Six years ago, Switchfoot’s radio presence was ubiquitous.  The band’s fourth album, “The Beautiful Letdown,“ provided the...

In 2007, Def Leppard’s summer shed tour with Styx and Foreigner grossed about a half-million dollars per show and played to 13,000-18,000 fans per...

Salty comedian Margaret Cho will bring a combination of comedy and music to The National for two shows Sept. 19 at 7:30 and 10:30 p.m.  Tickets go...

More than 800,000 copies of Michael Jackson releases were sold during the past week—up from 422,000 the week after his death. The latest figures...

ALLEY KATZ—10 Walnut Alley, 643-2816. Colin Healy & the Jet Skis, Running With Giants and others, 5 p.m. Friday, all ages, $7. View From the...

Minutes before the start of Michael Jackson’s memorial service, CBS-TV’s Katie Couric noted the irony of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey...

Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton says Michael Jackson’s casket will be taken to the downtown Staples Center for the singer’s star-studded...

Fans in Asia planned to stay up into the wee hours, bars across Europe were holding Michael Jackson theme nights and television stations from Sydney to...

Were you one of the lucky 17,000 who won tickets to the Michael Jackson memorial service tomorrow morning at the Staples Center? Do you know someone who...

In a glass-enclosed space the size of a New York hotel room—which is to say, twice the size of a typical radio studio—TT Torrez works the phones,...

With Rilo Kiley, Jenny Lewis falls effortlessly into polished Fleetwood Mac-styled pop. On her own, with a ragamuffin group of incredibly adept musicians,...

Aerosmith has postponed its Sunday show at Verizon Wireless Virginia Beach Amphitheater because of an unspecified “artist injury.“ The band,...

Aerosmith has postponed its Sunday show at Verizon Wireless Virginia Beach Amphitheater due to an unspecified “artist injury.“

The connection between songwriter and song is one that regularly draws comparisons to that linking parent to child. So typically, when a songwriting band...

Tickets for the grand opening performances at Richmond CenterStage are now on sale.  The show, Sept. 12 at 8 p.m. in the Carpenter Theatre, will include...

From dobro to go-go, the first eight performers announced for this year’s Richmond Folk Festival indicate the event isn’t straying from its...

Natasha Bedingfield will celebrate the Fourth of July with a performance at the 29th annual “A Capitol Fourth” concert in D.C. The show will...

The opera is on in Rappahannock County beginning tomorrow with a 7 p.m. performance of “The Turn of the Screw.“  The first Castleton Festival—believed...

Michael’s music During the first half of last week, total national airplay for Jackson’s most popular 20 songs averaged about 350 spins a day....

The will. The kids. The parasitic father. The funeral plans. The London concerts refunds. The Beatles catalog. The unreleased vault of songs.  It’s...

ALLEY KATZ—10 Walnut Alley, 643-2816. Uproar, The Pogo, Transit Fear, more, 7 p.m. Thursday, $7.  ANDY’S RESTAURANT—Henry Clay...

Hip-hop magazine Vibe shut down today, 16 years after it was founded by Quincy Jones. That will leave just one other major national hip-hop magazine, The...

Michael Jackson claimed to have a net worth of $236 million as of March 31, 2007, according to financial documents obtained by The Associated Press that...

Elvis had one. So did Anna Nicole Smith and Marilyn Monroe. They are the doctors who cater to celebrities, dispensing powerful painkillers and sedatives...

Michael Jackson’s mother asked a Superior Court judge to name her administrator of her late son’s estate so she can ensure the King of Pop’s...

Telecast was completely revamped to recognize the legacy of Michael Jackson. For the most part, it was a joyous wake.

Before the ugliness begins. Before the tug-of-war over children and a dwindling estate become a sordid tabloid feast. Before Michael Jackson’s status...

The Harlem theater that helped launch Michael Jackson’s career plans a star-studded musical memorial on the same stage where he and his brothers...

Sirius XM satellite radio has launched The Michael Jackson Tribute Channel, which will run through Monday at 11:59 p.m. on Sirius channel 51 and XM channel...

People always told Manaya Mabry that she strongly resembles Mary J. Blige, and now that likeness has won her a trip to the BET Awards. Richmonder Mabry,...