Jamie N Commons’ look screams modern fashion, but his sound is refreshingly old school, a passionate riff on vintage blues and soul. The charismatic London singer-songwriter recently journeyed to the Big Apple, where joined Timberland for the unveiling of the brand’s Fall 15 Collection and a celebration of its Modern… Source: Music News

A letter signed by all four members of the Beatles petitioning for Mick Jagger to play the lead role of Alex in the film adaptation of A Clockwork Orange has hit the auction block. Paddle8 will offer up the unique item, which carries an estimated selling price of $18,000 to $25,000. As the story goes, in… Source: Music […]

Drake released “Hotline Bling” during his Beats 1 OVO Sound radio show at the end of July; since then, the song has become a phenomenon. It instantly eclipsed the rapper’s Meek Mill diss track “Charged Up” (which arrived the same day), despite all the hoopla surrounding the Drake-Meek beef. “Hotline Bling”… Source: Music News

Taylor Swift delved into the way she manages and maintains her career, friendships — including Kanye West — and the mythology that surrounds songs like “Bad Blood,” in a revealing, lengthy profile in GQ. Author Chuck Klosterman spends much of the story plumbing the peculiar relationship between Swift’s very public personal life… Source: Music […]

Steven Tyler has followed up his well-publicized request to Donald Trump to stop using “Dream On” with an op-ed for Huffington Post about copyright law. “My intent was not to make a political statement, but to make one about the rights of my fellow music creators,” the Aerosmith frontman wrote… Source: Music News

UPDATE: In response to websites categorizing Katy Perry as a “backup singer” in reference to her collaboration with P.O.D., the band’s Marcos Curiel has shared the following statement with Rolling Stone: “This is revisionist history and disrespectful to our girl Katy who was NEVER a backup singer … We invited her… Source: Music News

The self-titled 2013 debut album by the Los Angeles band FIDLAR was one of the most exciting punk records in recent memory, a raucous set of songs with titles like “Wake Bake Skate,” “Cocaine” and “Cheap Beer.” But for the band’s singer and primary songwriter, Zac Carper, the party had a… Source: Music News

Selena Gomez wills a new era of her career into existence within the first two minutes of her second solo album. “It’s my time to butterfly,” she sings on the self-care anthem “Revival.” The Gomez of this relaxed, confident pop collection butterflies with such ease that it feels like she’s… Source: Music News

Devon Welsh is the lightning inside Canada’s Majical Cloudz, a coiled bolt of emotion whose out-sized oversharing often captures in a lyric the precise moment where you either fall head over heels in love with someone for their vulnerable bravery, or lurch for the door. “Can I try to be… Source: Music News

When Jimmie Rodgers, the “Father of Country Music,” cut “Blue Yodel #9” with Louis Armstrong in 1930, combining rural mountain music with blues and jazz was a great idea. When Bob Wills expanded on it a few years later, it still was. Servant of Love is the latest iteration of… Source: Music News