Weekly Music News Brief, April 28

Weekly Music News Brief for 4/14/2008 – 4/28/2008

April 28, 2008

COACHELLA WRAP UP

• MORE THAN 150,000 PEOPLE SHOW UP: PRINCE, ROGER WATERS SET REVIEWS
  
• PRINCE DOESN’T DISAPPOINT WITH HIT-LADEN SET
• VIDEO: PRINCE COVERING RADIOHEAD’S ‘CREEP’
  
• ROGER WATERS RELEASES GIANT ‘OBAMA’ PIG DURING SET / PLAYS ‘DARK SIDE’
  
• THE VERVE’S FIRST U.S. PERFORMANCE IN A DECADE – REVIEW
• SEAN PENN PREACHES ACTIVISM AT FESTIVAL
  
• ROLLING STONE MAGS COMPLETE COACHELLA COVEREAGE

E STREET BAND KEYBOARDIST DANNY FEDERICI DIES AGED 58

• BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN POSTS EULOGY FOR FEDERICI

15-YEAR OLD, TEEN STAR MILEY CYRUS (HANNAH MONTANA) APOLOGIZES FOR VANITY FAIR SEMI-NUDE PHOTO SPREAD

COLDPLAY TO GIVE FIRST SINGLE OFF NEW ALBUM AWAY FOR FREE, VIA WEBSITE DOWNLOAD

• COLDPLAY TO PLAY TWO FREE CONCERTS TO PROMOTE ALBUM AS WELL
• COLDPLAY RELEASE NEW ALBUM COVER ART
  

BON JOVI SHOW DELAYED BECAUSE OF BOMB THREAT

RAY CHARLES’ CHILDREN SUE FORMER MANAGER

JUDGE ORDERS DNA TEST FOR JAMES BROWN’S ‘SON’

GRATEFUL DEAD DONATE ARCHIVE TO CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY

METALLICA FINALLY COMING AROUND?  EXPLORING ‘RADIOHEAD TECHNIQUE’ FOR INTERNET ALBUM RELEASE

GUNS N’ ROSES NEGOTIATING TO RELEASE NEW ALBUM

RUFUS WAINWRIGHT PENNING OPERA

JOSE GONZALES GETS REMIXED, ANNOUNCES SUMMER TOUR DATES

WEEZER’S NEW ALBUM DUE ON JUNE 24

AC/DC ALBUM WITH PRODUCER BRENDAN O’BRIEN FINISHED, LATE 2008 RELEASE DATE

CONOR OBERST TO RELEASE SOLO ALBUM, NO BRIGHT EYES: DUE IN AUGUST

ROGER MCGUINN’S PERSONAL BYRDS ARCHIVE TO BE RELEASED

SCOTT WEILAND RECORDING SOLO CD WITH PRODUCER STEVE ALBINI

• VELVET REVOLVER TO AUDITION NEW LEAD SINGERS ONLINE

BEN FOLDS EYES SEPTEMBER FOR NEW ALBUM

RAPPER YOUNG BUCK LEAVES G-UNIT

LOU REED AND PARTNER LAURIE ANDERSON WED IN COLORADO

AMY WINEHOUSE AND HUSBAND: NO DIVORCE YET

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN BACKS OBAMA

Weekly Music News Brief, April 14

Weekly Music News Brief for 4/7/2008 – 4/14/2008

April 14, 2008

BOB DYLAN WINS SPECIAL PULITZER PRIZE

ROCKER PETE DOHERTY ARRESTED FOR PROBATION VIOLATION, IN JAIL FOR 14 WEEKS

• BABYSHAMBLES STILL PREPPING LIVE CD/DVD RELEASE

ELTON JOHN CONCERT RAISES $2.5 MILLION FOR HILARY CLINTON

GEORGE STRAIT BACK ON TOP, BUMPS R.E.M. FROM TOP SPOT ON CHARTS

KANYE WEST LAUNCHES TRAVEL SERVICE COMPANY

ARE YOU READY FOR A 500,000 SONG IPOD?

AMY WINEHOUSE CUT FROM U.S. CHARITY EVENT

CHARLIE DANIELS UPSET AT ‘GUITAR HERO III’ FOR VERSION OF ‘DEVIL WENT DOWN IN GEORGIA’

PROCTER & GAMBLE GET INTO HIP-HOP BUSINESS, LAUNCHES LABEL WITH DEF JAM

AFTER ‘FIRING’ FROM VELVET REVOLVER, SINGER SCOTT WEILAND BACK WITH STONE TEMPLE PILOTS – ANNOUNCES MASSIVE TOUR DATES, PLANS FOR NEW ALBUM

U2 WORKING ON NEW ALBUM WITH JOSHUA TREE PRODUCTION DUO, DANIEL LANOIS AND BRIAN ENO – OUT IN LATE 2008

PRINCE TO HEADLINE COACHELLA

• COACHELLA REPORTEDLY PAYING PRINCE $4.8 MILLION

COLDPLAY’S CHRIS MARTIN TALKS ABOUT NEW ALBUM, TRACK LISTING REVEALED

AC/DC WORKING WITH PRODUCER BRENDAN O’BRIEN (PEARL JAM, STONE TEMPLE PILOTS, RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE) ON NEW ALBUM

AXL ROSE REPORTEDLY PLAYING NEW ‘GUNS N’ ROSES’ ALBUM TO RECORD EXECS

• AXL ROSE TO STAR IN REALITY SHOW?

