The soundtrack for The Twilight Saga: “New Moon” arrives a month before the movie hits theaters on November 20. This soundtrack comes with big expectations after last year’s “Twilight” soundtrack went double platinum!
Music supervisor, Alexandra Patsavas is once again at [...]

Carrie Underwood will receive the 2009 Harmony Award at the Nashville Symphony’s annual invitation-only fundraising ball, set for December 12 at Schermerhorn Symphony Center.
The award was created to salute people who demonstrate commitment to the development of Nashville’s musical culture.  Previous recipients include Rascal Flatts, Martina McBride, Trisha Yearwood, Dolly Parton, The Judds, Vince Gill, [...]

Taylor Swift may write and record a new song for “Valentine’s Day”, the upcoming movie in which she appears.  “We hope she does,” director Gary Marshall said. “But when people write songs, they always want to see the movie. Tailor is not any different, she wants to see the part that she’s in.” Unfortunately it’s [...]

Garth Brooks, 47, announced at a press conference that he will end his nine-year retirement to play an extended engagement at the Encore Las Vegas starting Dec. 11.  No tour. No album. Just Vegas!  Couldn’t he have made the announcement on Facebook?  Isn’t that what updates are for?

Rod Stewart put out five albums from 2002 and 2006 and after taking a relative eternity to craft his latest set of hit-tune covers, you wonder if he should have taken a little bit more time!
Though he’s fine and satisfyingly scratchy voice throughout, Stewart rarely brings anything new to these indelible R&B gems, especially when [...]

Listen to “Highly Strung,” an instrumental on which this fully formed 24-year old guitar goddess evokes as murderers from Angus Young to Jeff Beck, and you’ll know why Michael Jackson tapped her to be in his “This Is It” band.
She’s hot stuff, all right, but even the nimblest six-string warrior knows that flashy instruments do [...]

Rihanna’s new single “Russian Roulette” debuted October 20. The lead single form her Nov. 23 album Rated r-and, well, it’s no”Umbrella.” Instead, she delivers a theatrical, almost dirgelike ballad with bleak couplets like “As my life flashes before my eyes/I’m wondering will I ever see another sunrise.” Hmmm. What could that be a reference [...]

Bon Jovi gave the ’80s some great jukebox anthems, songs like; ”You Give Love a Bad Name.” “Wanted, Dead or Alive,” and “Living on a Prayer.” Yet it’s still a shock when, in Showtime’s intimate documentary “When We Were Beautiful,” (Saturday, 9/8 central) Jon Von Jovi recalls that it’s been 25 years since his band [...]

Michael Jackson’s legacy has once again, confounded expectations.
In just 24 hours, advance ticket sales for “This Is It,” the documentary featuring rehearsal footage shot in the singer’s final days, have already broken records.
Nationwide, hundreds of showtimes for the film, which hits theaters Oct. 27, have sold out! Much of the fervor has been sparked [...]

Miranda Lambert’s new album is called, “Revolution” But is should have been called “Evolution.” Lambert finds her artistic footing with this, her third country album. This new album is her best as of yet!  This no-nonsense Texan still knows how to let out a rebel yell, she has more to say this time than [...]