‘Tis the season of the beef. Just as the dust was settling from the Meek Mill–Drake feud, Nicki Minaj took an “oh, no, she didn’t” swipe at Miley Cyrus during her VMA acceptance speech. And last night, not to be outdone, the Black Keys and Jack White reignited their ongoing neo-blues-rock squabble. Keys drummer… Source: Music […]

When Martina McBride released her 1992 debut LP, The Time Has Come, critics were quick to label her country music’s next female superstar. Although they would eventually be proven right, it would take one more album for the public to embrace the Kansas native with the powerful pipes. The Way That… Source: Music […]

Rapper Jay Rock’s sophomore album 90059 was released last Friday, but it may have come out next month. Or next year. It depended how many fans were going to pay $13 for the pre-order on iTunes. The rapper and his label, Top Dawg Entertainment, unveiled a novel approach for releasing… Source: Music News

Back in the late 1970s and early Eighties, country was in a transition period similar to where it finds itself today. The flash, extravagance and posturing of the Urban Cowboy phase was beginning to give way, and in its place stood the complete opposite: Alabama, a band of blue-collar cousins… Source: Music News

Whitney Houston will come to digital life as a hologram in 2016 as part of a new deal between the singer’s estate and Hologram USA. The company’s CEO Alki David talked to Billboard about the proposed touring stage show and attempted to dispel preconceived notions of what the show would entail. “The show… Source: Music News

Earlier this summer, Little Big Town canceled a chunk of summertime shows on their Pain Killer Tour so that singer Jimi Westbrook could recuperate from vocal surgery. Now back in the saddle, the recent nominees for CMA Vocal Group of the Year have returned to the road, playing a string of dates that were… Source: Music News

Ghostface Killah and DOOM’s long-in-the-works Doomstarks project has yielded another new collaboration, with the two MCs teaming up for “Lively Hood,” the latest addition to the Adult Swim Singles series. The two veteran rappers trade verses over a Doom-produced carnivalesque beat, which is available to stream or download free through Adult… Source: Music News

Of all the endeavors that Maynard James Keenan has launched over the years — including Tool, A Perfect Circle and Caduceus Cellars, his winery in Jerome, Arizona — Puscifer has been the most consistently difficult to define. Electro-industrial rock project? Absurdist in-joke? Desert-fried collaborative collective? Raunchy repository for Maynard’s bawdier lyrical… Source: Music News

“We want to send out something to all our servicemen and women,” Lady Antebellum’s Charles Kelley told the trio’s Nashville audience on Friday, taking the tempo down to mark the 14th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. “We want to say thank you to every single person in uniform who fought… Source: Music […]

Glen Hansard has been a steadily prolific singer-songwriter for 25 years, first with the Dublin indie-rock act the Frames and later as half of Oscar-winning folk duo the Swell Season. On his second solo effort, Hansard explores fresh sounds, from plain-spoken blues (“Wedding Ring”) to traditional-minded Irish ballads (“McCormack’s Wall”)…. Source: Music News