entertainment - "music"

'Mamma Mia!'s' $27.6 million opening was the best ever for a musical.

Jessica Simpson’s debut country performance, opening for Sara Evans, Saturday night at Country Thunder, didn’t go as well as she hoped.With only one country single released, fans doubted if the pop diva could stack up against other country music acts.“Just because she’s dating Tony Romo it doesn’t make her country,” said Mike Rodriguez, 31, from [...]

The secret identity of the electronic artist known as Podington Bear has been blown. Hear how it happened. We've also got music from the gentle-voiced singer, Doveman. He turns the dance-pop song 'Let's Hear It For The Boy,' from the Footloose soundtrack, into a slow dirge. Also on the show: Tilly and the Wall, a baroque viola piece, Teddy Thompson, the gifted son of Richard and Linda Thompson, Swedish singer Sarah Assbring, also known as El Perro Del Mar, and a nearly flawless new album from Germany's 20-year rock veterans, The Notwist.

After members from the San Diego emo band Noise Ratchet went their separate ways, its co-founders decided to take on roots music. Mixing blues, country, and roots rock with theatrical performances, Delta Spirit has made quite a name for itself.

A new reissue of the Beach Boys drummer's late-'70s album serves as a reminder of Wilson's talent and tormentHours before an early 1970s Beach Boys concert, the band's musical director Jim Guercio remembers drummer Dennis Wilson fooling around on the piano during soundcheck. 'I heard these amazing changes and I said, 'Dennis, is that one of Brian's songs?' ' Guercio says. 'He said, 'No, It's one of mine.' 'By 1977 — just six years before he died — the Beach Boys' drummer had released Pacific Ocean Blue, a stunning, painful solo album that's widely considered the best Beach Boys project...

MTV's 'Legally Blonde The Musical: Search for Elle Woods' continues tonight at 10PM EST.

Arena Stages presents RESURRECTION a world premiere drama by Daniel Beaty with music by Daniel Bernard Roumain and directed by Oz Scott from August 29 through October 5, 2008.

You may not know who Verna Griffin is. But you probably know her son — rapper and music producer, Andre 'Dr. Dre' Young. She talks with Farai Chideya about her new memoir, Long Road Outta Compton, which details her turbulent childhood, failed marriages and her son's rise to fame.

The NEA Arts Journalism Institutes are helping to establish the importance of professional training in the coverage of the arts through lectures and seminars with leaders in higher education, the arts and journalism.

TV Ratings: ABC show falls victim to slow Sunday -- On another sluggish Sunday for the broadcast nets, ABC's 'High School Musical: Get in the Picture' opened to low numbers, running fourth in its timeslot among young adults.