Ah, Madonna. The queen mother of all that is modern pop. In light of the past week or so, interest in ol’ girl is at an all-time high, and now fans are coming out the woodwork showing love. Like this pretty tight rundown of Maddy’s best tunes from a pers

Over the weekend I read Le Freak: An Upside Down Story of Family, Disco and Destiny, the autobiography of Nile Rodgers. It's a great book - one that music fans should definitely check out. It has so many of the crucial elements of a cracking read for tho

NEW YORK – Asked near the beginning of what song she performed at the memorial for her close friend Roy Halston Frowick, Liza Minnelli says she didn’t: “It wasn’t about me.” Too bad writer-director-producer Whitney Sudler-Smith didn’t apply that thinking

Multi-platinum producer Bernard “Focus…” Edwards, Jr. spent seven years working with Dr. Dre as an in-house producer for Aftermath Entertainment. The son of late CHIC bassist Bernard Edwards, Focus… has made ear candy for Busta Rhymes (“Respect My Conglo

Le Freak: An Upside Down Story of Family, Disco, and Destiny by Nile Rodgers bears a dust-flap whose copy begins with the confident claim quoted above. Typically excessive dust-flap hyperbole, you reflexively think. But hold on just a minute. Eavesdrop o

James Andanson/Sygma — Corbis "Chic at our peak — glamour, fashion, drama and deep hidden meanings." Although Nile Rodgers makes the grade as a B-list celebrity, he isn’t as famous as the musical record warrants. A longtime co-leader of the so-called dis