http://www.whodigs.com/index.php?topic=Music Dig This gino@whodigs.com gino@whodigs.com Copyright 2007 WhoDigs GeekLog Wed, 14 Feb 2007 06:35:37 -0800 en-gb http://www.whodigs.com/article.php/20070214063506718 http://www.whodigs.com/article.php/20070214063506718 Wed, 14 Feb 2007 06:35:06 -0800 http://www.whodigs.com/article.php/20070214063506718#comments Music The newly reunited Police will headline the four-day Bonnaroo Music Festival in June, which will also include the White Stripes, Tool and Wilco. The lineup for the Tennessee music festival, to be announced Wednesday, also includes planned performances by Widespread Panic, the Roots, Franz Ferdin... http://www.whodigs.com/trackback.php/20070214063506718 http://www.whodigs.com/article.php/20070214063326749 http://www.whodigs.com/article.php/20070214063326749 Wed, 14 Feb 2007 06:33:26 -0800 http://www.whodigs.com/article.php/20070214063326749#comments Music Another high note for Beyonce — the coveted cover shot of this year's Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. The singer and now movie star ("Dreamgirls") posed on a Florida beach in a yellow-and-pink bikini by House of Dereon, the fashion label she started with her mother, Tina Knowles. Th... http://www.whodigs.com/trackback.php/20070214063326749 http://www.whodigs.com/article.php/20070213072355425 http://www.whodigs.com/article.php/20070213072355425 Tue, 13 Feb 2007 07:23:55 -0800 http://www.whodigs.com/article.php/20070213072355425#comments Music The Police announced their first tour in decades Monday at a rehearsal at the Whisky a Go-Go as a throng of fans crowded near the legendary Sunset Strip nightclub. The group, which led off Sunday night's Grammy Awards with a live performance, broke up in 1984. Members Sting, Andy Summers and Ste... http://www.whodigs.com/trackback.php/20070213072355425 http://www.whodigs.com/article.php/20070208072404802 http://www.whodigs.com/article.php/20070208072404802 Thu, 08 Feb 2007 07:24:04 -0800 http://www.whodigs.com/article.php/20070208072404802#comments Music Hit producer and sometime rapper Jermaine Dupri has been named president of Island Record Urban Music, a newly created division of Island Def Jam Music Group. Dupri, who has produced chart-topping songs for artists ranging from Usher to Mariah Carey, also reunited with Island Def Jam Chairman An... http://www.whodigs.com/trackback.php/20070208072404802 http://www.whodigs.com/article.php/2007012506444371 http://www.whodigs.com/article.php/2007012506444371 Thu, 25 Jan 2007 06:44:43 -0800 http://www.whodigs.com/article.php/2007012506444371#comments Music R&B singer Brandy was involved in a four-car freeway crash last month that left a 38-year-old woman dead, authorities said Wednesday. The cause of the mishap was under investigation, and no arrests have been made. The 27-year-old actress-singer (full name: Brandy Norwood) was driving a 2007 ... http://www.whodigs.com/trackback.php/2007012506444371 http://www.whodigs.com/article.php/20070117093046711 http://www.whodigs.com/article.php/20070117093046711 Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:30:46 -0800 http://www.whodigs.com/article.php/20070117093046711#comments Music Global digital music sales almost doubled in 2006 to around $2 billion, or around 10 percent of all sales, but failed to compensate for an overall decline in sales of CDs, the global music industry trade body said Wednesday. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, or the IFPI,... http://www.whodigs.com/trackback.php/20070117093046711 http://www.whodigs.com/article.php/20070117091404556 http://www.whodigs.com/article.php/20070117091404556 Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:14:04 -0800 http://www.whodigs.com/article.php/20070117091404556#comments Music Diana Ross says she's a busy woman these days. So busy, in fact, that she hasn't had time to see the hit film "Dreamgirls," which is loosely based on her life as a Motown starlet. The 62-year-old singer told CBS "Late Show" host David Letterman on Tuesday that she is going to... http://www.whodigs.com/trackback.php/20070117091404556 http://www.whodigs.com/article.php/20070111065108402 http://www.whodigs.com/article.php/20070111065108402 Thu, 11 Jan 2007 06:51:08 -0800 http://www.whodigs.com/article.php/20070111065108402#comments Music To rap star N.O.R.E., the Bronx gang members he befriended weren't criminals. The rapper, who formerly went by the stage name Noreaga and whose real name is Victor Santiago, testified Wednesday on behalf of Darryl Henderson, who has been on trial for the past month in U.S. District Court in Manh... http://www.whodigs.com/trackback.php/20070111065108402 http://www.whodigs.com/article.php/20070109082857111 http://www.whodigs.com/article.php/20070109082857111 Tue, 09 Jan 2007 08:10:57 -0800 http://www.whodigs.com/article.php/20070109082857111#comments Music Van Halen made a "jump" into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on Monday, along with Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five — the first rap act to be inducted into the hall — and R.E.M., the Ronettes and Patti Smith. A panel of 600 industry figures selected the five acts to be inducted at... http://www.whodigs.com/trackback.php/20070109082857111 http://www.whodigs.com/article.php/20070105101429487 http://www.whodigs.com/article.php/20070105101429487 Fri, 05 Jan 2007 10:14:29 -0800 http://www.whodigs.com/article.php/20070105101429487#comments Music Trey Anastasio made a surprise appearance in an upstate New York court this week and pleaded not guilty to a drug possession charge that a prosecutor said could be bumped up to a felony. The 42-year-old former Phish frontman didn’t speak to reporters after his brief arraignment on misdemeanor ch... http://www.whodigs.com/trackback.php/20070105101429487