Amelle Berrabah, currently the second-most-senior member of the British pop trio Sugababes, is taking an “unexpected short break away from the pressures of work, following some professional medical advice earlier this week,” according to a statement posted on the girl-group-in-tumult’s site this morning. She’ll be staying in a private health clinic for the next three weeks and taking a break from the group, which has been forced to cancel even more upcoming live appearances as a result of all this. (Remaining members Heidi Range and Jade Ewen will, however, travel to an Irish gig that the ladies were supposed to perform at in order to press some fan flesh.) Apparently there’s going to be a Sugababes tour once Berrabah gets out of the hospital, but honestly, maybe we should just have the new group play one gig—or even one song—before making any claims like that, no? [Sugababes via Guardian] MORE »
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The Sugababes Saga Enters The “Severe Exhaustion” Chapter
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Please, Not Another British Award
As if the Mercury Music Prize, the Q Awards, the Music Of Black Origin Awards, the Brits, the Vodafone Live Music Awards and whatever else I’m missing weren’t quite enough music-related adjudicating for the residents of the UK, the British music magazine Uncut has jumped into the awards business with the Uncut Music Award. It seems an awful lot like the Mercury Prize, except that it’s open to non-Brits. MORE »
Amy Winehouse is crawling out of her dingy cave–or wherever it is she teases her beehive while allegedly in recovery for drug addiction–to headline the mtvU Woodie Awards on November 8 at the Roseland Ballroom in New York, her first show in the U.S. since her rehab-centric vacay. MORE »
Amy Winehouse is crawling out of her dingy cave–or wherever it is she teases her beehive while allegedly in recovery for drug addiction–to headline the mtvU Woodie Awards on November 8 at the Roseland Ballroom in New York, her first show in the U.S. since her rehab-centric vacay. MORE »
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We hear that former Extreme guitarist Nuno Bettencourt has left Satellite Party, Perry Farrell’s WTF-list project that went straight from the flash mobosphere to the cutout bins. MORE »
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Wall Street To Record Industry: “Wait, You Guys Are Still Around?”
As if you needed further proof that the record business was descending into full-on mobocracy, shares of EMI and Warner Music Group both hit 52-week lows yesterday–just three days after the Grammy Awards made everyone feel temporarily drunk with power (or at least just very, very drunk). MORE »
