Sound off
| When an 8.8-magnitude earthquake shook Chile to its core late last month, Tomas Cookman, founder of Nacional Records, was in the seaside city of Viña del Mar with Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, one of the...

Canadian artists join in Wavin' Flag for Haiti
Musician K'naan performs Wavin' Flag during the Canada for Haiti benefit. (CBC) | A remixed version of K'naan's anthem Wavin' Flag that will be available for download Thursday at midnight pulls togeth...

Item World: Local news and views
| 'Serious' consolation | Though they didn't win best picture for "A Serious Man" at Sunday's Oscars, the Coen brothers can console themselves on a couple of counts. Their suburban farce's w...

The Big Gigs: Umphrey's McGee, Norah Jones
POP/ROCK | For the second consecutive year, Chicago's Umphrey's McGee will do a three-night stand, in support of "Mantis," its fifth studio album, featuring carefully constructed tunes with ...

John Storm Roberts obituary
| Ethnomusicologist and an early champion of world music | John Storm Roberts in 1992 at the offices of Original Music, the mail-order company he founded. Photograph: Alan Zale/New York Times | The et...

311 Talk Plans For 'Ultimate' 311 Day Show In Las Vegas
| Are you at work today? You totally shouldn't be. After all, it's 311 Day, which is practically a national holiday at this point. | Ever since March 11, 2000 - when 311 decided to perform an extended...

Chris Brown Posts Plea To Fans
| As sales of his latest album, Graffiti continue to falter, Chris Brown issued a message to his fans this week to help revive his musical career in the wake of his guilty plea to felony assault on fo...

VIP TALENT CONNECT - A New Experience in Web-based Entertainment and Social Media
  Director-Producer Benedict Hadley, Photographer Collis Torrington and Executive Producer Robert Galinsky Bring the Inner Workings of Talent Networking Agency "VIP TALENT CONNECT" to Web 3.0 Wit...

The Prodigy to play 'last show for a while' at Bestival 2010
The Prodigy will headline the final night of this year's Bestival on the Isle Of Wight. | The band will close the event, which takes place between September 9 and 12. | The group join the likes of Rox...

Music
| POP & ROCK BOWLING FOR SOUP These Texas jokesters may be stuck in a loop of perpetual adolescence but at least they write catchy songs about it. The Dollyrots warm up with their simpatico bubblegum ...

Nightlife
| CLUBS & DANCE NIGHTS DJ BALDUR Some random facts about this local spinster: His first heroes were Michael Jackson and Michael Jordan. He also goes by DJezus. And, he's originally from Reykjavik, whi...

Marathon with a beat
| This is the other Boston marathon. More than 3,000 students and 200 big bands, combos, and vocal ensembles will compete at Saturday's 42d annual Berklee College of Music's High School Jazz Festival,...

Katherine Jenkins at Bournemouth International Centre
| A highly marketable combination of Barbie-blonde beauty and pristine mezzo-soprano voice, Katherine Jenkins is one of the most successful singers to emerge from the British classical music scene. In...

Gabriella Cilmi is On A Mission with her new sound and new sexier image
| GABRIELLA Cilmi has gone from sweet to being sexy and her soul and rock music has become disco. Will she be a one-hit wonder? Gabriella answers our questions. | You’re back on the promotional ...

Rapper DMX arrested for violating probation
| PHOENIX  – Troubled rapper DMX was arrested in Arizona on Tuesday for violating his probation by regularly using illegal drugs during the last nine months, authorities said. | The rapper, whose r...

Insane Clowns on Fan Murderers: "Grown Retards"
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Retro conquers Battle of the Bands
| Congratulations to Retro, a rock band consisting of four preteen musicians who won a Battle of the Bands competition last week at Cuyahoga Falls High School. | Band members, who started the group in...

Faith No More Announce First East Coast Reunion Show
| Photo: Attenborough/WireImage | Faith No More have finally revealed their first East Coast U.S. concert in over a decade: Mike Patton and his reunited crew will invade Williamsburg, Brooklyn’s...

WATCH: Lupe Fiasco and Kenna's New Video
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Wu Lyf (No 743)
| This mysterious crew appear to be some kind of strange Manc cult, full of quasi-spiritual fervour and revolutionary intent | Wu Lyf ... like Spiritualized in a scuffle with Swans | Hometown: Manches...

Sam Adams on tap
| Somewhere between soccer practice and midterms, Samuel Adams Wisner found time to drop a No. 1 album. | Less than a year after launching his rap career, 22-year-old college student Wisner, stage nam...

Retro Soul Star Mayer Hawthorne Opens U.S
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Jay Electronica Disguised His Voice To Avoid Hip-Hop Prejudice
| The O.D.: A Mixtape Daily Exclusive | Hearing the commanding voice of Jay Electronica on the microphone, one probably couldn't detect his New Orleans roots. Years ago, like many MCs from the South, ...

Rolling Stone at SXSW 2010: 100 Tweets, Two Showcases and More
| Next week when hundreds of bands head to Texas for the annual South By Southwest Music Festival, Rolling Stone will be on the ground in Austin bringing you incredible photos, interviews, our first-e...

New Reviews: Broken Bells, Jimi Hendrix and BRMC
| Last week RS talked up Gorillaz’s Plastic Beach in New Reviews, so today we’re spotlighting Breaking band Broken Bells, a collaboration between the Shins’ James Mercer and Demon Da...

Notorious B.I.G. And Tupac's Famous Freestyle Remembered By Mister Cee
| One of the greatest freestyles in hip-hop history took place at, of all places, a Patti LaBelle concert. | The Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur came onstage together in New York for a legendary per...

New music videos of the week: Lil Wayne, Eminem, "Somos El Mundo"
| Music videos out this week include two efforts from American rapper Lil Wayne, including a clip that also features Eminem. Also: The Spanish-language version of "We Are the World" unites 50 Latin mu...

Andy Samberg and Chris Parnell Revive "Lazy Sunday" on "Fallon"
| It was one of the videos that helped put YouTube on the map — and one of the most-watched viral music videos ever — but despite its fame, Saturday Night Live stars Chris Parnell and Andy...

Tinie Tempah: Big - Up!
| Now- if you were to hip hop into my Tardis and take a short ride to the start of this year, you'll see that Mr T was on the top of most of the musical psychics 'one to watch in 2010' polls. No not t...

Beastie Boys'
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Remembering Notorious B.I.G.
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