Heads up: It’s Friday! That means a tasty crop of new music releases available on your favorite digital retailer, streaming service, or even at a real, live record store if you can find one. Check out these brand-new albums, all out today, October 30th. Phish frontman Trey Anastasio spent this summer… Source: Music […]

The latest installment of CMT On Tour, an annual trek that has featured future stars like Luke Bryan, Miranda Lambert and Kip Moore, kicked off last night in New York City with two of the genre’s hottest young artists: Brett Eldredge and Thomas Rhett. Dubbed the Suits and Boots Tour, the show touched down… Source: Music […]

“I feel a change in the weather/I feel a change in me,” Josh Ritter sings during a telling moment on his eighth album. Two years after Beast in its Tracks, his emotionally vulnerable breakup album, the singer-songwriter is back with an entirely new approach. Switching from sparse, folksy acoustic melodies to… Source: Music News

The obvious question trailing Trey Anastasio’s latest: How much did he take home from his summer vacation with the Dead? Answer: About what you’d expect from a player whose music has often been shaped by a certain anxiety of influence regarding that other, older jam band. The upshot is business… Source: Music News

Holiday albums are a longstanding pop tradition, from crooners like Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole taking on “O Holy Night” to more modern reinventions by Willie Nelson, James Brown and Bob Dylan. Now, following up their Grammy-nominated 2014 LP, Give the People What They Want, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings… Source: Music News

If Vanessa Carlton spent a thousand years at the piano, she probably wouldn’t come up with another “A Thousand Miles.” Her 2002 debut single, which brought a touch of classical to the TRL crowd with its piano and string splendor, is turning out to be one of those once-in-a-career songs. Thirteen years… Source: Music News

“I ain’t no Leonard Cohen,” sings Matt Berninger, the lead singer of the National, towards the end of his latest album. Indeed, Berninger has gone to lengths to position his new musical detour as more playful, less dour, than his work with the National: The Taylor Swift-approved lead single, “Return… Source: Music News

Perhaps “Weird Al” Yankovic’s “Sports Song” should have tipped us off to this, but when it comes to breaking down the banalities of our athletics-obsessed culture, no one does it better. Case in point, his starring role in “Every Postgame Press Conference,” a note-perfect parody posted today on The Kicker, a… Source: Music […]

As Miley Cyrus and the Flaming Lips prepare for the health department nightmare that is the world’s first all-naked concert, here’s 20 times famous performers have gotten outside of their clothes — to make a statement, to increase sales or just because they thought no one was looking.  Source: Music News

Singer Joanna “JoJo” Levesque debuted in a big way at the age of 13. In 2004, she had a smash hit with the R&B-tinged pop track “Leave (Get Out).” Eleven years after her debut and following a record-label debacle that left her music stranded, JoJo sat down with Rolling Stone… Source: Music News