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Watch: Amanda Palmer’s excellent TED talk

This article originally posted at Mashable.com Ask attendees what they most remember about the TED 2013 conference, wrapping up Friday in Long Beach, USA, and here’s one of the most frequent answers you’ll get: Amanda Palmer. The former Dresden Dolls singer is the first to admit, as she does in her TED talk, above, that her punk cabaret music isn’t for everyone

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Elliot Carter is dead at 103

Avant-garde composer Elliott Carter, who won the Pulitzer Prize twice in a career spanning nearly eight decades, has died in New York at the age of 103, a music publisher said on Nov 6. Carter had composed 158 works, from early pieces like Symphony No. 1 (1942) and Holiday Overture (1944) to this year’s Dialogues […]

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Rihanna’s Releases New Single with Ex-Beau Chris Brown

     Rihanna Releases Single with Ex Beau, Chris Brown titled “Nobodies Business.”   Duet with Ex Chris Brown    Rihanna’s much-hyped duet Nobodies Business with ex-boyfriend Chris Brown has been released. There is already buzz around her upcoming album Unapologetic which is set to release on November 19. The romantic song Nobodies Business is […]

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Taylor Swift Shares Her Songwriting Process

“Songs start in strange, quirky ways” Swift on be a songwriter.    Taylor Swift was recently the feature guest of VH1’s “Storytellers” where she shared, among other things, her song writing process.   Swift Going to be Featured on VH1’s “Storytellers”  When the news broke that Taylor Swift would be featured on an upcoming episode […]

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Snoop Lion Transformation Is ‘All Snoop,’ Kurupt Says

Kurupt Discusses, among other things, Snoop Lions Musical Transformation.   Snoop Dogg (The Artist Formerly Known as Snoop Dogg) has recently underwent grown and transformation as an artist. To shed his old persona and embrace the new, he went to far as to change his name from Dogg to Lion. Fellow rapper and friend, MC […]

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A Woman Has Been Arrested 4 times in 26 hours for Loud Music, Assault

A New Hampshire Woman Has Been Arrested Four Times in The Past 26 Hours For The Same Charges; Playing Music Too Loud (Guns & Roses, AC/DC were among the tunes for which she was playing at high decibels) and Assault. One of the assault charges allegedly stems from her throwing a frying pan at her nephew.    […]

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Elton John Calls Madonna a “Fairground Stripper”

  In a new interview with Australia’s Channel 7, Elton John calls Madonna‘s current tour a “disaster” that “couldn’t happen to a bigger cunt” which really isn’t a polite thing to say to a woman who has to carry around an anti-death device just to make it past breakfast. “If Madonna had any common sense, she would have made a […]

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