Tapping on fake instruments and screeching into microphones connected to video game consoles has become lucrative for both the music and gaming industries. Downloadable tunes for music-based games “Guitar Hero,” “Rock Band” and “SingStar” have become as vital as iTunes itself — and one of the last ways to expose youngsters to classic rock.
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The BET Awards keeps getting more talent under its umbrella.
Rihanna will take the stage June 24, the show announced Thursday. Also added: Ne-Yo, Jennifer Hudson, Terrence Howard and Gabrielle Union.
The lineup had already included Alicia Keys, Chris Brown, Kanye West, Lil Wayne, Nelly and Usher.
Hudson, Howard and Union will help present awards recognizing the [...]
Blood-splattered videos for R&B singer-songwriter Ashanti’s single “The Way That I Love You” sparked a protest by demonstrators in Los Angeles, prompting the artist and Universal Records to remove the clips from the Internet.
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Led by civil-rights organization Project Islamic Hope and its leader, Najee Ali, more than two dozen parents and religious leaders gathered outside [...]
R&B star R. Kelly‘s child pornography trial went to the jury on Thursday with prosecutors calling him a sexual predator and his attorneys saying he is wrongly accused and possibly the victim of an extortion plot.
In closing arguments to the 12-person jury, Cook County Prosecutor Robert Heilingoetter said Kelly preyed on young girls and [...]
Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin will headline the 2008 JVC Jazz Festival.
Festival organizers say the Grammy winner, whose hits include “Respect,” “Chain of Fools” and “I Say a Little Prayer,” will perform her gospel-charged soul Aug. 9 at Fort Adams State Park.
Other performers include jazz saxophonists Sonny Rollins and Wayne Shorter, best-selling trumpeter [...]
A judge Tuesday ordered 50 Cent to hold on to the property where a $2.4 million house at the center of a bitter dispute with his ex-girlfriend burned to the ground last month.
State Supreme Court Justice Carol Edmead also ordered the rapper (real name: Curtis Jackson) to put any insurance proceeds he might receive [...]
Coolio was arrested Tuesday on an outstanding misdemeanor warrant for driving with a suspended license, Los Angeles police said.
The 44-year-old rapper was released roughly five hours after officers pulled over his gray Hummer around 1:45 a.m. in Hollywood. He posted $10,000 bail.
Officers stopped him because the vehicle’s registration was expired, but a check revealed [...]
Coldplay has been forced to postpone the start of its North American tour by two weeks because of unspecified “production delays which mean that the show simply won’t be ready” for its planned June 29 kickoff in Philadelphia.
The itinerary will now begin with a July 14-15 stand in Los Angeles; it was to close [...]
Missy Elliott is eyeing an August release for her next studio album, “Block Party,” on which she’s now putting the finishing touches.
The oft-delayed set, which originally was slated for May, features production from Souldiggaz, Danjahandz, Pharrell, T-Pain, Pointguard and Timbaland.
Tracks on the album include the Jazmine Sullivan-assisted “Like When You Play the Music”; the drum-heavy [...]
Rapper Nas’ new album has shifted on the release schedule yet again, this time moving from July 1 to July 15.
In May, the rapper dropped the Def Jam disc’s original title, “N*gger,” and reclassified the album as an untitled project.
On the first official track from the album, “Hero,” Nas explains that he dropped the [...]
The Warren G situation has already been regulated.
After determining there wasn’t enough evidence to move forward, the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office has opted not to press charges against the rapper stemming from his bust early Sunday morning for marijuana possession, E! News confirms.
The G-man, whose real name is Warren Griffin III, was a passenger [...]
Spike Lee has responded to Clint Eastwood telling him to “shut his face,” saying the “Dirty Harry” actor “sounds like an angry old man” and “we’re not on a plantation.”
In an interview published on Friday, Eastwood told the “Do the Right Thing” director to “shut his face” and stop criticizing him about not including African-Americans [...]
Hide the kids and lock the doors, we’re guessing Amy Winehouse isn’t going to take this well.
After more than seven months in lockup, the troubled songbird’s beloved and beleaguered husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, has copped to roughing up a barkeep and then trying to cover it up.
Fielder-Civil, 26, pleaded guilty to committing grievous bodily harm [...]
Defense attorneys have rested their case in the child pornography trial of R&B singer R. Kelly in Chicago.
The singer looked relaxed as defense attorney Ed Genson rested the case without calling any witnesses for the day.
Jurors sat in court for just several minutes before Judge Vincent Gaughan (GAWN) sent them home for the day. [...]
It’s not easy raising a celebutante. Take it from Lionel Richie.
The singer was accepting the “Icon” honor at Sunday night’s taping of the TV Land Awards, when he got applause and a laugh at daughter Nicole’s expense.
“Forget about surviving 40 years in the music business,” Lionel Richie told the audience. “Just surviving 27 years [...]
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