Inaugural Big Blues Bender music festival features more than two dozen acts.
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Band members Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alekhina have been added to the festival’s Learning program.
Some iPhone users are not happy that U2’s new album, “Songs of Innocence,” was automatically added to their iTunes music library, free of charge. In response, Apple has released a special tool that lets people remove the album from their collections.
Singer-songwriter Yusuf, who was Cat Stevens until he converted to Islam, has announced a new album and a tour that will take him to Britain, Canada and, for the first time since 1976, to the United States.
Lana Del Rey has gone off the grid for “medical reasons” and canceled her upcoming European tour.
CBS and Rihanna are splitting up after more fallout from the Ray Rice incident. The network said Tuesday it was permanently editing a song featuring Rihanna’s voice out of its Thursday night NFL telecasts — after the singer issued a profane tweet about it.
A CD/DVD featuring Whitney Houston’s first public performance — and one of her last in 2009— will be released Nov. 10.
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra is getting a $3.75 million grant from the William Davidson Foundation in support of its Neighborhood Concert Series.
Silversage is poised to make a name for itself. The rock band, made up of locals, has been in existence for less than a year, but it’s already played a number of gigs in town and regionally. Most notably, it opened for Steve Winwood at the Brooklyn Bowl Las Vegas in June.
Allan Carter risked his retirement fund to start a record label in Las Vegas. Crazy thing is, it’s working.
Josh Ripple has been around the sports and entertainment block. Now at 55, Ripple, of Las Vegas, might have his most intriguing position of all — chief operating officer of Life is Beautiful, the three-day music/art/culinary/learning festival in downtown Las Vegas set for Oct. 24-26.
More than 35 artists from around the world — and around Las Vegas — will converge on downtown Las Vegas to create works during October’s second annual Life Is Beautiful Festival.
Las Vegas entertainer Pia Zadora suffered serious head injuries and an ankle fractured in three places from a golf cart accident on Thursday.
Among the acts coming to Las Vegas: R&B star Usher at the MGM Grand Garden arena, Pretenders frontwoman Chrissie Hynde goes solo at The Pearl at the Palms, and Bass Gravy, featuring Dieselboy and MC Dino, takes over the House of Blues at Mandalay Bay.
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