The Rolling Stones rocked a packed house in Los Angeles on Friday on the opening night of their North American “50 and Counting” tour, but only after websites slashed ticket prices and the band released additional cheap seats at the last minute.

PepsiCo is bowing to public pressure for the second time in a week and cutting ties to Lil Wayne over the rapper's crude reference to civil rights martyr Emmett Till in a song.

Boston bands Aerosmith and New Kids on the Block, singer-songwriter James Taylor and country singer Jason Aldean will headline a concert to benefit the victims of last month's Boston Marathon bombing, organizers said on Friday.

Wild horses couldn't drag many of the most die-hard of Rolling Stones fans to the kick-off of the band's North American tour — at least not at prices of up to a whopping US$600 a ticket.

The family of Emmett Till says a letter from Lil Wayne fell short of an apology for his crude reference to the civil rights martyr, and they want a meeting with the rapper and representatives from PepsiCo to discuss their commercial partnership.

Jon Bon Jovi joined New Jersey's governor Thursday for the signing of a law to encourage reporting of overdoses so victims don't end up dead.

Metal guitar legend Jeff Hanneman, 49, has died of liver failure, his band Slayer announced Thursday.

Saxophonist-composer Wayne Shorter is a triple winner in the 2013 Jazz Awards presented by the Jazz Journalists Association.

With a son on the way and a new album with more original songs than ever, Michael Buble is venturing into uncharted territory without letting go of his personal or artistic roots.

It took Woody Guthrie's hometown of Okemah more than 30 years after his death to finally celebrate his life and work with an annual music festival, and signs of acknowledgment in other parts of Oklahoma have been rare.