Simon LeBon and Nick Rhodes look back on their Big 80s charttoppers, “The Reflex” and “A View To A Kill.”

Selena Gomez canceled two holiday concerts over the weekend in what her rep describes as a “family emergency.” According to E! Online, Gomez was in the audience at Power 106′s Cali Christmas show in Los Angeles on Friday night when she learned that her mother, Mandy Teefey, suffered a miscarriage.

Paul McCartney will pay homage to some of the songs that inspired his greatest songwriting achievements on a forthcoming, still-untitled album, due out Feb. 7, 2012 on Hear Music/Concord Records.

Far East Movement and Dev give us the story behind their Hot 100 No. 1 smash, “Like a G6.”

Cesaria Evora, who started singing as a teenager in the bayside bars of Cape Verde in the 1950s and won a Grammy in 2003 after she took her African islands music to stages across the world, died Saturday. She was 70.

140 characters from Rick Ross, Lana Del Rey, Ice Cube, Best Coast and 16 more music makers this week.

Derulo says the odds of his first single, “Whatcha Say,” hitting No. 1 were “like being hit by lightning seven times.”

Atlanta police say the rapper Slim Dunkin was gunned down Friday evening in a city music studio as he prepared to record a video.

The album could finish 2011 behind only Adele’s top-selling “21.”

The reggae star is currently serving a 10-year sentence following his February conviction.