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With the Pussycat Dolls' mega-hit "Don't Cha" perched at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, now is a good time to trace the roots of this hot summer smash.2.9

Something has been happening to Dorinda Clark-Cole nearly every day for the past couple of months.3.1

Perhaps it is because of that that the band has had a harder time of it. Names like Russel Crowe and Keanu Reeves stick out in the music world like sore thumbs.2.9

Jacoby Shaddix, lead singer for Papa Roach, says that after early success the group has had to prove itself again.2.1

At 5 years old, Heloise Love began singing three-part harmony with her sisters for fun.2.7

The joke around the office at Mack Avenue Records in Grosse Pointe is that owner and founder Gretchen Valade is no longer allowed to speak at business meetings when label ...2.7

Sir Mix-A-Lot comes to Empire in Sacramento on Friday night. Sir Mix-A-Lot hates the corporate music business, but that doesn't mean he's not business-savvy.2.9

By Stephen Thomas Erlewine A talented and showy fiddler, Charlie Daniels and his band fuse hardcore country with a hard-edged Southern rock boogie and blues.2.1

Teens who love both music and video games can learn the basics of their dream job through a new initiative from Electronic Arts and the Grammy Foundation set to be announced ...2.7

The Rolling Stones are rolling on -- this time to Detroit, where the veteran rock 'n' roll outfit will perform Wednesday night at Comerica Park.2.7

Lora Aborn Busck was born in the early part of the 20th century, and as the daughter of a piano teacher she would, of course, take lessons.2.7

About the artist Bob Dylan's influence on popular music is incalculable. As a songwriter, he pioneered several different schools of pop songwriting, from confessional ...2.1

Brian Mulligan Richmond.comTuesday, August 30, 2005Upon entering Our Lady Peacea TMs Web site, the confession "1165 days were needed to record 'Healthy in Paranoid Times'a " ...2.1

Kanye West may have been The College Dropout on his first album, but he keeps acing his final exams.2.9

Country band Alabama, singer Glen Campbell and pioneering harmonica player DeFord Bailey, the Grand Ole Opry's first black star, are being inducted into the County Music ...3.1

From a distance, Mexico is the source of many beautiful things and the source of much chaos.2.7

This week, veteran country duo Brooks & Dunn give newcomers like Big & Rich something to chew on with Hillbilly Deluxe.2.9

For the first time in a while, the MTV Video Music Awards rocked more than it hip-hopped. More than 11 years after their hit album "Dookie" reinvigorated punk rock, Green ...4.5

Rap mogul Suge Knight was shot twice during Kanye West's post-MTV Video Music Awards party in Miami early Monday morning.3.1

Voivod guitarist Denis D'Amour, better known to fans as Piggy, died Friday at a Montreal hospital after a battle with colon cancer.4

From the underground: Atlanta's Young Jeezy, 25, who spent years as an underground star in the South, suddenly showed up in the top 5 of the Billboard album chart twice ...2.9

If Daddy Yankee had picked a different weekend to begin his "Who's Your Daddy" tour, then the Madison Square Garden stage might have been packed with special guest rappers, ...2.9

Tom Petty is out on tour just because he wants to be. There's no new album, no record-company setup, no HBO special to sell.2.7

I played John Ellis's One Foot in the Swamp when it was released in January and might never have bothered with it again if I hadn't caught a nifty set by the young ...2.9

Has there ever been a rock star as contrary as Bob Dylan? When taken for a folk singer, interpreting traditional songs, he started to write his own.2.9

Robert Smithson is in fashion, in a hair-shirt kind of way. Excited reverence has marked the art-world response to a retrospective of his work that opened in Los Angeles ...2.7

A lawsuit has been filed against Eminem, his bus driver and tour bus company seeking unspecified damages for a July accident involving seven vehicles in western Missouri.3.1

They make she moan and groan. photo: Michelle Lin T.O.K. Unknown Language VP See also: Harmonizing, choreographed Kingston foursome more than just a boy band They're an ...2.9

Oasis made it two U.K. No. 1 singles in a row from its Big Brother album "Don't Believe The Truth" album Sunday as "The Importance of Being Idle" debuted at the top.2.7

Eric Clapton + Two Other Guys Oh my friends this stands to be a glorious week partially due to Circuit City and their cheap ass CD .2.9

Country singer Mindy McCready is accused of violating her probation on a drug conviction, authorities said.2.7

In recent settings, notably his sextet Zooid, Henry Threadgill has savored the effect of archly contrasting timbres.2.7

If there's still such a thing as hipster rock royalty in 2005, it looks a lot like Rilo Kiley.2.7

The king of shock rock, Alice Cooper was born Vincent Damon Furnier on Feb. 4, 1948, in Detroit.2.9

In the reggae arcade game, Damien Marley's "Welcome to Jamrock" plays when your guy gets fragged-game over, no more quarters.2.9

Even before all the hoopla surrounding the dissolution of his marriage to actress Halle Berry The result is "Hurricane." Thanks to the adult R&B; airplay garnered by lead ...2.7

The wonderful thing about being a music lover in the Bay Area is that there is a wide breadth of concerts to enjoy.2.7

I have long thought of Gerry Mulligan as a proficient baritonist, but not as a great baritone soloist," Martin Williams wrote in 1963.2.7