In a year filled with chart-topping country albums by Aaron Watson, Jason Isbell and Blackberry Smoke, the Turnpike Troubadours are the latest independents to climb their way up the Billboard charts without help from mainstream radio.  The band’s new, self-titled LP is currently sitting at Number Three on the Billboard Country Albums Chart,… Source: Music […]

On this day in 2000, Keith Urban made his Grand Ole Opry debut as a solo artist. He first played the radio show as a sideman in 1997, backing up fellow Aussie Slim Dusty with the rest of his short-lived power trio, the Ranch. Three years later, the Ranch had… Source: Music News

Ultimately, only one star matters on a great dance record: the beats. The follow up to Disclosure’s 2013 debut, Settle — the most potent club-pop fusion LP since the heydays of Fatboy Slim and the Chemical Brothers — flexes a fantastically upscaled vocal roster befitting the duo’s arena-level success. But DJ… Source: Music News

Nicki Minaj is taking her entrepreneurial skills to television, as the rapper revealed plans to executive produce and star in a scripted comedy series based on her life for ABC Family. The as-yet-untitled series will be based on Minaj’s pre-superstar life in Queens, New York. The Nineties-set show will explore the Trinidad… Source: Music […]

By the time 2012 rolled around, it seemed like Neil Young might never perform with Crazy Horse again. It had been eight years since they last played together, far and away their longest break since they came together in 1968. Plans were in place for a Buffalo Springfield tour in 2012, but at… Source: Music News

During his first three seasons on ABC’s Nashville, Chris Carmack portrayed up-and-coming — and closeted — country singer Will Lexington. The Season Three finale, in which Will publicly came out, altered his dramatic arc and sent the character into self-imposed exile. But at the same time, Carmack is raising his… Source: Music News

Towards the end of Limp Bizkit’s set at New York’s Best Buy Theater last year, the group launched into Rage Against the Machine’s 1992 classic “Killing in the Name,” a song they’ve covered more than 100 times. “This is dedicated to the rap-rock band that started this shit,” frontman Fred Durst… Source: Music […]

Lorde leaves an illicit lover lasciviously devoted and enflamed in the striking new video for “Magnets,” the New Zealand singer’s collaboration with UK production duo Disclosure. The clip opens on a luxurious party in the Hollywood Hills, the sky painted purple as Lorde looks longingly at an empty pool before sashaying through… Source: Music […]

Looking to whip up some buzz for last year’s Man Against Machine album, Garth Brooks got social last November, launching his own Twitter, Facebook and Instagram accounts in the same week. Less than a year later, though, he’s shaking his fist at modern technology.  A fried cell phone may have just set… Source: Music […]

December 12th marks what would have been Frank Sinatra’s 100th birthday, and throughout 2015, Sony Music’s Legacy Recordings have celebrated the legendary singer’s career with a series of archival releases. That will continue with Frank Sinatra: A Voice on Air (1935-1955), a 4-CD collection gathering the Chairman of the Board’s… Source: Music News