WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — Les Paul, the guitarist and inventor who changed the course of music with the electric guitar and multitrack recording and had a string of hits, many with wife Mary Ford, died on Thursday.

It takes a cataclysmic event to derail Overrated/Underrated from its usual Friday spot. Currently the Oscars have been serving as that disruptive force, but this week interruption comes from the most unlikely source

The Carpenters star Richard Carpenter is looking to make a chart comeback 25 years after the death of his sister Karen - and he wants another singer to fill her spot.

Even though drummers are beat makers of a band, the recognition they often get is nothing compared to that of the lead singer and resident guitarist

A Stephen King adaptation about a guy alone in a hotel room with some foul presence and a bunch of lost souls sounds like the low-rent version of the author's ''The Shining,'' which had an entire resort hotel in which evil could roam.

Talk about being hooked on The Feeling. This U.K. band delivers an amalgam of harmonic melodies and catchy choruses that reaches full fruition on its Cherrytree/Interscope debut, Twelve Stops and Home, which has already produced a pair of Top 10 international hit singles in "Sewn" and "Fill My Little World."

UMTV is proud to announce the November 20th 2006 double-disc album release of The Carpenters 'The Ultimate Collection': the definitive collected works from one of the most enduring and influential acts ever, compiled and mastered by Richard Carpenter.