Veteran rapper Jay-Z plays Carnegie Hall
| Jay-Z has entered a new level of music superstardom, performing at Carnegie Hall. | The veteran rapper performed more than two dozen hits at the famed venue on Monday night, one of two shows for cha...
Liza with a Z -- Minnelli & Hova Together
| Jigga what? Liza Minnelli proved she has mad props for rap mogul Jay-Z and checked out his concert at Carnegie Hall in NYC last night. | Move over Tony Bennett & Gaga, because this could be the next...
Chris Brown set to return to Grammys, perform
| NEW YORK (AP) — Chris Brown will perform at this year's Grammy Awards, the event where his career almost ended three years ago. | Brown admitted assaulting then-girlfriend Rihanna at a pre-Grammy ...
Chris Brown set to take the stage at the Grammys
| NEW YORK (AP) — Chris Brown will perform at this year's Grammy Awards, the event where his career almost ended three years ago. | Brown admitted assaulting then-girlfriend Rihanna at a pre-Grammy ...
Look at him now: Chris Brown winning as rapper
| NEW YORK (AP) — Chris Brown is known pop singer, a slick bedroom crooner and at other times, a Euro-flavored dance singer. But it's his rapping that has taken his career to new heights. | With his...
Jay-Z enters new musical heights at Carnegie Hall
| NEW YORK (AP) — As Jay-Z transitioned from hit song to hit song at a Carnegie Hall concert Monday night, so did the lighting, changing from red to white to blue. | The veteran rapper then performe...
Jay-Z reaches new level, performs at Carnegie Hall
| NEW YORK (AP) — Jay-Z has entered a new level of music superstardom, performing at Carnegie Hall. | The veteran rapper performed more than two dozen hits at the famed venue Monday night, one of tw...
Test Your Grammy IQ
| The Grammys are now less than a week away. (If you've been zoning out, the big day is Feb. 12. Adele is expected to win everything in sight.) Here's a quiz to see how much you know about Grammy lore...
Coachella 2012 Lineup Revealed! The Black Keys, Radiohead, Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg Headline
| Minutes ago, the official Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival Twitter tweeted the official lineup for the upcoming 2012 mega music festival. While the festival has notoriously added and subtrac...
Best Music Gadgets of 2011: Streaming Audio, iPad Karaoke, and Dr. Dre’s Ears
| You say you're a music lover and your pockets are all weighed down by gift cards? Here are 10 great gadgets from the past year that we'd be cashing in our certificates for if we were similarly bless...
List of the Day’s Grammy Breakdown: Best New Artist
| Nowhere does it get more confusing than the Grammy's Best New Artist category. The Academy acknowledges artists when they chart. Or something like that. From the cheap seats where the logic doesn't ...
List of the Day’s Grammy Breakdown: Album of the Year
| While some people like to think the album is dead, long live the album! You can shuffle your tunes all you want and mix and match to your heart's content, but there is still something exciting about...
List of the Day’s Grammy Breakdown: Record of the Year
| The 2012 Grammy Awards are upon us and it's time to see what's what. Let's break down a few key categories and see where we stand as a nation. Let's start with... | Record of the Year | Last year th...
Ten Worst Saturday Night Live Performances
| Lana Del Rey's certainly got people talking! Her deer-on-Quaaludes performance this past Saturday has her up nominated for "Worst Saturday Night Live Performance." No less an authority than ...
‘Some Girls,’ Some 33 Years Later: Jagger & Richards Talk Punk, Disco, and Confiscated Cover Art
| The original 'Some Girls' cover artFew Rolling Stones albums have held up as sonically, and still sound as gritty and urban and sexy and just downright cool, as their 1978 disco/punk/count...
2012′s Best Records Yet!
| Welcome to the New Year! | It's been a few weeks now since I've cobbled together this much-loved blog, largely because that which inspires it--the seemingly unlimited supply of new album and DVD rel...
The Incalculable Genius Of Drake!
| It's me, world traveler that I am, writing this blog in beautiful Nashville, Tennessee--one week later than last week, when I was situated in a luxurious Miami condominium, and one week prior to nex...
