Hot Single: Single and lovin' it!
What are all you hot, single people doing to celebrate Valentine's Day? We know that Feb. 14 can be a real bummer for single people, but only if you let it.If you're a single guy or gal and refuse to let the Valentine's blues get to you, we want to hear from you.Whatever you're doing -- dinner with friends, dancing until dawn, burning an ex's possessions -- we'd like to know for our Valentine's Day...
Hot Single: ARTS
Album slides downward
Atlanta rappers Kris Kross continue this week atop the Billboard hot single chart with "Jump," while their album "Totally Krossed Out" drops from second to third in the pop albums category. Other chart toppers: Pop album: "Adrenalize," Def Leppard.Hot R&B single: "All Woman," Lisa Stansfield.Top R&B album: "Funky Divas," En Vogue.Hot...
Hot Single: N.C. Secretary of State honored by Recording Industry of
She may not have a hot single spinning its way to the top of the charts, but North Carolina Secretary of State Elaine Marshall now has something to make many musicians envious: a Gold Record. The Recording Industry of America (RIAA) surprised Marshall with a special edition of its Gold Record award this week in honor of her work to fight music piracy in North Carolina and for the example the Secretary of State's office has set in showing how music counterfeiting can be fought by a...
Hot Single: NEWS MAKERS
They're hot, single - and, People says, eligible People magazine rounded up the usual suspects for its second annual most-eligible-bachelors issue, which hits newsstands next week. Based on a poll of 47,000readers of what qualities they want in a mate, the magazine came up with 50 spectacular singles, ranging from the dog-tagged dreamboats of Pearl Harbor - Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett - to an eclectic collection of everyday guys including a cake maker, a dinosaur hunter and a...
Hot Single: ALBUM REVIEWS
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MARCY PLAYGROUND MARCY PLAYGROUND Capitol * * * * With a hot single that boasts perhaps the ultimate pop-tune title, Marcy Playground would seem to be alterna-rock's latest flash in the sandbox. But there is more to this New York trio than "Sex and Candy" -- a lot more, judging by Marcy Playground's eponymous debut.Singer-guitarist John Wozniak crafts songs that draw on influences from R.E.M. to Neil Young to the Beatles, yet never sound...