NEW YORK, March 8, 2010 - Rapper Lil Wayne has been sentenced to a year in prison after pleading guilty to gun possession.

UK, January, 22, 2010 - When it comes to the pop charts these days, it really is a case of Here Come The Girls.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22, 2010 (PRNewswire-USNewswire) - The American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD), the country's largest cross-disability membership,,,

UK - On July 20th, Glasgow 6-piece, Flood of Red, will release their first ever single ‘A Place Before The End’ via Glasgow’s King Tuts Recordings…

LOS ANGELES - Mathieu Dufour, who has served as principal flutist for the Los Angeles Philharmonic since the beginning of the current season, has abruptly left his post to return to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

After a year of career highs, David Guetta is only making one resolution for 2010.

German producer Mathias Kaden a once joked that his music was “minimal samba”. There was more than a grain of truth behind the quip - his debut album ‘Studio 10’ combines the seemingly incompatible elements

NORFOLK VA - I first learned of  Sharon Schael about three years ago when her sister and I  were having dialog about news sources in Venezuela. I was directed to Sharon's myspace hub and I downloaded a few of the seemly endless tracks.

NORTHBROOK, Ill., Nov. 17 - Nineteen-year-old singing sensation Jordin Sparks and her mom, Jodi Sparks, today publicly pledged not to text and drive by leaving their mark - in this case, their thumbprints, on a pledge banner making its way around the country this holiday season.

LOS ANGELES - When will.i.am shouted, "Welcome to the future!" as he and the rest of the Black Eyed Peas cavorted with a blur of dancers through a medley that sounded like a military cadence mixed with an ad jingle at the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, he wasn't only spouting a cliche.

AFRICA - How do you compress a thirty-year epic into a few pages? Tinariwen, whose back-story has variously been described as “the most compelling of any band” (Songlines), “the most rock’n’roll of them all” (The Irish Times), “hard-bitten” (Slate.com) and “dramatic”

Rebel rocker Michael Franti has spent most of a lifetime as a musician activist with tough progressive politics and tough playlist titles like “Yell Fire!” and “Bomb the World.”

Dance music class of 2009, behold your homecoming king and queen: A man named Guetta and a lady called Gaga.

 The beat changed one day. Four-to-the-floor’s steady dominant drum march fractured, as chaotic new patterns emerged in the ranks of uniformity.

Born and raised in Toronto, Canada, singer and songwriter Mandi Perkins began performing and writing music at a young age, and was active through her school years in musical theater and participated in numerous vocal competitions.

"You're only as good as your worst song," says OneRepublic's front man and chief songwriter Ryan Tedder.

Not that he knows anything about writing a dud. The 30-year-old born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, has obsessed over the art of pop music for more than a decade. Along the way, he's worked with Rihanna, Beyoncé, Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood, Jennifer Lopez, Leona Lewis (he shared a 2008 Best Record Grammy nod for her "Bleeding Love"), and other massive stars. And it's all lead him back to his own Denver, Colorado-based band, where he pours out his most heartfelt music. "