South by Southwest is right around the corner, and Coachella's already prepping its polo grounds for a two-weekend extravaganza, which means it's time to look forward to that third major warm-climate festival: Bonnaroo.
While the average American's understanding of the conflict in Kosovo is a simple, two-sided Sneetch-battle between the mountainous region's dominant Serbian minority and oppressed Albanian majority, the reality is a lot more convoluted than a Wikipedia page or morning radio parody of the Beach Boys' "Kokomo" can accurately convey. In addition to the Serbs in the north and Albanians in the south, Kosovo is host to a pizza pie of smaller ethnic groups like Gorans, Illyrians, and Roma scattered in enclaves throughout the entire country.
Foster the People has done what many bands strive to do: make commercial indie-sounding pop, which is kind of an oxymoron, like "jumbo shrimp" or "daily special."
There once was a time -- like, oh, the late 1990s -- when the box set loomed over the music world like a just reward. With dazzling presentations -- 3-D brains! Lucite cubes! portable faux-phonographs! -- and equally unrestrained liner notes, these CD collections were the ultimate capstone to an artist's career or the last word in genre compilations.
Forget sitting by a roaring fire as snow falls outside -- for many there's no better place to celebrate the festive season than by the water's edge on a warm summer's evening.
If you lived pretty much anywhere in America, Katy Perry's "California Gurls" most likely followed you from the beach, to the car, to the grocery store last summer.
In an interview with BBC 6 Music, Beach Boys mastermind Brian Wilson hinted that the group may reunite in the studio to celebrate their 50th anniversary.
The Dixie Chicks frontwoman tackles the Beach Boys's classic "God Only Knows" for the Big Love finale
When Sam Beam stepped into the spotlight on Iron and Wine's 2002 debut, he was a novelty act. That acoustic guitar, that soothingly sweet tenor voice, that flowing mountain-man beard? Pop music hadn't seen anything like it since the heyday of Cat Stevens. But Beam's songs -- sincere folk churners full of backwoods beauty and subtle psychedelia -- had a weird magic all their own.
"How do these younger generations, with the way radio is today, get turned on to great acts?," John Stamos recently asked Rolling Stone.
America loves its outlaws, but few of us actually dare to live the lifestyle. Veteran LIFE photographer Bill Ray got about as close as anyone, riding along with a notorious biker gang.
Veteran LIFE photographer Bill Ray spent a month photographing a rough-and-tumble biker gang in 1965
The actor/musician takes PEOPLE.com along as he celebrates his 47th birthday with his Full House family, a gig with the Beach Boys and a visit with some very special friends
The dirty and tattered piece of paper, with remnants of thick black industrial-strength tape still stuck to its edges, would not necessarily seem to be a harbinger of summer.
It's 8 a.m. in a San Diego hotel ballroom, and the annual DEMOfall conference is under way. VCs and journalists stifle yawns and peck at laptops. After a morning of scripted pitches by startups that promise to "integrate smartphone remote mobile applications" or "monetize social networks by enabling live social interaction around content," the coffee break can't come soon enough.
This is undoubtedly way too unsophisticated a solution to the troubles in the American auto industry, but it has to be better than bankruptcy or federal edicts:
EMI, one of the world's largest record companies, is considering turning over its distribution, sales and marketing operations in the United States to a rival in an attempt to cut its extensive losses, music industry sources said Friday.
They played with Frank Sinatra, the Beach Boys, the Mamas and the Papas, the Monkees, and countless others on chart-topping and Grammy-winning hits. But for all their success, the Wrecking Crew may have well been the invisible people.
• He's under house arrest in Atlanta awaiting trial on weapons charges, but rapper T.I. got good news from a federal magistrate judge on Thursday: He can leave the house ... to go to church. The rapper (real name: Clifford Harris) can attend Easter services at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church on Sunday from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. No word, though, if he can squeeze in a brunch or an egg hunt during his five-plus hours of freedom.
On Scene: TIME's reporter tracks the country's President as he directs reconstruction of his country's hardest-hit region
The sign outside of the LG Beach House, a 3,500 square-foot oasis on the Malibu shores, says the "Young Kings of L.A." are having a party here today. While it's true that the self-proclaimed quartet of NBA players, Dorrell Wright, Marcus Williams, Hassan Adams and Trevor Ariza, are throwing a classic summer soiree on the sun-kissed beach, L.A.'s newest young king is gazing at the waves rolling up against the beachfront property, soaking in his new kingdom before the sun sets.
"Don't worry, baby," as the Beach Boys would sing. "Everything will turn out alright."
In 1966, perhaps the greatest year rock 'n' roll has ever known, the biggest-selling album artist of the year wasn't the Beatles or Beach Boys or the Rolling Stones.
When Paul McCartney heard the Beach Boys' 1966 album "Pet Sounds," so the story goes, his reaction was, "This is the album of all time. What can we do to top it?"
"One" was a pretty good number for Three Dog Night.
Former Beach Boys star Brian Wilson has received glowing reviews after performing his lost masterpiece "Smile" for the first time in public.
Money Magazine: Medford, Oregonupdated: Mon May 05 2003 11:43:00
When Harold Dee retired from the aerospace industry in 1999, he and his wife Doris were living on the 48th floor of a tony Chicago skyscraper. They had season tickets to the Lyric Opera and were members of the Art Institute of Chicago. Three years and 2,000 miles later, life for the Dees is, well, a little different. How different? Says Doris: I can't get the deer to stop eating my garden.
Fortune: Playlistupdated: Mon Feb 05 2001 00:01:00
Rodney Crowell The Houston Kid Sugar Hill Records
I know this may sound obscure but, dear reader, I simply must tell you about metadata! Metadata presents the biggest challenge the tech industry faces in delivering the ubiquitous, ever present, ne...
Fortune: Playlistupdated: Mon May 15 2000 00:01:00
AIMEE MANN Bachelor No. 2 (SuperEgo)
Ash Nu-Clear Sounds (DreamWorks Records)
Three years ago Rolls-Royce introduced a turbocharged Bentley to pay homage to the car's roots as a 1920s racer. As befits a marque famous for understatement and preferred by Lord Peter Wimsey, ini...
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