The co-founder of Alice In Chains, Jerry Cantrell, will be honored at the eighth annual MusiCares MAP Fund benefit concert on May 31. The Sony/ATV Music Publishing senior consultant, Neil Lasher, will also be honored when the show takes place at Club Nokia in Downtown Los Angeles . MusiCares MAP Fund provides financial and supportive assistance [...]

The trailer for Woody Allen’s To Rome with Love has finally been released. The romantic comedy is Allen’s follow-up to Midnight in Paris, his most successful film to date, which has earned $148 million worldwide at the box office. The film also won Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards, securing Woody Allen his fourth Oscar. To [...]

Artists, musicians and poets who die young from mental illnesses are ubiquitous. An important one to note is artist Vincent Van Gogh. Van Gogh was born 153 years ago on March 30,1853. After ten years as an active artist, he died in 1890 at the tender age of 37. Nonetheless his contributions subsist today, stirring [...]

David Lynch, famous for having created the surreal TV series, Twin Peaks, and then a slew of hallucinogenic feature-lengths, mainly creates music now. But with Lynch’s music video for “Crazy Clown Time,” the title track of his new album, he has re-entered the world of filmmaking, with expectedly eerie results. The song itself is very simple: [...]

On the off chance I’m listening to the radio, it’s likely that most of what I’m getting is nothing more than background noise. There is one station that stands out among the rest for superior musical taste. KCRW (89.9 FM) always plays good music, so much so that my standards for “good” are constantly being [...]

The Hunger Games was a huge success. Not only financially – blowing away the competition with over $155 million in box office receipts – but critically as well.  It’s no surprise that Lionsgate immediately greenlit the sequels Catching Fire and Mockingjay to begin shooting as soon as possible. There are those who feel that The [...]

Since her appearance on the music scene in 2001, soul singer-songwriter Goapele (Gwa-pa-lay) remains one of the most underrated artists in recent R&B history. Her debut album Closer, while garnering respect from critics and lovers of music outside of the mainstream, went largely unnoticed, and, with an equally overlooked second album, Change it All, it seemed [...]

It’s nice to know that Fiona Apple is coming back. When she first hit the scene with her debut album, the multi-platinum Tidal, she was 19-years-old, a frail-looking waif of a girl with enormous, haunting eyes and a powerful, throaty voice that surprised listeners and defied the tiny body from which it came. But Apple [...]

The Oscars are usually the last stop for awards season, but with the announcement of the release date for one of the most anticipated films of the year, we now have a date for when awards season will officially begin this year. Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master has been scheduled for a release date of October [...]

Performers such as LMFAO, Young the Giant, MGMT, Shiny Toy Guns and Slightly Stoopid were once on the line up for Derby Days, an annual concert geared towards giving back to the community. This year’s event, which is supported by USC’s Greek life and sponsored by Incipio and Tavik, will be held at the USC McAlister [...]