411 Mania — They tried to get $500,000 from Stevie... more info

ContactMusic — An investigation has been launched after University of Hawaii UH officials handed 200000 125000 to a talent agency to book Stevie Wonder for a gig A third-party concert promoter acting on behalf of UH wired the deposit to a company in Miami Flori... more info

ContactMusic — Stevie Wonders cousin has been ordered to stand trial over an allegation he tried to blackmail the singer Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Ray Jurado ruled on Thursday 12Jul12 that a jury will decide whether Alpha L Walker and his girlfriend Tamara E... more info

Guardian Music — Frank Ocean has got a lot of people talking about his sexuality – but his brilliant, beautiful new album is the real storyThe news that Frank Ocean had apparently outed himself as bisexual received a variety of reactions, but perhaps the most curio... more info

Guardian Music — As Snoop prepares to headline Bloc.2012 we take a trip to Rock's Backpages – the world's leading archive of vintage music journalism – and find him in 1994, doing the washing upSnoop Doggy Dogg is cleaning up. Literally. The number one gangsta ra... more info

ContactMusic — Legendary record label boss Berry Gordy is set to be the subject of a new Broadway musical The icon founded Motown Records in 1959 and subsequently discovered and signed such artists as Michael Jackson Stevie Wonder Smokey Robinson Diana Ross Marvin ... more info

Guardian Music — Stadium of Light, SunderlandWhen Red Hot Chili Peppers last visited the north-east – hauling their punky-funky-metal fusion into Newcastle's modest Riverside club in 1990 – few would have put money on the Californians living out their days playi... more info

Guardian Music — 'Bleeding, sweating, crying, suffocating and being crushed – that's what art is made of'What got you started?I was born like this – loving music and wanting to express myself through it. This is just how they made me.What was your big breakthroug... more info

Guardian Music — New Orleans jazz trumpeter and composer who became a pillar of the London music sceneLike his New Orleans compatriot Wynton Marsalis, the jazz trumpeter Abram Wilson, who has died of colon cancer aged 38, was an exponent of quicksilver technique, blu... more info

ContactMusic — Stevie Wonder told Cheryl Cole that he likes her Newcastle accent Speaking on last nights The Graham Norton Show Cheryl admitted she can finally feel proud of her Geordie accent after it got the seal of approval from the music legend during the D... more info