WASHINGTON -- Earlier this year, the U.S. postal service revealed plans for a new stamp set called Music Icons. The series shines the spotlight on three American originals. The first issue in the Music Icon series honored Lydia Mendoza, a pioneer of Tejano music, the style that comes from the Texas-Mexico border area. Lydia Mendoza was 18 years old when she walked into a San Antonio studio ...

Photo credit: Parker Radcliffe You've heard of "Jock Jams," right? There's a reason those dance-music compilations were so popular. They got the party started right -- and quickly -- but they were also upbeat and fun to listen to, making what many dreaded, namely exercise, a bit easier. While the songs may have changed somewhat, (despite the '90s musical renaissance), ...

She's already thinking about a second Spanish-language collection Natalie Cole's first trip outside the USA was to Mexico, with her father, when she was 8 years old. At that time, Nat King Cole was promoting his first Spanish-language album, 1958's Cole Espanol. It was an enormous success throughout Latin America, spawning two follow-up recordings -- and now, 55 years later, his ...

Melissa Etheridge at the 19th Annual Steve Chase Humanitarian Awards held at the Palm Springs Convention Centre on Feb. 9, 2013. (Dimitri Halkidis/WENN ...

MANCHESTER, TN – JUNE 16: Kacey Musgraves performs during day 4 of the 2013 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival on June 16, 2013 in Manchester, Tennessee. (Photo by Gary ...

George Jones ' life and career is being planned after his wife Nancy assigned the story rights to 28 Entertainment, a California-based film production company. Written by Dennis L. Baxter and produced by Baxter and 28 Entertainment's Jay Hoffman and Brian A. Hoffman, the film depicts the late singer's status as a country music legend while battling his personal demons. Jones had ...

Mumford & Sons bassist Ted Dwane is home and recovering from surgery after doctors discovered a clot on the surface of his brain. Following Dwane's illness, the Grammy-winning band canceled their remaining U.S. tour dates, including shows at Bonnaroo in Manchester, Tenn., and the Telluride Bluegrass Festival in Telluride, Colo. Dwane has posted a photo and message on the band's ...

Country music band Heath Wright and the Hangmen had more than $13,000 in instruments and equipment stolen while in Omaha for a show over the weekend. Heath Wright is also the front man for the country group Ricochet. Some members of the group were staying at the Motel 6 at 84th and I-80 when their van full of equipment was broken into early Saturday morning in the motel parking lot. ...

Finland's RadioCity conducted an interview with bassist Rachel Bolan of American rockers SKID ROW when the band played in Helsinki on June 6.

William Clark of Music Enthusiast Magazine recently conducted an interviewe with QUEENSRŸCHE singer Todd La Torre.

Swedish hard rockers EUROPE have released the following statement: "So! A Swedish band called SABATON has gone platinum in Sweden, selling 40,000 units [of their latest album, 'Carolus Rex'].

Drummer Jean-Paul Gaster of Maryland rockers CLUTCH has uploaded a new video update from the band's current European tour.

Nick Stahl, the troubled Terminator 3 star, has reportedly been placed on a 5150 psychiatric hold in a Los Angeles hospital. The actor, whose struggle with substance abuse and often erratic behavior has made headlines in recent years, was taken to a facility early Tuesday, according to TMZ.

Armie Hammer really opens up in a new Playboy interview, with The Lone Ranger star even admitting that the magazine got him in trouble as a kid. "I almost got kicked out of eighth grade for selling Playboy," he explains. "Me and this guy had a ring where we’d bring magazines packaged with a bottle of lotion to school — brilliant business plan, wasn’t it? — and sell them to the kids for $20." Unfortunately, a teacher found out.

Miley Cyrus knows how to party in the U.S.A. In a candid interview with Rolling Stone, the "We Can't Stop" singer is asked about rumors that she enjoys marijuana. "You can't ask someone that and expect them to say yes," she tells the magazine. "I did a song with Snoop Dogg called 'Ashtrays and Heartbreaks,' so people can put it together for themselves."

