The Urge

Monday was a big day for area music fans with three concerts announced that cover the spectrum from heavy metal to blues-rock to alternative. Read More

Lady Gaga manager Troy Carter delivering the keynote address at the Music Matters conference in Singapore. Read More

The Bluegrass Revolution laid siege to Cleveland on Wednesday when The Infamous Stringdusters held their anti-formulaic, groove friendly pickin' session at the Beachland Ballroom. Read More

A girl transports to an alternate musical universe to save her friend in Zeidler's ( The Practice Room , 2009) mystery for young teens. Read More

Betabeat couldn't stop staring at Björk's belly button. Read More

It's an inevitably posed question, perhaps a fake-clever one, given Jonathan Lethem's cheeky chapter titles in his new entry in Continuum's 33 1/3 series about Talking Heads' 1979 album Fear of Music . Read More

Even the best relationships acquire baggage. Read More

Robin Gibb once said that "an artist is an artist because he is not happy with the world, so he creates his own existence."Read More

Long before the late, great Donna Summer sang "she works hard for the money;" Janis Joplin was doing just that - some 50 years ago in 1962 - when a new book claims Janis "found her voice."Read More

What were the songs that made you realise you wanted to be a musician? Read More