Bobby Brown has been released from jail after serving less than a day of his 55-day jail sentence for a driving under the influence conviction.

Of all the unlikely venues for an opera, you'd have to go some to top The Box, a nightclub in a seedy Lower East Side neighborhood where black tie is optional, cameras are prohibited and dancers perform seminude every night at 1 a.m.

In just four years, Justin Bieber has gone from fielding innocuous questions about his haircut to denying that he's in desperate need of rehab. Bieber's grown up and into tabloid territory, with his recent troubles making some question whether he's just the latest teen star gone wild.

The future is looking bleak for a celebrity privacy bill in Hawaii known as the Steven Tyler Act.

SANTA ANA, Calif. - Singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot released his first solo record in 1965 but he'd played shows for a few years before that, which is why you can't really quibble with his current tour heading out under the name of "50 Years on the Carefree Highway," the road in question, of course, also the title of one of his biggest hits.

LOS ANGELES - Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" is no longer just the rock album that has logged more weeks than any other on Billboard's national album chart nor merely the one acid heads favored for syncing up as a twisted soundtrack for "The Wizard of Oz." It's also now going into the 2012 National Recording Registry, one of 25 recordings over the last century singled out for their "cultural, artistic and historical importance to the nation's aural legacy," the Library of Congress announced Thursday.

LOS ANGELES - Michelle Shocked is responding to the flood of criticism she sparked earlier this week with what's been described as her anti-gay tirade during a recent performance in San Francisco, saying she does not oppose gay marriage.

Simon & Garfunkel 's song "The Sound of Silence," written amid the turmoil following President John F. Kennedy's assassination, and Chubby Checker's 1960s dance hit "The Twist" are among 25 recordings selected for preservation at the Library of Congress.

CHICAGO - Mumford & Sons, Phoenix, Vampire Weekend and the Killers will be among the headliners for Lollapalooza in Grant Park on Aug. 2-4.

One of Europe's largest music festivals will be crossing over into the United States, setting up a fairytale world with electronic dance beats for three days in Georgia.

Kacey Musgraves hates the genre column on iTunes. It's the label to end all labels.

Bobby Brown has surrendered to authorities and will begin a 55-day jail sentence for a driving under the influence conviction.

Garth Brooks and George Strait will perform together for the first time at next month's Academy of Country Music Awards to honor Dick Clark.

Lady Gaga's manager says the pop star is "doing unbelievable" a month after she had hip surgery that caused her to cancel her U.S. tour.

When did the modern era begin? With the Renaissance? With Elvis Presley?

A Michigan medical marijuana facility is partnering with a member of the Grammy-winning rap group Bone Thugs-N-Harmony to cultivate and distribute a new strain of medical marijuana.

The lead guitarist for the rock band Journey has filed a federal lawsuit in Minneapolis that accuses his former mother-in-law of libeling him in her blog posts.

Police in north Florida cited country music singer David Allen Coe for running a red light before being struck by a tractor-trailer near downtown Ocala.

Moscow's highest court panel has rejected an appeal by three members of the punk band Pussy Riot against their hooliganism conviction following a protest against Vladimir Putin.

An Atlanta man has pleaded not guilty to charges in the boating collision death of music star Usher's 11-year-old stepson.

Michael Rhodes, an American opera singer and highly sought-after vocal coach who trained stars including German tenor Jonas Kaufmann, has died at the age of 89.

Kosovo authorities are telling teachers and students to ignore a paragraph in a high school textbook that labels rock music as criminal.

CHICAGO - A scheduled May 5 performance by singer Michelle Shocked at a club in Evanston, Ill., has been canceled following reports of her anti-gay rant from a San Francisco stage Sunday night.

Fran Warren, whose 1947 recording of "A Sunday Kind of Love" was one of the classic hits of the big band era, has died.