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He was 78. The Montuno production company did not give a cause of death Saturday night when confirming Ferrer's death earlier in the day.5.5

Two episodes have been added to Bravo's summer reality series "Being Bobby Brown," which follows the lives of the R&B; singer, his wife, Whitney Houston, and three of his ...2.9

Gabriel Ramirez azcentral.com Aug. 6, 2005 10:34 PM For more than 90 minutes the ex-pro surfer/surf cinematographer/folk surf singer delighted the crowd with his easygoing ...2.9

A donation from Cher helped a 16-year-old boy suffering from muscular dystrophy get vital home health care - at least for a few months.2.7

Representing the best of both worlds, Usher and 50 Cent tied for top winner at the Billboard-American Urban Radio Networks 2005 R&B;/Hip-Hop Awards show.2.7

Sometimes I honestly think that this guy has the potential to be the most ignorant rapper alive! Well hello to everyone and I do apologize for the delay.2.7

Five Irish sirens will bring a New Age twist to songs new and old next Sunday, from "Danny Boy" to Enya's "Orinoco Flow." Celtic Woman will perform in the Community Center ...2.9

Eminem will star in a Showtime concert special in December. Footage will be shot next week when the superstar rapper rolls into New York's Madison Square Garden as part of ...2.7

It was a '58 model of Fender's first electric solid-body guitar and this was around 1970 or '71. The precursor of the legendary Telecaster had a white ash body with a white ...2.7

COLLECTORS of original-Broadway-cast albums - and few others - will know that a lifetime ago, in 1950, Leonard Bernstein dashed off the score for a reasonably successful ...2.9

Stangl, a life coach who helps three men in their 20s at different stages in their romantic lives.2.7

So, yes, Son Volt, the band Jay Farrar created in the wake of Uncle Tupelo's demise, are back.2

"THE French school of cello playing is perhaps more interested in sound," said Jan Vogler, a 41-year-old cellist.2.9

John Hiatt's formula for success is a complete lack of one - and he's sticking to it.2.7

The mercury just hit 90 along the Mississippi Gulf Coast and electrical storms were crackling offshore, but B.B. King sounded as mellow as one of his own solos.2.7

THE Internet has been described, by enthusiasts, as a global conversation, a giant encyclopedia or a 24-hour news service - and by detractors as the world's most ...2.9

Source, you have been called "the Bible of hip-hop." While there was plenty of sex and violence in the Bible, your recent antics would put even Sodom and Gomorrah to shame.2

This weekend's Dunkin' Donuts Newport Folk Festival will show off a wide range of acts from rock bands to strummy troubadours, but last night's kickoff concert was a blast ...2.7

Bjork "The Music From Drawing Restraint 9" is Bjork's soundtrack for the new art film by her boyfriend, Matthew Barney, which is about, among other things, a Japanese ...2.9

An Irish-American band based in Alaska but with one member from McKeesport and another from Cumberland County will play in Squirrel Hill Sunday.2.7

The summer of 2005 may not live on in memory as a time when we all felt enlightened by the words to hit songs.2.9

The Festival of New Trumpet Music has become a contender among New York's jazz-concert series.2.9

Death Row Records founder Marion "Suge" Knight was fined $691 Friday after pleading no contest to making an illegal U turn and driving without insurance, authorities said.2.7

A CD whose most obvious selling point is its very existence, Town Hall, New York City, June 22, 1945 gives us Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie fresh from the 3 Deuces and ...2.7

ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y., Aug. 4 - "The Tender Land," Aaron Copland's only full-length opera, was commissioned for television and intended for performance by students and ...2.9

Sources say the shows are expected to encompass a complete performance of Young's new album, Prairie Wind, due September 27.2.7

A little more than a month after its release, Coldplay's "X&Y;" has been certified double-platinum in July by the RIAA.2.7

The title song on the Kentucky Headhunters' Big Boss Man grabs you by the shoulders: giant Southern rock riffs, heavy hammer-blow bass, molten metal guitar, and an ...2.9

It is one of the great cat-and-mouse games of modern commerce: the music industry comes up with new ways to thwart ticket scalpers, and the scalpers figure out how to ...2.7

The Pixies Dvd chronicling their 2004 tour, Pixies Sell Out, will be out on October 4. Most of the DVD will be culled from a July 3, 2004 show in Belfort, France.2.7

Jimi Hendrix's closing performance at Woodstock on Aug. 18, 1969, is arguably one of the most iconic moments in rock history, but it has never been commercially available in ...2.7

Alvin Youngblood Hart achieves the vibe of golden guitar in the first moments of Motivational Speaker.2.9

The future of classical music is a hot topic these days. Plenty of us hold forth about the need for more new works, more variety, a more contemporary flavor.2.7

The pilgrims will still weep at Elvis Presley's grave, and the souvenir shops will still swarm with credit-card waving fans, an occasional black pompadour hardly drawing a ...2.7

Bob Dylan's song "Like a Rolling Stone" topped a poll Friday to find the 100 songs, movies, TV shows and books that "changed the world" in the opinion of musicians, actors ...2.7

Where: Cowboys Dance Hall, 3030 N.E. Loop 410 at I-35 North When: Friday; doors open at 7 p.m. Tickets: $20-$35 at Ticketmaster outlets Or fault the art director.2

Even a hint of politics in song is a pretty good way to kill radio airplay in the U.S. But Mexico's Jaguares are fierce in their politics, criticizing the Mexican government ...3.1

The digital-music field may soon be getting a bit more crowded. Internet retailer Amazon.com reportedly is moving toward offering a digital-music service, putting it into ...2.7