Eminem's Ex Stakes Her Claim (E! Online)
May 2, 2006
E! Online - The real Mrs. Slim Shady is standing up--in divorce court.
Doherty Draws Blood? (E! Online)
May 2, 2006
E! Online - Pete Doherty may be a convicted drug addict, alleged carjacking
accomplice and a practicing ninja (specialty: reporters), but the man
still has limits.
Carpenter Says Depression Caused Her Pain (AP)
May 2, 2006
AP - Mary Chapin Carpenter could barely compose herself. The 48-year-old country singer-songwriter had just been asked to talk about her experience with depression during her discussion of the creative process with author Kaye Gibbons at the 2006 N.C. Festival of the Book.
ITunes Songs to Stay 99 Cents Per Download (AP)
May 2, 2006
AP - Songs at Apple Computer Inc.'s iTunes Music Store will remain 99 cents per download after the company extended its distribution deals with major recording labels.
Australian Rockers Wolfmother Debuts (AP)
May 2, 2006AP - Wolfmother, "Wolfmother" (Interscope)
Rolling Stones' Richards released from NZ hospital (Reuters)
May 2, 2006
Reuters - Rolling Stones guitarist Keith
Richards has been released from a New Zealand hospital where he
was being treated after a mysterious accident, the band's
spokeswoman said on Tuesday.
Rapper Big Hawk Shot to Death (AP)
May 2, 2006AP - Big Hawk, a rapper whose 2001 album reached No. 45 on Billboard's rap chart, was shot to death, police said Tuesday.
Landlord Moves to Evict Hip-Hop Station (AP)
May 2, 2006AP - The biggest names in hip-hop made their way to the studios of "Hot 97": Suge Knight, Lil' Kim, 50 Cent, Jay-Z. With them, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday, came a plethora of hangers-on and violence.
Pearl Jam Continues to Strip Down Sound (AP)
May 2, 2006AP - Pearl Jam, "Pearl Jam" (J Records)
Eminem's Ex Stands Up
May 2, 2006
The real Mrs. Slim Shady is standing up--in divorce court.
Kim Mathers, soon to be Eminem's ex-wife for the second time so it seems, filed a response Wednesday in a Detroit court to the divorce proceedings her husband began in early April.
Though the new paperwork provides no insight as to why the couple is re-divorcing after being remarried for three months, it does highlight what Mathers wants out of the deal. According to court documents, she is seeking financial support, attorney fees and joint legal custody of the pair's 10-year-old daughter, Hailie Jade Scott.
Doherty Draws Blood?
May 2, 2006
Pete Doherty might be a bad seed, but he's not *that* bad. Or so he says.
The Babyshambles rocker is claiming the photos which recently surfaced in Britain's Sun tabloid, featuring him appearing to inject drugs into an unconscious female's arm, were staged. He says the woman was awake and he was merely drawing her blood to use in his paintings.
He was arrested shortly after the photos were published and is due back in court in July.
Doherty Pics A Prank?
May 2, 2006The Babyshambles rocker has opted for the prankster defense in light of his most recent charges, claiming the photos which recently surfaced in Britain's "The Sun" tabloid featuring Doherty appearing to inject drugs into an unconscious female's arm were staged and nothing more than a bit of good, clean fun. Well, fun, anyway.
Mobb Deep's Rolls With a New Crew (AP)
May 2, 2006AP - In the rap world, success is often measured as much by your crew as how catchy your music is.
Doherty: Drug Pics a Prank (E! Online)
May 2, 2006
E! Online - Pete Doherty may be a convicted drug addict, alleged carjacking
accomplice and practicing ninja (specialty: reporters), but the man
still has morals.
Proof's Victim Sues Rapper's Family (E! Online)
May 2, 2006
E! Online - The family of the man gunned down by D12's Proof in a Detroit
nightclub shooting that also claimed the life of the rapper is now
suing the late hip-hop star's estate.
Cash's final song to appear on "American V" (Reuters)
May 2, 2006Reuters - "Like the 309," the last song written by Johnny Cash before his death, will be included on "American V: A Hundred Highways."
Stills touring solo before CSNY reunion (Reuters)
May 2, 2006Reuters - As Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young plan for their first tour in four years, Stephen Stills is slotting in a quick solo trek this month to promote his 2005 album, "Man Alive!"
