With a new album in the works — and auditions for the 15th (and final) season of American Idol already underway — Keith Urban couldn’t have picked a busier time to hit the road for a handful of summer dates. Even so, the “John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16” singer found enough time… Source: Music News

For his new live CD/DVD Back to Macon, GA, Gregg Allman returned to the small riverside town where the Allman Brothers Band first got their start, jamming on psychedelics in the local cemetery; the same place where, in 1971, his older brother and legendary guitarist Duane Allman died in a motorcycle accident…. Source: Music News

Robin Thicke is gunning for another hit off a blockbuster collaboration, teaming with Nicki Minaj and super-producer Max Martin for the bombastic dance floor harbinger, “Back Together.” Where “Blurred Lines” — Thicke’s 2013 hit with Pharrell and T.I. — was a (perhaps too accurate) pastiche of mid-Seventies R&B, “Back Together” boasts a bumping Studio… Source: Music […]

Miami shout-rapper Gunplay is a singular voice in Southern rap. He’s got the high-octane, high-volume, permanent hypeman delivery of Waka Flocka Flame, but he’s also an intricate rhyme writer in the tradition laid down by old school New York rappers like Big Daddy Kane. The 36-year-old rapper likely remembers the… Source: Music News

1. For the past five years, the world’s biggest pop group has been the world’s biggest classic-rock band, doing their “Baba O’Riley” remake every night for 60,000 screaming girls. “People like us don’t get to play stages like this,” Harry Styles said last night at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium, and he’s… Source: Music News

Puff Daddy enlists Pharrell and heads underground to turn up in the alternately grimy and vibrant new video for the hip hop mogul’s latest single, “Finna Get Loose.” Directed by Hype Williams, the clip opens in stark black and white, conjuring the opening credits to Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing as the… Source: Music […]

It’s safe to say nobody ever expected Duran Duran to endure this long — not even Duran Duran. But the original New Romantics are back with a vengeance. Their excellent new LP, Paper Gods, lives up their their classic sex-synths-and-mascara legacy. All four remain as criminally charismatic ever: singer Simon Le Bon,… Source: Music News

Imagine you’re Steve Hackett and it’s 1986. You left Genesis seven years earlier since they weren’t using nearly enough of your songs, but they’ve since become one of the biggest bands on the planet and they’re making piles and piles of money, landing hit after hit. If that wasn’t enough, Phil Collins… Source: Music News

Afrojack’s big hit of 2015 is “Hey Mama,” a chart-topping collaboration with David Guetta, Nicki Minaj and Bebe Rexha, but right now, he’s most excited about “SummerThing!” The new single, the first off an album due early next year, rides a peppy guitar line toward a cavernous drop that earns its… Source: Music News

Dr. Dre has announced that he will be donating all of his artist royalties earned from Compton, the pioneering gangsta rapper-producer’s long-awaited new album, to help fund a new performing arts and entertainment facility in Compton. The news was announced today on Beats 1 radio DJ Zane Lowe’s program. “I feel it’s the… Source: Music […]