Miley Cyrus recently started her Wonder World Contert Tour. The tour debuted in Portland with Miley constantly changing outfits and styles. Miley Cyrus says her latest album is a transitioning album and it's leading to her being able to do the music she really loves. Miely says her Dad always says, "If you ain't having fun it ain't working." Take a look:
Reuters reports that R.E.M., Nine Inch Nails and Stone Temple Pilots will play at the Voodoo Music Experience festival in New Orleans' City Park this October.
New Orleans' Voodoo Music Experience festival will marks its 10th anniversary in October by hosting three of the biggest bands of the 1990s: R.E.M., Nine Inch Nails and Stone Temple Pilots.
The three-day event kicks off on Oct. 24 at New Orleans' City Park; tickets start going on sale on Friday, priced at $100 for the three days.
Additional acts include hometown heroes the Neville Brothers, making their Voodoo debut, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Irving Mayfield’s New Orleans Jazz Orchestra and the New Orleans Bingo! Show.
The exact date for the three-day concert are October 24th, 25th and 26th. You can find more information on the website located here.
George Michael has been on an 80-show European tour over the past year. He will be bringing his 25 LIVE tour to North American Arenas in the summer of 2008 in support of his new retrospective record. This will be Michael's first North American tour in 17 years. Twenty-Five, will be released April 1st and is a 29-song, 2-CD set featuring several new songs (including duets with superstars Paul McCartney and Mary J. Blige) in addition to many of Michael's iconic songs from both his solo and WHAM! career.
The North American leg of the 25 LIVE tour will kick off in San Diego on June 17th and will continue through San Jose, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Seattle, Vancouver, Minneapolis, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, New York and several other major cities. You can find the exact tour dates on George Michael's webste.
Most recently in the U.S. George Michael appeared on the Eli Stone tv show - it was his television acting debut.
The legendary actress and singer Cher has confirmed a rumor that she will headline in Las Vegas at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace beginning May 6. The performance agreement is a partnership with AEG Live includes approximately 200 shows over a span of three years. Cher at The Colosseum will feature hits from Cher's career. The show will be complemented by choreography from Doriana Sanchez, state-of-the-art lighting and special effects and breathtaking costumes designed by Bob Mackie. It should be a great show.
"I started in Vegas at Caesars, so I've come full circle," Cher said. "I'm back and I plan to give my fans the best experience yet. I think everybody knows I only do things in a big way."
Cher is an Oscar, Grammy and Emmy-winning performer. She has released more than 25 albums and sold over 100 million records worldwide in her solo recording career.
"Cher's name in one word encapsulates icon, award-winning legend, and captivating performer. There is only one home for someone of that legendary status -- the most recognized casino brand in the world, Caesars Palace," said Caesars Palace President, Gary Selesner. "Caesars is pleased to welcome Cher back to Las Vegas' most prestigious entertainment address, The Colosseum, joining Bette Midler and Elton John."
Def Leppard has announced the tour dates and cities for its 2008 concert tour. The tour will start on March 27th, 2008. This is the North American leg of Def Leppard's world tour so it is not the complete list of worldwide cities.
March 27 - Greensboro Coliseum, Greensboro, NC
March 29 - Hard Rock, Hollywood, FL
March 30 - Germain Arena, Estero, FL
April 1 - Bi-Lo Center, Greenville, SC
April 3 - Sovereign Arena, Reading, PA
April 4 - The Borgata, Atlantic City, NJ
April 6 - Verizon Wireless Arena, Manchester, NH
April 8 - Mohegan Sun Arena, Uncasville, CT
April 9 - Dunkin' Donuts Center, Providence, RI
April 11 - Colisee Pepsi Arena, Quebec City, QC
April 12 - Scotiabank Place, Ottawa, ON
April 13 - Copps Arena, Hamilton, ON
April 16 - MTS Centre, Winnipeg, MB
April 18 - Van Andel Arena, Grand Rapids, MI
April 19 - Joe Louis Arena, Detroit, MI
April 22 - Idaho Center, Boise, ID
April 23 - Spokane Arena, Spokane, WA
April 25 - The Pearl, Las Vegas, NV
April 26 - Coors Amphitheatre, San Diego, CA
The music industry is sure changing. It is starting to look like record stores are the last places you should look for the latest albums. The Spice Girls, who have been selling out tickets for their upcoming tour, have cut an exclusive deal with Victoria's Secret to sell their album.
