This week, "Sesame Street" celebrates its 40th birthday. For nearly two generations, the pioneering children's show has taught kids to count, spell, and appreciate the joys of garbage and cookies. Most importantly, "Sesame Street" has brought good music to children's television. Everyone from Johnny Cash to John Legend has turned...

The countdown has begun to Adam Lambert's new album release. "For Your Entertainment" hits stores November 23, just in time for all of those Thanksgiving raves.

The album is an exercise in production overload and musical ADD. Lambert (and his handlers) want to make sure no part of the...

The Internet is the best thing ever to happen to music. It brought big music to its knees, made Susan Boyle a star, and finally gave me a reason to move all of those CDs into my garage.

I'm tired of the doom and gloom prophesying about the end...

Phish is back with a vengeance. Now that Trey is off the junk, the band has been busier - and more focused - than ever. Since reuniting this year (they broke up in 2004) the jam band has released a new album ("Joy" produced by longtime U2 collaborator Steve Lillywhite),...

Kanye West has found God.

Okay, that's not entirely accurate. Kanye West is searching for God. Or some inner peace. News broke last week that the 32-year old VMA stage crasher was heading to India to spend a month in a Hindu ashram. Presumably, West will have a chance to...

It's tough being in love. It's tougher working with the one you love. Don't mix business and pleasure, folks. And mixing music and marriage? That's an even more volatile cocktail. Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova of The Swell Season (and the hit indie film "Once")...

In the midst of Katy Perry and Russell Brand's romance, Frances Bean Cobain's hate-tweets to Ali Lohan, and Beyonce's defense of Kanye, Lady Gaga is headed to Washington D.C. this weekend for Sunday's National Equality March. The Broadway production of Hair will also be there (they are canceling their Sunday...

Michael Jackson's autopsy results were made public earlier this week and everyone is shocked that he was "fairly healthy." For me, the biggest shock was that he weighed 136 pounds. Yeah, that's skinny but not scary...

In a world of messed up musicians' kids, Mackenzie Phillips has reached the pinnacle of pain - or revealed a new low. Whichever way you look at it, her tales of a decade long sexual relationship with her father, John Phillips (the late leader of the Mamas & the Papas),...

Happy birthday, Bruce. It seems like only yesterday that you and the Big Man were boys chasing each other on the Jersey Shore. Two wide-eyed kids looking for the Promised Land. You were originally dismissed as a Dylan wannabe, singing like Van Morrison. But you proved them wrong and baecame...

Music and philanthropy have a long, benevolent relationship with one another. Record bins are rife with charity singles and concert history is filled with benefit shows for every imaginable cause. Musicians like to give back.

The lineup for this year's 23rd annual Bridge School...

VH1's annual "Divas" spectacle aired Thursday. Two hours of overly emoting, overly styled, and overly self-conscious chicks on a mediocre musical parade led by crazy fallen "American Idol" priestess Paula Abdul.

All I can say is thank god for Cyndi Lauper. She brought the night's only...

Yesterday marked the start of Fashion Week where designers show off their spring 2010 wares. I get my clothes from three sources: Target, thrift shops, and friends. It's simple and it's cheap. If I made rock star cash, I'd step up my game. In fact, if I were a rock...

9-9-09 marks the start of Beatlemania 2009. The Fab Four has been reduced to the Fab Two but they are determined to make sure the mystery tour lasts another 40 years.

The entire remastered Beatles catalogue (available at 7-Eleven, Starbucks, and Whole Foods), a dedicated Rock Band game,...

It was forty years ago today, The Beatles decided not to play. From their '61 Cavern Club debut to their last rooftop concert eight years later, The Beatles gave every serious artist in their wake the songbook and sound for their career. It's the musical trough from which nearly every...

My daughter is getting nervous about going back to school. She's starting third grade and the (self-inflicted) pressure is on. She's determined to be a scientist, astronaut, or rock star. I tell her she can do all three if she wants. That's my job as a dad. But in reality,...

Woodstock was a business. A very poorly run business. The four organizers, John Roberts (who died in 2001), Joel Rosenman, Michael Lang, and Artie Kornfeld were all in their 20s when they formed a company called "Woodstock Ventures" with the original intention of building a...

Les Paul, the man who helped invent rock and roll, died on August 13 at aged 94. Paul dedicated his entire life to the guitar and recording technology. A jazz musician who was unhappy with the guitars available to him, Paul developed his own guitar...

John Hughes is gone and one more nail is in the '80s coffin. You can talk about Michael Jackson all you want but John Hughes was the soundtrack to my 1980s life. His movies introduced me to Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Echo & the Bunnymen, Suzanne Vega, and Wang...

Birthplace of the blues, resting place for the King, and home of soul: Memphis, Tennessee, is the second stop on our summer rock road trip. While America was still struggling with segregation, race mixing was occurring in this Mississippi River town. Blues became...