Entertainment News:
Indie Acts Gear Up For Festival Season
(Yahoo! Music)
Yahoo! Music - Rock festival season is underway, with Coachella and Bonnaroo already over, the Warped and Ozzfest tours traveling from coast to coast, and Chicago's Lollapalooza and New Jersey's All Points West events around the corner in early August.
Huge trove of 78 rpm records donated to Syracuse U
(AP)
AP - A vast collection of 78 rpm records — valued at $1 million, weighing 50 tons and representing more than a half-century of American music history — is being donated to Syracuse University by the estate of a prominent New York City record shop owner.
ABBA foursome makes rare appearance
(Reuters)
Reuters - All four members of supergroup ABBA
appeared together on Friday at the Swedish premiere of the film
"Mamma Mia!," delighting fans with their first public showing
for years.
White Stripes' White pens poem about Detroit
(AP)
AP - DETROIT (AP) — Singer-guitarist Jack White has penned a poem expressing his strong feelings for Detroit to clear up any misconceptions about how the White Stripes frontman feels about his hometown.
Kylie Minogue receives OBE
(Reuters)
Reuters - Kylie Minogue, the former soap actress
who become one of the world's most famous female recording
artists, was honored for her services to music on Thursday.