Here in Columbus, people are always trying (and failing) to put together a major music festival. The latest attempt is the self-explanatory Fashion Meets Music Festival, which is set to go down Labor Day weekend at various Downtown venues, SXSW-style. The fest lineup trickled out little by little, and at first, it mostly caused a [...]

R&B singer made announcement live onstage at recent live show

Bonnaroo has announced the lineups for a trio of Superjams at this year’s festival. The annual improv sessions have previously featured D’Angelo’s return to the public eye and the one-time-only collision of John Oates, R. Kelly, and Billy Idol, and at least one of this year’s two lineups seems primed to of...

US R&B singer says he festive collection will involve "a lot of lovemaking"    

I didn’t write this week’s Album Of The Week piece on R. Kelly’s Black Panties, but I agreed. And here’s why: For all the obvious hilarity at work, and all the smooth craftsmanship, there’s an honest desperation at work. Kelly is making jokes and being willfully ridiculous, but he’s bal...