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  • Rolling Stones to release unheard tracks from 1973 album

    Updated Jul 9, 2020

    The Associated Press The Rolling Stones will release a new version of their 1973 album "Goats Head Soup" featuring three unheard tracks, including one featuring Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page. The band announced on Thursday that the release on Sept. 4 will include a four-disc CD and vinyl box set editions that includes 10 bonus tracks, including outtakes and alternative versions. Page appears on a song called "Scarlet," and the Stones also released a video for one of the unheard...

  • Carl Reiner, beloved creator of 'Dick Van Dyke Show,' dies

    Updated Jun 30, 2020

    MIKE STEWART Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) - Carl Reiner, the ingenious and versatile writer, actor and director who broke through as a "second banana" to Sid Caesar and rose to comedy's front ranks as creator of "The Dick Van Dyke Show" and straight man to Mel Brooks' "2000 Year Old Man," has died. He was 98. Reiner's assistant Judy Nagy said he died Monday night of natural causes at his home in Beverly Hills, California. He was one of show business' best liked men. The...

  • The Dixie Chicks officially change their name to The Chicks

    Updated Jun 25, 2020

    KRISTIN M. HALL AP Entertainment Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Grammy-winning country group The Dixie Chicks have dropped the word Dixie from their name, now going by The Chicks. The band's social media accounts and website were changed on Thursday to the refer to the new name for the band, which is made up of Martie Maguire, Natalie Maines and Emily Strayer. The band also recognized that the name was already in use by a band in New Zealand. "A sincere and heartfelt thank...

  • Amid pandemic, Live Nation announces drive-in concert series

    Updated Jun 22, 2020

    MESFIN FEKADU AP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) - Tour promoter Live Nation has announced its first-ever drive-in concerts series in the U.S. for July, months after the live music industry has been on lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic. The entertainment company on Monday announced "Live from the Drive-In" - a set of nine shows to take place July 10-12 in Nashville, Tennessee; Maryland Heights, Missouri; and Noblesville, Indiana. Grammy-winning singer Brad Paisley will...

  • JK Rowling publishes first chapters of new story online

    Updated May 26, 2020

    LONDON (AP) - J.K. Rowling is publishing a new story called "The Ickabog," which will be free to read online to help entertain children and families stuck at home during the coronavirus pandemic. The "Harry Potter" author said Tuesday she wrote the fairy tale for her children as a bedtime story over a decade ago. Set in an imaginary land, it is a stand-alone story "about truth and the abuse of power" for children from 7 to 9 years old and is unrelated to Rowling's other...

  • 'Abominable' No.1 with $20.9M; Zellweger's 'Judy' sings out

    JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer|Updated Sep 29, 2019

    NEW YORK (AP) - The DreamWorks animated adventure "Abominable" has topped the box office with an estimated $20.9 million, while the Renee Zellweger-led Judy Garland tale "Judy" got off to a sonorous start. "Abominable" was the weekend's sole new wide release. It's a U.S.-China co-production between Universal's DreamWorks and China's Pearl Studios, so its performance in China will be vital to its success. A handful of holdovers stayed strong. Last week's No. 1 film, "Downton...

  • Robert Hunter, Grateful Dead's poetic lyricist, dead at 78

    JOHN ROGERS Associated Press|Updated Sep 25, 2019

    LOS ANGELES (AP) - Robert Hunter, the man behind the poetic and mystical words for many of the Grateful Dead's finest songs, has died at age 78. Hunter died Monday at his Northern California home with his wife, Maureen, at his side, former Grateful Dead publicist Dennis McNally told The Associated Press on Tuesday. The family did not release a cause of death. "We loved Bob Hunter and will miss him unimaginably," Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart said, adding the lyricist was...

  • Eddie Money, 'Two Tickets to Paradise' singer, dies at 70

    KRISTIN M. HALL Associated Press|Updated Sep 13, 2019

    Eddie Money, who left behind a career as a New York police officer to become one of the top-selling rock stars of the 1970s and '80s, with hits like "Two Tickets to Paradise" and "Take Me Home Tonight," has died. He was 70. Publicist Cindy Ronzoni provided a statement from the family and said Money died Friday morning in Los Angeles. Money had recently announced that he had advanced cancer. In 1987, the husky-voiced, blue collar performer received a best rock vocal Grammy nomination for "Take Me Home Tonight," which featured...

  • Apple rolls out new streaming TV service for $5 a month

    Michael Liedtke, AP Technology Writer|Updated Sep 10, 2019

    CUPERTINO — Apple is finally taking on Netflix with its own streaming television service and, uncharacteristically for the company, offering it at a bargain price — $5 a month beginning on Nov. 1. Walt Disney Co. is launching its own assault on Netflix the same month, for just $7. It may be sheer coincidence that the cost of paying for both Apple and Disney subscriptions will still be a dollar less than Netflix's main plan, priced at $13 a month. But the intent to disrupt Netflix's huge lead in the streaming business cou...