“I shot an angel with Father’s rifle/I should’ve let it free, but I let it bleed/And made it into taxidermy,” Canadian artist Nicole Dollanganger sings. First impressions are hard to shake: From that opening line onward, she sets a course of Flannery O’Connor-style meditations on violence, small-town paranoia and strained… Source: Music News

Will Smith’s return to the music world will be much more than a cameo, as the actor revealed on Zane Lowe’s Beats 1 radio show that the Fresh Prince will stage a full-blown musical comeback in 2016. Smith dropped his first verse in over a decade when he appeared on Bomba… Source: Music News

Sturgill Simpson has remained on the road for most of the year, barking his way through a live set that veers from Bible Belt bluegrass to amplified, full-throttle psychedelia. It’s fitting, then, that most of those concerts have come to a close with a medley of the Osborne Brothers’ “Listening… Source: Music News

Flaming coffins, gothic mourners, woozy camera angles that make The Blair Witch Project look like a kid’s flick: Slipknot go full-on horror film with their video for “XIX,” the opening track from their fifth LP, 2014’s .5: The Gray Chapter.   Director/Slipknot percussionist Shawn Crahan builds impressive dread in just over… Source: Music […]

For the second time in less than a week, Jewel has joined the Foo Fighters onstage. Last night, while playing Atlanta’s Centennial Olympic Park, head Foo Dave Grohl introduced the country folkie to the crowd, telling them, “She comes to every Foo Fighters show. She does. Every Foo Fighters show,… Source: Music News

These days, Rob Zombie might be better known as a horror auteur than a musician, but the former White Zombie frontman still knows how to get a crowd moving — and screaming. Over the weekend, in Villa Park, Illinois, he hosted the Great American Nightmare, a pre-Halloween scarefest featuring three nights of… Source: Music News

A handwritten five-page letter penned by Tupac Shakur while incarcerated in 1995 is now being offered with a $225,000 asking price. Memorabilia sellers Moments in Time are selling the letter, which the late rapper wrote to former Death Row employee Nina Bhadreshwar while serving nine months behind bars at the Clinton Correctional… Source: Music News

The new frontier for Beatlemaniacs: reclaiming Eighties Paul. It’s one of the weirdest areas of the man’s career, full of buried treasures ripe for discovery. On the map of McCartney’s music, fans usually avoid the Eighties as the zone marked “Here Be Broad Street.” But the newly reissued Tug of… Source: Music News

The new frontier for Beatlemaniacs: reclaiming Eighties Paul. It’s one of the weirdest areas of the man’s career, full of buried treasures ripe for discovery. On the map of McCartney’s music, fans usually avoid the Eighties as the zone marked “Here Be Broad Street.” But the newly reissued Tug of War and Pipes… Source: Music News

Unwinding can mean anything from yoga to kayaking, to kicking back with a big old glass of wine and a pore-cleansing facemask. You can see Carrie Underwood fans do all of those things and more in the lyric video for her current single “Smoke Break,” the first from her upcoming… Source: Music News