Girl Next Door

When the Beastie Boys formed in 1979, they were a hardcore punk band that dabbled in performance art, a fixture at clubs like CBGBs and Max's Kansas City. Their first full-length album, Poly Wog Stew , with bombastic minute-and-a-half paroxysms like "Transit Cop,""Jimi," and "Holy Snappers," owed as much to the Sex Pistols as it did Dadaism. Read More

Parker said a bigger focus on instrument-playing singers, who tend to be more male than female, helped past winners such as Allen and Cook ascend to the Idol throne with similarly masterful rearrangements of song choices, while text voting allowed obsessive fans namely, eager young women to tap, tap, tap their favorites to the top of the pack. Read More

Back in the day when MTV actually played music videos and Rolling Stone magazine wasn't pocket-sized, a Southern California band named Lone Justice gave birth to a splendid hybrid of reckless alt-country rock. Read More

Brandy Norwood has learned a hell of a lot in her 32 years. Read More

Carrie Underwood is back, after taking a little time off in between albums to -- in her words -- "be normal."Read More

Haley Reinhart is set to appear on tonight's 90210 airing on the CW at 8/7c. Read More