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YEAR OF THE MONKEYBy Patti Smith Patti Smith is a funky original, an authentic bohemian whose pretensions to poetry were ratified by her solid instincts for rock 'n' roll. For [...]

THE SPECTATORS By Jennifer duBois I was going to say that the last good novel about a media personality was Stanley Elkin's ''The Dick Gibson Show,'' the fabulous 1971 tale [...]

THE SANDMAN By Lars Kepler Translated by Neil Smith 449 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $27.95. The setup for ''The Sandman'' is a bit of a stop-me-if-you've-heard-this-one-before joke, a familiar recipe: [...]

The strength of the live music industry can be measured in many ways, from the year-end reports of talent buyers and sellers, to the keen interest in the proposed sale [...]

Despite the fact that David Letterman and your grandmother still call it 'country & western,' country music has evolved beyond its cowboy roots. Sure, some male artists still wear cowboy [...]

IT'S MORE UGG BOOTS than cowboy boots at Rascal Flatts' February performance at New York's Madison Square Garden. Backstage before the show, a woman in her mid-40s reaches the front [...]

It's a steamy summer night on banks of the Ohio River and Taylor Swift, dressed in a green sundress and worn cowboy boots, is backstage for a meet-and-greet with her [...]

Billboard's Power Players series highlights the achievements of individuals who drive the fields of music and entertainment forward with their artistic and business vision. As our writers and editors surveyed [...]

'This is for my MySpace people and everybody who voted.' With those words at last year's GMT Music Awards, then 17-year-old Taylor Swift, who won breakthrough artist of the year [...]

CAMINO ISLAND By John Grisham 290 pp. Doubleday. $28.95. Mercer Mann, a young novelist struggling to come up with an idea for her next book, is recruited by a shadowy [...]

Sitting in the kitchen of a Bungalow at the Beverley Hills Hotel, Reba McEntire is comfortable--comfortable to talk about her successful and long-running multimedia career, comfortable to talk about her [...]

The video for Big & Rich's 'Comin' to Your City' features extraterrestrials, scantily dad women, a rapping black cowboy and a character named Two Foot Fred--as well as the band--partying [...]

For the music industry, another year brings another roller coaster ride. Winners and Losers of 2006 captures the best of times and the worst of times for key players in [...]

Rascal Flatts has achieved in six short years what many acts can only hope for in the length of a career. In addition to numerous awards, the band has sold [...]

Rascal Flatts, a group some initially branded as a country 'boy band,' has proved its chops with amazing success. The trio that played for dozens is now entertaining thousands. Once [...]

REMEMBER SENIOR YEAR OF HIGH SCHOOL when your classmates voted for the best, worst and 'most likely to' in a variety of embarrassing categories? Well, we at Billboard Radio Monitor [...]

THE POPULARITY OF TOP 40 RADIO is cyclical in a sort of seven-year-itch way: It may fall in and out of favor, but in time, the love always returns. As [...]

ArenaNetwork and Venue Coalition, the two leading associations that represent independent venues, continue to offer their members services and networking that they wouldn't benefit from on their own. As venue [...]

It's early November and snow is falling in Nashville. It's not real snow, of course--snow is a rarity in Nashville, especially in November when temperatures can still reach the 70s--and [...]

THE FIXER By Joseph Finder 376 pp. Dutton. $28. In the post-''Gone Girl'' thriller era, you've got to move your domestic malice along with zip, vigor and a sharp eye [...]

Dierks Bentley has some advice for anyone traveling to Norway: Hit the pub circuit. ¶ A few weeks before Christmas, he went to Oslo to salute Nobel Peace Prize winner [...]

When the New York results for Arbitron's summer 2007 ratings survey were released Oct. 15, adult R&B station WBLS was ranked No. 1 in the market among 25- to 54-year-olds, [...]

At the 2005 Country Music Assn. Awards in New York, when blue jean-wearing, blond-haired Horizon Award nominee Miranda Lambert literally heated up the stage and the audience with gas-powered flames, [...]

Sitting in the green room at a TV studio just north of downtown Nashville, it's hart to believe that the beautiful young woman in the light summer dress sitting across [...]

No matter how complex and complete the marketing plan for Kenny Chesney's 'Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates,' due Sept. 11 on Sony BMG Nashville's BNA Records, there's one [...]

The clock on Rascal Flatts' Web site counts down the days, hours, minutes and even seconds until the Sept. 25 release of the superstar band's fifth studio album, 'Still Feels [...]

George Jones has been called everything from 'the greatest living country singer' to 'the Rolls-Royce of country singers.' * Jones' accomplishments--and his difficulties--have filled magazines and books for decades. But [...]

When Billboard Radio Monitor first took an in-depth look at New Orleans radio and its financial outlook post-Hurricane Katrina in September, experts were conservatively hopeful, but had questions. Roughly five [...]

THOSE PAYING ATTENTION TO radio station Web sites will have noticed major changes in Clear Channel's music sites during the summer. In addition to updated designs, easier navigation and a [...]

It's late afternoon on another busy day at the New York headquarters of Air America Radio when CEO Danny Goldberg, co-COO Jon Sinton and president Gary Krantz sit down together [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDOn an icy December morning, Rosanne Cash was making tea in the kitchen of the Chelsea brownstone she shares with her husband, the producer-songwriter-guitarist John Leventhal, and their 14-year-old [...]

BATTLING BOYWritten and illustrated by Paul Pope First Second, cloth, $24.99; paper, $15.99. (Ages 8 to 16) The son of a godlike superhero is sent, on the cusp of his [...]

ONE IMAGINES THAT SOON after dispatching Damian Lewis' grim, grody Nicholas Brody last season, the producers of Homeland looked at one another and said: 'Now whatta we do? Carrie's preggers. [...]

AMBITION AND SURVIVAL Becoming a Poet. By Christian Wiman. 249 pp. Copper Canyon Press. Paper, $18. Christian Wiman has written two adroit, occasionally moving volumes of poetry. As the editor [...]

REBELS ON THE BACKLOT Six Maverick Directors and How They Conquered the Hollywood Studio System. By Sharon Waxman. Illustrated. 386 pp. HarperEntertainment/ HarperCollins Publishers. $25.95. The problems with ''Rebels on [...]

At a time when the overused publishing term ''graphic novel'' most often refers either to ungainly superhero sagas or meandering, I-did-this-I-did-that Harvey Pekar rip-offs, Craig Thompson is correct to try [...]

GOD SAVE MY QUEEN A Tribute. By Daniel Nester. Soft Skull, $13. Daniel Nester devotes a volume of prose poems to the discography of the British rock band Queen, each [...]

SPARROW Poems. By Carol Muske-Dukes. Random House, $22.95. These poems, most of them forthrightly about the death of the author's husband, the gifted stage and film actor David Dukes, are [...]

WAXWORKS By Frieda Hughes. HarperCollins, $22.95. Frieda Hughes, the daughter of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath, is a painter and children's book author as well as a poet; her new [...]