December16
Aretha Franklin was released from the hospital on Sunday and expects to be home for the holidays the singer announced late Wednesday in another of the personalized press releases she's been issuing throughout her recent unspecified illness "I've been at home for almost three days now" she said "My family and...

December16
Sonic Youth guitarist Thurston Moore always has multiple irons in the fire Most recently there's Ecstatic Peace Library the book publishing wing of his similarly named record label his co-authorship of No Wave Post-Punk Underground New York 1976-1980 and a gig in Philadelphia this weekend with guitarist Bill Nace violinist...

December15
Not long ago I was sitting at home writing something for publication &ndash I won&rsquot say what except that it was a passage about a certain politician on the Hill Out of habit I launched into a description that was full of nasty and personal language and...

December15
It's hard to say what the most bizarre thing about Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band's December 7 concert at the Carousel House on the Asbury Park boardwalk It might have been the fact that the set was almost entirely composed of recently released outtakes from Darkness On The...

December15
Here&rsquos a thought experiment Imagine for a moment that the quarter of a million secret government cables from the State Department had been leaked not to Julian Assange of WikiLeaks but to Bill Keller the executive editor of the New York Times First let&rsquos state the obvious The...

December15
Twenty-three years ago Run-DMC told the world about "Christmas In Hollis" and now Kanye West is taking the sentiment to another New York City borough for his new track "Christmas In Harlem" The final version which is reportedly going to hit iTunes tomorrow features Cam'Ron Jim Jones Pusha T Musiq...

December15
The sanctity of the album as a unified body of work might seem like a quaint concept these days but yesterday Pink Floyd won the right to preserve it as part of a legal battle with its label EMI England's Court of Appeal ruled that the group's songs cannot be sold...

December15
Susan Boyle Taylor Swift and Glee barely budged from their spots at the top of the charts this week while TI had the week's highest debut at Number Four Boyle's The Gift stays at Number One with approximately 243000 copies sold according to Nielsen Soundscan Taylor Swift's Speak Now remains at...

December15
In the Sixties and early Seventies Pamela Des Barres was known as "Miss Pamela" a scene girl who later claimed to have had intimate relationships with Mick Jagger Keith Moon Jimmy Page and Jim Morrison &mdash stories chronicled in her 1987 tell-all I'm With the Band Confessions of a Groupie...

December15
Denise Richards just can't stay away from the bad boys After a tumultuous marriage to Charlie Sheen and a rocky relationship with Richie Sambora the star 39 has been quietly dating Motley Crue bassist Nikki Sixx PHOTOS Hollywood's oddest couples Richards and Sixx 52 "have been neighbors for years They have a lot...
