During all the NBC internet chatter this week, I couldn't wait for new episodes of scripted comedy. The Thursday lineup was loaded with guest stars, none bigger than Jack Black's appearance on Community, which says one if not two things: the show is underperforming ratings-wise, and A-list actors want to be a part of a comedy they enjoy watching.

The question is not how the Kung Fu Panda would interact with the tight ensemble cast, but how the show's producers would buck the tired more...

Billy Bob Thornton is amazed his recent radio outburst in North America became a major news item - because he always attacks interviewers who ask questions they've agreed not to ask.

The Oscar winner claims CBC Radio host Jian Ghomeshi had promised not to ask Thornton about his movie career during a live chat about his music and group The Boxmasters.

And when the DJ questioned Thornton about how he finds time for music in between his acting jobs, the actor snapped,

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Juanita Stein and her trio of impossibly beautiful bandmates return with an album so formless it's barely recognisable as the product of one of the decade's most promising debutante bands.

Sydney's Howling Bells were one of the underrated treasures of 2006. Their self-titled debut album of haunting waltzes, country balladry, epic ambience and all-out indie rock was drowned in the swamp of bands emerging in the wake of Arctic Monkey

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Murcof's debut, Martes, was an elegant work that married samples of Morton Feldman and Arvo Prt to electronic beats. In the six or so years since, Mexican Fernando Corona has released a set of remixes, Utopia, and two more albums, Remembranza and Cosmos. With each work his palette has become more sonorous, his soundscapes painted in lustrous shades of southern night and dark memories. Where Martes could be accused of being too deliberately appealing,

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NASHVILLE (Billboard) – Radio companies took a giant step forward in 2008 by embracing online and mobile applications like never before.

Clear Channel, with centralized Web site design services and such innovative Web programing as its "Stripped" concert series and "New" artist spotlight program, has long led the way, but other broadcast groups also made momentous strides.

No company increased its commitment to

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New York indie band TV On The Radio has beat icon Bob Dylan and rockers Coldplay to top Rolling Stone magazine's Best Albums of 2008 poll. The group's fourth studio album Dear Science triumphed over Dylan's second place LP Tell Tale Signs - The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 and Coldplay's Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends, ranked seventh, in the publication's top 50 hitlist.

Lil Wayne's multi-million-selling album Tha Carter III was the highest-placing hip-hop album at three, beating

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NEW YORK (AP) -- Battle-scarred rap mogul Marion "Suge" Knight and volatile hip-hop star Kanye West faced off Friday over a beef involving a bullet — with a conference table between them.

The two rap titans were there for West to answer questions about a celebrity-packed Miami Beach party where an unknown gunman shot Knight in the leg. West hosted the 2005 fete at the posh Shore Club before the MTV

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