Violent rap lyrics written by a man accused of shooting a fellow drug dealer in 2005 should not have been admitted as evidence at his trial, New Jersey’s highest court ruled Monday.
Music
Three recommended new CDs out this week.
Roster includes Ricki Lake, Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh, basketball player and former NBA prospect Isaiah Austin and many others.
The members of folk duo The Civil Wars have made it official: They’re breaking up.
Staind frontman Aaron Lewis, threw out the first dice roll at the much-anticipated Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Sioux City during the entertainment destination’s official grand opening event Friday night.
Chameleon pop star Lady Gaga hiked up her skirts, growled at the crowd and opportunistically affixed herself to the music, a culture that’s particularly en vogue at the moment.
Base is still traveling, currently on the road as part of the “Legends of Hip Hop” tour.
Get there early to see Lady Gaga tonight at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. And bring sweets for the openers, Babymetal.
The Prince salute “Purple Reign” is back in business at the D Las Vegas downtown. Jason Tenner’s take on His Funky Majesty has been rock solid for more than 15 years. But if you spent more of the ’80s listening to “The Joshua Tree,” there’s Arms of America, a U2 tribute playing through Aug. 18 at the Sin City Theatre in Planet Hollywood Resort.
Aerosmith books are starting to fill up a shelf. This is being discussed because the Aerosmith tour stopping at the MGM Grand Garden on Saturday will be followed Oct. 7 by guitarist Joe Perry’s memoir, “Rocks: My Life In and Out of Aerosmith.”
Killer parties almost killed Craig Finn. The Hold Steady frontman once attested to as much in song. But that was a decade ago.
It sounds like a hangover record, brought on not by too much booze (though certainly there was plenty of that) but by an overindulgence of life in the music business.
The inaugural Route 91 Harvest festival, featuring Jason Aldean, Miranda Lambert, Dierks Bentley, Blake Shelton, Dwight Yoakam and many others, takes over The Lot across from the Luxor on Oct. 3-5.
A man who donated to a South Dakota museum a slightly damaged acoustic guitar played by Elvis Presley that is at the center of a custody battle insisted Thursday he had the right to give it away because he owned it.
Although classic-rock bands such as Yes (due in town Aug. 15) leave fans divided when they replace original singers with younger ones, no one can argue the undeniably good years Journey saw after recruiting Arnel Pineda as a sound-alike for Steve Perry.
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