SANDY COHEN

Published: Wed, May 15, 2013

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The new Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young Academy at the University of Southern California will offer a curriculum aimed to help young innovators create the next iPod or Facebook. The hip-hop mogul best known as Dr. Dre and the co-founder of Interscope Records appeared at a news...

Updated: Wed, May 15, 2013

NEW YORK (AP) — Phoenix frontman and singer Thomas Mars says their new album "Bankrupt!" was born out of the negative influences going on in the band after the unprecedented success of their Grammy-winning 2009 album, "Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix." "At that time, we started talking about success...

Nancy Dunham

Published: Wed, May 15, 2013

Father John Misty's mysterious ways are what make his music so much fun. He's been likened to Gram Parsons and Jack Kerouac. One might add Willie Nelson and even some form of Beck into the mix. And let's not forget Hunter S. Thompson, too. "It's funny, like 12 hours ago I was eating pizza,...

Updated: Wed, May 15, 2013

CANTON, Miss. (AP) — Nissan's 10th birthday bash on May 25 in Jackson, Miss., will feature Kool & the Gang. Camille Young, Nissan's spokeswoman at the Canton, Miss., plant, says in a news release that the event will be held at the Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium in Jackson. There will...

Updated: Wed, May 15, 2013

LOS ANGELES (AP) — For most of the last three decades, ABBA was but a memory for Agnetha Faltskog. She made concerted efforts to leave behind her past as one of two principal singers of the best-selling 1970s Swedish quartet, best known for the pop classic "Dancing Queen." "There was several...

Emily Cary

Published: Wed, May 15, 2013

American composer Stephen Schwartz is one of those multitalented individuals who dips his fingers into many streams and stirs up a flood of successes. As a composer and lyricist, he has created projects for Broadway, film, television and the opera house, and accumulated six Tony Award...

Published: Tue, May 14, 2013

NEW YORK (AP) -- He started from the bottom, but now he's on top at the BET Awards: Drake has 12 nominations. BET announced the nominees Tuesday. Rappers Kendrick Lamar and 2 Chainz are up for eight awards each. Drake is nominated three times for the top prize, video of the year. His hit,...

Published: Tue, May 14, 2013

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Husband-wife duo Shovels & Rope is the top nominee for this year's Americana Honors & Awards, but longtime favorites Buddy Miller and Emmylou Harris lurk nearby. Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent earned four nominations, including album, song and emerging...

Nancy Dunham

Published: Tue, May 14, 2013

John Waters may be an internationally known creative genius, but he's still a Baltimore guy at heart. The creator of such "trash epics" as "Hairspray," "Cry-Baby," "Pink Flamingos," "Female Trouble" and more said that a constant in his life is to always return to the area to work. "I earn my...

Nancy Dunham

Published: Tue, May 14, 2013

Asleep at the Wheel founder Ray Benson likes to remind fans that the 40-year-old band has not only won nine Grammy Awards but lost 28 times. Not that any of the almost capacity crowds that flocked to the band's recent shows seemed to care. During the recent concerts, the crowds were incredibly...