entertainment - "music"

The Prince music theater will open their season with The World Goes Round starting September 20 - October 12, 2008.

Music News: Nashville's RDF-TV to bring back variety series -- 'Hee Haw' is returning to the airwaves after nearly a decade's absence. It's set to bow on Nashville-based cabler RFD-TV as of Sept. 7.

Music News: Ex-marketing consultant to head A&R Labels -- Steven Melrose, the former marketing consultant who manages the Crystal Method and Sam Sparro, has joined EMI as vice president, A&R Labels. He will be based in Los Angeles.

Julian Koster may not be a familiar name to you. But if you've heard the music of Neutral Milk Hotel, you've heard Koster at work. He appeared on stage and in the studio with Neutral Milk Hotel back in the '90s, playing the musical saw, banjo and other instruments. In 1999 Koster released a solo album under the name 'The music Tapes.' Now, 9 years later, he's back with a follow up.

Music News: Consultant to head A&R Labels -- Steven Melrose, the former marketing consultant who manages the Crystal Method and Sam Sparro, has joined EMI as vice president, A&R Labels. He will be based in Los Angeles.

Stephen Kocis, Carl D. White, Paul Boskind, and Michael Filerman, in association with David J. Gersten, today announced that BASH'd!, the new gay musical and the most acclaimed show of the new theater season, would end its Off-Broadway premiere engagement at The Zipper Factory Theater (336 West 37th Street between 8th & 9th Avenues) on Saturday August 30th. BASH'd! was created by Chris Craddock and Nathan Cuckow who star as T-BAG and FEMINEM, respectively, and has music by Aaron Macri and is directed by Ron Jenkins.

'I genuinely can't understand why this is so. Because no good composers are working in theatre? Because directors are worried it'll somehow dominate, or turn it into opera - or, worse, a musical? Surely it can't be because they don't know any better? Can it?'...

The young British singer and songwriter went to music school in Boston, started pursuing her craft in Los Angeles, was inspired by living in Spain and now lives in Rome. She brings her clever, theatrical songs to Mountain Stage.

Music News: HBO airing documentary on famed journalist -- Down in the nation's capital the most unusual reporter ever to cover the White House has been ailing a bit. But Helen Thomas, the woman who usually says, 'Thank you, Mr. President' to end every press conference is recuperating and is still the nation's watch dog.

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews Real Animal, the new album by Austin, Texas-based underground legend Alejandro Escovedo.