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While you're waiting for Jason Mraz to release some new music, you can check him out this week in an unexpected place: a new album by country star Hunter Hayes , best known for his hit "Wanted."

Legendary rock band The Boomtown Rats are to play Doncaster - during their first live tour for more than quarter of a century.

Riverbend 2013 has come and gone, yet my semi-famous Riverbend Report Card is anxiously awaited by those that care about humanity, world peace, and the posi-traction rear axle.

Rigsby and the Rising Damp cast get to know Gucci the cat at Norwich Theatre Royal.

MODERN FAMILY star MATT PROKOP is the latest celebrity to be drawn into an online feud with troubled actress AMANDA BYNES.

Daisy Wyatt has newly joined the Independent online team as an arts and entertainment writer.

In this Sunday, June 9, 2013 file photo, actor Neil Patrick Harris performs on stage at the 67th Annual Tony Awards, in New York.

Paul McCartney made his debut at the Bonnaroo Music Festival over the weekend and Rolling Stone Magazine praised his performance , calling it, "Dazzling" and, "the single greatest Bonnaroo headlining performance in the festival's 12-year history."

Days blend together, sound memories clash and surface. Hipster moustaches made from pink glow sticks haunt your dreams.

Reality TV star KIM KARDASHIAN and rapper KANYE WEST are celebrating the birth of their first child after the baby arrived five weeks early on Saturday morning , according to reports.

What really got me while watching "I Am Divine" was the way producer-director Jeffrey Schwarz so deftly mixed the celebratory aspects of the career of Divine with the personal agony of Glenn Milstead.

The piano is a very popular musical instrument to play and to listen to, and with good reason.

The irony is multi-layered, considering the object of Jaffe's efforts was the New Orleans landmark of traditional jazz, Preservation Hall .

The ponytailed, unassuming director of the Eastman School of Music's New Jazz Ensemble was Ryan Truesdell's right-hand man in developing Truesdell's Grammy-winning Gil Evans Centennial Project.

NEW ORLEANS -- Think of New Orleans and flying beads and bare bosoms may come to mind.

HORSE POWER follows the British actor as he travels the world to unravel the true story of how man and horse first got together, what the horse has done for humans through the ages, and what the horse still means to us today.

"Gypsy." "Follies." "West Side Story." Did you know these three landmark shows did not win the Best Musical Tony Award? Peter Filichia does and he's fashioned a volume, "Stripper, Showgirls, and Sharks," that looks at these and other titles that were passed over for that award.

Dan Brenner keeps one thing in mind as he leads the music department in the Spring Grove Area School District.

Sure it's like shooting fish in a barrel to get our hearts behind the wide-eyes, would-be hero or to despise the senseless villain with seemingly no redeemable qualities, however when the proverbial 'bad guy' adds a healthy dose of humor to their game it often throws a monkey wrench into the reaction of who we choose to root for.

Midway into their "Bad Habit," a standout among the group's bass-heavy, danceable noise-rock, something must have snapped in her, because she took to the croc like Captain Hook in search of his lost hand.