JESSICA SANCHEZ BECOMES JES Jessica Sanchez,  is now releasing music as Jes. Jessica Sanchez, American Idol’s Season 11 runner-up, returned to an Idol stage over the weekend.  She was a guest performer on the season finale of Idol Philippines on Saturday when 16-year-old Zephanie Dimaranan took the show’s title. Jessica, just 16 when she competed […]

A great gift to music entered into the world on 23 February 1685 in Halle, Germany. A life of great musical interest; one filled with an unbelievable talent that would become a beacon to many throughout the European continent and span centuries past its lifetime. It is a life that would become centered around a […]

Like any music, jazz has its revolutions; its sudden incidents in infrastructure; its disruptive presences of unprecedented sound. Mostly it’s slower than that, though, with years and generations of accretions before it seems to call for new vocabulary. That’s one way to look at Winter Rockfest, whose latest incarnation occupied a dozen or so venues […]

  Rapper Pitbull celebrated turning 40 by becoming the new co-owner of a NASCAR racing team. The Timber hitmaker has gone into business with Team Trackhouse and its owner, Justin Marks, revealing he’s been captivated by the stock car racing world since watching Tom Cruise’s 1990 film Days of Thunder. “I’ve been a fan of […]