Briefly: Coldplay, Nick Carter, Marc Anthony, creepy auction, new music promo trick
The Tibet House Benefit Concert at New York's Carnegie Hall on Feb. 26 will feature David Bowie, Moby and Emmylou Harris, according to its website. Tibet House is devoted to preserving Tibetan culture.
British guitar group Coldplay , which was nominated for three Brit Awards on Monday (1/15), has announced four live dates for April. They are to play at the Aberdeen Music Hall (4/23), Edinburgh Corn Exchange (4/24), Manchester Apollo (4/26) and London's Brixton Academy (4/29).
Backstreet Boys' member Nick Carter has taken on the job of managing Tampa, Fla., rock band BIK (Born Into Kaos).
Marc Anthony will release three albums this year, MTV.com reported. The albums are reportedly "an English pop LP, a salsa album and a Christmas disc."
Someone is auctioning on eBay the car in which country star George Jones crashed in 1999.
According to Launch.com, Joan Baez has canceled her touring plans in order to tend to her ill sister.
You know what some people are doing now? They're posting songs on Napster and, in order to get more people to listen to them, are displaying the songs on Napster using the names of more successful artists who didn't have anything to do with the songs.
For example, according to an avant-electronic mailing list sponsored by hyperreal.org, someone put a track from the band Marumari on Napster, and in the listing was the more popular band Boards of Canada, and some fans thought the song was a re-mix of a Boards of Canada song, and wouldn't have downloaded it otherwise.
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2008 Pitchfork Music Festival Photos - Day 2
2008 Pitchfork Music Festival Photos - Day 1
Madonna's "Confessions on a Dance Floor" tour
The Duke Spirit on stage and in the studio
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers with Stevie Nicks
Metallica at the KROQ Weenie Roast in Irvine, CA
R.E.M. at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley, CA
Herbie Hancock at the Sonoma Jazz Festival
Brad Paisley, Jack Ingram and Kellie Pickler
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