Tag: Music

N’Dour, Saariaho share Sweden’s Polar Music Prize

Malin Rising · May 7, 2013 2:00 pm

The Civic Role of American Music

Michael Warren · May 7, 2013 9:48 am

FILE - This March 22, 2011 file photo shows rapper Ja Rule inside a vehicle outside Martin Luther King, Jr. Courthouse after pleading guilty to federal tax evasion charges in Newark, N.J. The Federal Bureau of Prisons says Ja Rule, whose real name is Jeffrey Atkins, left a correctional facility in New York's Adirondacks on Tuesday, May 7, 2013, though time remains on his sentence. Ja Rule had served most of a two-year sentence for illegal gun possession in a New York state prison before his release in February and subsequent transfer into federal custody in the tax evasion case. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, file)

Rapper Ja Rule leaves upstate NY federal prison

Washington Examiner · May 7, 2013 4:00 am

Courtesy photo
Marnie Stern

Marnie Stern and her ‘Chronicles’

Nancy Dunham · May 7, 2013 4:00 am

File - This Oct. 17, 2012 file image released by the Las Vegas Police Department shows rapper Flavor Flav, also known as William Jonathan Drayton, Jr., in a police booking photo. Entertainer FlavorÃFlav is expected to plead not guilty in Nevada state court to felony charges alleging he chased and threatened his longtime girlfriend's 17-year-old son with a butcher knife during a family argument last October. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Police Department, file)

Flavor Flav assault trial set for Sept. in Vegas

Washington Examiner · May 7, 2013 4:00 am

Courtesy of the Washington Ballet
"Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises"

‘Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises’ at Kennedy Center

Emily Cary · May 7, 2013 4:00 am

This May 1, 2013 photo shows Iggy Pop, of Iggy & The Stooges, posing for a portrait to promote his new studio album, "Ready To Die," in New York. Born in relative obscurity at their start 40 years ago, the band continues to get more and more popular with age. (Photo by Dan Hallman/Invision/AP)

Age no obstacle for vintage Iggy & the Stooges

Chris Talbott · May 7, 2013 4:00 am

CORRECTS: Lauryn Hill sentenced in NJ to 3 months for failing to pay taxes of about $1M

Washington Examiner · May 6, 2013 10:18 pm

Josh Ritter protests Pa. college’s gay policy

Washington Examiner · May 6, 2013 8:42 pm

Justin Bieber faces copyright lawsuit in Va.

Washington Examiner · May 6, 2013 4:39 pm

FILE - This Dec. 1, 2012 file photo shows Shania Twain performing at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Twain has announced 22 new show dates this fall to round out the first year of her two-year Las Vegas Strip residency. Twain said, Monday, May 6, 2013, that the show at Caesars Palace is "a dream performance scenario" that allows her to balance her roles as a mother and as a country superstar. The 47-year-old Canadian singer known for "Any Man of Mine" and "That Don't Impress Me" made a grand entrance into Sin City on horseback and returned to the stage in December after nearly a decade in hiatus. (Photo by Eric Jamison/Invision/AP, file)

Shania Twain announces fall show dates in Vegas

Michelle Rindels · May 6, 2013 4:00 am

Bjorn Ulvaeus, former member of the Swedish music group ABBA, is photographed during a press preview of 'ABBA The Museum' at the Swedish Music Hall of Fame in Stockholm, Sweden, Monday May 6, 2013. A museum opens in Stockholm on Tuesday to show off band paraphernalia, including the helicopter featured on the cover of their "Arrival" album, a star-shaped guitar and dozens of glitzy costumes the Swedish band wore at the height of its 1970s fame. (AP Photo/Scanpix Sweden/Janerik Henriksson) SWEDEN OUT

Mamma Mia!: ABBA The Museum opens in Stockholm

Malin Rising · May 6, 2013 4:00 am