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Paul McCartney said Wednesday he s carrying a message of peace for Israel and the Palestinians, rejecting criticism of his planned concert in Tel Aviv. McCartney toured the West Bank town of Bethlehem... More »

A Los Angeles man claims in a lawsuit that Gene Simmons took him for a ride on a marketing deal with the Indy Racing League. Allan Brown on Wednesday sued Simmons and two business partners, claiming... More »

Wearing blue camouflage fatigues and crooning about Islamic holy war, the five members of Hamas's Protectors of the Homeland police band are trying to boost morale in Gaza with an arsenal of anti-... More »

Ariel Lanyi sits on a pillow to reach his piano and needs to stand on a chair to play the double bass. He peeks over the rims of the drum set and isn t big enough to use a full-sized violin. The piano... More »

Contemporary composers are often recruited to write new music for celebrated San Francisco-based vocal ensemble Chanticleer. Since its founding in 1978, it has commissioned works from such notables... More »

Palestinians launched a campaign on Thursday to enter next year's Eurovision song contest, hoping to go head to head with contestants from Israel and other countries. Palestinian officials said... More »

Rappers may not be the most kid-friendly artists in the music world, but one member of G-Unit is denying accusations that he picked on someone half his age. Emcee Tony Yayo pleaded not guilty Sunday... More »

Target Corp said on Friday it had pulled a CD carrying case bearing Ernesto Che Guevara s image after an outcry by critics who label the Marxist revolutionary a murderer and totalitarian symbol. Target... More »

Legendary blues musician B.B. King, former Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky and historian David McCullough were among those awarded the Medal of Freedom on Friday by President George W. Bush. Bush lauded... More »

Here s the complete list of nominees for the 49th Annual Grammy Awards. The awards will be presented Feb. 11 in Los Angeles: Album Of The Year Taking the Long Way, Dixie ChicksSt. Elsewhere, Gnarls... More »

Archival label Rhino Records Depeche Mode reissue series will continue October 3 with 1982 s A Broken Flame, the 1984 breakthrough Some Great Reward and 1993 s Songs of Faith and Devotion, the band... More »

Israeli-born KISS rocker Gene Simmons sent a get-well video to an Israeli soldier wounded in Lebanon, calling him a hero the world should be proud of. I can t tell you how proud I am of you and how... More »

Heavy metal maven Dave Mustaine is so angry with the United Nations that he is naming his group Megadeth s next album United Abominations. I was watching TV and saw the trucks that said UN on them... More »

Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters, who inspired the rock band s iconic album The Wall, scrawled tear down the wall on the concrete panels of Israel s West Bank barrier on Wednesday. The barrier was... More »

It s hard to imagine a better place to discuss cross-cultural currents than at the annual Fez Festival of World Sacred Music. Early each summer, musicians and fans from across the globe convene in the... More »

A singer whose songs have topped the Billboard dance chart was attacked by a group yelling anti-gay slurs, and four people were arrested on hate-crime charges, police and his publicist said. Kevin Aviance... More »

Young Israelis sporting dreadlocks and wool Rastafarian caps rocked to the beat of homegrown Hebrew reggae bands at a recent music festival, a sign of reggae s steadily increasing popularity here. Kibbutz... More »

The Red Hot Chili Peppers have lashed out at a music pirate who leaked the funk-rock band s upcoming album onto the Internet, and urged fans not to download it illegally. The band s spokeswoman said... More »

Pianist Arturo O Farrill calls himself a mambo evangelist. His mission — as musical director of Jazz at Lincoln Center s Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra — is to spread the gospel of Machito, Tito... More »

Pink Floyd veteran Roger Waters has moved the venue of an upcoming rock concert in Israel to a mixed Jewish-Arab village seen as a symbol of peace following Palestinian protests, a newspaper reported... More »

Christian singer Chris Tomlin leads nominees for Wednesday s Dove Awards with 10, including artist of the year and male vocalist of the year. Relient K, the David Crowder Band, Natalie Grant, Joy Williams... More »