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Sam Spiegel announces zany Maximum Hedrum project

2012-11-29 09:59:00

Given the rate at which left-field super-groups have proliferated over the last few years -- Atoms for Peace! Them Crooked Vultures! Monsters of Folk! -- it was probably inevitable that we'd eventually end up with one as wacky as Maximum Hedrum, the new...

Mariah Carey celebrated at BMI Urban Awards

2012-09-10 14:28:00

Mariah Carey, Drake, Lil Wayne and Nicki Minaj all took home top honors at BMI’s Urban Awards in Beverly Hills on Friday. Carey accepted the night’s most prestigious honor, the BMI Icon Award, for her “unique and indelible influence...

James D. Watkins dies at 85; retired admiral led AIDS, ocean panels

2012-07-29 00:00:00

Navy Adm. James D. Watkins was considered "an unlikely hero" after he was called out of retirement in 1987 to accomplish what many considered a near-impossible task — taking over the leadership of an embattled and divided presidential commission...

Guns N' Roses reunites minus Axl Rose for Hall of Fame induction

2012-04-15 16:37:54

Dam-Funk drops Beats in Space mix, headlines the El Rey (Updated: DJ Quik announced as special guest)

2011-11-03 16:35:10

Erick Sermon of EPMD has heart attack, says he's now doing 'good'

2011-11-14 16:35:47

Essence Music Festival: Acts new and old keep the Superdome shaking; attendance tops 422,000

2011-07-05 16:35:48

Snoop Dogg, Drake and B.o.B take top honors at BMI Urban Awards

2011-08-29 16:35:22

David Mills dies at 48; Emmy-winning writer for 'The Wire,' 'NYPD Blue'

2010-04-01 00:00:00

David Mills, a former journalist and Emmy-winning television writer best known for his work on "NYPD Blue" and "The Wire," has died. He was 48. Mills died Tuesday of an apparent brain aneurysm in New Orleans, where he had been working on the upcoming HBO...

Critic's Notebook: A night of bold moves and noisy risks at Grammys

2011-02-14 00:00:00

Uprisings have been in the news of late, and here was another one. This year's Grammy Awards ceremony, telecast from Staples Center Sunday night, was a generational takeover and an airing of the widening gap between the traditional corporate music...

Details revealed of Tupac Shakur biopic

2010-08-27 16:35:20

Dave Tompkins reads from 'How to Wreck a Nice Beach' tonight at Skylight Books

2010-09-22 16:35:41

What is funk and what is world music? Fatoumata Diawara makes you reconsider those definitions. The Malian vocalist puts the lie to the idea that world music is the province of smiling men in colorful robes.

2013-04-03 12:51:00

Tucked discreetly behind the 28th Street Wellness building on Sisson Street, Baltimore rapper DDm's house is easy to miss, even if you're familiar with the area. "People see you going down that driveway and they're like, 'Where is he going?'" DDm, born Emmanuel Moss, said recently.

2013-01-11 00:00:00

"This building has just been sitting for so long. It was an abandoned studio and the owner had owned it for a long time. He would talk about the people who used to inhabit it and talk about what was going on in its heyday.

2013-01-11 00:00:00