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They clapped hands and moved to the rhythm June 26 as Valerie Barrymore and the Foundation of Funk performed in the city's first jazz concert of the summer.

From their perch on a small hill overlooking Rothbury's main concert stage, Rick Girdler and Lisa Rennie had the perfect vantage point to survey what the first-time music festival was all about.

The Mosh Pit 07.04.08: Are We Due For A Revolution In Music? Posted by Dan Haggerty on 07.04.2008 The Mosh Pit takes a moment this July 4th to take a brief look at the history of rock music and asks "Are we due ...

When Little Richard recorded "Tutti Frutti" in 1955 at Cosimo's Studio in New Orleans with A&R man Bumps Blackwell, rock 'n' roll was taken to a thrilling new level.

R&B trio Labelle is hitting the studio for a reunion album to be produced by legendary soul hitmakers Kenny Gamble & Leon Huff as well as Lenny Kravitz.

Moments after Esperanza Spalding finished singing "Precious" on NBC's "Late Show With David Letterman" in early June, the host strode right up and anointed her "the coolest person we've ever had on the show." ...

National Memorial; Guy Vickers, President of the Tommy Hilfiger Corporate Foundation; Dr.

The heat was off the charts this weekend and we are fully into the summer season.

Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen were equally adept at stripped-down basic rock & roll, R&B, and gritty country-rock. Commander Cody's country-rock rocked harder than the Eagles or Poco -- essentially, ...

JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater , June 26, 2008 - Guitarist Mike Stern has played sideman to both Miles Davis and Michael Brecker, and last summer was the special invited guest for six consecutive nights with ...

The pounding piano, the high voice and trills, and the sexually suggestive lyrics catapulted the former Richard Penniman to the top of the charts and to legendary status.

By SUZANNE R. STONE Staff writer Preston and Weston bring the party to Hopelands Gardens tonight for the Hopelands Summer Concert Series.

R. Kellyhas been acquited on child porn charges. Photo: Supplied A jury acquitted R&B star R. Kelly of child pornography charges on Friday, finding he did not make an explicit videotape showing him having sex ...

"Rush Hour by Phillip Brooks Hits #1 Most Added in Radio & Records Indicator Charts First Week Out Phillip Brooks' new single, "Rush Hour," from his Just Between Us CD, hit the #1 Most Added in R&R Indicator ...

Actors Leighton Meester, Penn Badgley, Blake Lively, Chace Crawford, Taylor Momsen and Ed Westwick attend the launch party for CW Network's 'Gossip Girls' at Tenjune on September 18, 2007 in New York City.

In the end, it was Cook County prosecutors' failure to call the woman at the center of R. Kelly's trial on child pornography charges that cost them the case.

RB singer R. Kelly leaves the Cook County Criminal Court Building in Chicago after a jury found him not guilty on all counts Friday in his child pornography trial.

J OCELYN KIRSCH , the 22-year-old former Drexel student under house arrest somewhere in Philadelphia, had a court hearing Monday in San Rafael, Calif.

R. Kellys attorney guided his electric scooter down a hallway outside the courtroom where his client is on trial for child pornography, exclaiming as he sped past several reporters, "In the morning, we attack!" ...

I just finished reading a story about some R. Kelly courtroom drama that was just ridiculous enough to sound like an outtake from the "Trapped in the Closet" sessions.