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Tracy Morgan to host Billboard Music Awards
Musicians beware: Tracy Morgan will host the Billboard Music Awards. Billboard announced Wednesday that the 44-year-old will host the awards show on ...
Shakira asks NY judge to throw out ex's $250M suit
Pop star Shakira says her hips don't lie but her ex-boyfriend does. The singer and judge on "The Voice" is asking a New York judge to throw out a $250 ...
Thatcher Funeral: Guest list standouts
More than 2,300 guests attended the funeral of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher at St. Paul's Cathedral on Wednesday. In all, 11 ...
Thatcher Funeral: Attendees and No-Shows
More than 2,300 guests have confirmed they will attend the funeral of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Among the former U.S.
George Beverly Shea dies; sang at Graham crusades
George Beverly Shea, whose booming baritone voice echoed through stadiums, squares and souls during a decades-long career with evangelist Billy ...
Judge: No more excuses for would-be Jackson jurors
A Los Angeles judge says except for medical emergencies, she won't consider any more excuses from potential jurors in the lawsuit by Michael Jackson's ...
Chris Tucker to host BET Awards on June 30
Chris Tucker will host this year's BET Awards. The network announced Tuesday that the comedian-actor will host the show June 30 from the Nokia Theater ...
Spotify's Top 10 most viral tracks
The following list represents the most viral tracks on Spotify, based on the number of people who shared it divided by the number who listened to it, ...
Ozzy Osbourne denies marriage split rumors
Rocker Ozzy Osbourne has denied rumors of a split from his wife Sharon and apologized to his family for returning to drink and drugs. The Black ...
Benny Blanco to receive Songwriters Hall honor
Benny Blanco, who has co-written and co-produced hits like Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream" and Maroon 5's "Moves Like Jagger," is getting a songwriting ...
McIntyre tweets he's OK after Boston marathon run
New Kids on the Block singer Joey McIntyre tweets that he's OK after two bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon minutes after he ...
Caroline Shaw wins 2013 Pulitzer for music
Caroline Shaw isn't your typical Pulitzer Prize for music winner. The violinist and vocalist is just 30, a freelance musician in New York, a grad ...
Alicia Keys campaigns for HIV education
Alicia Keys says she wants to spark a global conversation about HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. The Grammy Award-winning singer met with women who ...
Pearl Jam, Nine Inch Nails to play Voodoo Fest
The rock band Nine Inch Nails is making its first public appearance since 2009 at this year's Voodoo Music + Arts Experience in New Orleans.
Rihanna cancels Houston show because of illness
Rihanna has canceled another date on her latest tour because she is ill. Live Nation says the Grammy-winning singer is unable to perform at Monday's ...
Faith Hill says she won't do 'SNF' theme this year
Faith Hill is out of the football game. The country star announced Monday morning on Twitter that she won't be doing the "Sunday Night Football" theme ...
London Symphony conductor Colin Davis dies at 85
Colin Davis, the former principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra and one of Britain's elder statesmen of classical music, has died at 85.
Legal pot draws tourists to Colo., Wash., for 4/20
Thousands of people are expected to join an unofficial counterculture holiday celebrating marijuana in Colorado and Washington this coming weekend, ...
Australians rejoice after Scott's Masters victory
The roar that followed Adam Scott's Masters-winning putt at Augusta National could only be heard on the television broadcast so many thousand miles ...
Rock and soul songwriter George Jackson dies at 68
Songwriter George Jackson, co-author of "Old Time Rock and Roll" and hundreds of other soul, rock and rhythm and blues tunes, has died. He was 68.
Chi Cheng, former bassist for Deftones, dies at 42
A candlelight vigil was planned Sunday night for Chi Cheng, bassist for Grammy-winning rock band the Deftones, who died after struggling to recover ...
Inmates, orchestra members perform behind bars
Strains of classical music echoed on Sunday — not inside an august concert hall — but in a bleak Chicago jail where the mostly teenage boys await ...
Bieber criticized for Anne Frank comment
Justin Bieber wrote an entry into a guestbook at the Anne Frank House museum in Amsterdam, saying he hoped the Jewish teenager who died in a Nazi ...
Rubio: Beyonce trip to Cuba 'hypocritical'
Sen. Marco Rubio says entertainers Beyonce and Jay-Z missed a chance while in Cuba to see firsthand the effects of political oppression.
Richards joins Clapton at Crossroads Festival
Eric Clapton's Crossroads festival has become the mecca for riff worshippers, so it was appropriate that guitar deity Keith Richards made a surprise ...