Adele's hit album 21 has been crowned Entertainment Weekly's top album of 2011. The release has already topped a string of important magazine countdowns and now the Brit can add another major end...

Lou Reed has received a barrage of "threatening" letters from Metallica fans angry over his collaboration with the rockers. The veteran musician teamed up with the group to record new album Lulu,...

Peter Gabriel is re-imagining his "I'll Scratch Yours" covers album project - because so many artists whose hits he covered on his "Scratch My Back" release aren't interested in reworking his songs...

Heavy rockers Metallica have recorded an album with music veteran Lou Reed. The band performed with the Perfect Day hit-maker during the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 25th anniversary concerts in Ne...

Susan Boyle has missed out on another reality show performance after reportedly arriving late for her flight to Los Angeles. The Scottish singing sensation, who shot to fame after her own turn on ...

Susan Boyle is set to repeat her end-of-2009 album success this year - the Scottish singer's new album has shot to the top of Amazon.com's Bestsellers chart more than a month before its release. ...

Simon Cowell has lashed out at Lou Reed for allegedly refusing permission for Scottish singer Susan Boyle to perform his "Perfect Day" anthem - branding the decision "pathetic." Boyle was left cru...

Five years on from the release of "Demon Days", Murdoc Niccals and co. return with Plastic Beach. Gorillaz have taken up residence, recording on a secret floating island deep in the South Pacific, ...

Jennifer Connelly, Kirsten Dunst and Michael Stipe have lost their campaign against the construction of a sanitation department in their New York neighborhood after a judge rejected a lawsuit oppos...

Peter Gabriel will perform selections from his upcoming covers album "Scratch My Back" with a full orchestra in Berlin, London and Paris in March. The rocker's first new album in eight years wil...

Pop star Bjork has put her Snedens Landing home in New York on the market after moving into a new city penthouse with artist boyfriend Matthew Barney. The Icelandic singer is asking $1.8 millio...

On the UniversalMusicStore.com they are auctioning off a signed Elvis Costello guitar where 100% of the proceeds go to City of Hope. The City of Hope is dedicated to finding a cure for cancer as we...

Happy Birthday to "A.J. Soprano" Robert Iler (1985), Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger (1982), Lady in the Water star Bryce Dallas Howard (1981), actress Heather McComb (1977), Col...

Columbia Records is proud to announce the release of Leonard Cohen's Live In London, a musical chronicle of the legendary singer-songwriter-musician-painter-poet's historic 2008 concert -- availabl...

Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Steve Winwood, recently named one of Rolling Stone magazine's "100 Greatest Singers of All Time," will ring in the New Year with a series of East Coast concert performance...

Lou Reed is campaigning to have a New York street named after him. The 66-year-old rocker was born in Brooklyn and has spent all of his life living in Manhattan, where he was once nicknamed "The Ba...

Music lovers will soon be able to purchase internet downloads of rare concert performances by acts including Bob Marley and Jimi Hendrix - following a groundbreaking deal by Universal Music. T...

The legendary singer-songwriter-multi-instrumentalist Steve Winwood has signed a new deal with Columbia Records who will release the artist's highly-anticipated new major label album, "Nine Lives,"...

Surly Lou Reed admonished a fan when his cell phone rang during the rocker's keynote speech at the South By Southwest Festival in Texas on Thursday. The former Velvet Underground star, who ind...

Happy Birthday to "A.J. Soprano" Robert Iler (1985), Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger (1982), Lady in the Water star Bryce Dallas Howard (1981), actress Heather McComb (1977), Col...

Lou Reed, Billy Joel and Ben Harper will join Justin Timberlake as presenters at next month's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony. As previously reported by WENN, Madonna has asked T...

Moby and Lou Reed plan to stir up controversy with an anti-war concert in New York next month. The pair will headline the March 18 fundraising gig, aimed at urging government officials to bring tro...

Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson is charging fans $1,000 each to watch her ring in the New Year at Miami, Florida's The Setai. The singer will perform songs from the hit film at a New Year's Eve party....

In 1995, Silverchair's "Tomorrow" became the single most played song on US modern rock stations, quite a feat for three 15 year olds from Australia. Since then, Silverchair has become the most succ...

Michael Stipe, John Mayer, Perry Farrell and Mick Fleetwood are among the rockers whose photographs feature in a new exhibition co-curated by Lou Reed. Visions Of Rock, which is being held at...

Rocker Lou Reed has offered his support to troubled singer Amy Winehouse, after dubbing her his favorite current star. The Velvet Underground star is hooked on Winehouse's second album Back To...

Rock band The Killers have recorded a song with music icon Lou Reed. The Las Vegas rockers worked on the track Tranquillize with the former Velvet Underground star - and is expected to be released...

The band has clearly hit the ground running. Formed just a blink ago in Spring 2006, Mink has already written more than 60 songs (30 of them in one intense three week stretch), recorded their debut...

Queen and David Bowie's Under Pressure has topped a new rock magazine list of great tracks on bad albums. Rolling Stone magazine editors asked readers to vote in the quirky online poll last week an...

Bono and David Bowie were among friends, students and fans who left Lou Reed visibly touched as he was honored by New York's Syracuse University. Bowie and Bono joined in a 'Lou' chant when the for...