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A crime scene technician, right, searches a purse at the scene of a homicide near the intersection of 12th and Peralta Streets on Tuesday, March 26, 2013, in Oakland, Calif.

'The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain.' Daisy Buchanan from 'The Great Gatsby' gets to be reincarnated on the film's soundtrack under the guise of artists such as Beyonce, Lana Del Ray, Sia and Florence Welch.

Star-studded collaborations are on tap for Sunday night's Billboard Music Awards, airing live on ABC from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

Email: smccauley@mondotunes.com Website: http://www.mondotunes.com The musician known as HDot has released her newest official single, titled, 'I Am Me.' The song is a dancehall anthem with a hip hop heart that features HDot at her finest.

The Sugarhill Gang's disputes with Sugar Hill Records over identity theft and unpaid royalties are the subject of a new documentary.

The NBC singing contest said Friday that Christina Aguilera and Cee Lo Green will return for "The Voice" Season 5, joining Adam Levine and Blake Shelton.

New music from Toronto's favorite dreaded crooner comes in the form of a trippy two-track ride: "Kiss Land/John Carpenter." Having given fans a snippet of "John Carpenter" earlier this week, The Weeknd now unveils the full version of the song in a smooth transition from the previously unreleased "Kiss Land." The first part of this seven-minute ... (more)

MUCH is celebrating the long weekend with one of movie and TV's freshest actors ever.

Money tells Lydia Jenkin how his move to New York has brought back memories of the music he loved as a kid Pete Wadams, better known as P-Money, is feeling pretty thankful for the opportunities life is offering at the moment.

BEST Album winners Alt-J hope to take more care of their Ivors trophy than they did over last year's Mercury Prize.

Rapper Macklemore, left, and DJ Ryan lewis pose backstage at the MTV Movie Awards in Sony Pictures Studio Lot in Culver City, Calif., on Sunday April 14, 2013.

Celebrating its third anniversary as Las Vegas nightlife's most popular Wednesday night destination, Surrender Nightclub in Encore at Wynn Las Vegas presents hit-making duo, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, on Wednesday, June 5. After opening its doors in 2010, 'Surrender Your Wednesdays' industry parties quickly became the hot mid-week party on The Strip ... (more)

She's sold more than 7 million albums, won multiple awards, and collaborated with superstars like Missy Elliot, P. Diddy, and Justin Timberlake.

Singer Kelly Rowland has aired her true feelings about pal and former Destiny's Child bandmate Beyonce and a past abusive relationship in a revealing track on her new album.

As Ol' Dirty Bastard rhymes in "Brooklyn Zoo II," "When you take north, east, west, south/and put it all together and it spell newwwwws!" Know what else spell news? A star-powered hip-hop festival announcing that two rap legends - not figurative legends, mind you; one's been dead eight years, the other 18 - will perform this fall.

"Arrested Development" fans can hardly wait for its sweet return on Netflix at the end of this month, so what's a few hours in line to get a photograph with the series-inspired Bluth's Original Frozen Banana stand, making its way around New York this week.

Diddy was reported to have been stopped by the Los Angeles police department at gunpoint according to TMZ reports on Wednesday, May 15.

Supermodel Chrissy Teigen says as host of her new VH1 reality TV competition "Model Employee" filming at Mandalay Bay : "I have little tolerance for these girls crying over nothing." Tonight, the eight models vying for $100,000 and the chance of becoming the new face for the casino resort have to take out the garbage.

Doesn't look like Jaden Smith will be separating from his parents anytime soon. The 14-year-old actor and his famous father, Will Smith, set the record straight on rumors that Jaden was seeking to become an emancipated minor during an appearance Wednesday on The Ellen DeGeneres Show .

The 'Scream' hitmaker - who replaced Cee Lo Green on the judging panel of the reality TV show this year - has reportedly signed on to star in a movie so is unable to renew his contract with the NBC series but may return in the future.