Miss Utah Marissa Powell got a chance to redeem herself after flubbing a question about women's income inequality during Sunday's Miss USA competition. See how she did here!

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures has closed a deal for domestic distribution on Dumb And Dumber To, the sequel to the classic comedy that brings back Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels, with Peter and Bobby Farrelly directing their rewrite of the script by Sean Anders and John Morris. Wolf Of Wall Street financier Red Granite is stepping up to finance the $35 million budget film and sell foreign territories. Deadline reported this is how it would likely go after Warner Bros finally stepped away from the project, after hovering over it like a dark cloud since January. That studio will retain a participation stake in the film, but its exit made all this possible. All this is going down as we speak, and now the scheduling will begin for a movie that will find its way into production very quickly, with Conundrum’s Bradley Thomas and The Farrellys producing with Charlie Wessler. The film will be PG-13 like the original, and once again it puts Lloyd (Carrey) and Harry (Daniels) back on a road trip. The urgency has to do with scheduling: Daniels needs to do it soon before returning for his Aaron Sorkin HBO series The Newsroom. Carrey also has that bank heist comedy at Relativity with Jared Hess directing and Owen Wilson co-starring. For physical comedy fans, this is a real win. ... Read More »

EXCLUSIVE: Liam Neeson, Salma Hayek, John Krasinski, Frank Langella, Alfred Molina and Quvenzhané Wallis have all joined the voice cast of Khalil Gibran’s The Prophet, the animated feature film written and directed by Roger Allers, whose animation credits include directing Disney’s The Lion King and Open Season and whose writing and storyboard work encompasses such films as Aladdin, Beauty And The Beast, and The Little Mermaid. The film is being produced by Hayek, Clark Peterson, and Ron Senkowski. Allers’ script was inspired by The Prophet, the iconic book that is one of the biggest sellers in history, north of 100 million copies in over 40 languages since it was first published by Alfred Knopf in 1923. Allers is directing the narrative story, while individual chapters based on Gibran’s poems are being helmed by animation directors from around the world, including Tomm Moore (The Secret Of Kells), Joan Gratz (Mona Lisa Descending A Staircase), Bill Plympton (Guard Dog And Your Face), Nina Paley (Sita Sings The Blues), Joann Sfar (The Rabbi’s Cat), Paul and Gaetan Brizzi (Fantasia 2000), Michal Socha (Chick) and Mohammed Harib (Freej). The Prophet is on track for completion in spring of 2014.

EXCLUSIVE: I’ve learned that Oxygen has quietly given the green light to Secret Celebrity, a reality series produced by T Group Prods, which Wendy Williams executive produces as part of her first-look deal with the cable network. Per Oxygen’s description when the project was announced in February as being in development, Secret Celebrity features stars in disguise as they surprise unsuspecting fans, friends and family. I hear celebrities who already have filmed episodes of the show include Nick Lachey, Ice-T & Coco and LuAnn de Lesseps, who just signed on to return to The Real Housewives Of New York on sibling Bravo. T Group’s Jenny Daly executive produces with Williams and Gunnar Wetterberg.

In the latest upheaval at NBC‘s ratings-challenged Today show, longtime director Joe Michaels has been named senior director of the show, the network said today. No word from NBC on what his specific responsibilities will be, but a source with knowledge of the situation says he will manage large initiatives and projects on the technical/directorial side, such as Today’s coverage of the Winter Olympics next February. There’s no word on who would be replacing Michaels as director of the morning news show. Today‘s ratings have been slipping for years but the program managed to keep its No. 1 slot until Ann Curry’s ouster last June. Since then, ABC’s Good Morning America has taken over the top spot. Last month GMA continued its dominance over Today by beating the NBC show by 1.6 million viewers. That’s the largest single-day total viewership spread GMA has had in fast affiliate results over the NBC show since May 18, 1994. Related: Katie Couric Was Courted To Return To ‘Today’: Video

They're lifesavers for thousands of people across East Tennessee, and Tuesday they got some thank yous. The American Heart Association awarded UT Medical Center with four separate awards for patient care. The doctors and nurses weren't the only groups to see thanks for their work. "It's a team effort here and we take that to heart. There's a lot of people behind the ...

