Jac Chebatoris

How could the industry that is Miley Cyrus miscalculate so badly? You would almost think that she and her handlers were, gulp, naive.

With a little help from her friends, Norah Jones helps the club where she started celebrate its 10th birthday.

If you're like me, you've had that song from the MacBook Air commercial—the one with the plinky piano, the trombones and the singer who sounds like Feist but isn't Feist—stuck in your head since the ad first aired back in January.

From collaborating with Jack White to having a song in an Apple commercial, Brendan Benson is one hardworking musician.

Fans of pint-size, raccoon-eyed pop star Avril Lavigne can now emulate the style of their favorite singer. Lavigne is taking time out from her day job—not a bad idea, considering the ticket sales on her recent tour—to launch a fashion line for Kohl's department stores.

Patti Stanger, the hard-charging force behind 'Millionaire Matchmaker,' talks tough on camera and off.

Dolly Parton excels at being Dolly Parton, and I love her for it. On the cover of her new CD, my girl—now 62—reclines on a pile of hay in the back of a pickup truck, resplendent in a leopard-print bodysuit, her belt cinching a diaphanous, hot-pink trench coat around her wasp waist.

The Jonas Brothers are cute, talented and squeaky clean. Even better: they're friends of Miley Cyrus.

Jack Johnson started out just adding music to surfer movies--15 million albums later, he's trying to save the planet.

Sheryl Crow has left Santa Monica Boulevard with her new CD, "Detours." The singer—and new mom—spoke to Jac Chebatoris: Congratulations on the new baby, new record — and surviving cancer.

Along the way to paying tribute to Dusty Springfield, Shelby Lynne puts her own stamp on some classic songs.

Independent labels, long the domain of pop and rock, have moved into Nashville, and they're giving the majors a major whoopin'.

What the tabloids don't tell you: she's talented

An innovative program rewards teenagers and young adults who do volunteer work with concert tickets.

Bill Medley, the baritone half of the Righteous Brothers, is back with a new album and a lot of old memories.

The young star of 'Into the Wild' on Sean Penn and the ultimate road trip.

Diagnosed with stage 4 cancer nearly five years ago, Kris Carr hit her 'zero point,' but then came back swinging and is telling her tale first in a movie and now in a dazzling book.

Mary Clement's right hand shakes uncontrollably; the piece of white paper she's holding flaps like a flag of surrender. Her left hand grips the microphone and, heart racing, she keeps on singing.

Mother Mother might just be the next big thing in music that you haven't heard of—unless you read PerezHilton.com. Two weeks ago, Hilton ran a post that said, "Mother Mother is one of the most exciting bands in the Canadian music scene." In less than an hour, the band's page views went up by 5,000—amazing exposure for an obscure rock band releasing its first album. "If people are checking out new music that they wouldn't normally have an opportunity to hear because Perez...

On her new album, the unconventional singer creates a world of heavenly women. And they have their own blogs.

Even as someone who prays at the altar of butter, Paula Deen considers herself to be more spiritual than religious, yet it was, in fact, a prayer that changed her life. "I can tell you about that morning I got up—I can take you right back to the very spot I was standing in when that Serenity Prayer went through my head," says Deen. "I finally accepted my mother's death, my father's death, my death, my children's death—everybody that I loved—because dying is a big, big part of living;...

It's shaping up to be that the casualties of MySpace.com might well be music publicists. How else to explain that Mika, a Lebanon-born, London- and Paris-bred singer-songwriter debuted at No. 1 on the U.K.

Belinda Carlisle will always be a Go-Go, but her new solo album is called "Voila--and it's all in French. La chanteuse spoke with Jac Chebatoris.I was approached about making an album, but I had no desire to do another pop one.

When the Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls held a benefit auction Tuesday night at New York City's Bowery Ballroom, items on the auction block included an electric guitar and guitar lessons, a kid-sized bass autographed by the Beastie Boys (that went for $725) and a designer handbag by Marc Jacobs.

The best-selling female artist of the 21st century—that's quite a title—and quite a lot to live up to. But for singer Norah Jones, who has sold over 30 million albums worldwide, it's not the kind of thing that keeps the 27-year-old up at night.

Parker Posey appears in Christopher Guest's latest "mockumentary," "For Your Consideration." She spoke with Jac Chebatoris.Hi. I'm about to pick up my little Gracie at doggie day care.

Whatever mistakes Courtney Love has made--and there have been plenty--she's always kept the promise she made to herself as a little girl: to be famous. After drug arrests and the suicide of her husband, Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, Love was vilified as rock's black widow.

Q &A: Brandon FlowersThe multiplatinum Killers just released a new CD, "Sam's Town." Lead singer Brandon Flowers talked to Jac Chebatoris.I think that gave us a lot of confidence, so we're coming out guns blazing.We've embraced our Western roots!

Amy Sedaris likes going to parties, but what she loves is throwing them. Sedaris, a comedienne, actress and now author of "I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence," wants to share her excitement for throwing a bash with panache--and not of the Martha Stewart variety.

Of all the celebs recently revealed to be pregnant, she's the oldest. Infrared photography leads scholars to think Leo painted a gauzy garment over the MONA LISA's dress--the fashion for moms-to-be in 16th-century Italy.