Conniff, a trombonist and big band leader who made a remarkably prolific and successful transition to orchestral pop composer, leader, and arranger, died at 85 after injuring his head in a fall: A top-selling big band leader and trombonist, Conniff made more than 100 albums, 25 of them reaching the …

Joni Mitchell latest to dump on recording industry: The veteran singer/songwriter, on the promotional trail for a new album, says she is “ashamed” to be part of the music business and may stop recording. “I just think it’s a cesspool,” the 58-year-old folk-rock icon said in the latest issue of …

I was unaware that there is a Delta Blues Museum, but there is and it has a new attraction: The Delta Blues Museum has a new attraction – and it isn’t a musical instrument. “It’s a very vibrant, very entertaining piece,” museum director Tony Czech said recently. “It’s not a …

You know you’ve reached a certain level of cultural penetraton when you are parodied on SNL. I vaguely remember a sketch from last Saturday’s show taking on Dell’s “Steven” character, their relentlessly cheerful and insistent pitchman. Well now the dude may be getting dumped: Dell Computer Corp.’s sales of personal …

The Myth of '18 to 34.'

The labels can: Advance copies of Faith Hill’s new “Cry” album sent by Warner Bros. Records to journalists, retailers and radio programmers included a “watermark” encoded into the disc that identifies each person a copy was sent to. The discs also came with a stern letter from a company lawyer …

Founder/host of seminal radio show coined phrase “Elvis has left the building.” Logan began in radio when he was 16, after winning a contest to become an announcer on KWKH-AM in Shreveport, Louisiana, Mrs. Logan said. He began producing the “Hayride,” a country music show performed before a live KWKH …

"Puppetry of the Penis"

No one ever went broke prying money from the hands of would-be actors: The state of California is clamping down on the practice of “pay to audition” workshops, in which actors pay to be seen. California Labor Commissioner Arthur Lujan is ready to announce a new set of guidelines making …

All information comes from somewhere: the Internet is just a more efficient and rapid delivery system than a library or other physical print archive: Police Monday named the chemistry student they suspect of carrying out Finland’s deadliest bomb attack since World War II and said he used an Internet chat …