Overwhelmed by the lawsuit and the media attention over her affair with a two-timer.

CHICAGO (AP) -- Erykah Badu has been known to use a beat machine and a laptop during her performances, but on the last day of the Lollapalooza music festival, the Grammy-award winning singer blew a shiny whistle.

And the debate has begun: Is the song a treatise against (or apology for) domestic violence, or an irresponsible glorification of it? Or, is it something uncomfortable in between? And how exactly to explain the role of Rihanna, who has said she aims to help young people learn the lessons of her ordeal?

Recording artist Alice Cooper hosted freak show auditions at the London Dungeon for his upcoming Halloween party

On Saturday, environmentalism, diversity and music come together like nothing before at Fernhill Park in Northeast Portland. Powered entirely by solar panels, the concert aims to raise awareness of emerging technologies and will act as a fund-raiser for the up and coming nonprofit, Minority Information Outreach.

Aretha had a fall and broke ribs that now cause abdominal pain. She will have to miss two concerts in New York but she says she is recovering. With Video.

CHICAGO (AP) -- When rapper K'Naan was recording songs peppered with tales about warfare, poverty and despair in his native Somalia, there were people who told him he should consider abandoning his socially conscious frame of mind for material that wasn't so somber. Most of those people were Somalis, K'Naan recalls.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Call her Mrs. Beatz. Alicia Keys has married producer Swizz Beatz (Swiss Beats), with whom she is expecting her first child.
A representative for Keys on Sunday confirmed the wedding.

Yes, you read that right. Wisconsinites are now on record as attracting more people than ever to dance Thriller

LONDON (AP) -- An online parody of a Jay-Z hit that swaps New York's metropolis for a modest Welsh port town has won hundreds of thousands of fans, the director of the spoof said Wednesday.