Photo: Getty Madonna’s Sticky & Sweet tour grossed $91.5 million during its recently concluded U.S. run. According to Live Nation, which signed the Material Girl to a massive 360 contract, Madonna’s U.S. jaunt sold about 550,000 tickets over the course of 28 shows. The tour wrapped up its American itinerary last Wednesday with a show at [...]

This year’s Thanksgiving Day Parade was Rick-Rolled by none other than Rick Astley himself. As evidenced by the above video, the viral reclamation project surprised the audience by singing his “Never Gonna Give You Up” on a float promoting Cartoon Network’s Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends. Check out Jay-Z’s new “Brooklyn We Go Hard,” featuring Santogold [...]

• Madonna Tour Setting Sales Records • News Ticker: Rick Astley, Jay-Z, Paris Hilton Top stories from the last three days: • The 2008 Hot Issue • Video: Behind the Britney Spears Cover • Axl Rose Demands Dr. Pepper Apology • Noel Gallagher: “I Am Brilliant Every Night” • New U2 Album Has Title, No Rick Rubin • James Taylor Explains His Favorite [...]

Photo: Kempoin/Getty The members of Canadian power-pop crew the New Pornographers are keeping plenty busy these days. Singer-guitarist Carl “A.C.” Newman will release his second solo album, Get Guilty, on January 20th. And in March, singer Neko Case will put out her latest set of country-pop tunes. Titled Middle Cyclone, the disc features an all-star crew [...]

Photo: Winter/Getty In honor of the long Thanksgiving weekend, we asked our readers to tell us which songs offered up the most thanks. We counted the votes, and My Morning Jacket were named your MVP of the turkey holiday, beating out the likes of Led Zeppelin, Dido and Depeche Mode. Check out the list of the [...]

Photo: Niemeier / K&K Center of Beat / Retna Jimi Hendrix, Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Police, Queen and Ennio Morricone were among those whose music was inducted into the Grammys Hall of Fame. Specifically, Hendrix’s famed Woodstock rendition of “Star-Spangled Banner,” Skynyrd’s “Sweet Home Alabama” and 26 more recordings were all honored and will be featured [...]

Photograph by Peggy Sirota It’s amazing to consider that Britney Spears has been in show business for two thirds of her 27 years. In that time, she’s been a Disney TV star, a teen-pop phenomenon, a tabloid staple, a tragedy and a comeback queen. With her new album out tomorrow (her birthday!) and a spot back [...]

Photo: Yahoo When Coldplay took the stage at New York’s Hammerstein Ballroom on October 22nd to film a performance for Nissan Live Sets on Yahoo! Music, the 200 fans in attendance found themselves in the midst of an unusually intimate set — the Ballroom usually holds 2,000 or more people, and Chris Martin and Co. were [...]

Another day, another reunion story. But this one's sliiightly — just slightly — different. Mostly because it's about a band that people can't accuse of cashing in on the 30th anniversary of punk (they weren't around), or because there's not a reality show about finding love with one of the members (it probably wouldn't capture the Paris Hilton's My New BFF demographic), or whatever else people blame these reunion things on. That band is The Jesus Lizard.
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Way back in August, when Sarah Palin was still just Alaska's problem, John McCain used Jackson Browne's classic 1977 hit “Running on Empty” in an attack ad against Barack Obama's energy plan. Needless to say, the hippy dippy Browne was decently cheesed at McCain for using the tune without his permission and promptly filed suit against the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. McCain, who admittedly had bigger things to deal with at the time, pulled the (...) - MISC NEWS