Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer today released a detailed memo (click here) under the headline “One Microsoft,” in which the tech giant laid out plans for an organizational realignment and promised to provide “deep entertainment experiences” to consumers that allow them to have “serious fun.” The published memo reduces the number of company divisions with the…

We all know that musicians are dedicated. Once you get the bug, that’s all you want to, almost at any cost. We also know that most musicians suffer from G.A.S. (gear acquisition syndrome), always wanting the next best piece of gear that will hopefully make them sound better. But what if you were so poor…

Cheap Trick is taking legal action over the 2011 Ottawa Bluesfest stage collapse that put their lives in jeopardy.  The band was just 20 minutes into their set at the Canadian festival when they were hit with a wind gust of more than 70-miles-per-hour, forcing them to flee the stage just seconds before it went…

Kenny Ortega, the director of Michael Jackson‘s planned comeback shows, broke down in tears while describing the pop star’s faltering condition during the singer’s ongoing wrongful death trial, the BBC reports. Just days before Jackson’s death in June 2009, Ortega recalled that his appearance was “very, very troubling,” adding, “I saw a Michael that frightened…

Macklemore (sans Ryan Lewis) paid a visit to Peter Rosenberg and Angie Martinez on Hot 97 on the same day that his single “Same Love” went platinum. The Seattle rapper, who has “hella gay uncles” and a gay godfather, spoke out about homophobia in hip-hop, being a white rapper, and his R. Kelly diss on…