In George Michael?s grown-up persona, frankness and vulnerability mix with dance beats and the old sex-symbol charm.

The music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra is expected to recover fully.

CNN explores how black people are feeling, thinking and doing in the two-part ?Black in America? series.

To celebrate the life of Elliott Carter, who turns 100 on Dec. 11, the Tanglewood Music Center is devoting this year?s programs entirely to his music.

The songs Karen O, the lead singer of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, performed as part of her side project Native Korean Rock & the Fishnets were teeming with heartbreak and the residue of love gone sour.

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XM Canada is taking the reigns to help promote home-grown Canadian talent by launching its own music awards show that will offer $50,000 worth of prizes to Canadian artists. Called The Verge Music Awards, the event will take place on September 24, 2008

added: 23/07/2008 A store claims to have a finished tracklisting. Online music retailer, Music Dispatch, claim to have the full tracklisting to Metallica's brand new album, 'Death Magnetic'. If the store is to be believed, the album will run as follows:

Pop star Pink has set an Oct. 28 release for her as-yet-untitled fifth album. The LaFace/Zomba set is led by the single 'So What,' which will hit radio early next month and digital outlets shortly thereafter.The song was co-written by Pink and produced

Ska and punk fans are in for a treat, as Less Than Jake, Reel Big Fish, The Real Deal (and The Flatliners for many dates) will make their way together across Canada in September. Tickets go on sale on various days this week for these shows:Sept. 18

The Nationwide Mercury Prize, which honours the best album of the year by British or Irish artists from all genres, will go to one of the 12 acts named to its short list on Tuesday. The winner will be announced at an awards show on Sept. 9. Radiohead are