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Black Eyed Peas Bid Farewell to Fans in Final Concert

The Black Eyed Peas are no more. After announcing it would go on a break for a while, the band officially did so by performing one final concert for fans, at the Sun Life Stadium in Miami.As expected, nice words were also uttered and it wouldn't be that far-fetched to assume that tears were also shed. The video ...

28 November 2011
08:54 GMT

R.E.M. Breakup: Thank You for Listening

After 31 years of making music together and selling millions of albums, the band R.E.M. is breaking up. Michael Stipe, Mike Mills and Peter Buck made the announcement themselves, on their official webpage, saying the time had simply come for them to call it a day. It was one of the most influential and long-lasting a...

22 September 2011
09:03 GMT

Louis Walsh Dumps Boyzone, Tells Them to Disband

Boyzone is just one of the many acts formed in the ‘90s that are still touring and recording today. However, they, unlike the newly-reunited Take That, are not enjoying that much success, which has prompted manager Louis Walsh to dump them, a new report says.News of the World informs that Walsh, who formed the ...

13 June 2011
10:53 GMT

The End for Rolling Stones: Mick Jagger Forms New Band

Another iconic group is about to bite the dust: Mick Jagger is still feuding with Keith Richards over the claims and revelations made in the latter’s autobiography, and, as such, Mick is moving on from the Rolling Stones by starting another band, it has emerged. The news broke in the New York Post, with sources...

23 May 2011
05:03 GMT

Robbie Williams Will Be Leaving Take That, Gary Barlow Hints

Take That is back in the 5-member format that made it the biggest selling British boy band in pop history – yet fans shouldn’t get ahead of themselves with the excitement of the moment because Robbie Williams is not “back for good.” Whether he’ll be leaving the band soon or later on is y...

20 January 2011
08:12 GMT

Snoop Dogg Wants Beckham Boys for Music Group

Rapper Snoop Dogg is looking to have his two children try for a career in pop music, by forming a band with the three Beckham boys. Hopefully, the five of them will release a Christmas song – and then work from there.Snoop’s children are set on having a career in the spotlight and the rapper believes the ...

7 September 2010
02:58 GMT

Slipknot Go Unmasked to Pay Their Respect to Bassist Paul Gray

They made a name for themselves for the grotesque masks they wore on stage, as part of their persona. Slipknot also wrote history for singing of things that would not normally come up in a daily conversation, to put it mildly. Shortly after news of the death of bassist Paul Gray was confirmed, the masks came off as t...

26 May 2010
05:51 GMT

Nicole Scherzinger Will Recruit New Pussycat Dolls

The Pussycat Dolls have broken up and fans finally have confirmation of it straight from founder Robin Antin, following many months of speculation and contradictory reports. In a statement released to blogger Perez Hilton, Antin confirms the PCD as we know them are done and will never do anything in the same format. ...

9 March 2010
10:13 GMT

Ashley Roberts Also Quits Pussycat Dolls

The Pussycat Dolls is officially breaking up, with the second member in just a few days to announce she is no longer part of the famous singing act. After Kimberly Wyatt said over the weekend she no longer wanted to make music with the PCDs, now it’s Ashley Roberts’ turn to quit, saying she wants to pursu...

4 March 2010
04:20 GMT

Kimberly Wyatt Explains Departure from Pussycat Dolls

Ex Pussycat Doll Kimberly Wyatt is featured the latest issue of a popular British men’s magazine and, besides showing off her banging body, she’s also opening up about her departure from the popular all-girl band. Things have been bad with her bandmates for quite some time and Kimberly eventually realized...

27 February 2010
05:38 GMT

Steven Tyler and Aerosmith Are Back On, Announce Tour

Ever since November last year, the rockers from Aerosmith have been having a rather bad time, plagued by reports that they were about to split and looking for a replacement for Steven Tyler, rumors that originated from within the band no less. To set the record straight, the rockers have made an official announcement...

26 February 2010
05:40 GMT

Director Guy Ritchie Goes into Music

It’s not uncommon for singers to start record labels to support acts that would otherwise stand no chance in the industry, as neither is uncommon for singers to want to be actors and the other way around. However, it’s rather surprising for movie people to start a record label, which is precisely why Guy ...

13 January 2010
03:46 GMT

Explore the Fascinating World of Music

Some of us like music a lot. We love it so much that we buy it from the Internet, we take it with us to different places, and we just can’t get enough of it, no matter where we are. Some of us even have some huge and pretty impressive collections of various kinds of music. Rock, pop, techno, classic, each one h...

19 November 2009
12:11 GMT

Steven Tyler Quits Aerosmith

After approximately 40 years of singing and touring together and, in short, being one of the best and most appreciated rock bands in the history of music, Aerosmith has disbanded. Lead singer Steven Tyler has quit his position as frontman, without as much as saying whether he’ll ever be back, guitarist Joe Perr...

8 November 2009
02:44 GMT

Backstreet Boy Brian Littrell Has Swine Flu

Brian Littrell of the Backstreet Boys has officially become the latest celebrity to come down with the Swine Flu. Littrell became sick as the band returned to the US after a visit to Tokyo, the Us Magazine informs, but, luckily enough, the other members of the pop group are OK and show no symptoms of having contacted...

6 October 2009
04:30 GMT

Keisha Buchanan Leaves Sugababes

Keisha Buchanan, the only remaining original member of British smash act Sugababes, has been forced out of the band to be replaced by UK’s Eurovision Song Contest singer Jade Ewan, the Guardian informs. Keisha remains signed to Island Records and, after 11 years as a Sugababe, she will pursue a solo career. H...

22 September 2009
06:21 GMT

Nicole Scherzinger Is Out of the Pussycat Dolls

“Doll Domination,” released in 2008, failed to have the kind of reception the Pussycat Dolls and Interscope were probably expecting. Because of the dwindling sales and the release of a new single cover that has Nicole as a collaborator of sorts to the PCD track, speculation is again building up that the b...

24 April 2009
10:01 GMT

Rapper Lupe Fiasco to Start Afresh in Post-Punk Band

When he rose to fame in 2006, fellow rapper and music producer Jay Z hailed him as the forerunner of an entirely new generation of rappers, one that would shift the focus from pop glam and heavy lyricism to what really mattered, life as seen through hip-hop music. With all this, in 2008, Lupe Fiasco repeatedly announ...

6 January 2009
09:53 GMT

Smashed Kurt Cobain Guitar Sells for $100,000

While only few guitars that Kurt Cobain smashed while on stage with Nirvana, especially in the early days of the band, have survived, not to mention reach us, this one guitar that checks on both counts was just sold to a private collector for $100,000. This way, the Fender Mustang guitar becomes the second best sold ...

28 December 2008
09:25 GMT

Buy a Piece of the Wireless Spectrum

When it comes to making money, some people will stop at nothing, and that includes anything from selling your own organs for money, to selling debris and calling it "a piece of Intel". Of course, everybody wants to buy land on the Moon, but there is much talk if we actually set foot on it, so sale claims go from anyt...

27 April 2007
04:27 GMT


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