March 9th, 2010 | 3:30 pm | AMG Staff
Love Never Dies, Andrew Lloyd Webber's sequel to The Phantom of the Opera, opens this evening at the Adelphi Theatre in London. Set in 1907, ten years after the original story's conclusion, the show finds the Phantom working in New York City as a successful Coney Island magician. After building a new opera house, he decides to track down his former muse, Christine, who has since married Raoul. Love Never Dies will open on Broadway later this year, with an Australian production planned for 2011. [WhatsOnStage.com]
Two a half years after Lil' Wayne's arrest for gun possession, the rapper has begun serving his 1-year sentence at Rikers Island. [SeattleTimes.com]
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February 24th, 2010 | 3:15 pm | AMG Staff
Think back to 1990, the year before the first Lollapalooza, the year hip-hop went pop via MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice -- a year where classic rockers still had such a stranglehold on the mainstream that Paul Simon could appear on Billboard's Modern Rock Singles chart. It could be said that this was a year of transitions, with rap's golden age starting to slowly wind down and alt-rock beginning to boil over, but looking back 20 years on, 1990 sure delivers a number of stone-cold classics, whether it's the Bomb Squad in full flight on Public Enemy's Fear of a Black Planet, the pristine pure pop of the La's, the shimmer and roar of Ride's Nowhere, Neil Young lumbering with Crazy Horse on Ragged Glory, the Breeders' glorious Pod, or Digital Underground's inspired funk fantasia Sex Packets -- and that's just a list of albums! AllMusic celebrates all this and much, much more in the 1990 edition of AllMusic Loves.
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Frederic Chopin's 200th birthday falls on March 1, the date claimed by the composer and regarded today as official, even though Polish records mark an earlier day, February 22. This and a few other oddities and contradictions make Chopin's biography fascinating to study. But what matters most is his music, and Blair Sanderson weighs the facts of his short life against his far-reaching and enduring legacy.
![Rubén Blades - Greatest Hits [2010]](https://web.archive.org/web/20100310095952im_/http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov75/drn500/n553/n55331pnp8c.jpg "Rubén Blades - Greatest Hits [2010]")
