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The singer claims to have nine new songs written, and also hopes to include a cover of Nina Simone’s Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood. Lana Del Rey has revealed details of her fourth album, which is set to be called Honeymoon. Nine new songs have already been written for the follow-up to 2014’s Ultraviolence. The singer claims they are a departure from that record and more similar in style to […]

Five people were wounded when gunshots were fired in the Fiesta nightclub in San Jose early Sunday, but headliner Chris Brown escaped unscathed. TMZ said several people were detained, however it is unclear if anyone was arrested. The identities of the victims and the severity of their injuries were not reported. Us Weekly said the 25-year-old R&B artist was singing his hit "Loyal" when he acknowledged from the stage some […]

Courtney Love stars in this theatrical song cycle staged in a highly intimate off-Broadway space as part of the Prototype festival The Prototype festival of opera and musical theater has been increasingly buzzed-about since its inception two years ago, but the New York event's third edition has hit the publicity mother lode with Todd Almond's theatricalized song cycle Kansas City Choir Boy. The composer's co-star in the piece is Courtney […]

Elvis Presley's first record sold for $300,000 (£187,500) as part of an auction to mark his 80th birthday on Thursday (08Jan15). Presley recorded the ballad My Happiness at Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee in 1953 when he was an 18-year-old budding musician. He paid $4 (£2.50) for the session and then took the acetate disc to his friend Ed Leek and left it at his house. The single, donated by […]

AC/DC, Drake, Steely Dan and Ryan Adams have joined the lineup for this spring's Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. The two-weekend event is to take place April 10-12 and 17-19 in Indio, Calif. Also expected to take the stage during the festival are Florence + the Machine, Interpol, David Guetta, Belle and Sebastian, and Bad Religion, as well as dozens of other music acts. Source: upi.com