What's delaying Dr Dre's new album? And why's he hanging out at the mall with David Guetta, Will.I.Am and some bloke who used to produce Simple Minds? We score a rare appointment with the hip-hop legend to find outWith a reputation that precedes him,... more info

Guardian Music — What's delaying Dr Dre's new album? And why's he hanging out at the mall with David Guetta, Will.I.Am and some bloke who used to produce Simple Minds? We score a rare appointment with the hip-hop legend to find outWith a reputation that precedes him,... more info

Topix — A publicist says Burt Bacharach is postponing several concerts as he recovers from back surgery. more info

Live Daily — Burt Bacharach [ tickets ] has postponed all of his concert appearances through mid-March because of a recent back surgery, according to published reports.The 81-year-old performer reportedly is recovering at a hospital following the New Year's Eve s... more info

Publicist Linda Dozoretz says the 81-year-old singer's prognosis is excellent, but he will need to postpone scheduled concerts through mid-March. more info

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Live Daily — On the heels of a recent Grammy nomination, Harry Connick, Jr. [ tickets ] has assembled a run of the East and West Coasts early next year as the crooner continues supporting the recently released "Your Songs." The jazz singer/pianist will spend t... more info

Guardian Music — Bates Mill, HuddersfieldLouis Andriessen claims to have been the first person in the Netherlands ever to own a pair of blue jeans, brought back from America by his brother in the early 1950s. He was certainly the first Dutch composer to combine influ... more info

Guardian Music — He wrote dozens of hits in the 50s and 60sThe American songwriter and producer Luther Dixon, who has died aged 78, was responsible for dozens of pop classics in the 1950s and 60s and helped shape the classic "girl group" sound with the Shirelles. His... more info

NME - The Daily Download — Firaz at NME Radio introduced me to this band, and if this first track he sent over is anything to go by they could be destined for pretty big things. It takes the twisted melodies of Gyratory System and affixes them onto a Bloc Party kind of song st... more info