It’s February, and everyone who has to leave their house for any reason knows what that means: Valentine’s Day. It’s on the radio, it’s in the stores, it’s all over. Valentine’s Day serves two pu...

Not all musicians can be inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. However, it brings to mind some music acts worthy of consideration in the future. Let us know which yet to be named bands or...

Kurt Cobain featured in "Guitar Hero 5"; Dire Straits; reporter gets stung by a bee; and fire starting for dummies (actually, dummies starting fires). Also, Ne-Yo channels West Side Story for the ...

Happy Birthday to Relient K singer Matt Thiessen (1980), actress Dominique Swain (1980), horror film actress Rebecca Gayheart (1971), tennis legend Pete Sampras (1971), "Clerks 2" writer/director K...

Happy Birthday to Relient K singer Matt Thiessen (1980), actress Dominique Swain (1980), horror film actress Rebecca Gayheart (1971), tennis legend Pete Sampras (1971), "Clerks 2" writer/director ...

Brothers Don and David Was are to revive their hit group Was (Not Was) for a Valentine's Day showcase in Los Angeles. In what will be the group's first official show since touring with Dire Straits...

Singer/songwriter Shooter Jennings lead single "Walk of Life" off his introspective third studio album - The Wolf, originally made famous by Dire Straits, was chosen as the first single for its lyr...

James Blunt has been crowned the king of Europe - the British singer/songwriter is on top of both the continent's singles and albums charts. Blunt's "1973" is Europe's number-one single for a secon...

"(Barack) Obama, he's a piece of s**t. I told him to suck on my machine gun and Hillary Clinton, you're a worthless bitch." Republican rocker Ted Nugent has no time for the leading Democratic presi...

Warner Bros. Records is set to release new music from Mark Knopfler, one of the world's most successful singer songwriters. Kill To Get Crimson is due September 18. Kill To Get Crimson was mad...

Happy Birthday to Relient K singer Matt Thiessen (1980), actress Dominique Swain (1980), horror film actress Rebecca Gayheart (1971), tennis legend Pete Sampras (1971), "Clerks 2" writer/director ...

Blix Street Records, best known for the catalog of recordings by the late Eva Cassidy, has signed dynamic young blues-rock trio Back Door Slam and will release the band's debut recording, Roll Away...

Former Dire Straits star Mark Knopfler is re-releasing hit single "Brothers In Arms" to raise money for veterans of Britain's Falklands war. Knopfler says, "I'm touched my song, written during the ...

Jimmy Buffett is paying tribute to the victims of Hurricane Katrina in his new video, shot in a bar destroyed by the 2005 storm. The singer recorded “Bama Breeze” after witnessing the devastation o...

Happy Birthday to Relient K singer Matt Thiessen (1980), actress Dominique Swain (1980), horror film actress Rebecca Gayheart (1971), tennis legend Pete Sampras (1971), "Clerks 2" writer/director ...

Dire Straits rocker Mark Knopfler has launched a lawsuit after a road crash left him seriously injured and unable to work for seven months. The star is seeking $540,000 in compensation after motori...

Mark Knopfler insists his recent collaboration with country star Emmylou Harris was a success because both artists are well versed in singing about life's miseries. The former Dire Straits fro...

A number of new albums hit stores today including new ones from Madonna, Big & Rich, Pitbull and Unearth; live ones from Green Day, Jesse McCartney, Jimmy Buffett, Moody Blues, Todd Rundgren and Wi...