Featured Photos: Madcon at KIIS FM's Wango Tango, Irvine, CA - May 9, 2009

Norwegian electropop/hip-hop duo Madcon [ tickets ] are not exactly a household name in this neck of the woods. However, the World Music Award winners seem poised to impress US audiences, armed with the popularity of their smash hit "Beggin," which reached No. 2 on the European Billboard Hot 100 chart. / Read more

Featured Photos: Beyonce at the Oracle Arena, Oakland, CA - Aug. 31, 2007

Considering R&B singer Beyonce [ tickets ]'s upbringing, success had an air of predestined inevitability. Both of her parents were perfectly poised to nurture her natural talents: her father a record manger and her mother a stylist and costume designer. The star's education began at a music magnet school and, at age seven, she had won her first talent show, singing John Lennon's "Imagine." After thriving at the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in her hometown of Houston, she went on to great success in the group Destiny's Child [ tickets ]. / Read more