Rapper Kid Cudi has been arrested on criminal charges in New York City.
Sgt. John Butorn says Cudi was arrested Friday on charges of criminal mischief and criminal possession of a controlled substance.
Cudi was scheduled to perform early Saturday at Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Tennessee. After taking the stage, he said, "I really wanted to be here tonight."
Cudi released his debut album "Man on the Moon: The End of Day" in 2009. The Cleveland native also co-stars in the HBO cable television comedy series "How to Make It in America."

A new purported will from deceased actor Gary Coleman has surfaced that could complicate the settling of his estate, according to a news report.
The will filed with 4th District Court in Provo, Utah, on Friday names Anna Gray as the beneficiary of his estate, The Salt Lake Tribune reported in its Saturday edition.

NEW YORK (AP) -- It's often joked that more people like to claim that they were at Woodstock in 1969 than were actually there.
For today's music mega-festivals, thanks to the Internet, such boasting is entirely plausible. And at the Tennessee music festival Bonaroo,  perhaps as many, or more, will watch Jay-Z, the National, Norah Jones and many others at YouTube.com/bonnaroo.

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) -- Singer R. Kelly said he hopes his new World Cup anthem can inspire people in much the same way as his signature song "I Believe I Can Fly."

Rapper Lil Jon is going on record about why rappers dig rock music, why women dig dance music and why he thinks you should dig his new CD, 'Crunk Rock.'

UNIVERSAL CITY, California – The hunks from "Twilight." A girl-on-girl kiss. Katy Perry and Christina Aguilera in skimpy costumes. The MTV Movie Awards were all they could be Sunday.

(NNPA) - A section of Interstate 40 in Tennessee is a step closer to being named after legendary soul musician Isaac Hayes, according to Eurweb.

Although Taio Cruz's debut album, out this week, is called "Rokstarr,'' he wears the pop-genre label proudly.
But Cruz -- who recently had a No. 1 hit with the song "Break Your Heart" -- knows some people don't have much respect for pop.

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Ali-Ollie Woodson, who led the legendary Motown quintet The Temptations in the 1980s and '90s and helped restore them to their hit-making glory with songs including "Treat Her Like A Lady," has died, a friend said. He was 58.