Reliance BIG Entertainment, the media and entertainment arm of the $75 billion Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani group, Friday announced that it would spend $1 billion on the Indian film and entertainment business over the next 12-15...

Works by Indian artists Subodh Gupta, Anish Kapoor, T.V. Santosh, Chintan Upadhyay, Riyas Komu, Raqib Shaw and Bose Krishnamachari attracted high prices at Sotheby's spring series of contemporary art auctions here, exceeding expectations with the total sale amounting to...

Canadian country music and pop diva Shania Twain has ended her 14-year marriage to her music-producer husband Robert Mutt...

London, May 16 : Singer Amy Winehouse is expected to pocket 1million pounds to perform for Governor of Chukotka, Roman Abramovich's girlfriend....

New York, May 16 : Singer Shania Twain and her husband, producer Robert "Mutt" Lange, have separated after 14 years of...

London, May 16 : Britain's biggest new bands - the Arctic Monkeys and The Kooks have been waging a feud for over a year - because of a...

London, May 16 : After 29 studio albums and a lifetime in the music industry, veteran singer Neil Diamond has topped the US album charts for the first...

Washington University . He was nominated by African American Studies Professor Gerald Early, who wrote the liner notes to Jones' 2001 retrospective boxed set, "Q: The Musical Biography of Quincy...

This is a question reporters sometimes ask musicians: "So, tell me - who is your fanbase?" It is not an original question. I probably put it to at least 40 different artists over the course of my...

unanimous. "Foolishness!" wrote MTV reader damianx. "Dramatic? How could this guy make it dramatic?" Well, Jonah Hill would like to have his say."People on the Internet just get pissed off about...

May 16, 2008 - It's been more than a century since the Fisk University Jubilee singers started performing Negro spirituals and slave songs. Today, the Fisk singers are still spreading the songs of...

jeans, DMX (born Earl Simmons), walked into the Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix an hour late for an arraignment on four felony drug charges and seven misdemeanor animal-cruelty charges,...

Posted on: Friday, 16 May 2008, 15:00 CDT PlayNetwork, a global leader in providing signature media experiences for businesses, announced today it has expanded its work with Chili's Grill & Bar to...

This is becoming a problem. Every single music show on Channel 4 has a brand, sponsor, commercial co-producer or whatever you want to call it attached. There's Ibiza Rocks with A Less Successful...

his operas, his all-inclusive artworks." Greenberg says that Mahler thought his massive symphonies had as much dramatic punch as anyone's opera. They tell wonderful stories from beginning to end, and...

CHICAGO — R. Kelly's jury is complete. The prosecution and defense, after arguing about the racial makeup of the pool once again, have finally agreed on the 12 jurors — one of whom is a...

this film 'The Go-Getter,' and the director of the movie wanted us to do a duet for the end credits," Zooey said. "We did a Richard & Linda Thompson song, and that was one of the first things...

Music turned Tracy Marrow into rap star Ice-T and saved him from a life of gangs and robbery. Here, together with author and film-maker Nelson George, he reflects on the forces that can conspire to...

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Last week, Australia's Beat magazine ran an article on New Jersey's Dillinger Escape Plan, in which guitarist Ben Weinman said he'd once witnessed one of Disturbed's soundchecks and spotted something...

Los Angeles - It's looking like business as usual at the Academy of Country Music Awards set for Sunday night where Kenny Chesney the winner of the entertainer of the year award for the past three...

Solange Knowles wastes no time setting the record straight about comparisons to older sister Beyonce on her sophomore album, "Sol-Angel and the Hadley Street Dream," due Aug. 26 via Music...

Ali Delfi's song "Taste the IED" praises the fighters of the Shiite cleric Muqtada al Sadr and has been banned by the Iraqi government for inciting violence. He is shown at his recording studio in...

