In rock and roll, as in most things, survival is sweet revenge. A survival distinguished by renewed vigor, then decisive triumph, is even better. When Blur – the original, reunited quartet of singer Damon Albarn, guitarist Graham Coxon, bassist Alex James and drummer Dave Rowntree – took the stage at New… Source: Music News

Janet Jackson’s Unbreakable World Tour isn’t exactly unstoppable as the singer has postponed a pair of upcoming dates – Saturday’s show in Salt Lake City and Sunday’s gig in Denver – in order to give her voice a break. “Hey you guys, I must rest my vocal chords. Doctor’s orders,”… Source: Music News

Over the last few years, Nashville’s Moon Taxi have worked their way up from Bonnaroo buzz-band to something approaching Kings of Leon country, playing a pleasingly cross-bred rock — a little indie, a little proggy, kinda poppy, Southern and jammy in a way that might be unrecognizable to oldsters who… Source: Music News

Covers albums can be a way for acts whose creative juices have gone dry to bail themselves out for a spell. Rarely do they make the kind of singular artistic statement that Ruby Amanfu achieves with Standing Still. The Ghana-born, Nashville-bred singer — who was formerly one half of the… Source: Music News

With Depeche Mode, frontman Dave Gahan’s haunting baritone often provides the human touch within songwriter Martin Gore’s icy electronic tableaus. With Soulsavers — a British production duo known for its gospel-inflected, organic sound — the singer has room to grow into something more. Angels & Ghosts is the second album… Source: Music News

Beach House craft songs like cloudy sapphires: glittering on their surfaces, with a blue, murky power underneath. Over six albums, the Baltimore duo have distilled their sound into an exact dream-pop formula, leaving room for their devoted fans to project their own hopes onto their songs. Their fifth LP, this… Source: Music News

There’s as much Janis as Patsy in Carrie Underwood’s delivery, as much Heart as Harlan Howard. It’s that voice that makes her the only truly unfadeable American Idol success story: a country-pop-rock superpower that sweeps in like the sanctified cyclone of her 2012 hit “Blown Away,” laying waste to drunken-lout fathers, abusive… Source: Music News

Black Sabbath are just three months away from launching their supposed final tour. Only 36 dates are on the books right now, but they’ll likely milk this for quite some time. Their last tour was largely centered around their biggest hits and tracks from their new album 13, but this… Source: Music News

Following a year filled with legal issues related to a drug charge, Cee Lo Green says he’s grown as a person and artist – and he’s ready to return as a coach for NBC singing competition The Voice. “I’ve talked very possibly about doing The Voice again,” Green told the Associated Press…. Source: Music News

The first taste of Charles Kelley’s solo career is a glimpse inside his life — and a lifestyle that he shares with fellow country stars Dierks Bentley and Eric Paslay. “The Driver” is all about the thrills of touring, the catharsis of songwriting and universal connections made through music. “‘The Driver’… Source: Music […]