Happy Birthday to:

Megadeth singer/guitarist Dave Mustaine (1961)

Erin McCarley calls the music on her debut album, Love, Save the Empty, a document of her search for authenticity in herself and in others. If that sounds heavy, there's a reason why: According to McCarley,

It's been a busy couple of weeks for MySpace/DGC recording artist Meiko: first she was featured alongside Jack Johnson and Sara Bareilles in a USA Today cover story about the "new wave of troubadours."

Happy Birthday to "Boy Meets World" actor Ben Savage (1980), singer Fiona Apple (1977), Rascal Flatts guitarist Joe Don Rooney (1975), Iced Earth singer Tim "Ripper" Owens (1967), sprinter Michael Johnson (1967),

The new album from Dido, Safe Trip Home will be released by the RCA Label Group on November 4, 2008. Recorded in Los Angeles and London,

It's time for the Vans Warped Tour again! This year's nation sweeping festival kicked off last week at Fairplex Park in Pomona California with a bang. Like years past, the tour continued to include a new and fun mix of acts.

Many people may place her on a high pedestal along side other jaw dropping female artists with her hit singles, "Ur So Gay" and "I Kissed A Girl", but the outspoken Katy Perry took a path many wouldn't have been able to survive.

Hilary McRae, ''Through These Walls'' (Hear Music) On the lovely ballad ''Waiting,'' when Hilary McRae sings ''You probably won't even like this song,'' she couldn't be more wrong.

U2's cover of "Helter Skelter" has topped a new online poll of reworked Beatles songs. The Irish rockers' rendition of the 1968 track beat Oasis' cover of "I Am The Walrus" in the RollingStone.com poll.

Singer-songwriter Sia is a new singer from Australia, and her new album "Some People Have Real Problems" is a real must-hear. She's relatively new in the United States but already established a rather successful career overseas.