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Donate your car to the Songs of Love Car donation program

The Songs of Love Foundation is a national nonprofit organization that creates uplifting, personalized songs for children and teens struggling with a life-threatening illness or lifetime disability -- free of charge. Each CD is professionally produced wi...[Read on]

Bad-ass high school students get misogynist songs banned from prom

Love this. Twenty songs that refer to women as "hos" and other derogatory names won't be played at the Arcadia High prom Saturday night. That's because senior Madeline Conrique and fellow members of the Women's Health and Issues Club brokered a deal wit...[Read on]

Bad-ass high school students get misogynist songs banned from prom

Love this. Twenty songs that refer to women as "hos" and other derogatory names won't be played at the Arcadia High prom Saturday night. That's because senior Madeline Conrique and fellow members of the Women's Health and Issues Club brokered a deal wit...[Read on]

Salt-N-Pepa Kick Off Legends of Hip-Hop Tour

Grammy Award Winning and legendary hip-hop icons Salt-N-Pepa are kicking off a 20-city Legends of Hip-Hop Tour! As the first ever female rap crew, Salt-N-Pepa, broke barriers and opened doors wide open that were once closed to women in hip-hop. They gave ...[Read on]

Cool Chick to Watch: Anais Mitchell

Anais Mitchell is not new to the music scene, and although she may not be topping the charts in quite the same way as Lady GaGa, she’s definitely been making her mark. Signed to Ani Difranco’s label, Righteous Babe Records, this sweet-voiced songstres...[Read on]

iTunes gets rights to sell digital Beatles music

At long last, Beatles fans everywhere are smiling. Apple's iTunes store will start carrying music by the Fab Four in a move that will fill a glaring gap in the collection of the world's largest music retailer. The deal with iTunes was delayed in part by o...[Read on]

Purevolume: Unsigned bands you should be tuning into

As college students, we all know that we could use a distraction every once in a while. One of my favorite websites for that much needed distraction is Purevolume. It is a website dedicated to getting the word out about bands that you’ve probably never ...[Read on]

Sia: An artist that captures your soul

You probably haven’t heard her music on the radio or seen her playing around your town, but Sia has been in music game for 12 years now. Born as Sia Kate Isobelle Furler in Adelaide, Australia, the artist started her musical career in acid jazz and ind...[Read on]

Musical Mondays: Insatiable Banshees

This is a weekly installment I’ll be doing, well, weekly! It’s easy and fun, and works like so: Pick the book you’re currently reading, then think of a song or album that best matches the book. Even hitting shuffle on your musical player will do th...[Read on]

“To Japan With Love” Concert to Feature Yoko Ono and Patti Smith

Patti Smith and Yoko Ono will perform Tuesday night in Manhattan to raise funds for Japanese relief. Photographs from PatrickMcMullan.com. Tuesday night, Manhattan’s Le Poisson Rouge will host “To Japan With Love,” a benefit concert featuring avant-...[Read on]

Music: Top albums worth saving for

The decade following 2000 was filled with a plethora of music shockers, from American Idol cliffhangers to Michael Jackson’s unfortunate death. Americans no longer find themselves using CD players to jam out to their favorite tunes; the introduction of ...[Read on]

Sharon Robinson produces one of Rolling Stone’s 100 Best Albums of the Decade

Sharon Robinson backstage at the Bowl. Photo credit: Greg Gold Record producing in Hollywood is no girl’s club. In the music biz women generally sing, write songs, and maybe get a shot at a record exec spot, but rarely find themselves the sole produce...[Read on]

Soundtrack to a Chick’s Life: Great Songs For Every iPod

Personally, I think One Tree Hill’s Peyton Sawyer said it best on Peyton’s Podcast: “Sometimes, things find you when you need them to find you, I believe that. For me, it’s usually song lyrics.” Almost every chick has had a moment in her life w...[Read on]

Vancouver 2010 Olympics Watch: Ice Dancers Meryl Davis and Charlie White

Charlie White and Meryl Davis. Courtesy of NBC/USOC. At the U.S. Figure Skating Championships this weekend, Charlie White, 22, flipped Meryl Davis, 23, over his shoulder and skated backwards on one leg as she faced the opposite direction and balanced on h...[Read on]

Musical Mondays: Superstition Time

So what’s “Musical Monday”? Just pick the book you’re currently reading, then think of a song or album that best matches the book. Even hitting shuffle on your musical player will do the trick. I don’t know about you, but songs pop into my head ...[Read on]

Buy Me Love: Beatles Songs Reportedly Coming to iTunes

Hot on the heels of Facebook’s quasi-resurrection of Google Wave—“It’s not e-mail”—comes an announcement from Apple. Though the big reveal is not scheduled until 10 a.m., last night, word broke that Steve Jobs might soon be welcoming the Beatl...[Read on]

What was Pepsi thinking?

WTF? No exactly sure what they were thinking, but Pepsi recently created an iPhone application called "AMP UP Before You Score" -- aimed at helping men "score" with women -- to promote its AMP energy drink. The application provides pick-up lines and othe...[Read on]

Musical Mondays: Wild Love

So what’s “Musical Monday”? Just pick the book you’re currently reading, then think of a song or album that best matches the book. Even hitting shuffle on your musical player will do the trick. I don’t know about you, but songs pop into my head ...[Read on]

Musical Mondays: Head Baker