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There were great rock drummers before Mitch Mitchell, and there were even better drummers after him. But Mitchell's jazz-influenced drumming was just as indispensable as Hendrix's guitar in The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Mitchell was found dead in his hotel room early Wednesday. He was 61.

Rapper Kanye West was arrested after a fracas outside a nightclub but released without charge, British media reported Friday. ...

George Strait became the Country Music Association's all-time champ Wednesday night in Nashville when he picked up four CMA Awards ...

Veteran Kevin Gould releases new album

Midlands rockers Death Is Not Welcome Here call it a day

Placido Domingo sings the key scene from one of the first great tenor roles ever composed — Bajazet, in Handel's Tamerlano. Bajazet's death is among the most dramatic solo scenes in all of Baroque opera.

Jack White's main project outside The White Stripes, The Raconteurs, performs an all-acoustic set of material from Consolers of the Lonely. Members Brendon Benson and Patrick Keeler also explain why their Australian Web site calls the band The Saboteurs in a session from WXPN.

DARK times, they say, bring out the poets. And looking back, the Bush admin-istration certainly begat a bumper crop of protest albums from the likes of Neil Young, REM and Bri

Doesn't anyone want to be a Pipette anymore?

Handsome Furs are back in action this winter.