The sexy pop group has partnered with Victoria's Secret to sell the 15-track album exclusively through the lingerie giant's stores and Web site, PEOPLE has learned.
"They do great bras, and every girl wears a bra. And they should – at some point in their life. Unless they don’t need to wear one," Melanie "Scary Spice" Brown told PEOPLE Monday night. The CD, due Nov. 13, will not be available at traditional retail outlets but will be downloadable at various music sites including iTunes. (Fans can also pre-order hard copies of the CD at www.victoriassecret.com for 24 hours between midnight on Oct. 17 and 18.)
The album features 13 of the group's biggest hits, plus two new tracks: the album's first single "Headlines (Friendship Never Ends)" and "Voodoo."
People also reports that the Spice Girls will appear on the annual Victoria's Secret fashion show, which will be taped in L.A. in November and air on CBS December 4th.
Right Arm Entertainment and Live Nation have postponed the first annual Girlfrenzy. The concert originally scheduled for Saturday, October 27 at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre in Irvine, CA has been postponed until 2008. It is too bad because the concert had lined up some great female singers including Sheryl Crow, Avril Lavigne, Fiona Apple and Colbie Caillat.
Sheryl Crow, Avril Lavigne and Fiona Apple are among the artists who will perform Saturday, October 27 at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre in Irvine, CA at the first annual day-long concert extravaganza of chart-topping female musicians and such up and coming female artists as red hot Colbie Caillat (whose single "Bubbly" is a smash pop radio hit) and iTunes sensation Sara Bareilles--both of whom hail from Los Angeles--as well as Antigone Rising. The festival is the brainchild of Right Arm Entertainment, who also produced the sold-out Rock On The Range Festival at Crew Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, among others. Look for the festival's promoters, Right Arm Entertainment and Live Nation, to announce more performers in the coming weeks for the inaugural event.
Future details about Girlfrenzy 2008 can be found on MySpace at www.myspace.com/girlfrenzy and the website at: www.girlfrenzyfestival.com. The website says refunds for the cancelled October 27th date are available at point of purchase.
Van Halen and David Lee Roth have announced their first tour in 22 years on their website at van-halen.com. Van Halen is best known to most people for their 1984 album which stayed at number one on Billboard's charts for five start weeks. 1984 included the hit songs "Jump, "Panama, "Hot For Teacher" and "I'll Wait."
Tickets for the first Van Halen tour in more than 22 years with David Lee Roth as lead vocalist went on sale this weekend and resulted in immediate sell outs in multiple markets around the country, including Charlotte, Detroit (Palace), 2 shows in Toronto, 2 in Chicago and one in Philadelphia. Tour producer Live Nation immediately added additional shows in Philadelphia (Wachovia Center 10/3) and Detroit (Joe Louis Arena 10/20) which will go on sale this Saturday, August 25th.
An additional stop was also scheduled for Washington, DC's Verizon Center (11/1), extending Van Halen's historic trek to 29 dates in all. Tickets for the Washington, DC date will go on sale this Friday, August 24th. In addition, tickets for the band's October 30th show at Boston's TD Banknorth Garden go on sale this Saturday, August 25th.
SFGate.com's culture blog predicted this even earlier this year. Are people still listening to Van Halen. Yes, they are. They have been able to add tour dates because of strong ticket sales. YouTube shows 12,500 results for a Van Halen search. This video for "Jump" has over 1.6 million views.
A Lollapalooza performance by Pearl Jam was censored in an AT&T webcast. The part where lead singer Eddie Vedder sang about President George Bush was muted by AT&T. Save the Internet explains:
Over the weekend AT&T gave us a glimpse of their plans for the Web when they censored a Pearl Jam performance that didn't meet their standard of "Internet freedom."
During the live Lollapalooza Webcast of a concert by the Seattle-based super-group, the telco giant muted lead singer Eddie Vedder just as he launched into a lyric against President George Bush. The lines - "George Bush, leave this world alone" and "George Bush find yourself another home" were somehow lost in the mix.
Pearl Jam gave the following statement regarding the censorship, "What happened to us this weekend was a wake up call, and it's about something much bigger than the censorship of a rock band."
Save the Internet posted this video clip of the censorship on YouTube.
Microsoft Corp. says it set a record for streaming an online event to the most customers after offering the Live Earth concerts on MSN over the weekend.
