Patti Smith: I'm beyond labels
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Patti Smith concedes to being a "great punk-rock guitar player," but says she aspires to much more.
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Still singing about existential angst  and slinging on his heavy makeup, The Cure's Robert Smith is  connecting with audiences a third of his age as he headlines  this summer's Curiosa festival even as he contemplates  retirement.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - Editors frontman Tom Smith contemplates the huge anticipation surrounding the British band's imminent sophomore set, "An End Has a Start," and shivers. "I get nervous thinking about it," he says.
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ANNA-NICOLE Smith upstaged America&#39;s hottest singers yesterday when she was carried off-stage at the annual American Music Awards.
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âRiver: The Joni Letters,â by Herbie Hancock can be understood as a celebration of the academyâs more high-minded pop impulses.
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Three albums that reached stores ahead of schedule will lead the next Billboard 200 chart and raise the profile of hip-hop and R&B.
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Anita Baker is back in the limelight with a sultry new collection of songs and a second bite of the apple.
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NASHVILLE (Billboard) - As the release of a new album  approaches, most artists begin to wax philosophical about art,  life and the messages they hope to convey with their music.
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LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Three albums are poised to enter  the Billboard 200 next week with opening weeks of more than  100,000 copies.
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Making Records: The Scenes Behind the Music, By Phil Ramone
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Arts & entertainment: The queen of 70s funk has a new album and a starring Broadway role - and this time she's doing it straight
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DETROIT (Billboard) - When Interscope Geffen A&M chairman Jimmy Iovine suggested the idea of a solo album earlier this year, Black Eyed Peas leader will.i.am was caught off-guard.
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La vita di Janis Joplin, la storia dei Beatles e del rock psichedelico. Ecco i libri musicali da sfogliare sotto l'ombrellone ascoltando le note dall'Ipod
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When Rod Stewart and Clive Davis decided to inaugurate the singer's J Records deal with a collection of gems from the Great American Songbook, did you ever imagine that repertoire would become a franchise for the British rocker? Now Stewart's third such album in three years is on the verge of being his first No. 1 album in 25 years.
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After a disappointing start, live online music is poised for success. With new technology and Web 2.0 networks in place to fuel the boom, record labels become the last remaining sticking point between you and some rockin' web shows. Commentary by Eliot Van Buskirk.
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Singer Melissa Etheridge beat a bout of breast cancer and says she used that experience as the inspiration to write a new album free from commercial pressures or concerns about producing hits.
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If Imogen Heap were as widely known as her music, she would be a household name.