The Carpenters News

As everyone has learned from spending two months playing "Beatles: Rock Band" non-stop, there was no group quite like the Fab Four.

With their light, airy melodies and meticulously crafted, clean arrangements, the Carpenters stood in direct contrast with the excessive, gaudy pop/rock of the '70s; yet they became one of the most popular artists of the decade, scoring 12 Top Ten hits, including three number one singles.

MATTHEW JONES' belief that the man or woman on the street can turn choral singer may remind you of Gareth Malone of BBC show The Choir but Mr Jones does not care for Mr Malone's ambitions.

ITV1 has announced that it will air an hour-long Carpenters special to to celebrate 40 years since their 'Ticket To Ride' release.

An Enid couple considered themselves lucky to be alive after a close encounter Wednesday night with an escaped circus elephant.

While listening to Bill Carpenter describe what happened to his SUV Wednesday night, you'd think he had been attacked during a safari.

GLASVEGAS ended up singing a Carpenters song at their latest bash in London. The band were performing the UK for the first time since frontman James Allan missed the Barclaycard Mercury Prize ceremony last month.

Glasvegas played an intimate acoustic London club show last night a ' their first UK show since frontman James Allan missed the Barclaycard Mercury Prize ceremony last month.

The Carpenters Union of Mainland Nova Scotia has opened a private career college in Lower Sackville that will create more tradespeople for the construction industry to address a shortage of qualified workers.

Leon Russell is scheduled to perform on Monday, November 2. Leon Russell With his dangling white tresses, wispy white beard, stiff-rimmed white Stetson, and tailored, double-breasted white suit, music legend Leon Russell cuts a distinctly angelic figure.

Tickets $30 General Admission, $40 Limited Reserved Seating in the Balcony . Available in advance from ticketmaster.com, all Ticketmaster outlets, including the Crystal Ballroom Box Office and by phone at 224-4400. Subject to service charge and/or user fee.

The cover image of Pink Martini 's latest album glows with color -- red and yellow flowers blooming unabashedly.

Here's a list of some new CD releases for the week of Oct. 20: Basshunter - "Bass Generation" Bombshel - "Fight Like a Girl" The Carpenters - "40/40" Candice Chantrell - "Behind the Mic" Vic Chestnutt - "Skitter on Take-Off" Leonard Cohen - "Live at the Isle of Wight 1970" Everclear - "In a Different Light" Five Man Electrical Band - "The Best of ...

Anyone who's seen them knows that local "Stout Irish Rockers" Blaggards ' front man Patrick Devlin's natural place is center stage.

Stephen King is a one-man, book-making , movie -adapting, money-printing machine who's provided Hollywood with nearly four decades of bankable material.

Even after The Poop love-fest at Golden Gate Park , it was a rough week on the blog.

A KAREN Carpenter tribute artist says she has been living the life of her idol - right down to developing anorexia.

An artist's obsessive love of the Carpenters has turned an art project into a pop album.

A national squabble between the AFL-CIO and the independent-minded Carpenters union reared its head in Kansas City last week at the Arrowhead Stadium renovation project.A conflict arose when the Carpenters District Council of Kansas City posted a 'No Contract' banner at the site, claiming it should be doing the panel support work that was being ...

Brian Eno can still walk into a porno store undisturbed Two weekends ago, Brian Eno - who burst into public consciousness as the ostrich-feather-bedecked "non-musician" with the band Roxy Music - descended on Long Beach, California, to inaugurate his audiovisual installation "77 Million Paintings," with a packed auditorium of Enophiles at the ...