Music

Air Supply, the soft rock duo of British guitarist and vocalist Graham Russell and Australian vocalist Russell Hitchcock, are on their way back to the Philippines.

With his stocky build and his thick glasses, Bo Diddley didn't look like a typical rock 'n' roll star. The rectangular-bodied electric guitar he played didn't look like the instruments other rock 'n' rollers played. The beat he favored, which came to be known as the Bo Diddley beat -- three strokes, then a rest, then two more -- was not a typical rock'n'roll rhythm. But Diddley, who died yesterday at age 79, was one of the architects of rock'n'roll, his influence rivaled only by artists such as Chuck Berry, Little Richard and Fats Domino.

Can Raki Vega do what Vina Morales did during last year's ASEAN IKON competition? Last year, Vina brought pride to the country when she was hailed as the winner in the solo artist category of the regional singing competition held in Malaysia.

American rap music is an industry ruled by machismo. It is a place where reputations are made by shady pasts, the aura of violence and ultra-masculinity. But now an explosive new book is lifting the lid on one of hip hop's most unexpected secrets: that many people in the business are gay.

ORLANDO, Fla., May 5 /PRNewswire/ -- With the launch of Hard Rock's historic new memorabilia website, http://memorabilia.hardrock.com/, the greatest collection of music artifacts is now available to millions of fans worldwide at the click of a mouse.

How does it feel to share the limelight with rock legend Bob Dylan? This year's Pulitzer Prizes in honored two musical innovators who tend to reject categorization: A special citation went to singer-songwriter Dylan, and the annual music award went to composer and Los Angeles native David Lang.

BOSTON (AP) - They may be pushing 40, but the New Kids are returning to the block. The boy band New Kids on the Block, which sold 70 million albums in the 1980s and early '90s, has reunited and plans to release a new album and go on tour. The reunion comes 20 years after the release of the group's multiplatinum album, "Hanging Tough."

The fourth Mosaic Music Festival in Singapore last Thursday saw a phenomenal show by Thailand's indie heroes Moderndog, with a groove that swept through the crowd and got many up on their feet and dancing. But the band mixed up-tempo numbers with slower songs backed by acoustic bass guitar and piano.

'Look tung' veteran demands that fellow artist Yodrak Salakjai prove he really is dying from cancer before including him in benefit concert billing

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Drummer Buddy Miles, who played with Jimi Hendrix in his short-lived group, Band of Gypsys, died at his home in Austin, Texas on Tuesday, his publicist said.