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  Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:24:52 +0200

Music lovers with curiosity won't want to miss the season's first Music on the Edge concert, Tuesday night at the University of Pittsburgh.

The Jonas Brothers will perform during halftime of the Dallas Cowboys' nationally televised Thanksgiving Day game against the Seattle Seahawks.

Simone has that special gift to make music transcendent.

In its third wave of DVDs Jazz Icons presents Nina Simone from two different European television performances. The Holland 1965 session runs about 40 minutes and the England 1968 session runs about 23. In both she delivers personal, powerful performances that made her such a unique performer.The Holland session opens with Oscar Brown Jr.'s...

Do you know DJ Udachi, a.k.a., DJ Brak , a.k.a., Gregory Pesochin? If not, you should check out the local musician, who beyond spinning also creates his own original music and does remixes.

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  Mon, 13 Oct 2008 05:35:17 +0200

William Claxton, a celebrated photographer who worked with such entertainers as Bob Dylan and Frank Sinatra and who helped establish the organization that runs the Grammy Awards, has died.

  Mon, 13 Oct 2008 01:12:58 +0200

It's difficult to find a new world culture that's as musically rich as that of New Zealand.

  Sun, 12 Oct 2008 20:40:03 +0200

Reviewed by Michaelangelo Matos October 7th, 2008 It's odd to see a rapper like Murs, the Los Angeles indie-label favorite, on such a big label, especially this late in the major-label game.

Clinton-based musician Brian Molnar will perform Saturday night at Connexions Gallery and Pearly Baker's Alehouse in Easton.

  Sun, 12 Oct 2008 12:02:41 +0200

After years of watching its floor space get cut at its traditional retailers, such as Wal-Mart and Best Buy , and its mind space shrink on such outlets as MTV, the music industry may have finally figured out ...

  Sun, 12 Oct 2008 07:37:57 +0200

In a San Diego scene that has all too often focused on blunts, balling and bitches, Yung clearly represents that new breed of MC like... San Diego CityBeat Ani Difranco's Latest is Overproduced Red Letter Year ...

To enter the world of Simon Shaheen, the virtuoso musician and bandleader who has become Arabic music's most prominent ambassador and most active educator in the United States, simply consider his principal ...

The 411 Music Top Five 10.08.08: Absolute Worst Singles Of The 1990s Posted by Ben Czajkowski on 10.08.2008 The 1990s were chalk-full of awful tracks.

A band called A Cursive Memory is promoting its music using a two-dimensional code that can be read by cameraphones with the ScanLife application installed.

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  Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:10:39 +0200

Other musical headliners at the State Fair this week: Sugarland , 7:30 p.m. Friday; $25 Mitchel Musso , 6 p.m. Saturday; $15 Josh Turner , 7:30 p.m. Wednesday; $25 tobyMac , 7:30 p.m. Oct.

Rap Fan Would Rather Pay Big Fine Than Listen To Mozart Posted by Mitch Michaels on 10.10.2008 Bass and Beethoven don't mix... An Ohio motorist, Andrew Vactor, was facing a $150 fine for playing rap music too ...

  Sat, 11 Oct 2008 05:09:02 +0200

Beastie Boys rock the vote in Milwaukee on Sunday, Nov. 2. Published Oct. 10, 2008 at 11:26 a.m. Tags: beastie boys , swing state tour , us cellular , rock the vote , tenacious d , crosby & nash , ben harper ...

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  Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:44:47 +0200

A publicist for Meat Loaf says the 57-year-old rocker was hospitalized in London for three days following an awards ceremony earlier this week.

Lars Ulrich, songwriter and drummer for the heavy-metal band Metallica, is selling a Jean-Michel Basquiat painting from his art collection that could set a new auction record for the artist.

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  Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:46:01 +0200

Move over Johnny Mathis. In 1959, Bobby Darin became the youngest performer to headline at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas.

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Music, concerts, musicians and more. Janet Jackson to restart tour, postpones MSG show Janet Jackson plans to restart her tour on Saturday in Uncasville, Conn., but she has postponed her Madison Square Garden ...