Jim DeRogatis: At a time when bands that were formed yesterday play arenas tonight and are forgotten tomorrow, Silversun Pickups have built a career the old-fashioned way: with a slow but steady rise to stardom. Then last year, a few months after t... more info

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It's Super Bowl weekend, and Ludacris is onstage at Miami's Fontainebleau hotel, where he's co-hosting a pool party with NFL stars Chad Ochocinco and Terrell Owens. At the moment, though, no one is looking at the Atlanta rapper. more info

LONDON -- In a victory for the concept album, Britain's High Court on Thursday ordered record company EMI Group Ltd. to stop selling downloads of Pink Floyd tracks individually rather than as part of the band's original records. more info

Hedy Weiss: Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins have not only left the building after 15 months in Chicago, but they've been replaced. With the four principal cast members of the original hit production of "Million Dollar ... more info

Rising at dawn to write every day for eight years. Having to lop off 150 pages from your manuscript because the writing isn't quite working. Shedding tears in the assistant principal's office because you're spending 40 hours a week teaching, 40 hours... more info

“Stick with what works” and “variety is the spice of life” seem to be the two unusually concurrent maxims for the Ravinia Festival ’s 2010 season running from June 3 to Sept. 7. Of the 117 events set for this summer, 50 feature debuts ... more info

Bill Zwecker: With the premature death of Corey Haim — yet another once-hot, but long-faded young Hollywood star — the entertainment world was again shaking it’s collective heads Wednesday. According to a producer, Haim recently said, ‘... more info

Mark Linkous, the singer-songwriter who released his music under the band name Sparklehorse, has died after shooting himself in the chest in Tennessee. He was 47. Knoxville Police Department spokesman Darrell DeBusk said Mr. Linkous shot himself outs... more info

Hedy Weiss: It was a full decade before the monumental changes of 1989 that resulted in the collapse of the Soviet Union that British lyricist Tim Rice (of "Evita" fame) and composers Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus (of ABBA renown) began work on... more info