Earlier this week One Direction took a break from the stadiums and arenas they’ve headlined for their world tour to perform at London’s Roundhouse for the Apple Music Festival. The boy band took the stage on Monday and followed opening act Little Mix. The quartet’s performance took place the same day that… Source: Music […]

Once again, we talked to 10 of the hottest artists who are climbing the charts, breaking the Internet or just dominating our office stereos. This month: King Mez, Dr. Dre’s Compton collaborator; Elle King, the singer behind the current  Top Alternative Songs chart-topper; Roman GianArthur, the R&B multi-instrumentalist behind a unique Radiohead covers EP… Source: Music News

Ozzy Osbourne had been out of Black Sabbath for just five years by the time that Live Aid came around in the summer of 1985, but quite a lot happened in that time. Ozzy established himself as a solo superstar with the 1980’s Blizzard of Ozz and even managed to endure after the… Source: Music News

When Beach Blanket Bingo gets its 21st century remake, here’s the soundtrack. Shannon Shaw and Cody Blanchard trick out warped Fifties-Sixties rock driven by space-age thrift-shop keyboards, shimmy-shake dance grooves and sexy moonlit vocals — Shaw’s woozy Amy Winehouse-isms are backlit by Blanchard’s shrieky falsetto. If the campy atmosphere nods… Source: Music News

What a time to be alive — and being “alive,” as Future and Drake define it, involves having way too many feelings about way too many strippers for way too many sleepless nights. Their surprise mixtape collabo is shrewdly timed, since both MCs are on a creative roll after dropping… Source: Music News

One year after releasing 1984, his love-letter EP to mid-Eighties punk, Ryan Adams is back with an album-length cover of Taylor Swift’s 1989. It plays like the latest chapter in his ongoing recent Tom-Petty-meets-the-Smiths re-imagining of the Reagan years. “You’ve got that Daydream Nation look in your eye,” he sings,… Source: Music News

Broken Bells have shared a surprise new song, “It’s That Talk Again,” ahead of the premiere of of their concert film, Live at the Orpheum, airing Saturday at 9 p.m. ET on Palladia. The previously unreleased “It’s That Talk Again” was recorded during the sessions for Broken Bells’ 2014 LP, After the Disco, and finds… Source: Music […]

After two Russian comedians tricked Elton John into thinking he was on the phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the real Putin has given John a ring to schedule a meeting on LGBT rights. Reuters reports that a spokesman for Putin, Dmitry Peskov, revealed to reporters that a call between the pair… Source: Music […]

The Dead Weather have offered another riveting live performance clip off the group’s upcoming LP, Dodge and Burn out Friday. Directed by Jack White, “Be Still” finds the Dead Weather bashing out the swampy, blues-tinged cut in a rehearsal space lined with lifeless, faceless humanoids and piles of tires. As the song plows… Source: Music […]

At this point, Shaquille O’Neal’s LinkedIn probably needs a LinkedIn. Over the past twenty years, he’s been a four-time NBA champion (and one-time MVP), a TV pitchman, a studio analyst, a rapper, a genie, a cop, a venture capitalist and a superhero – and that’s just a quick skim through… Source: Music News