The Recording Academy, whose annual Grammy Awards “recognize excellence in music,” announced earlier today that they’ve cut the amount of categories used to acknowledge that greatness to 78. The top always-televised awards—Album of the Year,…
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Prince 8:00 PM Los Angeles Forum Inglewood CA May 26, 27, 29
One of the five charges in Barry Bonds’ perjury trial has been dropped and the defense has rested without calling a single witness. Bonds’ attorney Allen Ruby announced the move Wednesday morning. Declining to call…
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Alicia Keys is about to add to her resume by getting behind the camera for the Lifetime network. The R&B songstress has signed-on as one of four directors in a new omnibus film about breast…
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Rachelle Ferrell 8:00 PM Catalina Bar & Grill 6725 Sunset Boulevard Los Angeles, 90028 Map this location! (323) 466-2210
7:30 pm Santa Monica College Performing Arts Center 1310 11th Street Santa Monica, CA. Branford Marsalis isn’t just a three-time Grammy Award-winning saxophonist. He’s a composer, a producer and has played with a who’s…
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As a follow up to the platinum-selling Soldier Of Love, which spent three weeks at the top of the Billboard album chart and garnered a well-deserved Grammy, Sade is back with The Ultimate Collection to…
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On January 20th, 2012 Lucafilm with distribution from Twentieth Century Fox released a major motion picture based on the heroics of the Tuskegee Airmen titled “RED TAILS”. The Tuskegee Airmen were the first African American…
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w / Dale Fielder Tribute Quintet 9:30 PM The World Stage 4344 Degnan Blvd Los Angeles, 90008 (323) 293-2451 Trumpeter Donald Byrd’s music traversed several musical styles during the course of his prolific career, beginning…
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Aretha Franklin says she’s back at “150 percent” and plans her first post-surgery concert in May. Franklin said in an interview Wednesday with The Associated Press that she’s set to perform at the Seneca Niagara…
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