Rihanna plays at the Roskilde Festival in Roskilde, Denmark, Friday night, July 5, 2013. Roskilde Festival is the largest North European culture and music festival and has existed since 1971. (AP Photo/Simon Fals, Polfoto ) DENMARK OUT

Rihanna sends $5K check to Illinois high school

Pop star Rihanna is donating $5,000 to a suburban Chicago high school to cover the costs of her brief but tardy visit earlier this year.

South Korean actor and singer Rain salutes to his fans and media after he served 21 months in the army in front of the Defense Ministry in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, July 10, 2103.

SKorean pop star Rain discharged from military

South Korean pop sensation Rain is out of the military. Photo Gallery Available

FILE - In this Thursday March 21, 2013 photo, Robert Plant, lead vocalist and lyricist of the rock band Led Zeppelin, performs during the Timbre Rock and Roots concert in Singapore. Plant is in Singapore for a two-day concert with other international acts like Paul Simon, and Rufus Wainwright.

Robert Plant takes Zeppelin songs to new places

Robert Plant knows his fans want Led Zeppelin and he's happy to comply. On his own terms. Photo Gallery Available

In a May 1, 2005 photo provided by the Country Music Hall of Fame, Jim Foglesong is honored at the Medallion Ceremony honoring him, in Nashville, Tenn. He is pictured with fellow Hall of Fame member Jo Walker-Meador. Foglesong, a music producer who helped launch Garth Brooks’ career and was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, died Tuesday, July 9, in Nashville, says a spokeswoman at Vanderbilt University's Blair School of Music, where Foglesong has been a faculty member since 1991. He was 90.

Jim Foglesong, label exec, hall of famer, dies

Jim Foglesong, a record label executive and music producer who helped launch Garth Brooks' career and was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, died Tuesday. He was 90.

FILE - In this June 7, 2013 file photo, tenor Placido Domingo performs at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. Domingo is in the hospital after suffering a blockage in an artery of the lungs. Domingo's publicist says the 72-year-old is expected to make a full recovery but will have to miss at least two appearances scheduled for later this month. He was admitted to the hospital Monday, July 8, 2013, in Madrid.

Placido Domingo in hospital in Spain with embolism

Opera singer Placido Domingo is in the hospital after suffering a blockage in an artery of the lungs. Photo Gallery Available

FILE - This June 13, 2013 file photo, Sting performs at the Songwriters Hall of Fame 44th annual induction and awards gala in New York. Sting will hold 10 concerts this fall to benefit The Public Theater. The singer announced Tuesday, July 9, 2013 that he will perform at the 260-seat Anspacher Theater in the Public Theater from Sept. 25 through Oct. 9.

10 Sting concerts in NYC will benefit arts group

Sting will hold 10 concerts in New York City this fall to benefit The Public Theater arts organization.

The legend of mezzo-soprano Cathy Berberian lives on

"Berberian Sound Studio" - the creepily offbeat new British independent film in which Toby Jones plays a timorous sound-effects specialist working on a '70s Italian horror flick - takes its title and inspiration from the late American mezzo-soprano Cathy Berberian. That's the least director Peter Strickland, whose title for the film is a new music in-joke, could do. But it is also the minimally least we can do to remember the singer who changed singing perhaps more than any vocalist since the 18th century castrato Farinelli turned Handel's and other Baroque composers' musical heads.

Justin Timberlake leads album sales, while 'Thrift Shop' is the top digital song

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Times pop music critic Randall Roberts his revealed picks for the best albums of the year so far, a list that included Chance the Rapper's "Acid Rap," Kacey Musgraves' "Same Trailer Different Park" and "The Next Day" by David Bowie.

Favorite albums of 2013 (so far)

Given the volume of music released already in 2013, a half-year update on the best so far is assuredly in order.

New from Maya Jane Coles and Ciara

MAYA JANE COLES "Comfort" (I / Am / Me) 3 stars

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