Throughout Sunday night’s American Music Awards, mysterious Samsung Mobile ads appeared to trumpet the imminent arrival of Rihanna’s upcoming LP Anti. While concrete details have yet to be announced, the ads direct mobile device users to new website AntiDiaRY.com, which opens a world of creepy clips and cryptic clues for fans… Source: Music News

As many astute memes have observed, two of 2015’s biggest hits – Drake’s “Hotline Bling” and Adele’s “Hello” – share a lyrical and emotional wavelength, as if the musicians are singing back and forth about their failed relationship. Now Adele says she wants to cement the songs’ connection more officially: “I really want us… Source: Music News

Five Finger Death Punch canceled their scheduled concert in Milan Sunday following reports that their show in the Italian city was potentially a target for an ISIS terror attack. A subgroup of the hacktivist group Anonymous claimed to have intercepted messages between pro-ISIS accounts suggesting that the terror group was preparing a… Source: Music News

Adele wrapped up a week of promoting her potentially record-breaking LP 25 by serving as musical guest on Saturday Night Live. During her visit, the singer delivered a pair of flawless, brilliant renditions, first with a performance of “Hello” and then “When We Were Young.” While Adele did not appear in any sketches… Source: Music […]

Following Miley Cyrus and the Flaming Lips’ surreal first Dead Petz gig together at Chicago’s Riveria Theatre, the singer dropped her colorful, hallucinatory new video for “Lighter.” In the video, co-directed by Cyrus and Wayne Coyne, a nude Cyrus sings the Dead Petz standout while enveloped in a psychedelic, kaleidoscopic and captivating light… Source: Music News

One of the more earnest songs on Eric Church’s new album Mr. Misunderstood is “Kill a Word,” a dissertation on the sometimes harmful power of speech. Church, a North Carolina native, fantasizes about having the ability to rob words of any negative impact in the ballad, and he performed the song… Source: Music News

Pearl Jam is currently in the midst of their South American tour, where each night the band’s set lists have featured a heavy dose of covers by artists like the Beatles, John Lennon, Pink Floyd and now, to mark the one-week anniversary of the Paris terror attacks, Eagles of Death Metal…. Source: Music News

I’ve never done one of these press days before,” Carter Burwell says into the phone, the composer’s allegro voice inflected with the curious enthusiasm of a kid playing the first level of a new videogame. “Interview after interview — I’m enjoying the novelty of it, I’ll say that.” Something doesn’t compute… Source: Music […]

Higher and higher, baby. Now this was a momentous occasion: Jeff Lynne’s ELO playing their first real American show in 30 years, an intimate gig at New York’s tiny Irving Plaza that sold out within seconds. Some of us had waited years for this night — probably including Jeff Lynne,… Source: Music News

As part of Friday’s Adele at the BBC special, the singer teamed up with BBC host Graham Norton for a lighthearted prank where a disguised Adele hung out with a group of unsuspecting Adele impersonators. For the gag, the 25 singer sported a fake nose and chin, altered her manner of… Source: Music News