Jimbo Wood, who helped WRTT-FM 95.1 The Rocket lift off seven years ago and then soar in the ratings, is leaving to help get another station off the ground in Birmingham.
Wood, one of the city’s top rock radio voices, is taking a job as program director/on-air jock with the newest rock station in Birmingham, WENN-FM […]
When Los Angeles country music station KZLA changed format last August, alarms sounded in the country music radio and record communities.
The nation’s No. 2 market joined New York, which has lacked a country station since 2002, and San Francisco, which bowed out of the country game in early 2005, as the third among the […]
David Darnell Brown, a rapper known as Young Buck who records on 50 Cent’s G-Unit Record label, was arrested on a warrant for failing to appear in court on a previous driving violation, police said.
The 25-year-old was stopped Friday after an officer said he observed Brown weaving in his black Cadillac Escalade near downtown Nashville.
Brown […]
B.B. King was discharged from a Galveston hospital Saturday following treatment for a fever and was “back to his old self,” a spokeswoman for his management agency said.
The 81-year-old, Grammy-winning bluesman was “feeling fabulous,” said Tina France, vice president of Lieberman Management of New York.
King had been scheduled to perform Thursday at the Grand Opera […]
Once a haven for Japan’s earliest jazz fans, cafe Chigusa is packing up its thousands of vinyl records.
“These days, kids don’t listen to jazz, and they walk down the street with iPods, which makes the whole idea of ‘place’ irrelevant,” says Michael Molasky, author of “The Jazz Culture of Postwar Japan.”
Seventy-three years after first opening […]
Jennifer Lopez catapulted her acting career with her starring role in “Selena,” a biopic on the Latin Tejano star who sang in Spanish and was on the verge of an English-language crossover prior to her death. Ten years after “Selena,” and following a multiplatinum recording career in English, Lopez is ready to sing en Espanol […]
He has the name of a great opera singer and the looks of a movie star, but it’s his voice that hits you first, a raw and elegant yearning much too deep-rooted for a 19-year-old singer/songwriter. Channeling Al Green, U.K. sensation Nutini sings classic soul-tinged pop songs in a thick Northern accent. On the […]
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah’s 2005 self-titled debut opened with Alec Ounsworth introducing the band over a host of carnival noises, an invitation to come party with the Brooklyn quintet. The album captured such revelry, complete with slurred vocals and drunken poetics. On “Some Loud Thunder,” the band has turned to Flaming Lips producer […]
After delivering “Roots,” an acoustic album equally interested in nuance and depth as in commercial appeal, the Gipsy Kings return to their more mainstream pop formula on “Pasajero.” The set has tinges from south of the border, including the cumbia beat and accordion of “Recuerdos a Zucarados,” a version of the Cuban classic “Chan […]
Beyond the high voltage and volume of Orange County, Calif., screamo darling Thrice resides the shy, religious familyman Dustin Kensrue, whose love for singer/songwriters like Ryan Adams and Cat Stevens has probably begun to rival that of the punk and hardcore on which Thrice was founded. On the eight-song “Please Come Home,” that alter […]
The Carrie Underwood juggernaut continues with another surefire hit. The fourth single from “Some Hearts,” the five-times-platinum debut album, is about taking the hard steps necessary to lead a better life. The first verse finds a woman exiting a failed relationship. In the second, a man pours whiskey down the drain and faces the future […]
Is Taylor Hicks the latest “American Idol” to realize that the quickest path to fame and fortune is country, instead of the wall of steel presented by top 40? Seems that way, based on second Southern rock single “Just to Feel That Way.” Granted, first single “Do I Make You Proud” was as formulaic as […]
Rod Stewart is enjoying his greatest success this decade with a top 10 AC cover of Creedance Clearwater Revival’s “Have You Ever Seen the Rain.” The second single from No. 1 gold set “Still the Same . . . Great Rock Classics of Our Time” is a resolute remake of Elvin Bishop’s 1976 “Fooled Around […]
After a consistent output since 1997, five-time Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter vanished for four years before recording 10th album “The Calling,” due March 6. The new project came as she was recovering from a severe back injury — wondering if she would ever perform again. New single “It Must Have Happened” is certainly […]
