Actress Natalie Portman was sent disturbing letters from paedophiles at the beginning of her movie career. The Star Wars star played a young girl who was trained to be an assassin by an older man in Leon when she was just 12...

Welcome back, Walkmen, from the plodding exile of Pussy Cats and (most of) A Hundred Miles Off ! This is the band we fell in love with all those years ago, when we first heard The Rat or Wake Up : Hamilton Leithauser stumbling thro...

Something about the languid days of summer seems to have an inordinately randy effect on gays, who just can’t seem to get their groove on in enough hotspots around the globe...

Progressive should be used to define a band who is searching to make something different, something not expectable. My aims in music, as in different aspects of art, obey to that rule...

Rounding out the top 10 this week is Timbaland, whose album Timbaland Presents: Shock Value slips from #5 with 39k on the week (236k to date)...

Genesis, Heart, Ozzy Osbourne and ZZ Top Rocked Their Most Memorable Songs at VH1's Second Annual 'VH1 Rock Honors' Premiering Thursday, May 24 at 9 pm* on VH1, VH1 Classic and MHD Tribute Performances by Nickelback, Gretchen Wilson, Keane, Alice In Chai...

After a three-year break occasioned in part by wrangles with the Sky label, Swans returned in 1995 with a vengeance, as always pursuing their unique muse of dramatic, ever-more textured music...

opening statement of the music producer's trial in Los Angeles. that 'murder on their mind' they ignored," lawyer Bruce Cutler said, when describing how authorities acted during the investigation...

As a product of the ’80s and growing up outside Philly, this particular LAist poster never got into . Maybe it was the big hair. We don’t know. But we preferred the skinny, pasty guys from England. Think from Duran Duran or...