entertainment - "music"

AP - George Strait, 'Troubadour' (MCA)

The Australian actor is thrilled to be able to return to the stage.

Business News: Pair search for equity backers -- Alain Levy, the former chairman of EMI music Worldwide, is reported to be making a comeback, teaming with Stephane Courbit, the former head of Endemol France, to bulk up a new reality TV shingle, Banjay Ent.

Stones fans might forgive the musical gaffs and thrill at the film's intimacy, just as film fans will gush by the very presence of Scorsese, but 'Shine a Light' is merely an okay concert film rather than something for the time capsule.

Music News: LeVert singer was son of O'Jays crooner -- Sean Levert, a third of the 1980s R&B trio LeVert and son of lead O'Jays singer Eddie Levert, has died after falling ill while serving a jail term. He was 39. Authorities said Monday that an autopsy was inconclusive but foul play was ruled out.

Film Reviews: An affectionate if pokey tribute-cum-love letter to the sublime musical art of bossa nova, vet helmer Walter Lima Jr.'s 'Out of Tune' dramatizes the rocky course of Os Desafinados, a combo that hits its'60s stride, only to run afoul of Brazil's political fortunes.

(LiveDaily.com) Rage Against the Machine guitarist and co-founder Tom Morello [ tickets ] will launch a two-week tour in April--dubbed the Justice Tour--that focuses on social justice through music and local activism.... continued

'Cirque Dreams Jungle Fantasy,' described as a 'theatrical, acrobatic and musical adventure,' will play a 10-week engagement this summer at the Broadway Theater.

Japanese-style game shows, musical competitions and the return of a reality franchise will highlight ABC's summer.

Unni Løvlid returns with Rite (Grappa GRCD4223), a new album, three years after her previous solo release Vita (2005) recorded in the Emanuel Vigeland mausoleum. It has taken four years to complete the present album, for which Løvlid has written all the words and music herself. Unni Løvlid is a versatile musician and artist and has experience from a great variety of projects and genres in the region Norwegian folk, contemporary music and electronica. The music on Rite lies somewhere between electronica, contemporary and world. Unni Løvlid is one of the most exciting folk music performers in norway, who dares to t...