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Some artists just sound better remixed. Case in point: Lana Del Rey . Her drawl works surprisingly well with a number of different sounds, including dubstep, '80s synth, techno, even Jay-Z. Her songs lend themselves to the creative appeal of remix artists who have mastered taking her sound to a whole new level.

If a first-year music festival draws 8,000 people to an NFL stadium in the sweltering heat of late May in Tampa, how on earth does it grow? At that point, is there really any room to get bigger? The organizers of Saturday's Sunset Music Festival believe so.

Music and reality TV have a rather peculiar, but beneficial relationship for artists.

It takes a special character to receive surprise fellatio onstage mid-performance and then keep performing.

With music institutions - especially those in less commercial genres - struggling musicians and fans have had to get social and entrepreneurial, increasingly relying on grassroots funding and informal venues.

Love or hate Baz Lurhmann's The Great Gatsby , one of the most hypnotic scenes of the film is the first.

"I'm coughing bullshit through my fist, crossing fables off my list/I turn the tables and resist the razor's edge against my wrist/The ship of state has locked its rudders in a tailspin/Let the keels be damned, set the sails to wind!" So rumbles Joe Doerr, Leroi Brother and college poetry professor, on "Keels Be Damned," seven minutes of salty ... (more)

But the suggestion that the Wagon Wheel singer "leave country music to white folk" seemed so random and out of the blue that it made for a shocking disruption to a Sunday afternoon spent with friends.

Our listeners this week the conductor of the Jam Central Station, Jeff Modzelewski , taking on the wielder of the Hammer of Doom in Robert Cooper ! All right, enough of the introductions and rules...let's hop to it! Jeff Modzelewski: BUY .

According to Forbes , girls do apparently run the world. Lady Gaga , Shakira , and of course, Beyonce all made the magazine's list of powerful female celebrities.

You can't quite put your finger on it, but there's something going on with Kanye West .

This season's champ was crowned last night on ABC and WSB-TV. Here's a hint, it wasn't the dancer with the highest score this week.

Talk about larger than life. Chicano singing star Lupillo Rivera, who rose from the absolutely nowheresville Long Beach barrio to conquer the highly charged realm of traditional Mexican corridos , has survived both a devastating car accident and mysterious volleys of gunfire, yet he's never faltered.

Paris Hilton has joined a new family - Lil Wayne's Cash Money Records. Well, at least, depending on who you ask.

Digital Underground's list of former members boasts enough names to field a football team, but the one constant player has always been Gregory Jacobs, a.k.a. Shock G. His deep baritone is behind the 1990 hit The Humpty Dance , and his influence as a producer goes even deeper.

The U.S. Army TRADOC Band is set to perform at City Center in Newport News on Monday, May 27, 2013.

You guys. Phoenix. Girl Talk. Hot Chip. The Gaslight Anthem. Earl Sweatshirt. And a whole bunch more are coming to Toronto's Fort York Garrison Common to set the summer on fire.

Blake Shelton and wife Miranda Lambert delivered an emotional performance of their hit "Over You" on last night's episode of "The Voice." The couple live in Oklahoma and Shelton said he is planning a benefit to aid tornado victims.

The Avett Brothers' Bob Crawford performs at MerleFest 2013. MerleFest and The Mast Farm Inn in Valle Crucis will host the N.C. Bluegrass Pavilion at the 2013 IBMA World of Bluegrass, offering a variety of workshops, videos and music with a focus on North Carolina-based musicians and events.

With the music industry moving further and further into carbonated, diva-rave blowouts, Taylor Swift makes a lot of sense.