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Although we are all still aghast about abreast (I amuse myself), the Grammys are this Sunday, February 8 on CBS. I have two previews on MSNBC.com, country music and on rap – eclectic, no? The country music preview: The vitality of what has come to be called “country music” is …

Grand name, eh? When I was a kid we lived a few miles from Marineland – we used to go pretty often. It was low-keyed, relatively inexpensive, and not nearly the major production Disneyland was. We even rode our bikes out there sometimes. Then, in the early ’80s, when I …

In the ’70s Pink Floyd evolved from a relatively popular psychedelia-and-experimental-noise band to the superstar album rock heroes they are known as today. The key albums in this transition were Meddle, Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here and Animals. With the dawn of the ’80s came the …

We watched the Super Bowl – who didn’t – and were paying a fair amount of attention to the halftime show, but never even had a hint that anything “peculiar” had happened until I ran downstairs and did a quick check of Blogcritics. We were getting 5,000 visitors an hour. …

The top 100 metal guitarists? Let the debate begin...

Like a layer of snow (though the persistent cold is debilitating, the snow, ice and sunshine sure are purdy) obscures the details of what lies below, rendering only indistinct outlines, so does the gag order in the Michael Jackson case yield indistinct but potentially fascinating lumps: Sheriff’s investigators from Santa …

Energized by the egregious RAVE Act, the electronic dance music community has become politicized. Rock the Vote is tapping into this February 5 in Los Angeles: Internationally acclaimed DJ and musician PAUL VAN DYK will headline the second annual DJs Rock the Vote show Thursday, February 5 at Avalon Hollywood …

The Jackson family – after 40 years in showbiz and with a who’s who list of friends and acquaintances – has chosen … … Firpo Carr to speak for them regarding the scabrous allegations made against Michael in the new Vanity Fair by Jackson nemesis Maureen Orth. Um, Firpo Carr? …

Regarding the economy, it’s something of a self-fulfilling prophesy: if enough people think it’s getting better, they will behave as if it’s getting better, and then it WILL get better. So this means a lot: Consumer confidence rose in January to its best level since November of 2000, amid an …

The latest on the BBC controversy, now flavored with updates!