NEW YORK -- First-time dad Nick Lachey knows all about rocking a baby to sleep. Now he wants to help other kids get their rest.
DUBLIN, Calif. -- A sheriff's department spokesman in Northern California says a Dublin police officer stopped and then arrested MC Hammer because the '90s rap star was driving a car with expired registration and refused to get out of the vehicle.
LOS ANGELES -- Jermaine Jackson has a new, brighter surname -- Jacksun.
BOSTON -- Boston-based Jordan Knight is getting ready to go back on tour with New Kids on the Block!
NEW YORK -- Put on your suit and tie: Justin Timberlake and Jay-Z are hitting the road together.
CHICAGO -- Cleotha Staples, the eldest sibling in the influential gospel group The Staple Singers, has died. She was 78.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The Songwriters Hall of Fame is saluting 1970s and `80s rock `n' roll with its 2013 induction class.
LONDON -- Kevin Ayers, an influential singer-songwriter who co-founded the band Soft Machine, has died in France, his record label said Thursday. He was 68.
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic -- A winner of the TV talent show "Latin American Idol" who was once loved by thousands in her native Dominican Republic was charged with drug smuggling after police found heroin stuffed in the heels of her platform shoes, authorities said Thursday.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The Songwriters Hall of Fame is saluting 1970s and `80s rock `n' roll with its 2013 induction class.
UNDATED -- Justin Timberlake is scheduled to take over "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon!"
ALBANY, N.Y. -- Platinum-selling rapper Ja Rule has left an upstate New York prison after serving most of his two-year sentence for illegal gun possession, but is heading straight into federal custody in a tax case.
LONDON -- British music put on a confident show at the Brit Awards on Wednesday, celebrating a resurgent industry whose bands and artists are topping charts around the world.
LONDON -- One Direction, Justin Timberlake and Mumford & Sons are getting ready to perform Wednesday at Britain's leading music awards, where nominees include the late soul diva Amy Winehouse.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- There will be a British invasion of the main stage at Bonnaroo this year.
HEBER SPRINGS, Ark. -- Mindy McCready threatened suicide after losing custody of her sons earlier this month, yet she was allowed to leave a court-ordered drug rehabilitation program just days before she apparently killed herself at her Arkansas home, her ex-boyfriend said Monday.
LAS VEGAS -- Singer Celine Dion is canceling a week of shows in Las Vegas to kick a sinus infection.
HEBER SPRINGS, Ark. -- Perhaps there was one heartbreak too many for Mindy McCready.
VERMILLION, S.D. -- Grammy-winning fingerpicking guitarist Pat Donohue thinks a South Dakota college town of about 10,000 is an unlikely place for a wide-ranging collection of musical instruments that includes saxophones built by inventor Adolphe Sax, a rare Stradivarius violin with its original neck and a Spanish guitar on which Bob Dylan composed some of his earliest songs.
ATLANTA -- Stevie Wonder is not happy with Lil Wayne's vulgar lyrics that reference Emmett Till, a black teen who was killed in 1955 for allegedly whistling at a white woman.
