Black Friday grab bag
With Thanksgiving dinner officially out of America's system, one thing to do: go buy stuff! Last week, a plethora of new albums, ranging from Paramore to Paul McCartney, Trace Adkins to Tom Jones, were released ...

White, Prymus, Sloan, Tower, Tonex Open in Princess and the Black-Eyed Pea De...
The Princess and the Black-Eyed Pea , a soulful musical based on the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, starring Tony Award winner Lillias White as a meddling queen, opens Dec.

Rep musical modernizes 'Princess' fairy tale with a hip vibe
The cast of San Diego Repertory Theatre's world premiere of "The Princess and the Black-Eyed Pea," from left, includes Ken Prymus Jr., Lilias White, Sabrina Sloan, Josh Tower, Jennifer Leigh Warren and Tonex.

You Can Feel It
It's good to be king for Ken Prymus and Lillias White, reigning royals of the Kingdom of Torel in "The Princess and the Black-Eyed Pea." - SEAN M. HAFFEY / Union-Tribune - His fables have been remade into so ...

Musical based on 'The Color Purple' slowly works up head of steam
The story may be the same, but a 20-song score adds some welcome new hues to "The Color Purple," the musical that's based on Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.

The Lee Boys Bring Sacred Steel Gospel Funk to Boone Saloon December 4
For people who don't know the true meaning of the term, sacred steel sounds like some second rate gangster movie with too many guns and too little plot.

What's Love Got To... - Tina Tur...
The most dynamic female soul singer in the history of the music, Tina Turner oozed sexuality from every pore in a performing career that began the moment she stepped onstage as lead singer of the Ike & Tina ...

Razor of Occam Signs With Metal Blade Records
RAZOR OF OCCAM , the London, England-based black/thrash metal band featuring members of DESTROYER 666 and ADORIOR , has inked a deal with Metal Blade Records.

The Best Christian Albums of 2008
As we went back into the process of selecting the year's best albums, some of the panelists expressed initial concern that there weren't enough great releases in 2008.

Kid Rock: not your average storyteller
There was a time when "VH1 Storytellers" was a low-key affair, stripped-down cousin of "MTV Unplugged" that allowed artists to offer intimate insights about their music.

White and Prymus Are Royals in Princess and the Black-Eyed Pea, Nov. 23-Dec. ...
The Princess and the Black-Eyed Pea , a soulful musical based on the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, gets its world premiere by San Diego REPertory Theatre Nov.

It's time for a playlist of essential Madge tunes
Madonna is many things to different people, but it's safe to say that fans and foes of the singer/sometimes actress would agree that she's never been complacent.

On To Be Free, Nina Simone's voice tests time
Nina Simone was born Eunice Kathleen Waymon in 1933, in the small town of Tryon, N.C., but she changed her name in the mid-1950s so that her family and the townspeople who had funded her study at Juilliard ...

Jeremy Camp: Louder Than Before, Pt. 2 In the second of a three-part...
Read his first Q&A with his labelmates... Red and Yellow, Black and White Andrew Greer During a recent stop in Nashville as part of the unique a oeArt*Music*Justice Tour,a Sara Groves and Brandon... GRITS ...

Make Obama's Inauguration a People's Celebration
Many of us got a little dopey after Barack Obama's big win on election night. People started talking to deceased friends and relatives who would have dug seeing this amazing thing that America had done.

Beau Dozier - T-Pain
The Blog of beaudozier6 Message beaudozier6 Browse See beaudozier6's Blog beaudozier6's Profile Share Sponsors Help Beau Dozier - T-Pain Beau Dozier - T-Pain T-Pain While Pain's following ate it up, ...

Songs she wrote
Nyro began writing songs as a young girl. She went to the High School of Music and Art in Manhattan and concentrated on writing songs.