Ernie Paniccioli leaned in close. “Yo, take a minute,” he insisted. “You’ve got to listen to this from Public Enemy!” Ernie is a big man, big enough for anyone with sense to pay attention. The song “Everything” starts to play, and the words fill the room. It’s a soulful litany of a... Read more...
THE POP MUSIC WORLD was stunned Thursday by the death of Donna Summer, the original “Disco Queen” who ruled the late 1970s and proved over the next three decades that she and her music were stars, not fads. She was 63 and died after a secret battle with cancer, her publicist said. She w... Read more...
Adam Yauch, one of the founders of the seminal hip-hop group the Beastie Boys, has died of cancer at the age of 47, according to the Web site of the band’s publicist. Mr. Yauch, who went by the moniker MCA, had been battling cancer since 2009, when a tumor was discovered in his salivary g... Read more...