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The Songwriters Hall of Fame has honored the likes of Garth Brooks, Leon Russell and Allen Toussaint at its annual gala in New York City.

Buyer's remorse already may be setting in for some investors in Internet radio station Pandora Media....

Lady Gaga made history at last year’s MTV Video Music Awards when she turned butcher’s cuts into high fashion. On Thursday, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame will unveil the singer’s infamous raw-meat dress to the public. The dress — made of layers of Argentinian beef — was kept in a meat locker, placed in a vat of chemicals and then dried out by taxidermists in California before being transported to the museum.

Pandora set terms for its initial public offering that value the Internet radio company at about $2.56 billion, in the latest test of investors' appetite for fast-growing Web companies.

Carl Gardner, original lead singer of the R&B group the Coasters, has died in Florida. He was 83....

A documentary on the life of George Harrison directed by Martin Scorsese is nearly done and is expected to premiere this year, Harrison’s widow, Olivia Harrison, said this week.

Although Julie Taymor was ousted from "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," Bono says she's a genius and he and The Edge were privileged to work with her....

Hip-hop artist Ja Rule is expected to turn himself in for a two-year prison sentence Wednesday morning in New York, his publicist said in a statement.

The reports are still flooding in over iTunes users finding their credit balances drained by hackers. Why hasn't Apple said a thing to assure customers it has things under control?

Steve Jobs’ appearance Monday at the Worldwide Developers Conference to introduce three new software products for Apple will be closely scrutinized by everyone from investors in the company’s stock to obsessed Apple fans who want to know how the King of Cupertino’s health is faring. Jobs, who went on medical leave in January, left chief operating officer Tim Cook in place to run things on a day-to-day basis. At the conference Monday, he (along with a team of Apple executives) will be introducing two new operating system software programs, as well as announcing iCloud, a widely anticipated service that lets users store content online.