“We want to create a new standard for the over-50 rap acts,” says Public Enemy mouthpiece Chuck D on their forthcoming Man Plans, God Laughs, the group’s 13th album and first in three years. Set for release on Wednesday, the album finds the Rock and Roll Hall of Famers reasserting themselves as… Source: Music […]

Few feats are as sweet as selling out your first stadium show in Nashville.  Maybe that’s why Luke Bryan, who packed the 40,000-seat Vanderbilt Stadium to capacity last Saturday night, invited openers Dustin Lynch, Thomas Rhett and Randy Houser back to the stage for a stripped-down, celebratory version of Maroon 5’s… Source: Music News

Kenny Chesney fans in five cities this year are getting the added bonus of Eric Church on the Big Revival Tour bill. Warming up the stage for Chesney in Philadelphia over the weekend, the “Wrecking Ball” singer opened with a cover of Bruce Springsteen’s “Streets of Philadelphia” — then seguing… Source: Music News

Kenny Rogers knows we’re already halfway to Christmas: the Country Music Hall of Famer has announced the release of his first new holiday album in 17 years. Due this fall, Once Again It’s Christmas marks Rogers’ sixth seasonal LP and his first since 1998’s Christmas From the Heart. Joining Rogers on… Source: Music […]

While a fractured leg couldn’t keep Dave Grohl from finishing a concert, Mother Nature proved to be too powerful for the Foo Fighters. The band’s Saturday night gig in Quebec City was canceled after 20 minutes due to severe weather that marred the performance. Grohl and company initially weathered the thunderstorm… Source: Music News

Capo, a Chicago rapper associated with Chief Keef’s Glory Boyz Entertainment and the Glo Gang, was shot and killed Saturday during a tragic drive-by incident that also took the life of a one-year-old boy. Capo was 22. The rapper was shot in the hip and back on Chicago’s South Side, and while… Source: Music News

Welcome to New York! Ish! Taylor Swift brought it all back home last night, or at least to New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium, for her 1989 Tour. Never one to do things halfway, Swift has made this a pop show — or rather the pop show, as far as 2015 is… Source: Music News

Eminem has unveiled the action-packed, death-defying new video for “Phenomenal,” the first single off the rapper’s executive produced Southpaw soundtrack. While Southpaw focuses on a down-and-out boxer, Eminem instead looks towards superhero flicks like Lucy and Avengers for inspiration in this seven-minute, explosion-filled music video, which stars the rapper as a ultra-powerful version of… Source: Music News

U2 have released the nine-minute short film “Song for Someone” starring Woody Harrelson as a man getting released from a prison. He meets up with his daughter (played byHarrelson’s real-life daughter Zoe) in the parking lot and they drive off. Very few words are spoken throughout the entire film, though it’s… Source: Music News

Eating meat, Live Earth, fur coats, Johnny Marr and the current state of music: These are the things that Morrissey dislikes. In a new interview, Morrissey lamented about how marketing dictates popularity in the music industry nowadays as well as the predictable nature of record labels. He then admitted to Boulder Weekly that he considers fellow… Source: Music News