Associated artist: Pink Floyd
Source: Launch
"Pink Floyd and David Bowie have led the tributes to Syd Barrett, who died last Friday." FULL STORY
posted July 12, 2006 at 12:00:00 AMAssociated artist: Pink Floyd
Source: CNN Showbiz
"Syd Barrett, the eccentric guitarist who founded Pink Floyd but later left the music business to live quietly and somewhat reclusively, has died at the age of 60, according to a spokeswoman for the band." FULL STORY
posted July 11, 2006 at 12:00:00 AMAssociated artist: Jack Johnson
Source: Billboard
"The next disc from Garrett Dutton, better known as G. Love, will feature a long list of guest appearances from the likes of Jack Johnson and Ben Harper to Marc Broussard and Blackalicious." FULL STORY
posted June 26, 2006 at 12:00:00 AMAssociated artist: Pink Floyd
Source: Launch
"Veteran British rocker Roger Waters — co-creator of the legendary Pink Floyd album "The Wall" — performed before tens of thousands of Israeli fans on Thursday, after calling on Israel to tear down massive concrete blocks walling off parts of the West Bank." FULL STORY
posted June 22, 2006 at 12:00:00 AMAssociated artist: Frank Zappa
Source: Rolling Stone.com
"DWEEZIL ZAPPA is taking his father's legacy on the road this summer with the Zappa Plays Zappa tour, which kicks off its North American run Monday night in New York. The tour includes original ZAPPA collaborators guitarist STEVE VAI, drummer TERRY BOZZIO and singer-saxophonist NAPOLEON MURPHY BROCK." FULL STORY
posted June 13, 2006 at 12:00:00 AMAssociated artist: Pink Floyd
Source: NME
"Pink Floyd will reform for one last tour - if drummer Nick Mason can convince co-frontmen Roger Waters and David Gilmour to put their differences aside." FULL STORY
posted June 12, 2006 at 12:00:00 AM ExGenesis Drummer Comes Back from 36 Year HiatusAssociated artist: Genesis
Source: Billboard
"John Mayhew, the drummer in an early lineup of Genesis who was replaced by Phil Collins, recently made a surprise return to his erstwhile profession for the first time in decades at a convention in the band's honor in London." FULL STORY
posted June 12, 2006 at 12:00:00 AMAssociated artist: Genesis
Source: MTV
"Todd McFarlane — the comic-book artisan behind "Spawn" and the entrepreneur who's built himself an action-figure empire — has accepted the rather thorny task of directing the video for Disturbed's hard-rockin' take on the classic Genesis hit 'Land of Confusion.'" FULL STORY
posted March 15, 2006 at 12:00:00 AMAssociated artist: Pink Floyd
Source: Billboard Magazine
"David Gilmour's third solo album, "On an Island" (EMI), powered to No. 1 on the U.K. album chart yesterday (March 13), becoming his first chart-topper in his own name." FULL STORY
posted March 13, 2006 at 12:00:00 AMAssociated artist: Jack Johnson
Source: chartattack
"Jack Johnson's reign at the top of the Canadian sales chart with the "Sing-A-Longs And Lullabies" soundtrack for Curious George continued for a fourth straight week, but there was some old new blood a few spots below him." FULL STORY
posted March 10, 2006 at 12:00:00 AM