With dreams of a permanent summer of love, Los Angeles musician Alex Ebert of the dance-punk band Ima Robot reinvented himself as his messiah-like alter ego Edward Sharpe and formed a merry band of '60s fetishists. Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic...

Nobody's accusing Yo Gotti of not paying his dues. This spring, nearly a dozen years after the Memphis rapper self-released his first album, RCA finally released Yo Gotti's major-label debut, Live from the Kitchen, a typically...

Bill Theisen and Richard Carsey direct the upcoming Skylight Music Theatre's adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George. The production boasts an impressive cast that includes Broadway/Off Broadway talent...

David Hampton passed himself off as the son of Sidney Poitier in the early '80s, conning money out of wealthy Manhattanites by claiming to be in New York to visit his famous father. He said he was wounded during a mugging in Central Park and...

Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt have had substantial success in musical theater over the years. Best known for writing The Fantasticks, the pair originally met in college when the 20th century was still pretty young. Evidently they both came...

The Milwaukee Brewers are in Arizona tonight to take on the Diamondbacks, but that won't stop the city for tailgating. Tonight's 8:40 p.m. game will be broadcast on a giant outdoor movie screen during a party in the parking lot at...

One of the leaders of the Montreal garage-rock scene, and easily one of its most prolific players, Mark Sultan has performed his fuzzed-out, doo-wop-inspired rock 'n' roll under a slew of guises and in more than a half-dozen bands, including...

New York hip-hop producer Blockhead has provided beats for such underground luminaries as Aesop Rock, Cage and Murs, and he's also a member of the mostly latent joke-rap ensemble Party Fun Action Committee, but he saves his most...

Nickelback-bashing has become something of a national pastime, as evidenced by the uproar over the band's NFL halftime performance at Ford Field last Thanksgiving. Critics and the general public alike have long damned Nickelback...

Bill Theisen and Richard Carsey direct the upcoming Skylight Music Theatre's adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George. The production boasts an impressive cast that includes Broadway/Off Broadway talent...