Norah Jones leads U.S. pop charts
Music-Slam.com Jazz singer/pianist Norah Jones' first album in three years opened at No. 1 on the U.S. pop charts Wednesday, but its first-week sales were less than half those of its…
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Smashing Pumpkins ready reunion album
Smashing Pumpkins have announced the title and release date of their new album. Billy Corgan's reformed rock heroes will release the follow-up to MACHINA/The Machines Of God in July. The…
Warner Music announces Last.fm content deal
Warner Music Group has signed a deal to allow its entire catalog to be played over the fast-growing social networking music service Last.fm, the innovative site that links music fans…
Apple: Record labels should drop DRM
Apple Inc. indicated it would open its iTunes store to other portable players besides its ubiquitous iPod if the world's major record labels abandoned the anti-piracy technology that serves as…
Drug kingpin guilty of murdering rapper
A notorious crack kingpin with ties to the hip-hop industry was convicted Thursday in a federal death penalty case of paying $50,000 to have two rivals gunned down in 2001.…
Macy rolls with will.i.am, Justin on new CD
R&B singer Macy Gray will release her first album in four years next month as part of a new deal with the will.i.am music group/Geffen. "Big" is due March 27…