Reunited pop-punk act Fall Out Boy seemed to have little trouble retaining the old radioactivity, as the quartet's hiatus-breaking "Save Rock and Roll" bowed at No. 1 on the domestic album chart. Acco…
Throaty-voiced thrush Shamshad Begum, one of Bollywood's earliest singers, died on April 23 in Mumbai, India. She was 94 and had been ailing for some time. Before Lata Mangeshkar put her stamp on Indi…
Social media and user generated sites could be forced to scour their sites for uploads of pre-1972 song recordings, after a New York state appellate panel ruled in favor of UMG in its suit against Gro…
Folk singer Richie Havens, perhaps best known for his marathon opening set at Woodstock, died on Monday in New Jersey after suffering a heart attack in his home. He was 72. A Brooklyn native, Havens g…
It was nearly 20 years ago that five wide-eyed teenage Disneyworld refugees found themselves in Cheiron Studios, a little-known outfit in the middle of an unfashionably urbanized island in Stockholm…
This spoof cable commercial from Extremely Decent Films will ring painfully true for anyone who sends off more than $100 each month to a cable provider.
Given the beefed up security around L.A. Live on April 18, not to mention the imperfect storm of parallel downtown events, one could understand the wry reference that Don Henley made to Rock and…
Twitter unleashed its music sampling and discovery service for public consumption Thursday, part of overarching strategy to keep tweeters engaged with the social powerhouse as a locus of entertainment…
One criticism frequently leveled at nets including MTV, VH1 and CMT centers on how far these cablers have strayed from their original focus — music. While this observation certainly holds weight given…
Rock unit Paramore ascended to the top on the U.S. album chart, as its self-titled new release - its first set in four years - nipped Brad Paisley's latest in the No. 1 spot.
