`Jacob the Jeweler’ gets 2 1/2 years in US prison
Music-Slam.comThe New York businessman known in the hip-hop world as "Jacob the Jeweler" was sentenced Tuesday to 2 1/2 years in federal prison for lying to investigators looking into a…
Kanye Lashes Out Over Bonnaroo Experience
Claiming "this is the most offended I've ever been," a livid Kanye West has taken to his blog to offer his side of the story for why he wound up…
Radiohead Live Album Arrives On iTunes
Radiohead has released a live video album exclusively on iTunes to coincide with the band's run of U.K. outdoor concerts. "In Rainbows - From the Basement", released June 24, features…
Coldplay Cruises To No. 1 On The Billboard 200
As expected, Coldplay tops The Billboard 200 with "Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends," which shifted a whopping 721,000 first-week U.S. copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Read…
Coldplay rule U.S. charts
Coldplay scored its first No. 1 on the U.S. singles chart Thursday, and preliminary sales data indicate the British rock band will claim the top spot on the albums tally…
Lil Wayne tops the 1 million mark with first-week sales of ‘Tha Carter III’
Like a superhero arriving in the nick of time, rapper Lil Wayne has swooped in to stem the tide, however briefly, of both the record business' general slump and the…
White Stripes win battle of Euro 2008 songs
The late Luciano Pavarotti did it at Italia 90 with Puccini's Nessun Dorma, The Lightning Seeds triumphed at Euro 96 in England with Three Lions and The White Stripes are…
R. Kelly not guilty on all counts
Six years after being charged with making and starring in a child porn video, R&B superstar R. Kelly finally cleared his name, when a Cook County jury found him not…