Keith Richards' Head Healed (E! Online)
May 2, 2006E! Online - Keith Richards is on the mend after injuring his melon while in pursuit of coconuts.
Canadian artists protest labels' piracy plans (Reuters)
May 2, 2006Reuters - Canadian musicians, including Avril Lavigne and Sarah McLachlan, have formed a lobby group to speak out against U.S.-style anti-piracy measures called for by the major labels.
Jailed Glam Rocker Hopes to Win Appeal (AP)
May 2, 2006
AP - Gary Glitter, who is jailed in Vietnam for child molestation, says he hopes to win his appeal and restore some honor and dignity to his family and supporters.
Richards Heals Head
May 2, 2006
Keith Richards is on the mend after injuring his melon while in pursuit of coconuts.
The Rolling Stones guitarist was released from the New Zealand hospital where he was admitted last week following a plunge from a palm tree at Fiji's exclusive Wakaya Club, according to published reports.
Proof Victim Sues Rapper
May 2, 2006
The family of the man gunned down by D12's Proof in a Detroit nightclub shooting that also claimed the life of the rapper is now suing the late hip-hop star's estate.
The mother and wife of 35-year-old Army vet Keith Bender Jr., whom police claim was pistol-whipped and then shot in the face by Proof moments before the rapper was himself fatally shot, have filed a wrongful death lawsuit.
According to the Associated Press, the lawsuit, filed Monday by Leona and Jacqueline Bender, alleges that Proof "violently assaulted and battered [Bender], culminating with the infliction of a gunshot injury that caused the death of Mr. Bender."
Sirius Loss Doubles on Stern Compensation (AP)
May 2, 2006
AP - Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. reported Tuesday that its first quarter loss more than doubled, due largely to expenses of $225 million in stock-related compensation to its star shock jock Howard Stern.
Keith Richards making "speedy recovery" (Reuters)
May 2, 2006Reuters - Rolling Stones guitarist Keith
Richards is making "a speedy recovery" in a New Zealand
hospital after a mysterious accident, and the band's world tour
is on schedule to resume later this month in Spain, according
to their spokeswoman.
Keith Richards Leaves New Zealand Hospital (AP)
May 2, 2006
AP - Keith Richards has been released from a New Zealand hospital where the Rolling Stones guitarist was admitted with a head injury after he reportedly fell out of a palm tree.
Coachella Recap: Sunday, April 30 (Yahoo! Music)
May 2, 2006Yahoo! Music - Despite an impressively high-wattage amount of Sunday star power this year (the first performance by Tool in nearly half a decade, an equally rare appearance by reclusive trip-hop pioneers Massive Attack, a surprisingly intimate side-stage set by easy-listening chart-topper James Blunt, a career-making performance by Hassidic reggae wunderkind Matisyahu), day two of the 2006 Coachella Music & Arts Festival was for all intents and purposes Madonna Day. Ever since it was announced that the leotarded diva would grace not the main stage but the comparatively teeny-tiny dance tent for her first-ever festival performance, the subsequent megahype and seriously out of control Craigslist ticket-scalping proved this would be the Coachella event to end all Coachella events. The re-emergence of the Beastie Boys and Iggy & the Stooges in 2003, the Pixies reunion of 2004, Bauhaus's Peter Murphy dangling from the ceiling in a vampire-bat costume, the Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne crowd-surfing inside a clear plastic bubble...not even these memorable moments of Coachellas past could possibly compare with a chance to see the one-and-only Divine Mizz M on a scaled-down stage previously reserved for techno headliners like Fatboy Slim and Basement Jaxx.
Coachella Recap: Saturday, April 29 (Yahoo! Music)
May 2, 2006Yahoo! Music - The parking lot at Coachella's opening day was reminiscent of a high school cafeteria. There were punks, goths, jocks, stoners, nerds--you name it. But instead of coming together for a plateful of cafeteria slop, these people had traveled far and wide to convene under the blue Indio sky for what promised to be more than just an earful of music.
Review: 1920s Musical Comedy Celebrated (AP)
May 2, 2006
AP - If you want to get some idea of what it means to be over the moon for musical comedy, pay a visit to Broadway's Marquis Theatre, where a disarming, delightful soufflé called "The Drowsy Chaperone," is making a strong case for song-and-dance obsession.