "remained one of favourite singers", and that his group are "the band that I've paid to see the most in my life". He revealed to Leithauser that work on the LP has "been a long process", saying: "We always try to write and record at the same time. So we've always got some ProTools session demo that tends to actually turn...

Live Indie/alternative/rock gig Date: Thursday 19th July 2012 Venue: Carpe Diem » Location: Leeds » Doors: 20:30 til 23:30 Event short url: http://www.skiddle.com/events/11681598/ Event InfoLineup and details for DOUBLE-DENIM on Thursday 19th July 2012 3 Awesome bands and 1 amazing solo artist...FREE ENTRY....Lots of drinks offers and an electric...

With incredible talent led by heartthrob Adam Levine, Maroon 5 releases the band's fourth studio album. Their single "Payphone" had massive success on the charts and from the sounds the album...

1. "Don't Run Away" (Tyler James Williams (feat. IM5) The combo of Tyler James Williams and IM5 results in a Justin Bieber-esque track. With a sound similar to Bieber's "Baby" ft Ludacris, "Don't Run Away" is a kid-friendly tune about young couple's infatuation, "This is more than a crush/More than a like like/More than a love." * 2. "Guardian Angel" (Tyler James Williams & Coco Jones) Far heavier than an audience would have come to expect from Disney, "Guardian Angel" features a commendable rapping from Tyler James Williams and a soulful earnest chorus from Coco James. This is not a song you would guess to be on this soundtrack, but that makes it even more impressive. * 3. "Me and You"...

"I'm thinkin' 'bout burnin' the Walmart down," Steve Earle sings in a video uploaded to his website this week. During the clip, the songwriter urges fans to attend Saturday's March Against Low Wage Jobs in Los Angeles, a rally expected to unite some 10,000 protestors against Walmart's planned construction of California's first neighborhood market store. The incendiary lyric from "Burnin' It Down" – one of 12 songs Earle is recording in Nashville for his tentatively titled The Low Highway, due early next year – reflects the short fuses of those workers disenchanted with the retail giant's handling of employee pay, health benefits and lack of unions. While Earle will not attend the march...

On Sunday morning, as you toggle through your radio channels, a brand new station may just entice you to stay on and entreat you to make it the soundtrack to your life. OK, that might be a tad bit dramatic but the people behind Josh, a new frequency targeted at South Asian expatriates, believe they’ve got what it takes to stand out of the clutter and give listeners a new and fresh start to the morning and stay on through the day. “Josh means passion. And that is the underlying theme to every aspect of the station. It’s a passion for life, for music,” explains Madhura Rajendra, the head of Josh 97.8 FM. “It’s also very much a UAE station that talks about...

Fame won't change the way Husky do things. As Husky Gawenda travels the world on the crest of an unstoppable indie-folk...

The official video has just been released for the song Celebrate by Jordin Sparks and Whitney Houston from the upcoming...

WROUGHT with pain and her marriage over, Katy Perry is collapsed sobbing in her make-up chair backstage before a concert. It's a heart-wrenching scene from Katy Perry: Part of Me 3D that pretty much says it all - this is no bubblegum pop concert movie. "You would find it strange if you went to the movie and I had completely avoided the elephant in the room," Perry tells Insider, referring to her divorce from British actor Russell Brand. "It's not that I wanted to hide it. I wanted to be respectful of it, but also hopefully people are inspired by the fact I could land on my feet after something that obviously wasn't exciting to go through. We all...

Seb Webber stood in a stark office space 12 floors above Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, surveying his new domain. The 27-year-old London expatriate and the recently minted managing director of the music-services firm SQE was dressed in his typical plastic Buddy Holly glasses and skinny black jeans. His office's polished concrete floors lacked furniture for the moment — move-in day was a week or so away — but he had a gorgeous floor-to-ceiling panorama of the Hollywood Hills to his north and, on this clear day, almost to Catalina Island in the west. It's a workplace view befitting a lavish new tech startup or a cash-flush film production house. But Webber's company is in a more...

Heavily, the piano pumps out the rhythm. After a decent interval, the first gentle notes emerge from the four costumed siblings. The achingly simple lyrics find new life in their silky, unsullied tones. The three sisters and their brother break into more complicated harmonies and ascend the final high notes of the sentimental song as easily as they've taken to the stage. The effect is chilling. One reason: Singing "Edelweiss" from Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Sound of Music" are the great-grandchildren of Captain and Maria von Trapp, a touring foursome known until recently as the Von Trapp Children. Sofia, 23; Melanie, 22; Amanda, 20; and Justin, 17; are reinventing themselves as...

