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Here are a few historic firsts for you. Next Tuesday, L.A.-based musician Ariel Pink and his band Haunted Graffiti will issue a new album, "Before Today," which he calls his first record (despite much evidence to the contrary). The release......

Several years into the country phase of a career that's also included stints in the coffeehouse and the dance club, Jewel has gotten the hang of the Nashville sound. On "Sweet and Wild," her second album for the Valory label,......

“It's time for Africa,” boomed the voice of the announcer in Johannesburg's Orlando Stadium on Thursday, at the climax of the all-star concert kicking off soccer's World Cup. “It's time for Shakira!” The announcement laid bare an inconsistency...

Consumers, apparently, wanted another version of "Bohemian Rhapsody," this one sung by the Broadway-ready cast of the Fox hit "Glee." Timed for release with last week's season finale, the six-track EP "Journey to the Regionals," the latest in a series.......

There are outlaws and there are outlaws in country music. There's the metaphorical type, represented by musical iconoclasts such as Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings, and the literal kind, like Merle Haggard, who did a stint in San Quentin for......

Ben Keith, the veteran steel guitarist who played on Patsy Cline’s 1961 hit “I Fall to Pieces” before befriending Neil Young and going on to play on more than a dozen of the Canadian rocker's albums, has died. He was......

In terms of mining the fertile ground that lies between jazz and electronic music, Europe has been eating the rest of the world’s lunch for years. While such a stylistic pileup can send some listeners into a tizzy of category-defining......

LOS ANGELES -- Grammy-nominated singer Jewel played a foolish game of sorts on patrons at a Los Angeles-area karaoke bar. Jewel went undercover as "Karen" -- a meek-looking brunette dressed in a business suit and glasses. She and her co-workers, all...

Ben Keith, a veteran steel guitarist who played on Patsy Cline's 1961 hit "I Fall to Pieces" before befriending Neil Young and going on to play on more than a dozen of the Canadian rocker's albums, has died. He was 73. -------------------- FOR THE...

Part of a series of occasional articles. Two weeks ago, rock band Arcade Fire landed the No. 1 spot on the Billboard charts with its third album, "The Suburbs." For the band's devoted fans as well as some online music prognosticators, hitting the top...

Click here to download TV listings for the week of Feb. 6 - 13 in PDF format This week's TV Movies Today Sandra Bullock; Sade performs; Wendy Diamond; Adriana Trigiani. (N) 7 a.m. KNBC KTLA Morning News (N) 7 a.m.......

It's the night after New Year's Eve and hundreds of kids are crammed into the Smell, the downtown DIY tabernacle of the Los Angeles avant-garde. A sweating mass of art students, skate punks and subterranean scene staples ecstatically moshes to a...