It’s year-end list-making season, and not even the First Family can resist choosing their best pop culture moments. Barack and Michelle Obama have revealed their favorite songs, films, TV shows and books of 2015 in a new interview with People. While Michelle eyes the pop charts for her song selection of the Mark… Source: Music News

The past year has been turbulent for Black Sabbath fans: In October, one year after announcing plans to record a second comeback LP, the metal pioneers scrapped the idea, choosing to focus on their lengthy farewell tour dubbed “The End.” Now, frontman Ozzy Osbourne has explained his rationale for the album cancelation,… Source: Music News

Dolly Parton offered information but no advice to the remaining contestants on NBC’s The Voice as she visited the TV singing competition on Tuesday, December 8th. She also performed a lovely version of her beloved 1971 hit “Coat of Many Colors” and talked about the upcoming “faith-based” film inspired by… Source: Music News

Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor honored the late Scott Weiland on Monday at Hollywood club the Roxy, joining Royal Machines – a band featuring Jane’s Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro – for a bruising rendition of Stone Temple Pilots staple “Sex Type Thing,” Classic Rock reports.  In the fan-shot video, Taylor introduces the song by shouting, “Let’s… Source: Music […]

The legend goes like this: In 1963, producer Lee Mendelson made a documentary about Peanuts cartoonist Charles M. Schulz, for which he needed music. One night, Mendelson was driving over the Golden Gate Bridge, tuned into a San Francisco jazz station. “Cast Your Fate to the Wind” came on the air,… Source: Music News

The Replacements’ frontman Paul Westerberg, bassist Tommy Stinson and guitarist Slim Dunlap have all participated in a new in-depth biography about the influential rock group. Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements, written by journalist Bob Mehr, will arrive March 1st from Da Capo Press. The 520-page biography tracks the… Source: Music […]

WHO: Sheer Mag guitarist Kyle Seely acknowledges that “everyone thinks I was born and raised on nothing but Seventies rock,” and it isn’t hard to understand why. His boogie-ing, fuzz-drenched riffs and barbed-wire solos often draw comparisons to acts like Thin Lizzy and Lynyrd Skynyrd, while his band’s tuneful, if raw and… Source: Music News

“How Soon Is Now?” was the Smiths hit that never quite was. Their U.K. record company buried it on a B-side in 1985 because they thought the track – built around a swooping tremolo attack on a single F-sharp chord that sounded like guitarist Johnny Marr was surfing a tsunami… Source: Music News

Eagles of Death Metal returned to Bataclan in Paris less than one month after gunmen interrupted the band’s show at the venue as part of a series of terrorist attacks around the French capital, The New York Times reports. Frontman and co-founder Jesse Hughes did not offer a comment to reporters gathered outside the venue, though he and his bandmates added flowers… Source: Music […]

On the one hand, the 1988 LP This Note’s For You was an admirably perverse move from Neil Young – an album decrying the use of pop music as a corporate branding tool (quaint, right?), dressed up as a big-band rhythm-and-blues review. On the other hand, it was a collection of mostly… Source: Music News