La Toya Jackson to attend Michael Jackson tribute event in Los Angeles (VIDEO)
| La Toya Jackson is scheduled to appear at Millions of Milkshakes in Culver City on Monday, September 6. Jackson is making a guest appearance when the hip-hop group Cali Swag District launches their ...

Kanye West Apologizes To Taylor Swift
| Rapper Kanye West has offered another apology to Taylor Swift for ruining her acceptance speech at last year's MTV Video Music Awards - he's written a song especially for her.  | The hip-hop st...

Wyclef Jean Slams Sean Penn, Pras
| Wyclef Jean may not be president but he's got some high-profile critics. | When the singer and musician launched a highly-publicized bid for president of Haiti in August he had a lot of support, but...

Pass the mic listings
Pass the mic is a live music competition showcasing the best of the unsigned bands in London | Date: Wednesday 8th September 2010 | Venue: The WorkShop At RoadTrip On Old Street » | Location: Lo...

Wyclef Jean Gets Musical Revenge on Politcal Critics
| AP | There's nothing like the power of music to bring people together. Wyclef Jean has proved it can also be used to bring people apart, as he smacked down two of the most vocal critics of his run f...

Wyclef Jean Gets Musical Revenge on Politcal Critics
There's nothing like the power of music to bring people together. Wyclef Jean has proved it can also be used to bring people apart, as he smacked down two of the most vocal critics of his run for top ...

Bingley Music Live
| Myrtle Park, Bingley 4 | The small Yorkshire town of Bingley may be an unlikely home for a major pop festival, but the fourth Bingley Music Live has established itself as a cheaper, more family-frie...

Dwele: Soul reviver
| It's not everyday that you get to interview one of the Kings of 'Neo-Soul'. One of the first to be placed into that category, Dwele has been making soul music for more than a decade that can light u...

Dwele:
| It's not everyday that you get to interview one of the Kings of 'Neo-Soul'. One of the first to be placed into that category, Dwele has been making soul music for more than a decade that can light u...

Album: Alan Moore & Mitch Jenkins, Unearthing (Lex)
| Unearthing began life as a 2006 essay by Watchmen author and comics genius Alan Moore, and has now, with the help of Warp offshoot Lex, developed into "a work of psychogeography" in multi-media form...

New Recordings
| Pop | Richard Thompson | (Shout Factory ***) | Throughout his long career, Richard Thompson has been justly celebrated as both a songwriter and a guitarist, and provides ample new evidence of each t...

Kanye West: 'I bled hard' over Swift debacle
| NEKESA MUMBI MOODY | The Associated Press | NEW YORK - Hip-hop star Kanye West is still feeling the pain over his ambush of Taylor Swift last year , and he's expressing his pain all over Twitter. | ...

Manifesto
Manifesto, the debut release from Dan Berg & The Gestalt, may be one of 2010's best recordings. The composer/keyboardist—a Brooklyn native and former student of reed man Marty Ehrlich—has cr...

Now is the Time
An accepted kernel of jazz historiography states that cats who play what has ultimately become smooth jazz play it because they can't play the real music. But even back in the day—specifically th...

Kanye West Offers To Write Song For Taylor Swift
| Kanye West has offered to write a song for Taylor Swift and renewed his apology to the country singer via Twitter. | Over Twitter he said “I wrote a song for Taylor Swift that’s so beautiful and...

Kanye West: 'I bled hard' over Swift debacle
| NEW YORK — Hip-hop star Kanye West is still feeling the pain over his ambush of Taylor Swift last year — and he's expressing his pain all over Twitter. | West unleashed a torrent of emotions...

Grassroot program I Rhyme Like A Girl promotes confidence building for young women through hip-hop
| If you want an inside look at the state of women in hip-hop today, you have to go deeper than the mainstream. You have to look, listen and feel at the heart of the hip-hop community. You have to ack...

N-Dubz: 'We were naughty. We used to cause madness!'
| The three members of N-Dubz have overcome tough upbringings and personal tragedy to become the country's most entertaining pop act Straight outta Camden: Tulisa, Dappy (centre) and Fazer, aka N-Dubz...

Stars In Our Eyes: This Season's New Music Talent
| From witty rap and songs filled with extreme emotion to mesmeric electro-pop, we profile five young acts set to make their mark on the music world Lauren Pritchard: 'I'm an in-the-moment singer' HUR...

Top 10 albums of the autumn
| From Kings of Leon to Kanye West, Nicki Minaj to Robert Plant and Grinderman to Elton John and Leon Russell, we count down the best of the autumn's new releases Kings of Leon: a fresh batch of angst...

Reading Festival, Richfield Avenue, Reading
| Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood? Perhaps. | The phrase nostalgie de la boue - literally "nostalgia for mud", figuratively a yearning for debasement and depravity - could apply to the Rea...

KCRW and Om presents Si*Se
| Brooklyn-based Si*Se is known for blending sultry vocal melodies and electronic textures with dub and understated hip hop beats. Singer/DJ Carol C's voice evokes a sophisticated sensuality, singing ...

N-Dubz: 'We were naughty. We used to cause madness!'
| Dappy projects his small, wiry Anglo-Greek Cypriot self into an east London photographic studio at a little under a billion miles an hour. "Hello!" he shouts, his face only inches away from mine. "H...

Stars In Our Eyes: This Season's New Music Talent
HURTS | Who Hurts, aka 23-year-old Theo Hutchcraft on vocals and 26-year-old Adam Anderson on keyboards. | We say A Manchester duo unashamedly channelling the spirit of Ultravox and Depeche Mode with ...

Top 10 albums of the autumn
1 KINGS OF LEON Come Around Sundown (Columbia) 18 October | Perhaps it was the moment that they found themselves playing ping pong with Prince Harry; possibly they took the infamous incident in which ...

Various: Oi! A Nova Música Brasileira!
Buy it from | Buy the CD Various Artists Oi! A Nova Musica Brasileira! Mais Um Discos 2010 | A welcome short cut to Brazil's prolific musical scene and its ever-changing hybrids, this well-packaged tw...

Breaking their habit
| They've called it all kinds of names: Nu metal, aggro-metal, punk rock, or, by the less inspired, alternative. But Linkin Park's music, agrees vocalist Chester Bennington, is hard to slot. | "I...

Kanye West, We Get It--You're Sorry For What You Did To Taylor
| Kanye West, we get it: You are sorry for what you did to Taylor Swift. | He even said it plain as day on Twitter this weekend: I'm sorry Taylor. | That is fine and well. However, over the past 24 ho...

Hendrix, Handel And Rock's Classical Connection
What goes around comes around. | In the sixties, there seemed to be a lot more experimentation in music than today. Bear in mind, when a person got formal musical training in that time period, odds we...

T.I. Makes First Public Appearance Since Arrest
| Fellow rapper Nelly joins the MC as he performs at a club in Atlanta. | by Mawuse Ziegbe | T.I. isn't letting his legal situation hold him back from rocking the stage. | Just days after getting bust...

Lady Gaga Pops Up At Eminem, Jay-Z Detroit Show
| Pop star makes appearance at historic hip-hop concert. | by Mawuse Ziegbe | The stars definitely came out for Eminem and Jay-Z. | The hip-hop heavyweights brought big-name guests like | E-Mail this ...