Gabriel, Eno promote plan to let artists take music straight to Web
Music-Slam.com Using technology to break from labels' yoke. About bloody time.
January 2004
Faith Evans, Husband Face Drug Charges
R&B singer Faith Evans and her husband, record executive Todd Russaw, were arrested in Hapeville, Ga., on drug possession charges. Evans and Russaw were charged with possession of cocaine and…
OutKast Keeps A Lock On No. 1
OutKast's two-CD set "Speakerboxxx/The Love Below" holds at No. 1 on The Billboard 200 for the second week in a row. U.S. sales of the album are down 11% from…
Billy Corgan Working On Solo Album
Former Smashing Pumpkins guitarist Billy Corgan says his first solo album will be "loud and beautiful and poetic and dumb." The frontman, who last September split with Zwan - the…
Judge Says R. Kelly Must Avoid Jackson
There won't be a Grammy photo-op for R. Kelly and Michael Jackson. A judge in Chicago this week granted Kelly permission to attend the 46th Annual Grammy Awards February 8…
Eminem fires off race controversy rap
Eminem has recorded a song hitting back at accusations that some of his earlier lyrics were racist. The new work appears on the Green Lantern mixtape The Invasion Part Three:…
Eminem’s Mom Attacked on Eight Mile Road
A 16-year-old boy dragged Eminem's mother from her car on the street made infamous by the rapper's movie "8 Mile," according to police. The teenager was arrested shortly after the…
OutKast Rebounds to No. 1 on U.S. Pop Charts
After a week away, OutKast's two-CD set "Speakerboxxx/The Love Below" returned to the top of the Billboard 200 album chart Wednesday. The Atlanta-based hip-hop duo's set rose two places to…