American Idol's Season 11 finalist Colton Dixon's powerful and iconic voice quickly earned him a loyal and enthusiastic fan following among the shows 20 million viewers that kept him from placing in the bottom three u...
Johnny Marr, one of the most celebrated guitarists in the history of contemporary music, presents his debut solo album, The Messenger. The album features Marr front & center on vocals & guitar, & represent...
Best known for: "The Hangover," "Silver Linings Playbook"
Why: Cooper may have charmed everyone in "Playbook," but since he found real stardom in "The Hangover" he continues t...
Johnny Marr recently told The Guardian that The Smiths “invented indie.” I’m not so sure that he’s right about that, much less what that actually means.
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There’s no official release date yet, but Lady Gaga has dropped plenty of hints about the project, aside from its all-caps pretentious name (“When POP sucks the tits of ART,” she declares on Twitter)...
At her peak, Houston was the golden girl of the music industry. From the middle 1980s to the late 1990s, she was one of the world's best-selling artists. She wowed audiences with effortless, powerful, and peerless voc...
Chris Brown is coming off his Grammy win for best R&B album for “F.A.M.E.” Now he’s going for the second half of the equation with “Fortune,” out July 3. And if Brown's words at...
I've been out all afternoon, so the sudden news of Adam Yauch -- better known as MCA of The Beastie Boys -- succumbing to cancer has been all Twitter remembrances and mobile news briefs for me. And all sadness. H...
Music fans were stunned and saddened by today's news of the death of Adam "MCA" Yauch, who passed away at age 47 after battling cancer.
Yauch's influence as one-third of the iconic hip-hop boun...
I read a piece this week in which a writer railed on Woody Harrelson for what sounded like a fairly terrible interview.
This is right on the heels of a fairly disastrous appearance that Harrelson made at Reddit.&nb...