May 17, 2008 - Lorraine Feather sings about life's ordinary aggravations: losing focus, losing patience, losing keys."I wrote this song ["Where Are My Keys?"] because I am very absentminded," Feather...

Hottest MCs in the Game right then. The rankings were based on lyrics, flow, impact on the game, success and swagger. The roundtable recently reconvened and came up with a brand-new list of Hottest...

Wentz and announced their engagement last month, amid reports that is pregnant. Tabloids are reporting that she is currently around the four-month mark. The rehearsal dinner is supposedly due to...

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Doherty holds up another mouse, and she continues 'If you divorce her you'll have me to deal with. I'm only a day old but I know what love...

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Sugarland will premiere a new single, "All I Want To Do," on Sunday's (May 18) Academy of Country Music Awards broadcast on CBS. The track introduces the country group's third album, "Love on the...

Kelly could face up to 15 years in prison. Jury selection in the trial concluded yesterday (May 15), and opening arguments are set to begin...

New Haven, CT Toad's Place (May 16) San Francisco, CA Slim's (22) Bend, OR Les Schwab Amphitheater (24) Sasquatch Festival, Washington Gorge Amphitheater (25) Los Angeles, CA Henry Fonda Theater...

In tribute to the 35th anniversary of singer/songwriter Jim Croce's death, the artist's three studio albums will be reissued on CD in September via...

R&B outfit Pretty Ricky will introduce a new single and a new singer during a Monday (May 19) webcast, ahead of the Aug. 26 release of its next album, "80s...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Listening to half an hour of music each day may significantly lower your blood pressure, according to research reported at the American Society of Hypertension meeting in...

number 10 turned out to be T.I. One of the big questions surrounding the final eight slots is about yet another ATL performer — the guy with the biggest hit of the last year, Soulja Boy...

May 14, 2008 - When she was 5, saxophonist and composer Matana Roberts was asked by her dad to listen to entire albums by progressive jazz musicians such...

(05-15) 14:00 PDT MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- A Minnesota woman ordered to pay $222,000 in the nation's first music download trial may get another chance with a jury. The issue is whether record companies...

2008 MTV Movie Awards are about celebrating the best names in film — but it wouldn't be MTV if some of the biggest names in music didn't...

Reading And Leeds Festivals/b] are calling for 850. To apply you must be over 18, be able to arrive at the festival sites by midday on the Wednesday prior to the events. You must also be...

Santogold said: "Everybody on it does their own separate thing and we didn't do it together so it ends up being just this weird long song with sort of everybody with lots of their own personalities...

San Francisco CA, Greek Theatre -- Bebel Gilberto, Los Amigos Invisibles and Federico Aubele (June 20) Las Vegas NV Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino -- Gnarls Barkley and Bebel Gilberto (21) ...

battle of the Davids is a go, and David Cook — the 25-year-old "Daughtry Dos" with the Peppermint Patty comb-over — and David Archuleta — the charming 17-year-old with the cherubic...

Jury selection was completed at R. Kelly's child pornography trial yesterday (May 15) in Chicago, amid contentious exchanges between prosecutors and defense attorneys, who accused each other of...

Oscar Peterson was born in Montreal in 1925. Peterson and his four siblings learned to play the piano from their father, a self taught musician. He took to the piano quickly and easily and practiced...

The Dave Matthews Band is emphasizing the "band" part of its equation on the group's next album. "It literally was a collaborative effort from beginning to end," violinist Boyd Tinsley tells...

Lincoln Theater in downtown Raleigh will host a benefit concert Sunday afternoon for the Eve Carson Memorial Fund.Carson, the student body president at UNC-Chapel Hill, was killed in March. Two men...

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Freeloading music is more habit-forming than paying for legal downloads, according to polling in the UK. Digital music consultancy MusicAlly and pollsters The Leading Question found that while 28...

MTV News Hip-Hop Brain Trust sat down and had another controversial roundtable debate. Unlike previous discussions, the trustees devised a list...