About 8 million people watched at least parts of the concerts live over the 36 hours that the shows took place in ten locations around the world. At the peak, 237,000 people watched simultaneously, Microsoft said.
That's more than what Microsoft thinks is the previous most-watched online broadcast, the Live 8 concerts in 2005. According to AOL LLC, which streamed those ten concerts, 5 million people around the world watched live.
This photograph above shows Spinal Tap's July 7 Reunion Performance at Live Earth London at Wembley Stadium with "Every Bass Player in the Known Universe." Bass players from numerous band joined Spinal Tap for their song "Big Bottom." Foo Fighters, David Grey, Block Party, James Blunt and the Beastie Boys took part in the epic jamfest. Live Earth was a 24-hour, 7-continent concert series that took place on 7/7/07, bringing together more than 100 music artists and 2 billion people to trigger a global movement to solve the climate crisis. You can watch video from the Live Earth concerts on MSN at http://liveearth.msn.com/.
Here is a YouTube clip from Spinal Tap's Army of Bassists (hat tip Boing Boing.
You have probably heard about Live Earth the giant worldwide concert taking place on 7-7-07 to raise awareness about the global warming problem. Rolling Stone reports that one of the bands playing is a group of scientists living in Antarctica. The group is called Nunatak.
Of the dozens of bands playing Live Earth this Saturday, one has a seriously close connection to the event's global-warming warning. When organizers looking to stage events on every continent learned they couldn't land commercial flights on Antarctica due to its fierce winter weather, the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) suggested that rather than bring in outsiders, Live Earth hire the research team's house band, Nunatak.
Nunatak is Greenlandic for "an exposed summit of a ridge mountain or peak (not covered with snow) within an ice field or glacier" - it's also the name of the five-piece band that entertains BAS's 22-person scientist team. All the bandmembers work at the BAS's Rothera Research Station "investigating climate change and evolutional biology on the Antarctic Peninsula," which has experienced an almost 3-degree Celsius climate change over the last 50 years. Tomorrow, the band will make their global debut as they perform their "two most popular tunes" outside on the peninsula in a show that will be broadcast via live feed.
Nunatak - Matt Balmer (electronics engineer, singer-songwriter and guitarist), Tris Thorne (communications engineer, fiddler), Ali Massey (marine biologist, saxophonist), Rob Wester (meterologist, drummer) and Roger Stilwell (field general assistant, bassist) - formed when the scientists were training at the BAC's headquarters before heading down to Antarctica, and the members spend time jamming when they're not outdoors researching.
NPR also has a story about Nunatak and below is a video of the band rehearsing.
The Spice Girls have reunited for a world tour that will take place this December and January. They have listed 11 cities as part of the tour so far. The Spice Girls website at www.thespicegirls.com contains the following message from the Spice Girls about their upcoming reunion world tour.
Hey everybody!! We're back!! Can you believe it!!
We've come together for an exclusive World Tour and this is the only place to register your details online! Just click the link below, choose which city you want to see us in, and fill in your information. Who knows if this will ever happen again, it's a once in a lifetime opportunity! To make it fair, we will randomly pick who gets to buy tickets. This is a chance for you, our real fans to come and see us - the last chance to dance!
Girl Power is back and stronger than ever. What are you waiting for.....
Lots of love
The Spice Girls have sold over 55 million copies of their albums around the world and will sell quite a few more thanks to this upcoming tour.
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George Michael has been on an 80-show European tour over the past year. He will be bringing his 25 LIVE tour to North American Arenas in the summer of 2008 in support of his new retrospective record. This will be Michael's first North American tour in 17 years. Twenty-Five, will be released April 1st and is a 29-song, 2-CD set featuring several new songs (including duets with superstars Paul McCartney and Mary J. Blige) in addition to many of Michael's iconic songs from both his solo and WHAM! career.
The legendary actress and singer Cher has confirmed a rumor that she will headline in Las Vegas at The Colosseum at 
The music industry is sure changing. It is starting to look like record stores are the last places you should look for the latest albums. 
Right Arm Entertainment and Live Nation have postponed the first annual Girlfrenzy. The concert originally scheduled for Saturday, October 27 at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre in Irvine, CA has been postponed until 2008. It is too bad because the concert had lined up some great female singers including Sheryl Crow, Avril Lavigne, Fiona Apple and Colbie Caillat.
Van Halen and David Lee Roth have announced their first tour in 22 years on their website at 
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