The Stone Roses played the first in a series of comeback gigs in Manchester last night (June 29). The quartet performed classic tracks including 'I Wanna Be Adored', 'Mersey Paradise' and 'Sally Cinnamon' in front of a crowd of over 70,000 people, with frontman Ian Brown telling fans: "Yeah, as you see we still got it." The band announced that they were reforming last year following a bitter split in 1996. Last night's homecoming concert was their first large-scale show in the UK since the fall-out. It marked the start of a three-night stint topping the bill at Heaton Park, which will be followed by a series of festival dates later in the summer. Brown had previously insisted that he would...

LOS ANGELES Adam Levine knows the game. Seconds after sitting down for an interview and before any questions are asked, the Maroon 5 frontman playfully rattles off canned responses he's used in recent months while promoting "The Voice" and the band's fourth album. "It is our poppiest record ever. We're really embracing the pop side. Christina (Aguilera) and I are all good. We don't fight," he says brightly. "I feel great about this record! Probably our best ever!" He lets out a stagey, fake chuckle, and it's clear that the 33-year-old Los Angeles native both relishes the spotlight and has been around long enough to grow a smidge tired of its glare. Thus the...

U2 rocker Adam Clayton's former aide has been convicted on 181 counts of theft after dipping into the musician's savings over a four-year period. Carol Hawkins was...

Lamb Of God lead singer Randy Blythe has been arrested for manslaughter a Czech Republic news source is claiming....

The year long PNAU project reinventing the songs of Elton John will be released next month. Elton John vs PNAU have called the album 'Good Morning To The Night'. Sire Elton John gave PNAU license to reinvent his music any way they wanted. PNAU went back to the early catalogue for this album and added loops, samples and their own music to create the 'Good Morning To The Night' album. A video for 'Sad' was released earlier this week. Universal will...

Outkast member Big Boi has delivered a new tune from his forthcoming album, featuring Big K.R.I.T. and UGK....

Saturday, June 30, 2012 Reviewed by: Ian Mann A carefully crafted recording that features Jones' melodic, intelligent writing and arrangements plus some excellent playing from all the members of the ensemble. Dave Jones Quartet "Resonance" Based in Port Talbot the Welsh pianist and composer Dave Jones has received considerable praise from the London jazz press cognoscenti, notably Chris Parker, for his excellent albums "Impetus" (2009) and Journeys (2010). The first of these was an accomplished piano trio date recorded with brothers Chris O' Connor (bass) and Mark O' Connor (drums). The album demonstrated that Jones was not only a talented pianist but also a first rate composer capable of...

Saturday, June 30, 2012 Pianist scoops 5 awards Pianist Vijay Iyer topped an unprecedented five categories in the 60th Annual DownBeat Magzine International Critics Poll, winning Jazz Artist of the Year, top Pianist and Rising Star...

Bob Seger's burglar has been caught and arrested. Last August, the daughter of Bob Seger had a party at the family home. When all was done, cash and other items were...

Liam Gallagher's band Beady Eye have always refused to include Oasis songs in their set, but after seeing Noel's success the band have...

Last night's Lil' Band O' Gold gig in Melbourne (June 29, 2012) had a special treat when You Am I's Tim Rogers joined the Louisiana supergroup and performed Led Zeppelin and AC/DC covers....

Here's a quote that won't be making Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony's days. Eddie Van Halen has told Guitar World that earlier versions of Van Halen 'wasn't really us, it...

The Recording Academy and the MusiCares Foundation have announced that Bruce Springsteen has been selected to be the 2013 MusiCares Person of the Year. He is being honored for his 'extraordinary creative accomplishments as well as his significant charitable work, which has included an impressive range of philanthropic activities over the...

Wu-Tang Clan capo RZA has delivered a trailer for his Tarantino-endorsed The Man With The Iron Fists film....

The Stone Roses made their joyful homecoming at the first night of the three day Heaton Park Manchester weekender yesterday. 75,000 lucky music fans desended on Heation Park to see the Manc legends return after 16 years. The original line up of Ian Brown,...