Sugar Minott, a reggae star often credited with being one of the first dancehall artists, died last weekend at the age of 54. He launched his solo career in the late 1970s, and made music with damn near everyone. [Gleaner]

Trigger happy record producer Phil Spector's wife, Rachelle Spector, has a new record coming out! It's called "Out of My Chelle," and if the first music video from the record is any indication, it's going to be hot.

Don Jamieson and Jim Florentine take That Metal Show to the streets of L.A. to probe cultural literacy. Disgusted by the results, they eventually give up and try to get Don some action instead.

These young lads from Beantown have go he extra mile in showing their love for Ke$ha's Take It Off. Watch as they take their song and dance to their apartment, the club and to the streets.

Sales of Miley Cyrus' latest album "Can't Be Tamed" have been disappointing compared to her 2008 debut. Why? Her fan base of middle-school girls think she's acting too "grown-up" (read: slutty). And the fickle 12-year-olds have set us free.

Ticket sales for all the concerts in the country combined has dropped to a new low, and many big-name acts are under-performing. How could this happen? Maybe because all the bands are old and no one wants to see them.

Once in a while—remember this?—a music video that naturally lends itself to parody is released. The most recent one is Katy Perry's "California Gurls," and—in the parody war—there are two contenders: gays and grandpas. Inside, video of both.

Perez Hilton claims this song, entitled "Too Young to Die," is a leaked Lindsay Lohan track: "Crashing my car coming flying through the windshield... I'm oh I'm too young die." Where did this stunning display of tone-deafness come from?

In the special Justin Bieber: My World, Justin and his disapproving mother discuss how Justin really loves the ladies. Ladies of all ages are crazy for Justin, so much so that Biebs can never tell who's genuine and who isn't.

Australian 80's band Men At Work have been ordered by a court to pay royalties for ripping off a flute riff from a children's campfire song for their hit song "Down Under." The band said it was an "unconscious" lifting.

Watch this music student from Emory University, who created a guitar hero like violin, perform a simple violin piece he wrote for his music theory class using a Wiimote and Bio-Glove.

If you grew up in the 90s you're probably familiar with "Mr. Wendal," a song about a very wise homeless man. Here's the inside scoop on the filming of the music video straight from the YouTube user info.

Rammellzee, the pioneering hip hop artist and Wild Style star whose ten-minute-plus 1983 record Beat Bop is still fresher than just about anything on the radio, has apparently died.

Doctors, who are boring buzz-kills if there ever were such a thing, think that Los Angeles shouldn't let the publicly-owned Coliseum stadium hold "government-encouraged … drug fest[s]" like the Electric Daisy Carnival. What happened to PLUR, man? [LAT]

Tonight, Chris Brown (yes, him) performed a "tribute" to Michael Jackson at the BET Awards. After a few minutes of showing off his dance moves, Brown got ~emotional~ and, in turn, transformed the tribute into something obnoxiously self-serving. Video inside.

Sergio "El Shaka" Vega, a narcocorrido singer, was shot in Sinaloa while driving his red Cadillac, becoming at least the seventh musician murdered in Mexico in three years. He had denied rumors of his death hours before the killing. [BBC]

"Get up on these breasts!" sings the voluptuous Amy Douglas in the music video for "bOObies," a new song by NYC synth-pop/electronica group The Kiki Twins. If you like bright lights, synthesized beats and cleavage (duh), this one's for you.

Shockingly, Team USA beat Algeria in today's World Cup match. But even if the Americans get shut out down the road, it seems midfielder Benny Feilhaber can moonlight as a professional lip-syncer. Here's his rendition of Jordin Sparks' "No Air."

The Library of Congress is adding Tupac's "Dear Mama," along with 24 other recordings, to its National Recording Registry today for their cultural significance. The program coordinator said the song was chosen because it is "relatively tame." What, no Biggie?

Kids these days continue to disappoint us all. In my day, we had fake drugs like salvia, that really worked. Now, kids are trying to get "high" with "i-Dosers"—digital sounds, on computers. Oklahomans are worried.