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Billboard.com -- Lonestar Singer To Exit; Band Splits With BNA (Billboard.com)
Lonestar lead singer Richie McDonald will leave the band at the end of 2007 to pursue a solo career. Additionally, Lonestar has parted ways with BNA Records, its label home since 1995.
Activists ask Bono to help shoot down video game (Boston Globe)
Bono has developed a reputation as a rock star with a conscience. The leader of the band U2 has cofounded two lobbying groups that raise awareness about Africa's afflictions, created a fair-trade clothing company, and brokered a deal with several major American companies to donate millions of dollars to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS. But now he is caught ...
Check out our exhaustive recap of Austin's indie-rock fest. (Riverfront Times)
This year at South by Southwest, I really didn't have any desire to hop on the buzz-band hype-train ? or have a plan of who to see, for that matter, save for catching as many St. Louis bands as I could and dorking out to some old favorites (Imperial Teen, the Faint, Buffalo Tom, Robyn ...
Billboard.com -- Exclusive: Traveling Wilburys Reborn With Rhino (Billboard.com)
After being out of print for more than a decade, the two studio albums from all-star band the Traveling Wilburys will return to the marketplace in a variety of formats June 12 via Wilbury Records/Rhino, Billboard.com has learned.
Keith's "Big Dog Daddy Tour" Rolls In June (Net Music Countdown)
NASHVILLE, TN Monday Mar.19.2007 /netmusiccountdown.com/ -- Toby Keith is set go back on tour in June bringing along two hot opening acts, Miranda Lambert and Flynneville Train (the newly signed Show Dog band that opened on Toby's tour last year and tore it up during the Toby headlined CRS show).
Morongo to be site of first "Prez on the Rez" presidential forum, tribe confi...
CABAZON -- American Indian Democrats have set the stage for an unprecedented ?Prez on the Rez? Presidential candidate forum on the Morongo Band of Mission Indians? Reservation in Cabazon.
Historic Triple Bill Announced for Baltimore Paetec Jazz Festival 2007 (All A...
Baltimore, Maryland--March 20, 2007--The first edition of the PAETEC Jazz Festival Baltimore, www.paetecjazz.com, will present a trio of American music legends - the incomparable king of the blues, BB King and special guests Etta James and The Roots Band and Al Green.
Singing blues for a good cause (The Cincinnati Enquirer)
Cincy Ladies Sing the Blues is a lineup of local women who will band together Sunday for an afternoon of music and fundraising.
Snow cancels flight for OHS band (Odessa American)
The Odessa High School band got an unexpected extended stay in New York City when their flights back home were canceled due to bad weather. ?We were suppose to leave on Friday but the weather turned into snow and it?s real icy,? Bill Harden, Odessa High School band director said.
Blues band does its bit for Internet freedom (AsiaMedia)
It's early for Mac (Makoto) "The Knife" Okuyama and Mark "The Spark" Schwarz to be up and about, especially since both have the day off from filling their rice bowls.