Danny Federici, keyboardist in Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, died yesterday (April 17) at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. He'd been battling with melanoma, a skin cancer, for the past three years.
Jean Michel Jarre is going on a major European tour this spring. The tour marks the 30th anniversary for the legendary Oxygene album, and he will play the whole album on this tour.
Singer, songwriter and musician John Stewart died January 19.
Trent Reznor, the leader of Nine Inch Nails, recently produced an album with Saul Williams called "The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust".
Marillion are to release their new album next year. The expected release date is between July and September, but it's already available for pre-order.
Madonna has signed a contract with the concert promoter Live Nation. What's really interesting about this is that Live Nation is a concert promoter whereas the contract encompasses all of Madonna's future music and music-related businesses.
Ray Davies is to give away his new cd for free.
Fish and Marillion was my introduction to prog rock. With his new album "13th Star" Fish has given prog rock a new face, but the face is still called Fish.
The record company Rhino is to reissue Joy Division's three albums on October 30. Each album will feature an extra album of rare live material.
Led Zeppelin is to reunite for a tribute concert to the late Ahmet Ertegun, the founder of their record company Atlantic Records. The concert will take place at O2 arena in London, UK, on November 26.
Keyboardist Joe Zawinul, who rose to fame as musician in Miles Davis band and was one the founders of the jazz group Weather Report, died today. He had been hospitalized since last month at the Wilhelmina Clinic in his native city Vienna in Austria.
Fish reunited with his former band Marillion in a one-off event in Aylesbury, England, on August 26.
On August 27 we covered the Subtacto progfest in Oslo, Norway, which turned out to be a financial disaster. We also wrote that it was not likely with more events from Subtacto in the future. We were wrong!
Saturday August 4, 2007, a progrock festival was arranged in Kanonhallen, Oslo, Norway.
A "best of" collection from Led Zeppelin is to be released November 12. It is a double-disc containing 24 songs entitled "Mothership", and will span all of the band's career. And that's not all.
On May 13 we reported that New Order had split up.
Joni Mitchell has signed a two-album deal with Starbucks Entertainment's Hear Music label. She will release a new album entitled "Shine" September 25. The album will be available through both Starbucks' stores and traditional outlets.
Genesis have just finished the European part of their reunion tour, but more is in store from the band. A biography entitled "Genesis Chapter and Verse" is to be released this fall.
The CD, called "The Simpsons: Testify", is to be released September 18. Many great artists contribute to the album, including David Byrne of Talking Heads, Jackson Browne and the B-52s.
Foo Fighters will release their new album, entitled "Echoes, Silence, Patience And Grace", September 25. It's produced by Gil Norton who also worked on their album "The Colour And The Shape", from 1997.
The highly respected Kevin Ayers is to release his first album in 15 years. The album is called "The Fairground", and will be out September 3.
On June 30 we reported that Prince's forthcoming album "Planet Earth" would not be released in the UK by his British record company Sony BMG because the album is to be given away for free with a copy of the British newspaper Mail on Sunday.
David Gilmour released the solo album "On an Island" last year. He also went on tour to promote the album. On the tour he not only performed songs from "On an Island", he played many Pink Floyd classics, and even some more odd Pink Floyd material, as well.
A major Bob Dylan box set is on the way. It will be entitled "Dylan" and is to be released October 1.
As previously reported the new Prince album, "Planet Earth", is to be released July 16, apart from in the US where it will be released July 24. Now a special problem has occurred with the British release of the album, and the album might not be released in the UK at all.
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