entertainment - "music"

Kenny Chesney may not have wanted online voters to decide one of country music's top awards, but he still asked his fans to click for him.

AP - 3 Doors Down, '3 Doors Down' (Universal Republic): Fist-pumping arena rock is a favorite target for critics, who remain somewhat baffled as to why these bands continue to fill major venues and play upward of 300 shows a year.

The signs are there. The days are getting longer. The trees have leaves. The smell of barbecued food wafts through the neighborhood. The inevitable is soon upon us. It seems benign enough at the beginning, just a small hand curled around the woodwork of the doorframe. Soon an eye appears and then a pair of eyes. Before you know it your child has slunk into the room and plopped boneless into a chair, sighed and uttered the words every parent fears, “I’m bored.” Yes, summer vacation is on the horizon and your house will soon look like a bunch of circus performers have suddenly decided to decamp. What you might be looking for is a good summer music program. Now if the posh, sleep-away camps like Young Musicians & Artists camp in Oregon, the Long Lake Camp for the Arts in new york or the Indep...

'Plans to run a hotel out of a former home of the von Trapp family immortalized in the movie The Sound of music have triggered fierce resistance from neighbors who fear tourists will tie up traffic and make a nuisance of themselves.'...

The music of ((Sounder)) is filled with resignation and uncertainty. Life may be good, but it's likely to go bad... and get worse before it gets worser. No one has the answers or knows where to find them. The world and everything in it will eventually end. The band scores these themes with appropriately gloomy, experimental noise-rock. But they complicate the mix by throwing in some jangly, uptempo sing-alongs, all of which makes their latest CD, Good Things Come and Go Like Bad Things an intriguing listen.

The English electro-pop duo recorded three songs and posted two on their MySpace page. But by their fourth show they were playing host to the entire U.K. music press — quite literally from their own living room. The band just released its debut CD, We Started Nothing.

The Bad Musicals Festival will be July 21-August 10th.

The former Spice Girls singer - who has three boys, Brooklyn, 9, Romeo, 5, and 3-year-old Cruz with soccer star husband David Beckham - is close friends with the supermodel and her musician spouse Seal and all their kids love spending time together.

Fusing unique instrumentation with a soulful and sometimes playful voice, Sollee defies convention. His Kentucky roots shine through in his debut album, Learning to Bend, through photography, design, videos, and music.

In an interview with David Dye, Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor talks about his decision to leave his major label to self-release the instrumental Ghosts I-IV. Reznor has not only been successful, but he's also found a way to engage his fans in the music via remixes.