Those copyright cops at YouTube deleted the account of Trunks6, a genius at combining peculiar pop songs with clips from Disney films, late last year. (They must hate love.) But the man is back—and he's brought back his greatest hits for us to enjoy again. If you love romance and the somewhat ...

I knew where I'd surely find the great inauguration party: in that glorious Victorian cupcake of a ballroom where partygoers celebrated Abraham Lincoln's second swearing-in, up on the third floor of what is now the Smithsonian's American Art Museum. This year it was called the "Lincoln 2.0 Ball."...

There are some real Val Kilmer-style geniuses out there on the Google and the YouTubes, and mrzarquon is one of them. This dude took the David Lee Roth a capella version of "Runnin' With The Devil" and ran it through Microsoft's super-goofy-looking new program Songsmith, an experimental endeavor tha...

This is the week that was in matters musical … 1953, Marilyn Monroe’s sultry performance of “Diamonds Are A Girl’s Best Friend” lights up the silver screen in the movie Gentlemen Prefer Blondes … years later Madonna would cop the visuals if not exactly the vibe ...

Yep, ya heard it right, people! The oh-so-smooth sounds of crooner Al Martino is set to accompany the man himself to a UK tour this September (okay, so he’s not a rocker, as such. But a lotta readers dig him!). Martino, who had the very first number one record in the UK, Here In My Heart, way ...

Bo Diddley, 79, the blues singer and guitarist whose propulsive beat and swaggering stage presence helped set the foundation for rock-and-roll, died yesterday at his home in Archer, Fla. He retired from active performing after a stroke in May 2007....

This is the week that was in matters musical … 1956, Elvis Presley performs “Hound Dog” on TV’s Milton Berle Show, resulting in protests by some viewers … 1961, ever the astute businessman, Chuck Berry opens an amusement park near St. Louis dubbed Berry Park … ...

CHICAGO. April 19 -- It has been six years since silky-voiced singer R. Kelly was indicted on child pornography charges, accused of videotaping himself in sex acts with a 14-year-old girl. He has since sold millions of albums, earned tens of millions of dollars, toured the nation -- and never fac......

There's been a million of these American Gangster remix albums recently pretty much all of which I haven't checked out but Mick Boogie's track record as far as mixtapes goes is pretty impeccable so he gets a pass. Download the Brooklyn Soul mixtape here. Get the track listing here and check out the ...

[8 out of 10] [ For my other movie reviews, see the Film category of this blog or my IMDB vote history ] This is my mini-review of “Standing in the Shadows of Motown”, which I recently got from the library and thought I’d share with whoever is interested. I gave this movie an eight...