MTV.com News — Kells wants fans to 'name it themselves based on what they feel listening to the music.'By Shaheem Reid R. Kelly Photo: MTV News If you buy an album, you can call it whatever you want — at least R. Kelly thinks so. In February, Kelly par... more info

All About Jazz — RAMALLAH, West Bank The young man was handy with tools. A carpenters nephew, he liked to fix chairs, windows and door locks. At other times he would stand idly on the street corner. Ramzi Aburedwan noticed him. Like the Pied Piper, Mr. Aburedwan, a... more info

MTV.com News — Jermaine Dupri assembles Usher, Nelly and others for Ocean's 7 mixtape and possible film, in Mixtape Daily. By Shaheem Reid, with additional reporting by Rahman Dukes R. Kelly Photo: Jive The fellas know we're repping for them, and the lad... more info

Chicago Tribune — Don't let Bernard Haitink's cane and podium chair fool you. He has the vitality of a musician half his 80 years. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra's principal conductor is reminding us of that fact as he takes charge of concerts with the CSO Saturday an... more info

All About Jazz — For more than four decades, Bob Dylan's following has resembled both rapt children behind the Pied Piper and hellhounds on his trail. They can take any new direction in his work as a revelation or a personal affront. During a 1966 concert in Manch... more info

Allmusic Blog — America lost one of its great motivating forces in music with the passing of Lukas Foss in New York City on February 1, 2009, at the age of 86. Born in Germany, Foss studied music in Europe before immigrating with his family to the United States on t... more info

All About Jazz — As leader of the 18-piece Big Phat Band, Grammy- and three-time Emmy-winning bandleader-composer-arranger-instrumentalist-conductor-instructor Gordon Goodwin is Big Band’s Pied Piper at the wave of a new tradition. With an energy that’s p... more info

All About Jazz — This is kinda strange country, isn't it? Judges can see Deep Throat but they can't listen to those [Nixon] tapes. Johnny Carson- at the time when the movie was challenging Watergate as the topic du jour. I went to see Deep Throat cause I'm fond of... more info

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WFMU's Beware of the Blog — Pssssst, Irwin... can you hear the sweet, sweet music? (RealAudio) There's more than one false messiah out there. more info