Emmy Rossum Emmy Rossum Can’t Slow Her Down by Jay S. Jacobs When you’ve spent most of your life working to make a name in one field, it...

PlayRadioPlay at the Trocadero in Philadelphia. PlayRadioPlay! Breaking Through the Confines By Abraham Kuranga Growing up in Aledo,...

Geddy Lee of Rush in concert . Geddy Lee of Rush Making Music by Marcie Somers Geddy Lee, the legendary frontman of Canadian band Rush,...

Dale Watson Dale Watson Lone Star State of Mind by Ronald Sklar How’s this for irony: Dale Watson – who embodies both the past and the...

Lumidee Lumidee Expect the Unexpected by Abraham Kuranga After literally exploding on the music scene with the Reggaeton-flavored “Never...

Atlantic Records – The House That Ahmet Built ATLANTIC RECORDS – THE HOUSE THAT AHMET BUILT (2007) Starring Ahmet Ertegun, Bette Midler,...

Tyrone Wells – Hold On Tyrone Wells- Hold On (Universal Republic) Effortlessly combining pop, soul, folk and rock, Tyrone Wells has...

Tyrone Wells at World Cafe Live, Philadelphia, in 2007. Photo © 2007 Jay S. Jacobs. All rights reserved. Tyrone Wells What He’s Fighting...

Katharine McPhee Katharine McPhee Over It by Jay S. Jacobs Just about a year ago, Katharine McPhee was one of the last two contestants...

Macy Gray Glad She's Here by Jay S. Jacobs When she was in college, Macy Gray didn’t really like her singing voice. She was into film and...

Patti Smith - Twelve Patti Smith – Twelve  (Columbia) It is weird thinking of recent Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Patti Smith – arguably one...

Lobo The Lowdown on LOBO by Ronald Sklar Coming through the static of the waning days of AM music radio in the early 1970s was Lobo....

Tommy Shaw playing at the TLA in Philadelphia TOMMY SHAW UNDER THE INFLUENCE by Jay S. Jacobs Tommy Shaw was the lead guitarist and...

Musiq Soulchild Musiq Soulchild Still Lovanmusiq by Abraham Kuranga In today’s music industry, an artist on his forth album is considered...

Taylor Hicks Blue-Eyed Soul Man by Jay S. Jacobs There aren’t too many people in the world who were in any way helped by Hurricane...

Glenn O’Brien’s TV Party Glenn O’Brien’s TV Party Premiere Episode 12/18/78 The Time & Make-Up Show 8/19/79 The Halloween Show 10/31/79 (Brinkfilm/MVD-2006) The question isn’t this: how much can you endure of artsy New York hipsters who think they are smarter, cooler and more detached than you? The question is this: how do all the Lower East Side struggling artists – who this late seventies’ cable-access show is aimed at – afford cable? We’ll never know, nor will we care, nor

DREAMGIRLS (2006) Starring Jamie Foxx, Beyonce Knowles, Jennifer Hudson, Eddie Murphy, Anika Noni Rose, Keith Robinson, Danny Glover,...

John Stamos New Kid in ER by Deborah Wagner For John Stamos, a two-episode gig on ER last season has turned into somewhat of a re-birth...

Josh Kelley Josh Kelley Life in the Pop Game by Jay S. Jacobs Back in its heyday, lots of musicians had a problem with the peer-to-peer...

Frankie J Price of Fame by Abraham Kuranga With a voice like rich caramel and a demeanor that sweeps you off your feet, Frankie J is no stranger to the spotlight. A veteran of sorts to the music industry, Frankie J feels though, that he’s just getting his feet wet. “Coming out, I’ve been called the ‘Latin Justin Timberlake’ or the ‘Latin Usher,” shares Frankie J. “I still have work to do to get to where those guys are.” As far as he can remember, Frankie J has had his eyes se