Former Beatle John Lennon is featuring in a charity's TV advertisement in the US, 28 years after his death. The singer has been brought back to life using digital technology for the One Laptop Per Child initiative. The c...

A smashed guitar owned by the late grunge rocker Kurt Cobain has been sold to an unidentified private collector for $100,000. Helen Hall, a broker in England, says it's the second-highest known price paid for an item of Cobain memorabilia. The seller was punk rocker Sluggo of the Grannies...

The stock market is in the tank, the plant is closing and the neighbor is losing his home ... the perfect time to go to a concert, by one measure. The concert business grossed just less than $4 billion worldwide in 2008, the most ever for a year and up almost 13 percent over last year, ac...

Taylor Swift's "Fearless" (Big Machine) begins a third non-consecutive week at No. 1 on The Billboard 200 this week, selling 330,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan. "Fearless" trumps big debuts from Keyshia Cole and Jamie Foxx, which open at Nos. 2 and 3, respectively.

Michael Jackson is not only not suffering from a life-threatening lung ailment, he's so healthy he's planning a world tour! In response to recent comments made by celebrity conspiracy-theorist Ian Halperin, the pop icon's rep issued a statement Monday saying that "wild allegations concerning Mr. ...

The Recording Industry Association of America is taking a dangerous step with its decision to stop suing suspected music sharers and start cutting off their Internet access instead. While the discontinuation of the lawsuit practice has its merits, the move opens up a whole new can of worms -- one th...

Warner Music Group ordered YouTube on Saturday to remove all music videos by its artists from the popular online video-sharing site after contract negotiations broke down. The order could affect hundreds of thousands of videos clips, as it covers Warner Music's recorded artists as well as...

Growing up with psoriasis meant plenty of taunts from other kids for country star LeAnn Rimes, who opened up about the disease's physical and emotional toll to Health.com. By the time she was 6, psoriasis covered 80 percent of her body, says the singer, describing a deep sense of isolati...

"Gossip Girl" star Chace Crawford will appear in Leona Lewis' next video, according to PEOPLE.. The actor, who plays Nate Archibald on the popular CW drama, filmed a part in the video for Leona's single, "I Will Be" on Thursday in New York, the mag reported. And, Chace's role isn't just a simple...

U2's new album, "No Line on the Horizon," will be released by Interscope Records on March 3. It's the Irish rock band's 12th studio album and their first release since 2004's "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb." The announcement was made Thursday. The new album was completed a...