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Black Eyed Peas Tap into New 'Energy'
The Black Eyed Peas are planning more of a “music diary" than a conventional album when the group releases “The END" in March. Group leader will.i.am tells Billboard.com that “The END" stands for “The Energy Never Dies," which describes his model for a project that will be living and frequently updated throughout its designated cycle. “It's ...
Joe Satriani Sues Coldplay for Plagiarism
Rock guitarist Joe Satriani has sued British band Coldplay, accusing the Grammy-nominated stars of plagiarizing one of his songs. Satriani's copyright infringement suit, filed yesterday (Dec. 4) in Los Angeles federal court, claims the Coldplay song “Viva La Vida" incorporates “substantial original portions" of his 2004 instrumental “If I Could Fly." The 52-year-old guitar virtuoso is ...
DJ Tiesto, Carl Cox Set for Ultra Festival
DJ Tiesto, Carl Cox, Bloc Party, Deadmau5, the Ting Tings, Cut Copy and Crystal Castles lead the bill for the 2009 Ultra Music Festival, to be held March 27-29 at Bicentennial Park in downtown Miami. Other artists scheduled to perform at this year's festival include Santogold, Roni Size Reprazent (its first U.S. appearance in seven years), ...
Quincy Jones to Keynote at SXSW
Veteran producer Quincy Jones will deliver a keynote address March 19 as part of the annual South by Southwest music conference in Austin, Texas. Jones is a 27-time Grammy winner and 79-time nominee who has also won seven Oscars, an Emmy, and been honored by the Kennedy Center. Jones' current and upcoming projects include the recently ...
Weezer Raids Vaults, Records Xmas Carols
On the heels of the release of the second volume of Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo's home recordings, the group is now taking a look back into its own vaults. Cuomo tells Billboard he has “no idea" when the tentatively titled “Odds and Ends" will be released, but describes it as “just another fun project to do. ...
U2, Coldplay, Killers Help Launch (Red)Wire
Some of the biggest names in music are contributing exclusive songs to RED(WIRE), a new digital music magazine launching on World AIDS Day (Dec. 1). U2, Coldplay, the Killers, the Dixie Chicks, John Legend, R.E.M. and Bob Dylan are on board for the initiative, which is an outgrowth of the Bono-reared activist organization (RED). All proceeds ...
Nickel Creek's Watkins Inks with Nonesuch
Nickel Creek songwriter/fiddler Sarah Watkins has signed with Nonesuch, and will release her self-titled solo debut on April 7. The set was produced by Led Zeppelin legend John Paul Jones. Also featured on the album are Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, Elvis Costello drummer Pete Thomas, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers keyboardist Benmont Tench, Soul Coughing ...
Bon Jovi, Roger Waters Set for Live Earth India
Bon Jovi, Roger Waters and the Black Eyed Peas' will.i.am will join artists such as Anoushka Shankar, Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Hrithik Roshan, Preity Zinta, Bipasha Basu at Live Earth India, to be held Dec. 7 at Andheri Sports Complex in Mumbai. Shiamak Davar, Farhan Akhtar, Arjun Rampal, Purab Kohli, Hard Kaur, Jalebee Cartel, Vishal ...
Gene Simmons Sounds off at Billboard Touring Conference
Having recently completed a 30-plus-date European tour, Kiss will “eventually when we're ready tour America," co-founder Gene Simmons said during a keynote address today (Nov. 20) at the fifth annual Billboard Touring Conference, held at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York. Referring to Kiss as the “juggernaut of all rock'n'roll brands," Simmons said the band is ...
