High School Musical alum Vanessa Hudgens shared an exciting family update: She’s pregnant with baby No. 2 with her husband, ...

Seymour Stein, whose label Sire Records launched Madonna’s career and signed iconic acts including the Ramones and Talking Heads, has died.

Seymour Stein, the record industry executive who helped shape the sound of 20th century pop music by signing the Ramones, Talking Heads, the Pretenders and Madonna to his Sire label, died on ...

Seymour Stein will be remembered for the talent he spotted. Stein was a music company executive who died Sunday at age 80. He signed Madonna, the Ramones and the Talking Heads to his label.

Seymour Stein, a powerhouse music executive who co-founded Sire Records, helped popularize the punk and new wave movements and inked Madonna’s first record deal, summoning the singer to his ...

Steeped in music, he championed Madonna, the Ramones, Talking Heads, the Pretenders and more on his Sire label, and helped found the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

DANIEL LEVITIN: Music does evoke a sense of wonder and awe for lots of people. STEIN: Daniel Levitin is a neuroscientist at McGill University. He scans the brains of people while they listen to tunes.

Many a man has gone muzzy-minded over the writings of Gertrude Stein. Architecturally, linguistically, they hold meaning only for introvert imaginations. To "normal" minds they are just ...

Seymour Stein’s Daughter Mandy Reflects on Her Dad’s Legacy: “He Created a Soundtrack That Is Untouchable” Mandy Stein remembers the music-industry veteran, who died Sunday at age 80, as a ...

Singer-songwriter Izze Stein chatted about her new music, musical influences, and being a part of the digital age.

The score was by an old hand at setting Stein to song, Composer-Critic Virgil Thomson, who wrote the music for Gertrude’s Four Saints in Three Acts.