the police

Find out how you can help filmmakers complete 'The US Festival 1982,' a documentary that's been in the works for four years.

Sting stopped by the Howard Stern Show yesterday to promote his upcoming 57th & 9th LP with a handful of musical performances and a wide-ranging interview.

Most artists resist labels, but the Police were one of the few bands that distanced itself from them by making music that couldn't be classified.

Plenty of Police fans were disappointed when the group's 2007-08 reunion tour failed to lead into any new music for the band, and guitarist Andy Summers understands how they felt.

He'll probably never record an album of medieval lute music, but we can give Robert Downey, Jr. this much: The man can do a pretty stellar Sting impression.

When the Police's debut album came out on Nov. 2, 1978, it sounded like little else on the music landscape at the time. The band was lumped in with punk and burgeoning New Wave groups at the time, but it played a mix of reggae and rock-inspired pop with all the time-shifting complexities found in prog and jazz.

Rapper Puff Daddy may be prone to, uh, "borrowing" from classic rock songs in his work, but that doesn't mean we have to like it. Police guitarist Andy Summers slammed the rap mogul in a new interview, calling his use of a sampled Summers guitar riff "the major rip-off of all time."