With a little help
| Record industry and music labels hit back at 'myth' of go-it-alone stars. | Record industry bosses in London hit back last week at the "myth" that musicians no longer need them to become successful,...
Black Eyed Peas engaging together, not so much in solo turns
| Are robots sexy? The Black Eyed Peas think so. From movies to liquor advertisements to the current tour by the Black Eyed Peas which landed at the United Center on Saturday night theres a visua...
Rihanna-style breakout in Trey Songz' future?
| A lot of male celebrities are checking out Rihanna, and so is Trey Songz but not like that. | The R&B crooner finds inspiration in Rihannas meteoric rise. Her 2007 smash Umbrella establishe...
Omission accomplished
| Five performing acts will be inducted into the the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame tomorrow at a ceremony at New York’s Waldorf Astoria hotel (Fuse TV, 8:30 p.m.). One rocked insanely hard: punk pi...
Legends of note
| The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation will have its 26th annual induction ceremony at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City on Monday night. (The 2011 event could be back in Cleveland, in case yo...
Moya Brennan on "Music of Ireland"
| By David Hiltbrand | For the Inquirer | At the Philadelphia Flower Show, the crowd is snaking along the pathway through the Irish garden display, their eyes intently raking the underbrush as if enga...
Rock? Mamma mia
| IF YOU care about music, you have to wonder what's been going on with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Last year, Madonna, a skilled pop act but hardly a rock singer, was inducted on the first ballot...
Jack White: 'I knew we'd get into these places and stir things up'
| This is your first live album. What took you so long? Buy it from | The White Stripes Under Great White Northern Lights XL 2010 | I'm not generally a fan of live records and because every show play ...
Jack White: 'I knew we'd get into these places and stir things up'
| The Stripes' frontman Jack White on the President Obama, his wife's first album and doing a whole show on one note | Jack White from the White Stripes | This is your first live album. What took you ...
Mother of mine! It's her day, so why not serenade her?
| With his cheeky Motherwell lilt, crooked grin and perfectly coiffed side parting, prepubescent child star Neil Reid had sons and daughters everywhere reaching for their tissues and into their pocket...
CD reviews: Ludacris, Raheem DeVaughn
HIP-HOP | Ludacris, "Battle of the Sexes" (Def Jam) | Is there any rapper who needs the rampant vocal manipulation trend less than Ludacris? He has long been drunk on his own gleefully elast...
Pop music spotlight: Ike Reilly
IKE REILLY'S 'RESIDENCY' | Tuesday-Friday: Nine years ago this summer, the Twin Cities fell in love with Ike Reilly. It partly had to do with his Universal Records debut, "Salesmen and Racists,&q...
Craig David: Special Delivery
| Having sold over 13 million albums, enjoyed 13 Top 10 singles and achieved multi-Platinum status in over 20 countries, Southampton, UK-born-and-raised singer/songwriter Craig David this month celebr...
Jay Sean: On top of the world
| Having broken records last October when - with his single 'Down' - he became the first UK urban artist to top the US Hot 100, Hounslow, West London-raised singer/songwriter Jay Sean again made chart...
Lil Wayne sentenced to year in jail
| NEW YORK - After saying goodbye on concert stages and online video streams, Lil Wayne had nothing to add as he was sentenced Monday to a year in jail for having a loaded gun on his tour bus. | The G...
Lil Wayne sentencing delayed again
| NEW YORK - Lil Wayne was ready Tuesday to go to jail, but his court date went up in smoke. | While the rap star was heading to his sentencing after pleading guilty in a 2007 gun case, a fire shut do...
Singles out this week
| The Phenomenal Handclap Band. | PICK OF THE WEEK | Baby (Tummy Touch) | One hesitates to use words like "authentic" as a compliment because normally they get applied to coffee-table facsimilisers li...
One last thing... LL Cool J
| LL Cool J has gone from rapping about cops to playing one in NCIS. Rich Pelley talks to him about Mamma Mia, Murdoch and music | LL Cool J. Photograph: Rex | Hi, LL! You're in NCIS: Los Angeles. Er,...
Leonard Bernstein: 'charismatic, pompous - and a great father'
| Had you been fortunate enough to be in the company of the most charismatic American conductor-composer- teacher-broadcaster of all time for long enough, it is likely that you would have heard this e...
Public Enemy's Chuck D still fighting the power
| LOS ANGELES (Billboard) – At the end of "Pirate Radio" -- the 2009 feature film about a '60s illegal rock 'n' roll radio station in Europe's North Sea -- an array of ...
Goo-goo for Gaga, but how long?
| Lady Gaga, now in 3-D -- of course. | The 23-year-old pop star who shot from wannabe to international idol in about 18 months is jumping on the "Avatar"/"Alice in Wonderland" tra...
CD reviews: Gorillaz, Broken Bells, Goldfrapp
| ARTIST: GORILLAZ | ALBUM: PLASTIC BEACH | NEW YORK (Billboard) – Gorillaz may have originated as a way for Damon Albarn to sidestep the limelight, but on the cartoon group's third album, &...
Plastic Beach
GORILLAZ | Plastic Beach (EMI) | Damon Albarn doesn't need an escape hatch or some pressure-relieving outlet any more. When Gorillaz were created, the main writer and singer for Blur was desperately s...
Sounds to savour
| The Sydney Cellar Door marks a homecoming for the Hipstones, who have just returned to Sydney to promote a new album they mixed and mastered in New York and Los Angeles during the past few months. |...
Music: N. Philly's Thee Phantom is taking hip-hop Bach to the future
| By JAMES JOHNSON | For the Daily News | Sometimes, giving up your dream isn't an option. For North Philadelphia native Jeff McNeill, also known as producer/MC Thee Phantom, these have been words to ...
'American Idol:' Adam Lambert shares his love for Bob Marley, David Bowie
| Adam Lambert: a man with plenty of influences. AP Related articles 'American Idol:' Adam Lambert shows support for Lady Gaga's new video Slideshow: Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders | On Friday mor...
Sound check: songs from the underground
12.03.10 | More articles by David Smyth | The dream of performing a gig in London is a common one for aspiring bands, but for those in Iran it raises more serious issues than dodgy vans, shared drum k...
Jay Electronica (No 745)
| This rapper is hailed in the US as a fast-rising urban legend, but his music hardly bowls you over with lyrical or musical invention | Jay Electronica ... he’s saying nothing to invoke a Professor...
Weekly music agenda: South by Southwest hits Austin, Texas
| Beginning March 12, film, interactive, and music professionals are gathered in Austin, Texas for the annual South by Southwest Conference and Festival. The music component, which begins March 17, in...
Album Review: Pavement - 'Quarantine The Past: The Best Of Pavement'
They nicked it all off The Fall, could barely carry a tune in an industrial excavator and sounded like they recorded everything in a studio made from rusty tin buckets under Stockton, California’s b...
Smells like toon spirit
| Are Gorillaz - an animated band living in a virtual world - the ultimate 21st-century pop group? | GORILLAZ may have sold 12 million albums, conquered America, scored No. 1 singles and won Brit and ...
