Nekesa Mumbi Moody, AP Music Writer
In this March 29, 2008 file photo, Chris Brown accepts the award for Favorite Male Singer during the 21st Annual Kids’ Choice Awards in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, file)
NEW YORK — There won’t be any awkward Chris Brown moment at the Kids’ Choice Awards — the embattled pop star [...]
By MELANIE SIMS
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK (AP) – Ryan Leslie is best known as the man behind Cassie’s 2006 smash “Me & U.” The Harvard-educated music man not only wrote the song, he helped build Cassie’s career, thanks to a deft online marketing campaign that included YouTube posts and MySpace update.
Now, Leslie is hoping that [...]
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) – Sting thrilled a Romanian audience of 4,000 with his renditions on the lute of Elizabethan music interspersed with classics from his Police days such as “Roxanne.”
The British musician teamed up with Bosnian musician Edin Karamazov to give a 75-minute concert Tuesday night, performing melodies from “Songs from the Labyrinth,” a tribute [...]
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) – Jamaican regulators are cracking down on indecency on the airwaves – banning all songs or music videos with explicit sexual references.
The new rule from the island’s broadcast commission ban especially targets dancehall tunes and videos depicting “daggering” – a dance style increasingly popular among Jamaican youth that features pelvic grinding simulating [...]
By NEKESA MUMBI MOODY
AP Music Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Robert Plant and Alison Krauss’ unorthodox partnership yielded rich rewards on Grammy night, as the pair nabbed five Grammys for their haunting CD “Raising Sand,” including record and album of the year honors.
But their Grammy sweep was overshadowed before the show even began when police announced [...]
By MICHAEL KUCHWARA
AP Drama Critic
NEW YORK (AP) – It takes the comic-operetta caressing of Kristin Chenoweth and Douglas Sills to jump-start the tasteful yet sedate concert version of “Music in the Air.”
In this mild recreation of the Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II musical, Chenoweth and Sills portray a pair of battling lovers. She’s a prima donna [...]
George Beverly Shea sits at home in Montreat, N.C., Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2009. Even at age 100, the songs that defined his career just seem to burst out of Shea, booming in a signature bass-baritone voice that can still quiet a room in an instant. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)
By MIKE BAKER
Associated Press Writer
MONTREAT, North Carolina (AP) [...]
By RUSSELL CONTRERAS
Associated Press Writer
BOSTON (AP) – Fourteen news organizations, including The Associated Press and The New York Times Co., are urging a federal appeals court to allow online streaming of a hearing in a music downloading lawsuit the recording industry filed against a Boston University graduate student.
The brief filed Thursday in the 1st U.S. [...]
By MARCO SANTANA
Associated Press Writer
CLEAR LAKE, Iowa (AP) – It’s been 50 years since a single-engine plane crashed into a snow-covered Iowa field, instantly killing three men whose names would become enshrined in the history of rock ‘n’ roll.
The passing decades haven’t diminished fascination with that night on Feb. 2, 1959, when 22-year-old Buddy Holly, [...]
By MICHELE SALCEDO
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) – The classical music played for millions of people watching President Barack Obama’s inauguration was not the live performance it appeared to be.
Unless you were one of the fortunate few sitting within earshot of the celebrated performers, what you heard was a recording made two days earlier.
Cellist Yo-Yo Ma, [...]
