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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...

PASSINGS: George Murdock, Charles 'Skip' Pitts

2012-05-04 00:00:00

George Murdock Character actor often played the 'heavy' George Murdock, 81, a veteran character actor who had a recurring role as Lt. Scanlon on the television sitcom "Barney Miller" and played God in the 1989 film "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier,"...

Donald 'Duck' Dunn dies at 70; soul music bassist

2012-05-14 07:42:00

Donald "Duck" Dunn, the bassist who helped create the gritty Memphis soul sound at Stax Records in the 1960s as part of the legendary group Booker T. and the MGs and contributed to such classics as "In the Midnight Hour," "Hold On, I'm Coming" and...

Pop music review: Cyndi Lauper just wants to have fun

2011-11-07 04:34:58

Jay Rock reveals single 'Hood Gone Love It,' aided by Kendrick Lamar

2011-06-23 16:36:20

DJ Quik, the Gaslamp Killer, and more hit the Do-Over

2011-08-08 16:36:25

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

2011-08-29 16:35:22

Billboard Hot 100 notches 1,000th No. 1 single: From Ricky Nelson to Lady Gaga

2011-02-18 04:35:13

Five great White Stripes covers: Dylan, Beefheart, Son House and more

2011-02-03 16:34:52

Guru dies at 43; influential rapper

2010-04-20 12:43:00

Guru, the influential rapper known for his conscious and intellectual themes, his monotone delivery, and his combination of jazz sounds with hip-hop beats, has died after battling cancer, collaborators said. He was 43. The world has lost "one of the best...

'Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture' by Alice Echols

2010-04-11 00:00:00

Hot Stuff Disco and the Remaking of American Culture Alice Echols W.W. Norton: 338 pp., $26.95 Recently, I attended a wedding reception during which a 10-year-old boy, to entertain the adults on the dance floor, started making the point-to-the-sky...

Hailed as the "Afro-American answer to Woodstock," the 1972 Wattstax Music Festival, organized by Memphis's Stax Records to commemorate the seventh anniversary of the Watts riots, allowed viewers to glimpse the brilliance of Richard Pryor, the charisma of a young Jesse Jackson and some great

2012-10-11 07:16:00

American songwriter, musician, singer and actor

2012-08-23 07:33:08

schedule, Parker and Stone suspected pressure from the actor or Scientology to be involved. However, Cruise has since denied any knowledge of the incident.

2012-03-13 16:53:47