A small, horrible NME-ish part of me wanted to come up with a half arsed description of what you?re about to see (?IT SOUNDS LIKE IGGY POP AND THE BEATLES COLLABORATING WITH ONLY A CASIO KEYBOARD TO USE FOR INSTRUMENTATION! WE?RE CALLING IT NU-POP!?) and then bang on about it for at least a couple of paragraphs before finally letting you listen to the track Back 2 School . (more?)

Thanks in part to Music City's biggest export of late ? pint-sized pop-country starlets ? Hollywood's interest in the epicenter of country music seems to have spiked a bit recently. It's about time.

CORNERS of Burnley transformed into the swinging '60s when cameras rolled on a pop music video. (11/03/2010 09:25:03)

Blending piano minimalism and ambient electronica, Ludovico Einaudi's unique sound has been called everything from post-classical to post-rock. The 54-year-old Italian composer's latest album, "Nightbook," which the artist says is a study of the transition...

Tiffany Giardina, 16, at the keyboard, where she writes most of her own music. Photographed at Faith Church in New Milford, on Thursday, March 4,2010. Photo: Michael Duffy / The News-Times | Buy This Photo