For the first time since 1984, ’80s darlings Patty Smyth and Scandal have plans to release new music.The band’s original members — Smyth, guitarist Keith Mack and keyboardist/guitarist Benjy King — have joined up with new bassist Tom Welsch and drummer Eran Asias for the reunion, which will put the group back on the [...]

  Those hosers from the Great White North are making a comeback in animated form and the FOX network has reportedly signed on to help with development. According to The Hollywood Reporter, FOX is lending support in producing the pilot episode of Animax’s The Animated Adventures of Bob & Doug McKenzie, a new series based [...]

Stuck in what he calls “the Northeast corridor,” Billy Shaffer can’t turn his back on the three generations of family who have lived in New Jersey. His life is, and will remain, in the North, he says. Yet his heart longs for the Southern red clay roads presided over by the General Lee. Maybe Mr. [...]

  Anyone attending Carmel Morgan’s London play “Smaller” a couple of years ago was in for a surreal surprise. That figure onstage in a lifelike chicken costume, belting out a Robbie Williams melody as a washed-up lounge singer — could that really be legendary soul-pop stylist and Yaz founder Alison Moyet? Indeed, it was, chortles [...]

40+ Bands to Unite with Celebrated Rockers at Former Houston AstroWorld Site for Nation’s Premier Labor Day Concert, August 29 – September 1, 2008 HOUSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Some of rock’s most legendary and notorious hair bands will join emerging stars for the massive Rock The Bayou music bash, featuring four days of music, food and family fun [...]