Three weeks after Pharrell Williams first liberated his powerful new single “Freedom,” the globetrotting, beautifully photographed music video for the track has officially arrived. The Paul Hunter-directed video initially premiered when Pharrell first dropped “Freedom” on Apple Music, but today, the music video debuted for the masses on YouTube. In the video,… Source: Music […]

Five months ago, Cruz Contreras was trying hard not to panic.  As the frontman of the Black Lillies, he’d spent the first few weeks of 2015 on a boat, playing his band’s blend of Appalachian country and envelope-pushing Americana to passengers on the Cayamo Cruise. When the group returned home to Knoxville in… Source: Music News

Dinosaur Jr. bassist and Sebadoh frontman Lou Barlow will release his new solo LP Brace the Wave, his first album in six years, on September 4th. “Brace the Wave is an acoustic-electric record recorded with electricity on analog-digital and digitally-analog equipment,” Barlow jokes in a teaser that features snippets of… Source: Music News

Sylvia Tyson, half of the Canadian folk duo Ian & Sylvia, was in the midst of recording at RCA’s Nashville studio when she noticed something odd. Glancing into the control room, she saw a bunch of strangers — many of them local musicians — intently watching her and her then-husband… Source: Music News

Gunplay’s eyes well up with tears. He’s playing “Just Won’t Do,” the second track off his upcoming debut LP, Living Legend, in the dimly lit refuge of DJ Khaled’s North Miami recording studio, animating each lyric with his entire body. The Carol City rapper, also known as Don Logan, pauses… Source: Music News

It’s one of the biggest decisions any band will face: what to call themselves. And yet, so many get it so wrong. Fortunately, for every group that comes up with a terrible name and sticks with it, there’s a band that comes up with a terrible name, plays a few shows under… Source: Music News

Meghan Linsey, who first captured country fans’ attention as one-half of the duo Steel Magnolia and has since gone on to a solo career that reflects more of her New Orleans roots, will release her pop-soul EP, Believer, on Friday, July 31st. The Season Eight runner-up of NBC’s The Voice will… Source: Music […]

During high school in St. Petersburg, Florida, Josh Greenberg noticed student clubs were raising money by selling candy bars for $2 apiece. One day, he asked his mother to drive him to Sam’s Club, where he bought the same candy for 50 cents, jammed all the bars into his backpack,… Source: Music News

When Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert announced their divorce Monday, the news genuinely rattled country music fans — because not only was this Shelton and Lambert’s marriage, it was ours. The relationship was one that fans were privy to from the get-go, from that very first smoldering performance together of “You’re the… Source: Music […]

Nizhoni Pike and her friends had the best seats in the house for the Neil Young concert in Jersey last week – better than front row. In fact, they’ve had an incredible vantage point at several of the shows on Young’s Rebel Content Tour this summer. “It’s been pretty awesome to be… Source: Music […]