Disco legend Donna Summers dies from cancer
The Queen of Disco is dead. photo/Joonsl via wikicommons Donna Summer died Thursday morning after succumbing to a long battle with cancer,TMZ.com reported. She was 63. Born in Boston on New Year’s Eve 1948, Summer came to define the sound of late ’70s and early ’80s radio with hits including “Last Dance”, “Bad Girls” More...
Justin Bieber gets banned after insulting the country of Indonesia
OFFBEAT NEWS: A comment made by the Canadian teen heartthrob last week has drawn some fury from fans in Indonesia. According to a report in the Jakarta Post, the North Sumatra teen-pop radio station, KISS 105 FM More...
TobyMac performs ‘Get Back Up’ on The View
Christian artist Toby Mac played a visit to ABC’s “The View” on Friday, even performing a song to honor Sherri Shepard’s birthday. Shepard personally requested the five-time Grammy Award More...
Levon Helm, drummer of The Band, passes away, losing his battle with cancer
(CBS News) Robbie Robertson, one of the founding members of The Band, paid a visit an ailing Levon Helm in the hospital over the weekend. Earlier this week, Helm’s family announced that Helm, who has had throat More...
‘Dark Knight Rises’ star Gary Oldman to direct Jack White webcast
Gary Oldman has a long, impressive resume and now the star of “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy”, “The Dark Knight Rises” can add directorial credits to his name. Musician Jack White has now tapped More...
Earl Scruggs, Blue Grass musician, creator of Beverly Hillbillies theme, dies at 88
Earl Scruggs, the banjo playing, singing and composing great whose twanging bluegrass themes for TV’s The Beverly Hillbillies and the Bonnie and Clyde movie achieved Top of the Chart status in the ’60s, More...
Jerry Lee Lewis set to wed for 7th time – to another cousin?
Jerry Lee Lewis is getting married for the seventh time, the National Enquirer reports, and once again, it involves one of his cousins. Back in 1957, the rocker wed his 13-year-old cousin Myra Gale Brown, causing More...
Bob Dylan’s first album changed music 50 years ago today
The self titled LP hit stores on March 19th, 1962 and offered music listeners an immediate alternative to the Twist craze of the time. A 20-year-old had traveled from Minnesota to Manhatten in 1961 on a freight More...
Mandisa sets ‘Girls Night Out’ in April for Clearwater
April 27th, Clearwater, Mandisa will be bringing her “Girls Night Live” tour to the Tampa area. From the release: As part of the “Girls Night Live” tour, Mandisa will partner with local radio hosts More...
Davy Jones, famous singer from The Monkees, dies of heart attack
Davy Jones was the lead singer of the 1960s band The Monkees, the Beatles-esque pop group that was created to star in the TV sitcom of the same name. He died of a heart attack today in a Florida hospital at age More...
