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Drama is unfolding behind the scenes of Crazy Heart in a battle over the estate of the songwriter Stephen Bruton, who co-produced the soundtrack and tutored Jeff Bridges on guitar for his role as an aging country singer seeking love and redemption.
More at The New York Times, 02/04/2010The eccentric musician, arranger and songwriter who has collaborated with the Beach Boys, the Byrds, Ry Cooder and many more is returning to the road to tour for the first time in 25 years.
Singer Sade Adu returns after a ten year hiatus with the release of her new album, Solder of Love, this Tuesday.
Soul Train: The Hippest Trip in America, a 90-minute VH1 Rock Docs film celebrating the 40th anniversary of the culturally influential music show premieres Saturday on VH1.
Check out this rare interview with the elusive mistress of funk.
He believes the company, which developed the L.A. Live entertainment complex, can go up against the juggernaut that will be created by the Ticketmaster-Live Nation merger.
Before it was an influential record label owned by Corey Rusk, Touch and Go was an influential punk rock fanzine. Here's a look back.
Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward (aka: She & Him) will follow-up their 2008 debut this year with the release of Volume Two due this spring.
In honor of the recent 100th anniversary of Django Reinhardt's birth, we offer you a brief history of the music he helped to influence: Gypsy jazz.
A new study shows that adults aged 66-83 sleep about 20 minutes less than adults aged 40-55 years, who slept 23 minutes less than young adults aged 20-30.
Did you know that the bands who perform at the Super Bowl receive no appearance fee? What they do receive is a massive consumer audience (100 million TV viewers) and hype surrounding the big performance that can correlate into record sales.
Here's a rehash of the greatness of former Byrds touring mates Doug Dillard and Gene Clark's 1968 classic country-rock masterpiece The Fantastic Expedition of Dillard and Clark.
Malcolm Jones' memoir of growing up in North Carolina in the 1950s and 1960s with his beloved, controlling mother, helps us to remember why we bother to read other people's faulty memories in the first place.
If you're chomping at the bit in anticipation of Gil Scott-Heron's new album I'm New Here releasing on Feb. 9th, here's your chance to stream the album in its entirety.
Aaron Neville, Theresa Andersson and Carlo Nuccio have recorded a new version of the New Orleans Saints fan anthem "Who Dat" in preparation for the Super Bowl showdown this coming weekend in Miami.
These 7 colossal mistakes from the history books of artist management stack up as examples of how things can go very very wrong.
Is it us or have rock star names gotten weirder over time? Maybe that's why we like this spoof on Grammy star names in comparison to Trekkie names from the '60s.
Here are some of the best musical moments from the hit series' (that's about to come to a close) first five seasons.
For a brief history of the acoustic guitar look no further than this piece that spotlights ten companies who have excelled at the art of and science of guitar building.
How a wave of consolidation lay waste to regional treats like the Fig Pie and the Seven Up Bar.
The literary legend, who died this week, inspired the modern idea of the rock'n'roll rebel with his character Holden Caulfield, the outsider antihero from The Catcher in the Rye.
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