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Katy Perry Album Gets Dream Start In The U.K.

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:20:11 +0000

Katy Perry scored her first U.K. No. 1 album with “Teenage Dream.”
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Billy Bragg Teams with Rosanne Cash, Joe Henry for New Album

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:20:11 +0000

Billy Bragg, Rosanne Cash and producer Joe Henry will be teaming up this fall for a new album that’s slated to come out in 2011.
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KT Tunstall Shows Off Claws on ‘Tiger Suit’

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 16:15:00 +0000

While “Tiger Suit”—due Oct. 5 on Virgin in North America and Sept. 27 internationally on Relentless/Virgin—still plays to KT Tunstall’s strengths as a tunesmith and perceptive lyricist, it does feature more contemporary ingredients than her previous work.
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Iggy and the Stooges, Scientists Power Up ATP New York

Sat, 04 Sep 2010 22:36:00 +0000

All Tomorrow’s Parties kicks off in the Catskills with Iggy and the Stooges, Sleep, Mudhoney and Scientists.
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Anberlin Frontman Juggles Grad School with Music

Sat, 04 Sep 2010 18:20:16 +0000

“I doubt this band will be around in 10 years, and there needs to be something that I can fall back on,” says Anberlin frontman Stephen Christian of pursuing an MBA in psychology.
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Kanye West Bares All on Twitter: ‘I Wrote a Song for Taylor Swift’

Sat, 04 Sep 2010 17:23:00 +0000

“She had no idea what hit her,” West said of Swift. “She’s justa lil girl with dreams like the rest of us.”
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Top 20 Tweets of the Week: 9/4/2010

Sat, 04 Sep 2010 15:20:14 +0000

Here’s our round-up of singers’, rockers’ and rappers’ 20 coolest and funnest tweets from the past seven days. Be sure to tag @billboarddotcom to your favorite music retweets (and don’t forget to follow us!)
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Kara DioGuardi Leaving ‘American Idol’

Sat, 04 Sep 2010 03:26:00 +0000

Ending weeks of speculation, Kara DioGuardi and Fox announced late Friday (Sept. 3) that she would be departing as a judge on “American Idol” after two seasons.
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Billboard Bits: Lady Gaga Poses as Lady Liberty, Rihanna Premiering New Single

Sat, 04 Sep 2010 01:20:19 +0000

Rihanna dropping new single next week, Lady Gaga poses as Lady Liberty, Panic! at the Disco take on Broadway, and more.
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Dr. Luke: The Billboard Cover Story

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:20:16 +0000

In Five Years, Lukasz Gottwald—Better-Known To Pop Music’s A-List As ‘Dr. Luke’—Has Gone From ‘SNL’ House Band Guitarist To This Generation’s Pre-Eminent Top 40 Hitmaker, Mentioned In The Same Breath As Such Hallowed Teen Titans As Phil Spector And Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis.
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