Video: 50 Cent Explains Million-Dollar Super Bowl Bet
| Follow me on Facebook, Twitter. | Rap superstar 50 Cent feels confident his home state team the New York Giants will beat the New England Patriots at the Super Bowl Sunday, and he's willing to bet o...
Snoop Dogg Proudly Sports Gray Patch At EA Sports Super Bowl Party
| Follow me on Facebook, Twitter. | Snoop DoggThe rap charts might be dominated by artists under the age of 30, but elder statesmen Snoop Dogg doesn't have any problem embracing being a member of the ...
The Aftermath Presents: Dee-1′s Top 3 Rappers With Legacies
| Follow Billy on Facebook, Twitter. | Follow Soren on Amazon, Twitter. | Fast-rising New Orleans rapper Dee-1 stopped by Yahoo! to knock out a top 3 list with Soren Baker and me for The Aftermath Pre...
The Rock’s Backpages Flashback: M.I.A. in Action
| M.I.A., 2005-style | How much do we know about the feisty Anglo-Sri-Lankan who stole the headlines from Lady Madonna at yesterday's Super Bowl half-time show? Ken Scrudato talked to M.I.A. for Flaun...
The Rock’s Backpages Flashback: “Soul Punk” Etta James
| Etta gives it some soul | Etta James was the red-hot R&B mama who bounced back from drug addiction to became a living legend. Her death from leukemia has silenced one of the toughest voices in A...
The Rock’s Backpages Flashback: John Lydon and PiL, at large in NYC
| With the Public Image Ltd. catalog newly reissued, what better time to revisit this telling New York Rocker portrait of the former Pistol and his postpunk comrades, at large and loose-mouthed in Got...
M.I.A.’s Raised Middle Finger Raises Question: Why The Provocation?
| photo: Christopher Polk/Getty ImagesSo, who used whom in the Madonna/M.I.A. Super Bowl halftime controversy--per that already famous middle finger that M.I.A. offered tens of millions of viewers bef...
‘Soul Train’ Host Don Cornelius Dead Of Suicide
| Don Cornelius, Getty Images, Kevin WinterLOS ANGELES (AP) — Don Cornelius, creator of the long-running TV dance show "Soul Train," shot himself to death Wednesday morning at his Los Angele...
Hova takes over Carnegie Hall
"Check out my tux, man/ Peep the way I wear it," decreed Jay-Z last night at New York's Carnegie Hall - as if we had any choice. Used to conquering new territories, whether at Madison Square Garden in...
January 23-29: Seal Announces Divorce, Releases Breakup Album. Coincidence?
| Follow me on Facebook, Twitter. | Heidi Klum, Seal. Getty Images, Jerold HarrisWe didn't want to believe initial reports that favorite celebrity couple Seal and Heidi Klum would be calling it quits ...
December 5 – 11: Madonna Super Bowl Performance and Beastie Boys Induction Spark Backlash
| Follow me on Facebook, Twitter. | Kiss member Gene Simmons and War founder Howard E. Scott unleashed verbal assaults this week on other acts. | Gene SimmonsSimmons, the bassist and vocalist for the ...
November 28 – December 4: Beyonce Dispels Pregnancy Rumors
| Beyonce, Katie Couric, ABC | Beyoncé has been criticized for making her "baby on the way" announcement on stage at the MTV Video Music Awards in September, been accused of wearing a prosthe...
November 21-27: Amy Winehouse’s Look Captured In Film Shot In Paris
| Eva Mendes in "Holly Motors." FilmMagic, Paul HubbleActress Eva Mendes made music news this week when a photo of the "2 Fast 2 Furious" co-star resembling the late Amy Winehouse su...
November 14 – 20: Former Couple Jennifer Lopez And Marc Anthony Performing Separate AMAs Sets
| Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez performing on American Idol in May. Getty Images, Kevin Winter | Nicki Minaj, Drake, Katy Perry, Chris Brown, Kelly Clarkson, Justin Bieber, and Mary J. Blige are amo...
