Actress Zooey Deschanel's dreams of playing rock legend Janis Joplin on the big screen have been dashed - the project has been shelved. The Yes Man star, who is tasting TV success as the leading l...

Rapper Kid Cudi has quit hard drugs following his arrest last month for possession of a controlled substance. The Day 'N Nite hitmaker, real name Scott Mescudi, was taken into custody in June aft...

Crystal Bowersox, the current American Idol frontrunner, gave fans a scare the second week in the semi-final rounds, as she was rushed to the hospital due to diabetes complications. Needless to say...

Happy Birthday to: "Sons of Anarchy" actress Katie Sagal (1956) Japanese singer/songwriter Hikaru Utada (1983) "Full House" actress Jodie Sweetin (1982) "Desperate Housewives" actress D...

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is saluting late blues singer Janis Joplin with a week-long series of events and a star-studded concert in her honor. The hall in Cleveland, Ohio and C...

On the third season of "30 Rock," Liz Lemon tries to avoid jury duty by dressing as Princess Leia, Jenna stars in a biopic about Janis Joplin, and Steve Martin plays a fabulously wealthy agoraphobe...

Jessie James has made appearances at Nascar races and sang for many audiences, but this time she is getting behind the wheel. Jessie will join other gamers on XBOX Live for a game of Nascar '09 tod...

You have to love any story that contains the line, "Cut to a night of drinking ouzo. The next morning I wake up and it looked like a bomb went off in the place and my tongue is bigger than my head....

The spirit of the Woodstock Music & Art Fair of 1969 resonates 40 summers later, as if it were just yesterday. In 1969, five acts recorded albums for the Columbia, Epic, and RCA labels (divisions o...

Now it's time to get serious. We are in the final four of American Idol, meaning it is time to do away with the sophomoric ramblings as we wait for the show to begin. Instead, we get our game fac...

"The 27s: The Greatest Myth of Rock & Roll," which comes out today, reveals that more rock stars have died at 27 than at any other age. Famous 27s include Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Jopl...

When the American version of The Office premiered in 2005, its central focus was on the main four characters -- Michael, Dwight, Jim and Pam. As the series progressed, we learned more and more abou...

The music video for My Chemical Romance's "Desolation Row" has finally made its North American debut. The song, a reinterpretation of the Bob Dylan classic, was recorded specifically for the upcomi...

Gabriella Cilmi is 17. She doesn't look, sound or have the demeanor of a 17-year-old; nevertheless, she is 17. Now that this minor, but often mentioned, fact is out of the way, we can move onto who...

Jack pokes his head into Liz' office with nearly identical headshots (ala Ten Things I Hate About You), asking her which one she prefers. She picks the one where he's in a blue tie (typical libera...

Happy Birthday to Japanese singer/songwriter Hikaru Utada (1983), "Full House" actress Jodie Sweetin (1982), Russian gymnast Svetlana Khorkina (1979), "Joey" actress Drea DeMatteo (1973), actor Sha...

Liz is still baby crazy as the seventh episode of 30 Rock's third season finally returns after an extended holiday hiatus, and suddenly there are babies everywhere- from the Rockefeller Plaza lobby...

Former Led Zeppelin star Robert Plant has picked up his second major award of the new year after he was named the Greatest Voice in Rock in an online radio network poll. Plant, who was made a...

An actress' husband, a jazz musician, a playwright and several others passed away this month. Read more... Anjelica Huston's Sculptor Husband Graham Dies Californian sculptor Robert Grah...

Fall Out Boy rocker Pete Wentz was so hooked on drugs just two years ago, he didn't expect to live past the age of 27. Wentz claims he, his band mates and music bosses fully expected the bassist to...

Nikka Costa has always seemed to thrive on a certain sense of freedom. It's no wonder, that when Nikka set out to create a record on her own terms and as an independent artist finally free of major...

The biopic is a longstanding Hollywood tradition. There are the big budget epics like the now infamous Elizabeth Taylor vehicle "Cleopatra," David Lean's masterpiece, "Lawrence of Arabia," or Richa...

John Lennon gave the marching orders long ago. Imagine. For his part, veteran concert promoter Rick Bowen imagined a rock concert like no other: Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd playing together on one ...

In one week, "American Idol" will add one more solo artist to the music history. Whoever it is, they have their work cut out for them. America has a penchant for producing legendary solo ar...

Beloved music mogul Clive Davis is to step down as the CEO of the Sony BMG Music Group to mentor the label's biggest names. Davis, 76, will be replaced by Barry Weiss, who currently heads Sony's Zo...

Helen Mirren turned down the chance to perform on stage with late The Who drummer Keith Moon, after he broke into her West End theatre dressing room. The British actress was performing in a 1974 L...