The company announced Sept. 12 that it needed to raise $7 million by the end of that month. Spokeswoman Risa Heller said about $2 million had been raised, plus another $301,019 was pledged from 2,108 donors in an online campaign."New York City Opera did not achieve the goal of its emergency appeal," Heller said.

It's Official: As expected, Drake's "Nothing Was the Same" has debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart with the second-largest sales week of 2013.

While Billboard has yet to announce this week's top 10 albums on the Billboard 200, we're already looking ahead to next week's tally. (This week's top 10 will be released tomorrow, Oct. 2.)

My Morning Jacket, Grizzly Bear and the Wallflowers will perform in the heart of Times Square in New York City on Oct. 12 during a free event for the growing CBGB Music and Film Festival, now in its second year.

Kendal Lividini was only 17 years old when she died of acute myelogenous leukemia in 2011. But her indomitable spirit lives on in alt-rock band Quietdrive's emotionally charged "Even When I'm Gone."

Meanwhile, her family and lawyers have been unable to contact her for five days.