It wasn't really the man-on-man kiss or the simulated oral sex that marked Adam Lambert 's performance on the American Music Awards on Sunday as shocking.

Caption: Eminem covers his face while outside the 'DJ Hero' demo night held at the Wiltern theater Los Angeles, California .... Rapper EMINEM wants to team up with SIMON COWELL - insisting he'd make the perfect judge on a TV singing contest.

Again. He and I are debating this week's question set. Again. Whooooo! It's a good one, too, folks.

Eminem's mother is marrying a bisexual man, Neal Alpert, who tried to sue her last year for a percentage of the profits of a book she wrote about her son.

Taylor Swift leads tonight's AMA field with six nominations, including Artist of the Year.

The MTV Movie Awards were a blood bath Sunday night with "Twilight" taking five trophies, including best movie.

NEW YORK, Nov. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SIRIUS XM Radio announced today that it will celebrate Thanksgiving with an extensive lineup of music programming that spans its various 100% commercial-free music channels.

Emimen strode out onto the American Music Awards' stage on Sunday night , looking very much like a prizefighter ready to deliver a knockout.

It's never easy to map out an entire decade in music. So, in constructing the "Decade in Music" interactive timeline , we sought to shape it with some of the bigger tent-pole trends, news and groundbreaking changes in the industry, business and technology .

Although he had initially planned for a fourth quarter release for Relapse 2 , Eminem has now altered his plans and will instead re-issue Relapse with seven bonus tracks.

As we predicted back in January, Wale , Kid Cudi and Drake have had a huge impact on hip-hop this year.

Over the past few months, contributors to NPR Music have been combing their collections, reading listener nominations and putting together a list of the Decade's 50 Most Important Recordings .

After taking a break from the spotlight, Eminem announced that he would be releasing two albums in 2009.

In part one, Aussie breakouts , we named our top 10 homegrown heroes. In part two, Hits and flops , we named the five best and five worst songs of the Noughties.

Have you been following this? Beenie Man sings songs with lyrics like " I'm dreaming of a new Jamaica, come to execute all the gays" . He sings songs suggesting that lesbians are hung up with a long piece of rope; and imagines fantasy-killings, claiming that his lyrics are not about homosexuals in the consenting sense - but about rape and child ...

Theatre Henry Hitchings Theatre London, Sound check: Who said Grime doesn't pay? Evening Standard 13.11.09 Add your view Shooting from the hip: Ben Drew plays a south London hoodie in Harry Brown - now he's preparing for the release of his second album, The Defamation of Strickland Banks, next spring Plan B made his name by shocking people.

Rating : * * * * Verdict : Rapper's soulful but heavy-hitting third album. Us , the third album by albino American rapper Brother Ali, is made up of some of the best and most intriguing hip-hop to come out this year.

The screenplay for "Shady Talez," reportedly styled as "The Twilight Zone" meets "Creepshow," is being co-written with Jackson by "Underworld" story creator Kevin Grevious.

Rapper Eminem is returning to the movies after his critically acclaimed work in "8 Mile." Here he performs in Detroit on May 19.

The Bomb : Jake Gyllenhaal is taking a look at Source Code , a sci-fi thriller about a soldier who wakes up in the body of a commuter whose train is bombed.