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There is no middle ground with Kanye West. The superstar rapper is pop culture's most divisive figure, with his backers praising his groundbreaking, boundary-pushing music and style and his detractors turned off by his standoffish behavior and outsize ego.

Details: Sunday 7 p.m. Mahaffey Theater, 400 First St. S, St. Petersburg. $39.50-$69.50.

"Door guys," that's what we call them, or perhaps "bouncers," if we think they look the part.

Kid Cudi is back, rounding out 2013 with some brand new music . The track is called "Satellite Flight" and it's the title cut from Cudi's newest, forthcoming project, the nightmarishly long-winded KiD CuDi Presents: Satellite Flight: The Journey to Mother Moon EP.

Britney Spears Shares a Pic of Her Hot Body From Video Shoot Posted by AJ Grey on 12.17.2013 Discounting claims of Photoshopping... Here's Britney Spears posting a behind-the-scenes pic of herself shooting the music video to "Work Bitch" in order to prove that there was no alteration of her body in the video:

In mid-October, a team from ABC's World News with Diane Sawyer visited New Orleans to spend a few days with the students of the Trombone Shorty Music Academy, the initial program of the foundation that Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews launched just about a year ago.

This week in the listening room: Beyonce, Brendan Benson, B.o.B. and more. Leave a comment, ask a question and listen as esteemed music critic Gary Graff and various guests riff on all things music.

Nirvana swept into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in its first year of eligibility, the musical museum said, welcoming it and other groups like glam outfit Kiss.

The Maxies will tour Japan with the Kingons in 2014 , but you can catch them on tour with Reel Big Fish before they go.

The bar owner charged in the fatal shooting of a country musician was given a lower bond and released from jail to await his next court date.

Good friends like Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard got more credit for their contrary ways and trend-setting ideas, but it was Ray Price who set the precedent for change in country music more than a decade earlier.

Here's something most people don't know about veteran behind-the-scenester Nancy Coplin: "I came to Austin in 1966 to go to UT and left to marry a man in the 'music business.'

Singer Chris Brown has managed to intrigue -- and infuriate -- the public since he first burst onto the scene in 2005.

The Nashville bar owner charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of singer-songwriter Wayne Mills has been released from jail ahead of his next court date.

Ray Price, among country music's most iconic crooners, has died at the age of 87 - just one day after Rolling Stone, USA Today, CMT and others prematurely buried the Perryville-born Adamson High School graduate.

What were the highlights from Lorde 's Reddit AMA? The Backstreet Boys take us on a trip through pop music's classics, and Miley Cyrus gets real about her past relationship.

Since the smash success of ABBA in the 1970s, the nation of just 9.5 million people has produced a number of pop stars out of proportion with its population.

Inland Empire-based metal band Suicide Silence posted the news that a CD/DVD of the memorial show for late singer Mitch Lucker will be released on Feb. 18, 2014.

Sources are claiming that there's a serious feud going on between the two pop divas, and Beyonce's album release date is to blame.

This Feb. 10, 2013 file photo shows Beyonce at the 55th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles.