Carrie Underwood is, creatively speaking, pretty boring.

Weezer, Dolly Parton and Swell Season

They played hits and took some risks, and a classic blues number showed off some virtuoso guitar work.

The legend pushes all the buttons, condemning and redeeming himself a dozen times during a two-hour show.

Roy and Ray (as in Clark and Price, respectively) are a pair of undisputed classics, both dating back to the days when country band members dressed alike and wore ties. Even cowboy hats were optional.

Weezer, Dolly Parton and Swell Season

Boy loses girl, boy meets new girl, boy and girl make lovely love- and pain-filled music.

Most of Tim McGraw’s 10th studio album, "Southern Voice," was recorded three years ago.

Florence + the Machine, "New Moon" soundtrack, Michael Buble

It may be that There Is No Enemy, but Built to Spill’s latest album has such a melancholy vibe, there may as well be.

Art D'Lugoff (Duh-LOO'-guhf), who owned the famed Village Gate nightclub in New York City, has died. He was 85.

Rihanna on Friday described the horror she felt as her ex-boyfriend Chris Brown was biting and punching her during a violent argument in February, saying she saw "no soul in his eyes."

R&B singer Usher's divorce from his wife is final, according to court documents.

The Honolulu Symphony said Friday it's canceling concerts for the rest of the year and filing for bankruptcy, citing a big drop in donations.

Grammy-winning singer Estelle remembered when she used to strut in the living room when she was younger, singing many of soul legend Otis Redding's classic songs like "Sittin' On The Dock of the Bay."

Rocker Peter Wolf says he's looking forward to trying some home-brewed beer and good wine when he arrives in Maine for a gig with the Portland Symphony Orchestra.

Some women strode the catwalk in vicious spiked bracelets and body armor. Others had their heads covered, burqa-style, but with shoulders - and tattoos - exposed. Male models wore long, Islamic robes as well as shorts and sequined T-shirts.

Guest lineup for the Sunday TV news shows:

"Woodrow Wilson" (Knopf, 704 pages, $35), By John Milton Cooper Jr.: Soon after he was elected president in 1912, Woodrow Wilson told a former colleague at Princeton University that all of his preparation for office was in the domestic sphere and it would be "an irony of fate" if his administration were to be consumed by concerns over foreign policy.

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