WWE enters the ring with music venture (Reuters)
March 26, 2006Reuters - World Wrestling Entertainment -- better-known as the WWE -- is ramping up its music initiatives with the formation of the WWE Music Group.
Crabb Family is ready to 'Blur the Lines' (Reuters)
March 26, 2006Reuters - The Crabb Family has always been on the cutting edge of Southern gospel music. Its progressive sound earned it fans in the contemporary Christian community, while its country flavor has made it a Grand Ole Opry favorite.
Kenny Rogers dives into new 'Water' (Reuters)
March 26, 2006Reuters - Almost any artist with the right financing can release albums all his life, but only a handful can remain relevant on radio -- an achievement most acts consider the golden ticket.
DJs embrace digital breakthroughs (Reuters)
March 26, 2006Reuters - With all the chatter over how many digital tracks were downloaded in a given month, or what revenue was gained via digital channels this quarter, it is often easy to miss the less-public impact digital music has had on the industry.
Milanese metal act Lacuna Coil enjoys good 'Karma' (Reuters)
March 26, 2006Reuters - When Lacuna Coil's "Comalies" came out in the United States in October 2002, the band was a little-known outfit from Milan. Almost four years later, with its new album, "Karmacode," hitting shelves April 4, the goth-tinged metal act is on the brink of a mainstream breakthrough.
'Lord of the Rings' spectacularly dull on stage (Reuters)
March 26, 2006Reuters - First there was the trilogy of books. Then there were the films. Now there is the theatrical extravaganza.
Energetic DIY sticklers win over L.A. scenesters (Reuters)
March 26, 2006Reuters - Buried deep within the indie-rock aesthetic of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah is a pop band that seems willing to surface but forces itself not to. Casual riffs almost secretly anchor most of the songs, and onstage the group follows wherever the often quirky drumbeats lead.
New day for 'Matins'; Shostakovich in the spotlight (Reuters)
March 26, 2006Reuters - A full 15 years after it became an unlikely international blockbuster, the French film "Tous les Matins du Monde" is set for DVD release.
'Das Rheingold' Moves Wagner Myth to U.S. (AP)
March 26, 2006AP - Those giants, gods, dwarves, and Rhinemaidens who populate Wagner's "Das Rheingold" have taken up residence in the nation's capital — an appropriate venue for an opera whose subject is the lust for power.
Spanish singer Rocio Durcal dies aged 61 (Reuters)
March 26, 2006Reuters - Spanish actress and singer Rocio Durcal, who found fame as one of Mexico's most popular folk singers, has died following a long battle against cancer, her family said on Sunday.
'Bye, Buck (E! Online)
March 26, 2006
E! Online - Buck Owens was a different kind of country music star: He played
Carnegie Hall, not the Grand Ole Opry; he lived for Bakersfield, not
Nashville.
'Bye, Buck
March 26, 2006
Buck Owens was a different kind of country music star: He played Carnegie Hall, not the Grand Ole Opry; he lived for Bakersfield, not Nashville.
Owens, the "Act Naturally" singer-songwriter who made a music mecca of a central California farming town, and a weekly event of a cornpone TV variety show known as "Hee Haw," died Saturday at his home, according to his Website. He was 76.
And, yes, as if there were ever any doubt, Owens' home was in Bakersfield.
Bakersfield, California, is where the Texas-born Owens moved in 1951. And it was where he helped give rise in the 1950s and 1960s to the so-called "Bakersfield Sound," a twangier, harder-driving country.