Today is Thursday, Jan. 8th, the eighth day of 2009. There are 357 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Jan. 8, 1935, rock-and-roll legend Elvis Presley was born in Tupelo, Miss. On this date: In 1798, the Eleventh Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was declared in effect by President John Adams ...

Rock music in 2008 was dominated by relics from the past, most returning with respectable albums: Guns 'n Roses, AC/DC, Metallica and, er, Coldplay. But there was better stuff to be found, even if it didn't, like "Chinese Democracy," take 17 years to create. With apologies ...

Programmed to self-destruct, child actors are not well known for maturing into superb singer-songwriters. But Jenny Lewis is made of more silvery stuff than most screen brats. If Lewis, 32, hasn't exactly emerged unscathed from a childhood spent propping up the cast lists of The Golden Girls and Baywatch, she has escaped the curse of an artistically stunted adulthood ...

So even if you didn’t catch the VMAs earlier this month (we forgive you, by the way), you probably heard about Kanye—which, of course, is precisely the way Kanye likes it. The majority of the post-show coverage focused on the premier performance of Mr. West’s new tune “Love Lockdown,” an R&B ballad from his forthcoming ...