This Is It

Ellen DeGeneres hit the right notes with "American Idol" viewers. Read More

Every Monday, FADER editorial director Peter Macia will ease in to the work week by writing semi-extensively about something that is making his head hurt. Read More

Eugene Marlow, who recently covered the Bobby Sanabria Kenya concert for jazz.com, offers his account below of Dave Douglas's Friday night performance at New York's Jazz Standard. Read More

Lord, this is too good not to post and man, when you think of ideas that seem like a good one at the time, but years later are painfully embarrassing? Read More

Michael Jackson's THIS IS IT will offer Jackson fans and music lovers worldwide a rare, behind-the-scenes look at the performer as he developed, created and rehearsed for his sold-out concerts that would have taken place beginning this summer in London's O2 Arena. Read More

The Bon Jovi buzz in this town has been building for months now. Read More

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"The Big Squeeze" accordion contest (7 p.m.) at Casbeers at the Church The accordion contest is the brainchild of the Texas Folklife organization. Read More

The Hope For Haiti compilation, which features Jay-Z and Rihanna , slid down one slot this week moving to No. 2 with 142,900 records falling short to Lady Antebellum 's Need You Now which debuted atop the charts with 481,000. Read More

The new record will raise money to help Haiti, which was devastated by a Jan. 12 earthquake. Read More