KINGSTON (Reuters) – Jamaican reggae and dance hall star Bounty Killa was arrested on assault and other charges on Thursday for an altercation with an off-duty policeman nearly two years ago.
Police said Bounty Killa, whose real name is Rodney Pryce, could face a sentence of 15 years in prison if convicted.
Pryce was charged after a lengthy probe into the beating of a police officer on September 27, 2007, by members
NEW YORK (AP) — She’s got a friend. James Taylor said he will give a California woman a brand new music player loaded with his songs to replace the one she said she had to give up to a taxi driver when her credit card was declined after a trip to the airport last month.
Natalie Lenhart, 20, said officers at John F. Kennedy International Airport made her give the $140 iPod nano to the driver as payment for the $49 ride from Manhattan on Dec. 8. The driver said he’d return
WASHINGTON (AP) - Latino entertainers Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony graced “la alfombra roja” - the red carpet - at Union Station Sunday to give a Hispanic flair to the inauguration pre-celebration Sunday.
They posed quickly for cameras with no visible signs of the marital distress that tabloids have been buzzing about recently. The two singers entertained the crowd at the end of the night. Lopez introduced Anthony after making a pitch for the new president. “Yes we can,”
If the title suggests Ferry Corsten doesn’t do things by halves, this is also true of the company he keeps. Operating on the same arena-swelling stratum as Dutch trance titan Tiesto – who last year DJ’d to over 250,000 revellers in Brazil - in these post-super club days, Corsten is one of a handful still wearing the global DJ megastar tag with aplomb.
Trance has always been the unfashionable cousin of house and techno. Neither
UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. – Disney star Demi Lovato is hoping for some changes under Barack Obama’s administration.
“Well, our economic system is in a crisis right now,” Lovato, 16, said Friday in an interview. “I definitely hope that that will change. Also … I hope that the war resolves. Whether we win or lose or whatever, it doesn’t matter. I hope that it just ends. So you know, I think that Barack Obama will be able to help
Barack Obama’s daughters are learning it’s cool to have the President-elect as a dad - they’ve landed their heroes the Jonas Brothers as headliners at the first Kids’ Inaugural concert.
The sibling trio will perform at the We Are The Future concert on January 19th - on the eve of Obama’s official inauguration - when Sasha and Malia’s dad is sworn as the 44th President of the United States.
The Jonas Brothers will perform alongside Miley Cyrus and her dad Billy
NEW YORK – Run-DMC once hailed themselves as the Kings of Rock, so it’s fitting that the pioneering rappers have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Run-DMC joins the heavy metal band Metallica, guitarist and former Yardbirds member Jeff Beck; soul singer and guitarist Bobby Womack and doo-wop group Little Anthony and the Imperials as this year’s inductee class.
Though Run-DMC wasn’t among the first
NEW YORK (AP) - Run-DMC once hailed themselves as the Kings of Rock, so it’s fitting that the pioneering rappers have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Run-DMC joins the heavy metal band Metallica, guitarist Jeff Beck, soul singer Bobby Womack and doo-wop group Little Anthony and the Imperials as this year’s inductee class.
Though Run-DMC wasn’t among the first rap acts, they were the first to achieve widespread mainstream success, and the first
Boy George has been forced to evict a DJ pal who is awaiting trial for rape after a judge ruled that the two celebs sharing a house was inappropriate - given the singer’s own recent conviction for false imprisonment of a male escort.
The former Culture Club frontman, real name George O’Dowd, is facing a possible jail term when he is sentenced next week after he was found guilty of chaining a male escort to his bed at his London home in 2007.
O’Dowd has let his friend (more…)
LOS ANGELES (Billboard) – After scoring the No. 1 song and album in Mexico in late 2007, it didn't take long for Flex — a DJ, singer and songwriter who had moved there from Panama not long before — to come out blazing on the U.S. charts.
Almost overnight, Flex's hold was relentless; his debut on EMI Televisa, “Te Quiero,” was the fourth-highest-selling Latin album in the United States in 2008, with 236,000 copies,
