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American Idol crowned its first real rocker Wednesday as David Cook rolled over 17-year-old balladeer David Archuleta to become ...

Music lovers, mark your calendars. The 51st annual Grammy Awards will be held at Staples Center on Feb. 8, 2009 and broadcast ...

The battle between the Davids Archuleta and Cook forced at least one former AmericanIdol finalist to take sides before Wednesday ...

Musicport 2008 notches up a gear as they publish their list of forthcoming events in the run up to this October's festival. The first event on 17th May, was a runaway success with Belinda O'Hooley, who by all accounts turned in a stunning set supporting Jim Moray. Acts confirmed so far, for the festival, which takes place at the Spa in Bridlington on October 17/18/19th include: Toumani Diabate, The Levellers, Rolf Harris, Ska Cubano, Etran Finatawa, Ivo Papasov, Billy Cobham and Asere, Reem Kelani , Moussu T et Lei Jovents, ...

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TOM WAITS, the legendary American songwriter and performer, is to play two concerts at the Edinburgh Playhouse as part of his latest tour.

BRITISH rock group Pink Floyd was yesterday named winner of the 2008 Polar Music Prize, Sweden's biggest music award.

The complete program for Musical Workshop Labyrinth in Houdetsi, Crete (Greece) is now available. Twenty seminars taught by renowned musicians from all over the world will take place organized in collaboration with the Municipality of Nikos Kazantzakis. June - July programJune 30 - July 5 Ahmet Erdogdular, Classical Ottoman SingingJuly 7-12 Derya Turkan and Sokratis Sinopoulos, kemençeJuly 7-12 Ahmet Meter, kanunJuly 14-19 Ugur Isik, cello TurkeyJuly 14-19 Zacharias Spyridakis, Cretan lyra July 21-26 Tzvetanka Varimezova, Bulgarian singing July 21-26 Ivan Varimezov, Bulgarian musicJuly 21-26 Michalis Stavrakakis, Cretan mandolinJuly 28 -August 2 ...

A GROUP of Penicuik High school pupils who started their own record label - Burnt Out records - stage gig.

The English-Irish singer-songwriter stopped by the Bryant Park Project studios to play "Skeleton Song," one of the arresting pop songs off her debut album, Made of Bricks.