Character

"Higher" shows Etcetera's unique style of rap and the songs' potential to be one of the hottest records for radio. Read More

Vic Chesnutt, the folk-rocker whose sometimes dark reflections on life were influenced in part by a car wreck that left him paralyzed, has died. Read More

Actress Connie Hines, who played Wilbur's wife on the popular 1960s television show "Mister Ed," died Dec. 18. Read More

Bat For Lashes Two Suns ( Astralwerks/Parlophone ) Sounds like a modern British and/or old American western version of the best Tori Amos album that never happened. Read More

Years pass and tastes change, at least a little. Read More

Vic Chesnutt, the folk-rocker whose sometimes dark reflections on life were influenced in part by a car wreck that left him paralyzed, has died. Read More

The story of the year in classical music is the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod's sale of KFUO (99.1 FM) to Gateway Creative Broadcasting, which, as Joy FM, broadcasts Christian contemporary music. Read More

Almost immediately after she deposited herself in a corner booth at L’Espalier, the restaurant at Boston’s Mandarin Oriental Hotel on the December afternoon after the first American date of her Monster Ball tour, Lady Gaga made a confounding statement. Read More

To cover sports or politics is to write about human character confronting extremes of ambition and stress. Read More

Today is the second day of Christmas, dedicated to St. John, who accounted himself the "beloved disciple." Read More