On July 16th, Wilco shocked their fans in the best way possible: by releasing Star Wars, the band’s first album in four years, for free on their website, with no advance warning. The album is Wilco’s best in at least a decade, full of loose, poppy rockers like “Random Name Generator”… Source: Music News

Sonically, Mumford & Sons, Mark Hoppus and Eurythmics have probably never belonged in the same sentence – let alone on the same stage. But that changed during the Mumfords’ Tuesday night gig at the Forum in Inglewood, California, when the Blink-182 bassist and tour openers the Vaccines and Jack Garratt joined the… Source: Music News

When Brandi Carlile hit the road late last year, she left her guitar cables at home.  The singer-songwriter’s Pin Drop Tour was revolutionary: an international tour by one of Americana’s leading ladies, with nary a P.A. speaker or microphone in sight. Backed by longtime partners Tim and Phil Hanseroth, Carlile played every show… Source: Music […]

Carly Rae Jepsen was 26 when “Call Me Maybe” hit the U.S. charts in 2012, making her an instant tween idol. Everything about the track felt young: the MIDI-like string flourishes, the subject matter (references to wishing wells, ripped jeans, the way “maybe” was tacked on to the chorus in Valley… Source: Music News

Dee Barnes, a journalist whom Dr. Dre attacked while still a member of N.W.A, is speaking out against the way the biopic Straight Outta Compton overlooked the assault. “Like many of the women that knew and worked with N.W.A, I found myself a casualty of Straight Outta Compton’s revisionist history,”… Source: Music News

Neon lights dot across crowned princes and medieval beasts in New Order’s wholly fantastical and anachronistic video for “Restless,” a chilly and catchy song off their upcoming album Music Complete. Although it’s not explicit, the song’s “how much do you need?” pre-chorus seems to tie into the Excalibur-inspired excess in the… Source: Music News

Chief Keef has released a heavy, hounding new track, “Bouncin,” the first taste of the second half of his Bang 3 double LP. While previous iterations of the cut have been floating around the Internet since June, the complete track boasts potent drill production by Keef and DP Beats, as well as fleshed… Source: Music […]

It’s no small irony that “Jersey Girl,” one of Bruce Springsteen’s most famous songs about New Jersey, was actually written by Tom Waits. It appeared on his 1980 LP, Heartattack and Vine, inspired by his wife Kathleen Brennan. With reference to “corner boys,” carnival rides and traveling “across the river to the… Source: Music News

Lionel Richie will receive the 2016 MusiCares Person of the Year award early next year in honor of his storied music career and charitable work for myriad causes including AIDS, breast cancer, human rights, famine, poverty and human trafficking. Richie will be celebrated at the 26th annual MusiCares benefit gala, set for… Source: Music […]

Dr. Dre and Ice Cube have filed a motion asking a judge to remove them as defendants in a wrongful death lawsuit, stemming from the incident when rap mogul Suge Knight ran over and killed a man named Terry Carter earlier this year. The suit, which Carter’s widow Lilian filed in… Source: Music News