a planned 50th anniversary celebration of Kesey's famous acid tests — set to take place alongside the Grateful Dead's farewell celebration in Chicago July 4th weekend, no less — has collapsed so spectacularly it's better described with a common cliché.
PARIS – Of all the music styles to emerge in the last 50 years, none took the world by storm quite like hip-hop, said researchers Wednesday who tracked pop's evolution with cold, hard stats.
LOS ANGELES, California – U.S. blues legend B.B. King said Friday he was being treated under hospice care at home in Las Vegas, in the latest health scare for the 89-year-old.
NEW YORK – Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan on Monday was named senior producer of a professional wrestling program and said he would try to push boundaries on cultural issues.
NEW YORK – Rock icon Neil Young has pledged to stop drinking at Starbucks over an industry challenge to laws on genetically modified crops, but the coffee giant says the charges are false.
Wonder is revisiting the timeless album in its entirety, 38 years after its release, showcasing it on a national tour of the United States he's calling the "Songs in the Key of Life Performance."
With the publication of his not-quite-for-children children's book, "Outlaw Pete," Bruce Springsteen has surprised even himself. Writing such a book "was the last thing I saw coming," he says, never mind the many other rock stars who have delved into the children's section lately — including, most recently, Keith Richards with "Gus & Me."
Argentinian musician Kevin Johansen and his band The Nada (a play on the phrase “de nada”), along with Argentinian caricaturist Ricardo Siri, known as “Liniers,” swept their Costa Rican audience off its feet during their first concert in Costa Rica Tuesday night. Those who visited the Jazz Café Escazú for a night of unwonted music with a broad Latin American perspective simply fell in love.
