Pop/Rock News

Taylor Swift 's night at the 2013 Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas was a success.

A cache of emails believed lost when Michael Jackson's last manager's laptop disappeared could become key evidence in the wrongful death trial against AEG Live.

Quite a few rockers are in the running for some big awards at this year's Billboard Music Awards, taking place Sunday night at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.

A custom-made electric guitar played by the late John Lennon and George Harrison of the Beatles sold at a New York auction on Saturday for $408,000, said officials with the company behind the event.

Today's biggest stars - from Taylor Swift to fun. to Maroon 5 - are the key finalists at Sunday's awards show, airing live from MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on ABC.

In the Coen brothers' "Inside Llewyn Davis," Justin Timberlake sings music set to a very different beat than "Suit and Tie." Timberlake plays a bearded pop folkie in the film, which was to premiere Sunday night at the Cannes Film Festival, about the music scene of early 1960s Greenwich Village.

Carl who is the owner of Croydon music shop Rock Bottom and is in Statin' Quo, gives the band the thumbs up The Purley based tribute band formed in 2006 in honour of one of Purley's most celebrated inhabitants - Francis Rossi.

"This was the first verse that he wrote," he said by way of introduction to Lead Belly's Goodnight Irene .

Denmark's Emmelie de Forest has won this year's Eurovision Song Contest with her ethno-inspired flute and drum tune "Only Teardrops," despite tough competition from spectacular stage shows by performers from Azerbaijan and Ukraine.

Baz Luhrmann's film The Great Gatsby has the turbulent emotions of F. Scott Fitzgerald's book.

The massive production, which requires 31 trucks' worth of equipment, includes lasers, huge pyrotechnics, and state of the art video displays, according to the website of the former Beatles star.

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

Some of music's biggest names will be spotlighted Saturday night on a special edition of ABC's 20/20. Called Rock 'n Royalty: Billboard's All-Stars , the show will be anchored by Barbara Walters , and feature the best and most memorable moments from ABC interviews conducted throughout the years with a variety of pop and country superstars.

In this Sept. 9, 2012 file photo, British singer George Michael performs at a concert to raise money for AIDS charity Sidaction, during the Symphonica tour at Palais Garnier Opera house in Paris, France.

The Danish entry Only Teardrops by Emmelie de Forest is now 4/6 odds on to win the show - way ahead of other entrants.

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.

The White House says Obama will present the award to King during a concert Wednesday.

When the producers of the Academy of Country Music's annual television special approached Tim McGraw about the 2013 edition, the country music star immediately flashed on the program's format.

Renowned recording engineer/producer Bruce Botnick recorded the orchestral score of Tom Cruise's "Jack Reacher" with five Sanken CO-100K microphones.

The booming 23-year-old R&B vocalist from St. Helena Island, S.C., looked stunned when "Idol" host Ryan Seacrest announced she bested the soulful 22-year-old country singer Harrison from Woodville, Texas.