By John Solomon
How the government's punishing of the exposure of official wrongdoing can linger for years
When Holly Williams says she could have put on a cowboy hat, called up a record company and been on her way to making a living as a country musician, she's not bragging.
Consider how unusual it is for the exact breaking point of a big-time rock band to be chronicled on film.
Be it concert or charity auction, Bruce Springsteen can bring any event to a crescendo.
Jon Stewart is hosting the MusiCares salute to Bruce Springsteen.
When Harry Belafonte asked Common to participate in a benefit concert in support of freeing Native American activist Leonard Peltier, who is serving two life sentences for the 1975 execution-style deaths of two FBI agents, he did some research before giving his answer.
The Newport Folk Festival has sold out before, but never as early as it did this year, with tickets for the two-day event disappearing a full three months in advance.
Fun for Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips means collaboration, and a recent dust-up with Erykah Badu after they worked together isn't slowing him down.
Fun for Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips means collaboration, and a recent dust-up with Erykah Badu after they worked together isn't slowing him down.
The annual pre-Grammy Clive Davis gala is so hot this year that even Diddy is getting calls from celebrities who are trying to get on the bill _ and in the seats.
Ever get the feeling that the open-minded voters for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame are welcoming to every genre, subgenre and hybrid of popular and vernacular music — except rock?
Jackson Browne is hardly alone in seizing the opportunity that lies in Occupation. The Occupy Wall Street movement, a font of outrage and resistance against big business, commercialism and the wealthy, has nearly from the beginning managed to attract elements of all those things.
Images of stoic police officers hauling away Occupy D.C. protesters were largely a memory Monday, as both sides tried to rebuild a cooperative — if cautious — co-existence following their 10-hour standoff Sunday.
Occupy Wall Street has a benefit album planned with Jackson Browne, Third Eye Blind, Crosby & Nash, Devo, Lucinda Williams and even some of those drummers who kept an incessant beat at Manhattan's Zuccotti Park.
Occupy Wall Street will soon have a soundtrack.
In honor of Chubby Checker's 70th birthday, let's look at the top 10 tunes (including "The Twist") from 1960.