STROKES GUITARIST, ALBERT HAMMOND JR., COMPLETES SECOND SOLO ALBUM – DUE IN JUNE

LISTEN: MOTLEY CRUE’S FIRST SINGLE AND TITLE SONG, ‘SAINTS OF LOS ANGELES,’ FROM UPCOMING ALBUM – DUE OUT SUMMER 2008

RUMORS: METALLICA TO HEADLINE OZZFEST 2008

NEIL YOUNG TO HEADLINE SPAIN’S ‘ROCK IN RIO MADRID’ ON JUNE 27

JOHN MAYER ANNOUNCES SUMMER TOUR DATES

KELLER WILLIAMS ANNOUNCES LIVE ALBUM DETAILS AND SUMMER TOUR DATES

SPRINGSTEEN BRINGS OUT RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE’S TOM MORELLO TO JAM WITH THE E. STREET BAND

FEIST MAKES APPEARANCE ON SESAME STREET – SINGS “1234″

SINGER NORAH JONES ACTS IN ‘BLUEBERRY NIGHTS’

MARILYN MANSON’S ABSINTHE, ‘MANSINTHE,’ WINS GOLD MEDAL AT INTERNATIONAL SPIRITS COMPETITION

DMX FRAT HOUSE CONCERT ENDS AFTER THREE SONGS, CROWD MACED BY PRIVATE SECURITY

VANILLA ICE RELEASED FROM JAIL AFTER BEING ARRESTED FOR SHOVING WIFE

BRITNEY SPEARS CAUSES AUTO ACCIDENT

FOLKSTER DEVENDRA BANHART DATING ACTRESS NATALIE PORTMAN

Weekly Music News Brief, April 7

Weekly Music News Brief for 3/25/2008-4/7/2008

April 7, 2008

JAZZ DRUMMER ALLAN GANLEY DEAD AGED 77

ITUNES PASSES WAL-MART AS TOP U.S. MUSIC PROVIDER

MYSPACE SIGNS DEAL WITH THREE MAJOR LABELS, READIES LAUNCH OF MUSIC SERVICE

U2 SIGNS 12-YEAR DEAL WITH LIVE NATION

JAY-Z SIGNS $150 MILLION DEAL WITH LIVE NATION

POWER COUPLE: JAY-Z, BEYONCE GET MARRIED

VELVET REVOLVER KICKS SINGER SCOTT WEILAND OUT OF THE BAND

• SLASH SPEAKS OUT ON SCOTT WEILAND
• SCOTT WEILAND ISSUES RESPONSE TO VELVET REVOLVER FIRING
• STONE TEMPLE PILOTS TO PERFORM ON ‘JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE!’ IN MAY

BON JOVI GUITARIST RICHIE SAMBORA ARRESTED FOR DUI

MARIAH CAREY BREAKS ELVIS’ CHART RECORD, SCORES 18TH #1 SINGLE

ELTON JOHN BACKS ELVIS COSTELLO TV SHOW TO RUN ON SUNDANCE CHANNEL

DAVE MATTHEWS BAND, TICKETMASTER PARTNER FOR FREE DIGITAL ALBUM THROUGH ITUNES

PROCOL HARUM’S BOOKER WINS RIGHTS BACK TO “A WHITER SHADE OF PALE”

RARE VIOLIN MIGHT SELL FOR $1.5 MILLION

PORTISHEAD TO DEBUT NEW ALBUM, THIRD, ON U.K. TELEVISION

ROLLING STONES SHINE AT LONDON FILM PREMIERE

LED ZEPPELIN HAS NO PLANS TO RELEASE ‘REUNION CONCERT’ ON CD/DVD, EVEN THOUGH THEY RECORDED AND FILMED IT

METALLICA TO PREVIEW NEW ALBUM LIVE THIS SUMMER

EARLY REVIEW: VAN MORRISON DOCUMENTARY, VAN MORRISON: UNDER REVIEW 1964-1974

SEX PISTOLS TO RELEASE FIRST EVER CONCERT DVD THIS SUMMER

THE MELVINS PREP NEW CD AND DVD

LOLLAPALOOZA 2008 LINEUP LEAKED: RADIOHEAD, RACONTEURS, RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE…

RADIOHEAD LAUNCH SOCIAL NETWORKING SITE

WITH GREG ALLMAN AILING, THE ALLMAN BROTHERS POSTPONE ANNUAL BEACON THEATER RUN

LEONARD COHEN TO KICK OFF WORLD TOUR ON MAY 10

2008 OZZFEST DETAILS TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON

GEORGE MICHAEL ANNOUNCES FULL U.S. TOUR DATES

ANNA NICOLE SMITH OPERA IN THE WORKS

MARY J. BLIGE OBSESSED WITH SHOES

NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK ANNOUNCE REUNION

ROLLING STONE MAGS SPRING CD PREVIEW