• D'Angelo 'Saturday Night Live' Performance: R&B Legend Honors Mike Brown, Eric Garner [WATCH]

    Fans have waited on a new D'Angelo album for more than a decade, and he finally returned to the mainstream with "Black Messiah" at the end of 2014. Despite the lengthy wait, several reports indicated that he rushed the album out in order to provide as swift a response as possible in the aftermath of the "Black Lives Matter" protests spurred by the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. During the second song of his Saturday Night Live performance this weekend, the R&B legend rocked a hoodie in memory of Trayvon Martin while his band The Vanguard sported shirts reading "I CAN'T BREATHE" and "BLACK LIVES MATTER."

  • Seattle vs. New England: Spotify Compares and Contrasts Music Listening in Super Bowl Competitiors' Hometowns

    Music Times made an attempt several weeks ago to predict the winner of the Super Bowl based on quality of albums coming out of the regions represented in the AFC and NFC Championship Games. So far so good: Seattle is facing New England, as we predicted, but will the Seahawks triumph? Who knows? Not Spotify. The music streaming service did use its numbers-tracking technology to create two playlists of songs representing the performers that listeners in the respective regions listen in far greater numbers than their foes on the opposite coast.

  • Bobbi Kristina Brown Placed on Ventilator: Drug Overdose Is Suspected

    Yesterday, Jan. 31, we told you that Bobbi Kristina Brown, the only child of the late Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown, was found face down in a bathtub full of water, unresponsive. Now, just 24 hours later, Brown is on a ventilator and in a drug-induced coma with family and friends by her side. Investigators are trying to piece together what exactly happened to Brown before she lost consciousness and, while her family denies it, a drug overdose is reportedly suspected.

  • Max Graef Making U.S. Debut with 10 North American Shows, Including Mexico and Canada Dates [SCHEDULE]

    Berlin underground house music performer Max Graef will be coming to North America for his first appearances in the United States and elsewhere, and fortunately he's doing more than just the handful of gigs in New York and Los Angeles, as many are wont to do in his line of work. He'll kick off the tour during March in Chicago and then play another nine gigs across the continent, including one in Mexico and two in Canada

  • Jennifer Aniston Reveals That Her 'Friends' Role Almost Went to Courteney Cox

    Can you imagine if another actress other than Jennifer Aniston had been cast as Rachel Green in Friends? Well, the actress was making the rounds at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival on Friday when she divulged that for a short while it looked as though the part was going to go to someone else.

  • Kylie and Kendall Jenner Worry That People Will Continue To Make Fun of Bruce During His 'Transformation'

    It has been a really interesting week for the Kardashian and Jenner families, hasn't it? The general public now knows for sure that Bruce Jenner is not only going ahead with full gender reassignment surgery, but he is documenting it for a reality series of his own. That, will begin airing in either May or June on E!. In the meantime, his family has reportedly known for a long while what he's in the process of doing and while they support him, they fear for the reaction once he fully transitions into a woman.

  • Casey Kasem's Family Wants His Widow Jean To Be Charged with Elder Abuse

    Casey Kasem, an iconic voice of radio and television may have died last June but the feud between his children and his widow, Jean Kasem, is alive and well. Late last year his daughter, Kerri Kasem, went to the LAPD alleging that their father had been a victim of elder abuse and that Jean had refused to embalm her husband to prevent proof of abuse from being revealed. While the situation has been under investigation, it didn't prevent Kasem from being buried in Oslo, Norway 6 months after his death. Now Kerri is demanding that investigators file charges against Jean.

  • NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell's 'Soul Searching' Has Lead Him to Decide That He'll Never Resign

    It has been a really bad season for NFL commissioner Roger Goodell who has had to deal with one scandal after another since last September. There have been various domestic violence cases within the league, Adrian Peterson was accused of abusing his young son and then there was the Ray Rice scandal that has yet to fully go away. While Goodell has insisted that he never say the surveillance footage of Rice knocking his wife out cold, until the whole world saw it on TMZ, not many seem to believe him. Then came deflategate, a situation that has yet to be resolved even though the Super Bowl is just hours away.
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