ATLANTA-Jennifer C. Alsdorf has been indicted on charges of health care fraud and wire fraud for filing over $500,000 in fraudulent claims with the Georgia Medicaid program. "This defendant is charged with robbing Medicaid of over half-a-million dollars intended for children in need. Her alleged fraud includes billing for medical services never performed, for patients never seen, and in the ...

A new report by the American Academy of Pediatrics says children who have a loved one serving overseas in a war time deployment are at increased risk of social, emotional, and behavioral problems. 1 in 4 of those children will show signs of depression. Susan McGinnis ...

Something as old as mankind itself is helping keep preterm babies alive -- the lullaby. Research finds that music has become an important new ally for babies who are born too soon and struggle to breathe and eat. The neonatal intensive care unit in a hospital is filled with technology that helps keep the hospital's tiniest, most fragile patients alive. At New York-Presbyterian ...

Looks from the resort collections of (from left) Valentino, Marc Jacobs and Chlo. Gone are the days of referring to the pre-spring collections as ';cruise.'; Yet several resort collections this season seemed high-seas-ready. Interpretations of the United States Navy uniform were both indirect (a very casual denim ensemble ...

and news organizations about access and control. Like many professional sports associations with billion-dollar TV rights deals, the USTA doesn't allow just anybody with video cameras to show up at the U.S. Open. Instead, for those who want to cover the annual tennis competition with video equipment in tow, something more is required -- an invitation. The lawsuit says that the filmmakers ...

columns and arches, the attendees all wore Monsters U royal blue, and a marching band and some acrobatic cheerleaders kicked off the evening with a custom Monsters U chant. Sulley and Mike Wazowski clearly made the right choice when it came to their higher education. EW was on the scene and spoke to some of the cast and crew, new and old, about the film, the new characters to look forward to, ...

A worker at the Trinity Cemetery in Manhattan noticed last week that the gravestone's inscription shaved 18 years off the mayor's life after a stonecutter transposed two digits in his birth year, a Trinity spokeswoman said on ...

It doesn't take an Einstein to see that international differences can still crop up on the final frontier: Take the case of the European Space Agency's Einstein cargo craft, for example. Russian concerns about some potentially moldy cargo bags caused a holdup in the schedule for unloading seven tons of ...

On June 18, 1983, Sally Ride became the first American woman in space as she and four colleagues blasted off from Kennedy Space Center aboard the space shuttle Challenger for a 147-hour mission. NBC's Robert Bazell Reports from Cape Canaveral, ...

And like its real-world counterparts, the cheetah-cub robot is nimble and stable, providing a platform for future research in all types of efficient robot ...

Jean-Jacques Dordain, European Space Agency (ESA) Director General, welcomes Jean-Marc Ayrault, the French Prime Minister at the Inauguration of the Paris Air Show on June 17, ...

BLACK DIAMOND, Alberta -- He was drying off his freshly washed car.That's what the Canadian man told the Mounties when they stopped him doing 180 kilometers per hour (112 mph) south on Highway 22 south of Black Diamond, Alberta in Western Canada.The driver, a 67-year-old who lives in the area, was in court Monday. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said Tuesday the judge fined the man ...

EDMONTON - Road 13 Honest John's Red 2011, Okanagan, B.C.; $26.99; CSPC: 290684"It's all about the dirt." A simple, concise, seemingly obvious statement, yet inexplicably ignored by too many wineries around the world. But the motto ...

This 6,018-sq-ft penthouse condo at 1139 W. Cordova St. in Vancouver features three bedrooms with private sundecks, five bathrooms, rooftop deck with patio and 360-degree views of the North Shore, Burrard Inlet, Stanley Park and downtown Vancouver. Take a ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A trained gymnast whose naked acrobatics and harassment of passengers at a San Francisco public transit station were captured on video and circulated widely on the Internet is facing criminal charges over his antics, authorities said on ...