Music News

February 21, 2019

Chicago police chief angry over alleged Smollett hoax

Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson took it personally when detectives determined that "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett ...

February 21, 2019

Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Dominick Argento dead at 91

Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Dominick Argento, who wrote musical works inspired by the lives and literature of Edgar Allan ...

February 21, 2019

Peter Tork, Monkees' lovable bass-guitar player, dead at 77

Peter Tork, who rose to teen-idol fame in 1966 playing the lovably clueless bass guitarist in the made-for-television rock ...

February 21, 2019

Iraqi rapper gives angry youth in city of Basra music outlet

A youth-led protest movement in the southern Iraqi port city of Basra, which saw riots last summer over failing services and ...

February 21, 2019

Lawyer likens R. Kelly to Beethoven to explain studio move

R&B singer R. Kelly is moving out of his Chicago recording studio because a judge has stymied his creativity by barring him ...

Jesy Nelson, Perrie Edwards, Jade Thirlwall and Leigh-Anne Pinnock

February 21, 2019

The 1975, Calvin Harris, Dua Lipa are winners at Brit Awards

Pop-rockers The 1975, DJ Calvin Harris and singer-songwriter Dua Lipa won major prizes at the U.K. music industry's Brit ...

February 21, 2019

The Latest: More women perform at slick UK music awards show

The Latest on the Brit Awards ceremony (all times local): 10:30 p.m. The U.K. music industry's Brit Awards have been handed ...

February 20, 2019

Chris Stapleton, Dan + Shay lead ACM nominations

Chris Stapleton and Dan + Shay lead the 54th Academy of Country Music Awards with six nominations each while Grammy album of ...

February 20, 2019

Rhode Island marks 16th anniversary of nightclub fire

Rhode Island is marking the 16th anniversary of a nightclub fire that killed 100 people and injured more than 200. The Feb.

February 20, 2019

Legal hurdles would look familiar in any new R. Kelly case

Prosecutors will have to clear a series of high legal hurdles if they intend to charge R. Kelly and convict him, even if ...

February 19, 2019

'What a talent': Celebrities react to death of Lagerfeld

Some reaction to the death of fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld. "His humor, wit, love and passion for fashion will live on ...

February 19, 2019

Review: Chaka Khan's 'Hello Happiness' is mini bundle of joy

Chaka Khan, "Hello Happiness" (Diary/Island Records) With just seven songs in 28 minutes, Chaka Khan's "Hello Happiness" is ...

February 19, 2019

Imagine Dragons to perform at Pro Football Hall of Fame

Imagine Dragons will perform at the Pro Football Hall of Fame to help kick off the NFL's 100th season. The Hall announced ...

February 18, 2019

Vandal topples wax statue of Sean 'Diddy' Combs

Police say someone attacked a statue of Sean "Diddy" Combs at Madame Tussauds wax museum in New York, shoving the rap ...

February 17, 2019

Don Cheadle sports political shirts as he hosts 'SNL'

Don Cheadle delivered some political messages along with jokes as he hosted "Saturday Night Live" for the first time.

February 17, 2019

Country star Miranda Lambert reveals secret marriage

Country star Miranda Lambert celebrated Valentine's Day weekend with the announcement that she secretly got married.

February 17, 2019

Actor William Shatner debuts country songs at Grand Ole Opry

Actor William Shatner boldly went where no "Star Trek" captain has gone before when he took the stage for the first time for ...

February 16, 2019

21 Savage 'wasn't hiding' being British, feared deportation

The Atlanta-based rapper 21 Savage said in an interview aired Friday that he didn't talk about his British citizenship before ...

February 16, 2019

The Latest: 21 Savage surrenders on outstanding warrant

The Latest on saga involving Atlanta-based rapper 21 Savage (all times local): 6:50 p.m. Atlanta-based rapper 21 Savage has ...