LOS ANGELES—Musician Eric Clapton announced Wednesday that his next album, Eric Clapton Plays The Blues, would be a collection of songs primarily influenced by ...

CHICAGO—Following a protracted period of creative stagnation, struggling 27-year-old musician Tom Ruskin announced Friday his plans to retreat to a remote cabin in the ...

According to an announcement on their website, the White Stripes have broken up "to preserve what is beautiful and special about the band." What do ...

NEWPORT, RI—Audience members at the Newport Rock Festival were "outraged" Monday when rock icon Bob Dylan followed up such classic hits as "Like A ...

COLUMBIA, MO—After walking off stage to a chorus of boos, threats, and obscenities, local Christian rock band Enter the Kingdom told reporters Friday that ...

BROOKLYN, NY—After a number of close listenings, local resident Brian Mott was finally able to get into a music album that is really not ...

Music manager Malcolm McLaren, who is credited with creating such acts as the Sex Pistols and Bow Wow Wow, died in Switzerland last Thursday.

Hoping to revive moribund sales, Universal Music Group is dropping the price of most new CDs to $10 or less.

Sony Music will pay the estate of Michael Jackson up to $250 million for the right to continue selling his back catalog and release as ...

NEW YORK—The Recording Industry Association of America announced Tuesday that the combined revenue brought in by Warner, Sony, EMI,...

After Obama slips up during an address on health care, White House officials are forced to admit the president occasionally uses a backing track for ...

Though scheduled to face sentencing on weapons charges, rapper Lil Wayne, born Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr., had his imprisonment postponed Tuesday so...

CAPE CANAVERAL, FL—NASA officials announced today the successful launch of the new shuttle Moonage Daydream, marking the beginning of a long-anticipated two-week conceptual mission ...

ATHENS, GA—"I'm so glad I thought to put it there," said Nick Hurley, whose iPod, house keys, and new laptop computer were made ...

ORLANDO, FL—Though known for his personal homages to New York City in songs such as "Brooklyn's Finest" and "Empire State of Mind," hip-hop...

Acerbic British talent-show judge Simon Cowell is leaving the program he has helped make popular over the past eight years. What do you...