Music News

  • Composer Lloyd Webber has prostate cancer - report

    LONDON (Reuters) - Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, the BBC reported on Sunday.

    October 26, 2009, 10:07 pm
  • Crowd-sourced radio show ditches the DJ

    Austereo radio listeners will be able to control what is being played on air in real time and even nix bad song choices as they are playing in a radical new experiment that blends online and traditional broadcasts.

    October 26, 2009, 8:34 pm
  • Lily Allen lights up Paris

    Pop star Lily Allen lit up Paris on Friday night - flouting French laws by smoking on stage.

    October 26, 2009, 2:59 pm
  • Overseas box office still high on 'Up'

    LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The listless pre-holiday box-office season overseas wound down over the weekend with "Up" claiming the No. 1 spot on the foreign circuit for the fifth time this year.

    October 26, 2009, 1:59 pm
  • Warner Bros. nears deal for animated feature

    LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Warner Bros. is strutting back into animation.

    October 26, 2009, 1:55 pm
  • Simon's "Brighton Beach Memoirs" get darker reading

    NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - New York theater insiders have been wondering for months exactly how Chicago director David Cromer -- currently hotter than hot thanks to the transfers of his acclaimed productions of "Adding Machine" and "Our Town" -- would handle the high-profile assignment of staging the Broadway revivals of "Brighton Beach Memoirs" and "Broadway Bound," which will run in repertory under the heading "The Neil Simon Plays."

    October 26, 2009, 1:51 pm
  • Girls Aloud's Cheryl Cole debuts atop UK singles chart

    LONDON (Reuters) - Singer Cheryl Cole knocked out her rivals to take top spot in the British singles charts with her debut solo "Fight for This Love," the Official Charts Company said on Sunday.

    October 26, 2009, 1:48 pm
  • Sheryl Cole debuts atop UK singles chart

    LONDON (Reuters) - Singer Cheryl Cole knocked out her rivals to take the top spot on the British singles charts with her debut solo, "Fight for This Love," the Official Charts Company said on Sunday.

    October 26, 2009, 1:47 pm
  • Saudi journalist sentenced 60 lashes

    RIYADH (Reuters) - A Saudi court sentenced a female journalist to 60 lashes in a case brought after a Lebanese television channel she worked for aired the sex confession of a Saudi man, the reporter and a lawyer said.

    October 26, 2009, 1:45 pm