Singer Katy Perry has found support in her ex-boyfriend after her marriage broke down.

The "Firework" hitmaker and British comedian Russell Brand called off their marriage in December after only 14...

'American Idol' runner-up Adam Lambert has revealed that he will be the new frontman for the classic rock band 'Queen.'

The 30-year-old singer will be filling-in for the original vocalist of the...

Christine Bleakley has fond memories of The Empire Music Hall in Belfast, especially as her father used to play drums in a number of bands there.

Bleakley, from Northern Ireland, was formerly a...

already has an amazing lead-in to its Season 2 premiere after the game. But, that didn’t stop NBC from creating a commercial worthy of the big...

'Law & Order: SVU': Harry Connick Jr. Joins in Multiepisode Arc (Video) The Algonquin Hotel club featured performances by cabaret and jazz singers for 32 years. When the hotel, which...

Fidel Castro's Cuban revolution plays a crucial role in the family history of Grammy-winning Latin jazz artist Arturo O'Farrill. Michelle Miller reports on O'Farrill's mission to...

(CBS News) The Grammy Awards are due to be handed out next Sunday, February 12. Among the nominees for best large jazz ensemble album is Arturo O'Farrill. As CBS News correspondent Michelle...

MEXICO CITY (AP) - A masked man opened fire on a band playing popular norteno music Saturday in a Chihuahua city dance hall, killing five musicians, four customers and injuring 10 others.Chihuahua...

This is easily the most unrocking rock 'n' roll column I've ever written, more Suze Orman than Lester Bangs. With economic forecasts still far from rosy for 2012, though -- especially...

It has become as regular a part of the January calendar as filing a tax return, failing to detox and fooling yourself that your team is about to sign a world-class striker in the football transfer...

Actually, he's not doing too shabbily. The single has sold 1.5m around the world and gone to number one in five countries. Now Gotye has his sights set on the UK. If all goes to plan, he'll...

It all ends on the count of "one". At one point, a swinging guitar gets whacked by baseball bats, like a particularly unyielding piata. At another, Kelley Deal (best known as one of the...

Courtesy of a premium 0871 phone number, I heard the entire first movement of Mozart's Clarinet Concerto last week when trying to buy a mattress. After enjoying the well played cadenza and the...

Now in its 12th year, Snowbombing has snowballed to become the biggest, brashest and arguably the best festival in the Alps, attracting 6,000 revellers to the Tyrolean town of Mayrhofen for a week of...

When musician Eliza Carthy last inhabited this bedroom, at her parents' house in Robin Hood's Bay, North Yorkshire, she was a teenager. "It's a lot nicer and cleaner than it was...

Gerry Diver , previously of Sin and the Popes. Taking a selection of old and new interviews with Irish musicians, Diver gives each reminiscence a musical accompaniment, creating a soundscape that...

poetry . Rachmaninov wrote more than 80 settings, each a miniature drama and more often than not a story of heartbreak; put 26 of them together, as in this selection, and the listener is left quite...

hip-hop into his repertoire when he sings as Maverick Sabre. His slickly produced debut album seems precision-tooled for crossover success - the next single "No One" brazenly echoes Amy...

has quality to spare, from the bruising rock of "Riot in My House" to the brooding blues of "Bleeding Muddy Water". "Quiver Syndrome", meanwhile,...

Beth Jeans Houghton 's unorthodox folk. This debut LP is lit up by an imagination as huge and outlandish as her onstage wigs and it makes for songs that bloom: "Dodacahedron" begins...

, particularly when that album is a nuanced exploration of the workings of the heart. Brooklyn-based Sharon Van Etten, then, deals not in come hithers but in toxic love and its radioactive...

Paul McCartney (pictured at the O2 Arena last year) has released solo album No 15: 'Nothing here is ghastly, exactly; merely anodyne.' Photograph: Jim...

Schubert never wrote a violin concerto, more's the pity, but the three isolated pieces gathered on this disc by soloist Andreas Janke make an attractive if lightweight group: a little Rondo with...

soul all-nighters at Wigan Casino calls for high energy and dazzling dancing to mask the cracks in its dramatic construction. George Perrin's careful production doesn't quite pull it off....

Miles Davis , although his piano style remains notably clear and direct. He still does extraordinary and fascinating things to old standards, too. There's a really weird treatment of "The...

Always. I love to push myself, I find it exciting. The first time I performed live, I did a terrible show in Paris. It was a nightmare and I thought I'd never do it again. Perhaps it was only...

, as well as the magnificent, dark Sonata for viola and piano Op 147 completed shortly before the composer's death in 1975. Unlike so many last works, Shostakovich wrote this with a knowledge...

Gil Scott-Heron in Los Angeles, 1980: 'he mesmerises us with the rhythmic street poetry that earned him the reluctant soubriquet "godfather of rap"'. Photograph: Neal...

Even a millimeter misdirection of a microphone or a minor adjustment in bass can mean the difference between a good recording and an inferior one to his ears. By the time a recording makes its way to...

's "Cinesonic" sidebar and the generally amped-up segment of music films, and especially pop/rock music films, at least two of the films fall under the shadow of...

MAYVILLE--Authorities say it will be several weeks before they know how singer Leslie Carter died while visiting family in western New York. Chautauqua County Sheriff Joseph Gerace said Friday that...

The Center City Jazz Festival is being started up by a Philadelphia musician, trombonist Ernest Stuart. It's being crowdfunded in large part through Kickstarter. David Adler...

Nothing drives a revolution's point home better than music. Just ask Senegal's veteran president Abdoulaye Wade whose attempt to cling to power is meeting fierce resistance from protesters...

Lil’ Kim’s financial woes appear to have taken a turn for the worse amid allegations the rapper has racked up more than $1 million in unpaid taxes. The Lady Marmalade hitmaker, real name...

Grammy Awards after organisers demanded the band team up with a more well-known act. The band, fronted by Justin Vernon, are nominated for four Grammys at the ceremony which takes place on...

may even appear (digitally, anyway) in a striking new commercial for this year's ceremony -- but you won't see the indie-folk band performing at next Sunday's...

Overwhelming crowds and reports of injuries and arrests in Indianapolis' Super Bowl Village are causing police to rethink crowd control before the game.Eleven people were injured Friday night as...

Alex Reside There is a lot to recommend about a Skrillex show: Sonny Moore's pure rock charisma, an exceptionally well-designed light show, the raw enthusiasm of the dance-happy fans. But the...

Bjork told a journalist recently that she'd always wanted to be a music teacher. And so she was, in her own dazzling style, during the first show of a six-night residency at the New York Hall of...

Drake's representative has fired back at what sources are calling a "frivolous lawsuit" over a phone chat recording in the rapper's hit song "Marvin's Room". ...

The Big Breakfast in 1998. In what's said to be a stitled interview from the off, largely due to Hardy, who plays Bane in the forthcoming Batman film, being unable to talk about his character...