Eric Church christened Nashville’s new Ascend Amphitheater with a sold-out, two-night stand last week and turned in a stunning, old-school cover of the Band’s “The Weight” with Ryan Bingham and Joanna Cotten in the process. The brand-spanking new venue sits right on the bank of the Cumberland River and features breathtaking views… Source: Music […]

Danny Brown and producer Clams Casino have dropped their collaborative “Worth It,” a spacey jam recorded for the ongoing Adult Swim Singles program. On the track, Brown ponders deeply about the hip-hop lifestyle, asking, “Is it really worth it? / For fast cars and ice / Do you wanna live that life?… Source: Music News

Dave Grohl has promised to bring the Foo Fighters to Cesena, Italy after a video showing 1,000 Italian musicians performing the group’s “Learn to Fly” in unison went viral. 350 guitarists, 250 singers, 250 drummers and 150 bassists all banded together for the Cesena spectacle, which already racked up over 15 million… Source: Music News

The rumors are true: Dr. Dre will release a new album in the near future. The rapper took to his Beats 1 radio show The Pharmacy to confirm reports of a Straight Outta Compton soundtrack produced by Dre as well as additional details regarding Dre’s first LP since 1999’s 2001. During Saturday’s “Countdown… Source: Music News

Paul McCartney served as Lollapalooza’s headliner Friday night in Chicago, and the former Beatle had a special guest in the store to help him out during the encore: Alabama Shakes’ Brittany Howard, who joined McCartney for a rousing rendition of “Get Back.” The Sound & Color band had performed at the Chicago fest… Source: Music News

Andre 3000 has been cast in the upcoming second season of the ABC drama American Crime. On the anthology series, the Outkast rapper will play Michael Lacroix, a prominent Midwest architect whose son gets embroiled in a scandal at an elite private school, The Hollywood Reporter writes. The drama’s second season will… Source: Music News

Kendrick Lamar has dropped the new music video for “For Free? (Interlude),” a jazzy, Last Poets-inspired cut off the rapper’s acclaimed To Pimp a Butterfly. Clocking in at just over two minutes, Lamar furiously packs plenty of amusing moments in this Joe Weil and the Little Homies-directed video as Lamar chases a… Source: Music News

The first clue came during the end of “Beautiful Day” when Bono sang a few lines of “Hungry Heart.” It lasted no more than six seconds, but it seemed to confirm rumors that had been flying around for weeks that Bruce Springsteen was going to come out for the final night of U2’s… Source: Music News

Eminem has opened up about his prescription pill addiction and how his habit caused a huge weight gain in a revealing new article. Speaking to Men’s Journal, the rapper also discusses how working out assisted in the recovery process and the various workout routines he now employs to stay lean and sober. “In… Source: Music News

Singer-songwriter Lynn Anderson, a dynamic Grammy-winning performer whose 1970 single, “Rose Garden,” was a country and pop hit throughout the world, died Thursday night at Nashville’s Vanderbilt University Medical Center after suffering a heart attack. According to the Tennessean, Anderson was hospitalized with pneumonia following a recent trip to Italy…. Source: Music News