Reuters - Kylie Minogue, the former soap actress who become one of the world’s most famous female recording artists, was honored for her services to music on Thursday.
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Reuters - New EU competition rules on the collection of royalties have hit a wrong note with top songwriters such as Bee Gee Robin Gibb, who have threatened to pull their songs off the airwaves if they go ahead.
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Did you ever wonder which SATC guy you’re most compatible with? Take this quiz to find out!
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AP - Ask his fellow musicians about Alejandro Escovedo, and you’ll hear nothing but praise. Yet he’s never been a household name, and even among rock fans, his work, though influential, is not widely known: He’s been more of an aficionado’s musician.
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E! Online - If Boy George had to call off his American summer concerts due to visa restrictions, how did paps snap him strolling in Beverly Hills yesterday with a young boy-toy?
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E! Online - Jennifer Aniston has resorted to taking the bus these days, and it has nothing to do with the summer’s sky-high gas prices.
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Reuters - An opera-loving dentist is ready to swap his drill for a microphone after winning a four-album recording contract worth about $2 million.
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AP - A-Rod and the Material Girl? That’s a lot of hits.
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Reuters - It’s not easy living with having been the muse and lover of any great artist, let alone someone with demigod status like Bob Dylan.
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Reuters - Texas rock trio ZZ Top has signed to producer Rick Rubin’s American Recordings imprint, hoping for a commercial and critical revitalization along the lines of prior Rubin clients Johnny Cash and Neil Diamond.
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E! Online - Mel Galley, the former guitarist and backing vocalist for White Snake in its early-’80s incarnation, has died at the age of 60, the band confirmed on its website.
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AP - Brad Paisley says he got to mark a biggie off his wish list when Andy Griffith agreed to be in the video for his new single, “Waitin’ On a Woman.”
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Reuters - Singer/songwriter Natasha Shneider, who collaborated with former Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell and rock band Queens of the Stone Age, died Tuesday of cancer.
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AP - Donna Summer says she approached her summer tour like a chocolate-chip cookie.
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From Ivy League scholars to language whizzes, find out which A-list stars are also Grade-A students.
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AP - Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez and his wife have split less than three months after the birth of the couple’s second daughter, according to a report in the New York Daily News.
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E! Online - Ian Curtis wasn’t around long but he left quite an impression.
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E! Online - Lindsay Lohan’s private life has gone through some rather public growing pains over the past few years. And now, newly 22 years of age, the only growing she wants to do in public is of the professional variety.
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AP - Jason Priestley says he got a crash course on the Nashville music industry while directing a reality series about the Canadian band the Road Hammers.
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E! Online - Here’s one honor Kylie Minogue no doubt can’t get out of her head.
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Yahoo! Music - Rock festival season is underway, with Coachella and Bonnaroo already over, the Warped and Ozzfest tours traveling from coast to coast, and Chicago’s Lollapalooza and New Jersey’s All Points West events around the corner in early August.
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Reuters - Fellow musicians have paid tribute to Mel Galley, former guitarist in British hard rock band Whitesnake who died of cancer this week aged 60.
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E! Online - For those who want Bon Jovi dead or alive, a third option has suddenly come into play: free.
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AP - The British Broadcasting Corp. will air a long lost Beatles interview featuring John Lennon and Paul McCartney talking about the day they met and their songwriting partnership.
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Reuters - The world’s top cellphone maker Nokia signed a deal with Warner Music Group to make Warner titles available through its “Comes With Music” service and Nokia music store, Nokia said on Tuesday.
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Reuters - New Jersey rockers Bon Jovi will play a free concert in Central Park on July 12, the band announced Monday. The show, billed as an “All-Star Concert in Central Park,” will take place in conjunction with the Major League Baseball All-Star Game, which is set for July 15 at Yankee Stadium.
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