June 19, 2013

More music Articles

  • Groundbreaking set for Grammy Museum Mississippi

    06/10/13 10:15 PM

    CLEVELAND, Miss. (AP) — The Grammy Museum Mississippi expected to open in 2015 will showcase the state's role in developing blues, country and genres that shaped American music. Officials prepared to break ground Tuesday at the planned museum site, located at the south end of the Delta State...

  • Highlights from Apple's developers conference

    06/10/13 08:18 PM

    NEW YORK (AP) — The software running Apple's iPhones and iPads is getting a new look and several new features. The Mac is borrowing more functionality from mobile devices. New MacBook Airs are out, and a new Internet radio service will be coming this fall. Apple announced these offerings and...

  • Apple revamps look of iPhone, iPad software

    06/10/13 08:17 PM

    SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Apple is throwing out most of the real-world graphical cues from its iPhone and iPad software, like the casino-green "felt" of its Game Center app, in what it calls the biggest update since the iPhone's launch in 2007. The new operating system, called iOS 7, strives for a...

  • Review: 3 more posthumous Dio albums available

    06/10/13 07:00 PM

    Three years after his death, Ronnie James Dio remains one of heavy metal's most popular and enduring vocalists, and the stream of posthumous album releases shows no signs of slowing. Three albums and two videos have been released in recent weeks, spanning his career from the frontman for...

  • Judge admonishes AEG Live CEO about testimony

    06/10/13 06:15 PM

    LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A judge is admonishing the top executive of AEG Live to answer questions from an attorney for Michael Jackson's mother without arguing with the lawyer. Superior Court Judge Yvette Palazuelos told CEO Randy Phillips on Monday that his testimony was taking longer than...

  • Cher to perform live on NBC's 'The Voice'

    By LYNN ELBER | 06/10/13 06:15 PM

    LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Cher has a date with NBC's "The Voice." NBC said Monday the pop star will perform live on the talent contest's June 18 season finale. She will sing "Woman's World," the first single off her upcoming album of the same name, the network said. Cher, who turned 67 in May,...

  • APPLE EVENT: New software, MacBooks, music

    06/10/13 05:03 PM

    SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Apple announced a digital radio service, new MacBook Air laptops and updates to its operating systems for Mac and mobile devices Monday. The announcements came at the company's annual conference for software developers in San Francisco. Among the highlights: Apple showed...

  • Rapper 2 Chainz robbed at gunpoint in San Fran

    06/10/13 04:30 PM

    SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Police say platinum-selling rapper 2 Chainz was robbed in San Francisco just hours before he was scheduled to perform at a concert. Sgt. Dennis Toomer says the hip-hop star, whose real name is Tauheed Epps, was walking with five members of his entourage near downtown on...

  • 'Multi-talented' Neil Patrick Harris rocks Tonys

    06/10/13 04:16 PM

    NEW YORK (AP) — The reviews are in: It was a great Tony Awards. The dancing was inspired, the singing top-notch and the humor sly — and that's just for the host. Neil Patrick Harris once again proved how invaluable he is to the success of one of entertainment's lesser-watched televised...

  • Second-guessing Lincoln's assassination

    By Emily Cary | 06/10/13 04:10 PM

    What could have been done to thwart President Lincoln's assassination in Ford's Theatre? Richard Hellesen tackles that question in his award-winning one-act play "One Destiny" starring Stephen F. Schmidt as Harry Ford and Michael Bunce as actor Harry Hawk. Ford was one of the brothers who...



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