Updated: Mon, May 20, 2013

Ray Manzarek, a founding member of the 1960s rock group The Doors whose versatile and often haunting keyboards complemented Jim Morrison's gloomy baritone and helped set the mood for some of rock's most enduring songs, has died. He was 74. Manzarek died Monday in Rosenheim, Germany, surrounded...

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Michael Jackson's doctor was not the only person working on the singer's ill-fated "This Is It" tour without a fully executed contract, a corporate attorney for concert promoter AEG Live LLC testified Monday. The tour's director Kenny Ortega was being paid based on an...

Emily Cary

Published: Mon, May 20, 2013

The salesman pitching aluminum siding on the phone sounded strangely familiar, like a ripple echoing across storied waters. He was, in truth, the humorist, writer and radio personality Garrison Keillor best known for his monologues about a Brigadoon-like village that emerges from his mind when...

Emily Cary

Published: Mon, May 20, 2013

Whenever "Hey, hey, we're the Monkees" reverberated from TV sets throughout American neighborhoods in 1966, excited youngsters settled themselves before the screen awaiting a half-hour of madcap episodes about four hopeful rock 'n' roll singers who lived in a Malibu beach house. Until it ended...

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Beth Hart and Joe Bonamassa, "Seesaw" (J&R Adventures) Singer Beth Hart and guitarist Joe Bonamassa have a soulful and sultry new album out with "Seesaw." With her voice and his guitar, the album has all the pieces in place to deliver bluesy fireworks built around some decades-old standards....

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CANNES, France (AP) — Associated Press journalists open their notebooks at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival: JAMES CAAN GOES BACK TO THE 70S They don't make movies like they used to — which is why James Caan was happy to go back to the 1970s in Guillaume Canet's "Blood Ties." An icon of '70s...

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — It's tempting to say Daft Punk has gone Hollywood. The influential French electronic duo crafted its first film score, for "Tron: Legacy," three years ago and are now releasing a well-financed, smartly hyped pop album featuring what they call an ensemble cast of...

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NEW YORK (AP) — Derek Hough has made it to the finals of the 16th edition of "Dancing With the Stars," which wraps Tuesday, but he almost didn't return to the ABC show this season. "I was gonna sit this season out," Hough said in a recent interview. "My mom hurt herself and she was in the...

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HONG KONG (AP) — Fans know her as the sweet schoolgirl in the 2011 blockbuster "You Are the Apple of My Eye." Now, they can take a closer look at Michelle Chen through her first love: music. After she graduated from the University of Southern California and returned home to Taiwan, her...

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Daft Punk, "Random Access Memories" (Columbia) On its wildly anticipated fourth studio album, "Random Access Memories," helmeted duo Daft Punk go harder, better, faster, stronger than ever before. The eight-year wait for new music paid off as Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter...