Image credit: Google If you were a little less productive at work the day Google had that cool Les Paul Doodle on its homepage — you know, the one that let you record your own guitar riffs — be prepared to lose even more time today. In celebration of Robert Moog, the musical innovator who [...]

Southwest Chamber Music’s L.A. International New Music Festival is more a Los Angeles interstitial new music festival. Skirting touristy Europe, these Southwesterners are not interested in inclusiveness but in filling gaps that very much need filling. Monday’s installment, the third of the festival’s four concerts at the Colburn School’s Zipper Concert Hall, did feature two [...]

No spoonful of sugar is required to make chatting with composer/lyricist Richard Sherman a delight. The octogenarian recalls creating the Oscar-winning score for the classic 1964 children’s movie “Mary Poppins” as if it were yesterday. Slaving away on the back lot at Disney, he and his late brother Bob were in awe of their boss [...]

Click photo to enlarge It’s going to be a very tuneful summer in the Bay Area. Rarely will a week go by without at least one — or more — big music event happening around here. And it all kicks off this weekend, several weeks before the actual start of summer, with the jumbo-sized I [...]

The financial well-being of nonprofit arts organizations typically depends on ticket-buying fans and check-writing philanthropists, but the Music Center is trying to bring complete strangers into the mix — including some who might never set foot on Bunker Hill, or for that matter, the West Coast. Its first-ever online auction is going on right now, [...]

By Dina Zayed CAIRO | Tue May 22, 2012 11:28am EDT CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s presidential hopefuls have had to zip their lips before voting starts, but there is no stopping the songs that pump up their virtues in styles ranging from hip-hop to folk. For the first time Egyptians get to pick their leader [...]

(CBS News) It’s become routine to buy and share music online. However, a Boston man is still in big trouble for songs he downloaded years ago, when he was in high school. On Monday, the Supreme Court refused to hear his appeal, leaving him on the hook for nearly $700,000 in fines. Even though the [...]

Ray J has been hospitalized following what could have become a diastrous night at the Billboard Music Awards, but his tiff with Whitney Houston’s sister-in-law Pat had nothing to do with the situation, his rep  says. The RB singer, who famously dated Houston on-and-off after her split with Bobby Brown in 2007, was rushed to [...]

Redfoo and Sky Blu of LMFAO, winners of the Hot 100 Song of the Year award, pose in the press room at the 2012 Billboard Music Awards held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on May 20, 2012, in Las Vegas. (Credit: Getty) (CBS News) Sunday’s Billboard Music Awards focused on tributes to late stars [...]

The Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear the appeal of a former graduate student who was sued by the recording industry on charges of illegally downloading music, letting stand a $675,000 judgment against him for violation of copyright laws. It was the first time the high court was asked to weigh in on whether [...]