“We need to evolve,” Charles Kelley told Rolling Stone Country last fall, days before the release of 747.  Since then, Lady Antebellum have released a string of singles that stretch the group’s horizons, adding synthesizers, programmed drumbeats and R&B hooks to the trio’s harmony-heavy sound. Their newest curveball to hit country… Source: Music […]

Chris Cornell, Forest Whitaker and Aloe Blacc will join His Holiness the Dalai Lama, who will give a talk on wisdom, love and compassion July 4th at Rancho Los Lomas in Silverado, California. Tickets for the event, which is being held by the Peak Mind Foundation, are on sale now, starting… Source: Music […]

Songwriter Red Lane, whose works have been recorded by Merle Haggard, Tammy Wynette, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Roger Miller, among many others, died Wednesday after a lengthy battle with cancer. He was 76. A 1993 inductee into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, Lane was born Hollis Rudolph DeLaughter in… Source: Music […]

Twenty-one years after releasing “Independence Day” — a song about a mother’s escape from an abusive relationship on the Fourth of July — Martina McBride is gearing up to headline Nashville’s biggest July 4th celebration to date.  McBride, whose Everlasting Tour stretches until late October, tops off a two-day bill that also includes Mikky… Source: Music […]

Aphex Twin returned last year after a nearly 13-year absence with the lauded LP Syro, and now mastermind Richard D. James has revived his other alter ego, AFX, who will drop a new EP, Orphaned Deejay Selek (2006-2008) on August 21st via Warp. Album cut “Serge Fenix Rendered 2” is currently available… Source: Music […]

Last night in Los Angeles, Rihanna celebrated the debut of her tough, NSFW video for “Bitch Better Have My Money” by taking hostages. Nearly 100 fans were invited to a Tidal-sponsored event, blindfolded and then put onto luxury buses with the windows covered by black curtains — destination unknown. Invites were emailed… Source: Music […]

Cassadee Pope’s first solo single, “Wasting All These Tears” follows a long tradition of devastating, pop-country power-ballads. The track opens with the singer prostrate “on the bathroom floor,” so distraught that her “loneliness was rattling the windows.” This tune remains the Florida native’s biggest success to date, but you won’t… Source: Music News

Ashton Irwin of 5 Seconds of Summer sees himself as a visual person, so it’s no wonder he’s become the band’s King of Instagram. “I like visual things, so I think Instagram is more appealing to me than things like Twitter or Facebook,” the drummer tells Rolling Stone. Here are three… Source: Music News

Ask Leon Russell a straight question — say, about the documentary made about him in the early Seventies that’s just now seeing the light of day — and the iconoclastic singer-songwriter’s answer will eventually wind its way back to the subject after rambling down the crookedest of backroads. “We had… Source: Music News

The Beastie Boys have denied rumors of a live reunion that began after surviving members Michael “Mike D” Diamond and Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz filed a trademark application for the Beastie Boys name in conjunction with “live performances by a musical group.” A representative for the band, however, reiterated the group’s stance on… Source: Music […]