Purple Rain News

According to his biography, comedian Stephen Lynch was raised by a former priest and nun.

Despite the wind, rain and cold, about 600 people packed into a tent erected on North Street in Downtown Raleigh to watch Durham-based R&B crew The Foreign Exchange take on Chapel Hill's The Love Language in a battle of the bands .

COME rain or shine, the weather has always been a popular topic for musicians. A hard rain was a-gonna fall on Bob Dylan a ' in Prince's case, it was Purple Rain .

After the highly-anticipated Rock Week turned out to be a bit of a damp squib , The X Factor heads back to more familiar territory tomorrow night with its Songs From The Movies theme.

ON tonighta TMs X Factor, Daniel Lloyd will be singing Stand By Me in the manner of Pinocchio before The Change, and Stacey Solomon will squeak out Son Of A Preacherman , not in the style of Amy Winehouse gargling baby milk.

"Only want to see you underneath the purple rain." "Purple rain. Purple rain." Twenty-five years ago, the Purple One unleashed his raw sexuality on the big screen and started a revolution.

IMDb > Purple Rain Overview User Rating: 5.7/10 5,650 votes MOVIEmeter: Up 4% in popularity this week.

On Friday, Cedars Lounge will be in for a mystical showcase with Youngstown's R&B outfit The Sweet Delights.

I promised to post videos of all-time best rain songs suggested by Blotch readers, and here they are: Bryan F said, a oe 'Thunderstorms and Neon Signs' by Wayne Hancock, perfect for trips through West Texas." Unfortunately I couldn't find this on YouTube.

Any time Prince plays a show in Minneapolis, there's always a crazy string of rumors about the particulars of the performance.

SET LIST: Prince played it fast and furious, segueing from song to song with rarely a pause between selections.

Prince, I guess we hardly knew you. Thirty years into his career, the Minnesota icon showed his faithful something new Saturday night at Paisley Park in Chanhassen: It was his smoothest show there ever.

Michael Jackson considered Prince his rival back in the 1980s when "Thriller" and "Purple Rain" were ruling the charts and both superstars were selling out concerts night after night.

Norwegian pop group A-ha announced today that it will split up for good next year after 27 years, following a world tour.

Singer Prince arrives to attend the Chanel Pret a Porter show as part of the Paris Womenswear Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2010 at Grand Palais on October 6, 2009 in Paris, France.

Howie Dorough, Brian Littrell, A. J. McLean and Nick Carter: Backstreeta TMs back, more or less, with another dozen soft-pop selections.

PURPLE RAIN: Umbrellas emerged as the latest hot accessory at Paris Fashion Week.

OK, surely by now you've read our cover story from last week's Weekly on Anaheim's Burger Records , the history of the label and their new store opening in Fullerton this past Saturday? Well, it opened as scheduled , bringing out a healthy crowd and a good deal of rad used records along with their own vinyl and tape releases.

I n his enthralling new memoir "Corn Flakes With John Lennon and Other Tales From a Rock 'n' Roll Life" , longtime Los Angeles Times critic Robert Hilburn focuses mostly on his relationships with and revelations about music's biggest and most transformative stars: Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, Bono, Kurt Cobain ...

Few artists have created a body of work as rich and varied as Prince. During the '80s, he emerged as one of the most singular talents of the rock & roll era, capable of seamlessly tying together pop, funk, folk, and rock.