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Neo-soul singer-songwriter D’Angelo, whose real name is Michael D’Angelo Archer, was pulled over for reckless driving in New York City on Tuesday (April 23), according to the New York Post. Archer, who was reportedly driving his BMW sports utility vehicle south on FDR Drive near 71st Street was stopped by police at around 6:30 p.m. Additionally, the artist was charged with driving with a suspended Virginia driver’s license. A spokesperson for Manhattan criminal courts revealed that he could not release information pertaining to any potential violations, but noted that driving with a suspended license is grounds for arrest. Spokespersons for… Read more »

AOL Time Warner Inc., the world’s largest media company, reported a net loss of $54.24 billion for its first quarter on Wednesday, the largest quarterly loss for a U.S. company, due to a massive balance sheet writedown mandated by new accounting rules. AOL took the write-off – the same amount as the net loss – because of a sharp decline in the company’s stock, which has fallen by more than half since the merger of America Online and Time Warner was announced in January of 2000. In the same period a year ago, AOL Time Warner had a net loss… Read more »

Current ABC correspondent for “World News Now” and former MTV news reporter Alison Stewart takes a seat at Oxygen as celebrity guest host of “Pure Oxygen” live on Thursday, April 25, followed by a taped episode on Friday, April 26. Ms. Stewart will guest host both shows of the news magazine series along with host and comedian Stephanie Miller. As guest host of the daily 30-minute program, Ms. Stewart will interview (airing Friday) British actress Alex Kingston who will bespeaking about her starring role as Dr. Elizabeth Corday on NBC’s hospital drama “ER.” Also on Friday, “Pure Oxygen” will welcome… Read more »

Sheryl Crow and Train are among the first acts confirmed for the inaugural Jeep World Outside Festival 2002. The five-week, 23-city trek gets in gear July 10 in Charlotte, North Carolina, according to the tour’s publicist. Following a path that hits the West Coast later that month, the trek returns to the East Coast to wrap up in Philadelphia on August 18. The trek marks Crow’s first set of dates to promote her fourth and latest album, C’mon, C’mon, which was released Tuesday. Train, meanwhile, continue to support last year’s Drops of Jupiter, which has sold more than 2.1 million… Read more »

There aren’t any clever sex references in the title of the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ follow-up to Californication, but that doesn’t mean the music is without a kinky quotient. “It’s going to spank your ass… in a good way,” singer Anthony Kiedis said Saturday at the ESPN Action Sports and Music Awards, where the band was given the Artist Contribution Award. The LP will be titled By the Way, and although the Chili Peppers are spending a little more time than expected on it, a spokesperson for the band said the album is still due in late June. “We could… Read more »

Walking away empty-handed from the Academy Awards might faze some people. Will Smith is not some people. The former Fresh Prince is already onto his next project and taking it back to where it all began: the recording studio. Smith’s next album, which is still untitled, will hit stores on June 25. Hot on the heels of that release, Big Willie will reprise his role as Agent J in this summer’s “Men in Black 2,” the sequel to the 1997 blockbuster. Two songs from Smith’s forthcoming LP will be featured in the movie. One, “Nod Ya Head,” will also be… Read more »

The first album spawned by Snoop Dogg’s Doggy Style Records partnership venture with MCA is about to hit. Welcome to Tha House Volume 1, featuring Bigg Snoop Dogg, Soopafly, LaToiya Williams, Mr. Kane and E-White (collectively known as the Doggy Style All-stars), will be released on July 30, according to a source close to the project. The first official single will be Williams’ R&B tune “Fallen Star.” That video is set to start filming May 1 in Los Angeles. “Locs at Night,” by Mr. Kane, and the camp posse cut “Doh’Doh’,” produced by Hi-Tek, will also be released to mixtape… Read more »

Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, and Eminem? The multiplatinum rapper who loves nothing better than shocking the planet is claiming that his upcoming third album, The Eminem Show, was influenced by the classic rock he listened to while growing up. In an interview in the British magazine The Face, Eminem cites Zeppelin, Aerosmith, and Jimi Hendrix as reference points for his new tracks: “I don’t know if I succeeded or not, but I was trying to capture like a ’70s rock vibe for most of it. We treated this record like it was a rock record in so far as how it’s… Read more »

There aren’t any clever sex references in the title of the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ follow-up to Californication, but that doesn’t mean the music is without a kinky quotient. “It’s going to spank your ass… in a good way,” singer Anthony Kiedis said Saturday at the ESPN Action Sports and Music Awards, where the band was given the Artist Contribution Award. By the Way, as the album will be called, was originally due in June, but the Chili Peppers have spent more time in the studio than expected and are now eyeing an August release date. “We could be [done],… Read more »

With its drums of vehemence and old-school claps, there is no “bling” in the Neptunes’ sound on their latest beat offering, the Clipse’s “Grindin.’ ” “We just wanted to strip it down,” Chad Hugo said last month of the beat he and his Neptunes partner Pharrell Williams created. “Just a break[beat] and a rapper. That’s how hip-hop was born. We just wanted to bring that element back to the music scene.” Signed to the Tunes’ new label venture with Arista, Star Trak Entertainment, the Clipse, composed of brothers Malice and Pusha T, have been grinding on the music scene for… Read more »