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The Grand Ole Echo weekly series of free all-ages concerts by Americana and country bands gets off to its eighth season on April 14 with the Americans, Phoebe Bridges and La Route playing from 5:30 to 9 p.m.

Victoria Bond's musical incorporation of a passage from James Joyce's "Ulysses," was a highlight at the Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival at Symphony Space on Monday night.

The $100 Guitar Project, in which 69 musicians played on the same guitar purchased on eBay, releases a CD.

Artists signed to New West include Dwight Yoakam, Tom Morello, Drive-By Truckers, Ray Davies and John Hiatt. Los Angeles' Sumerian label is home to metal acts like Dillinger Escape Plan.

When an arts building, like the planned hub at ground zero, is designed to be adaptable to everything, it can wind up being not especially good for anything.

Nicki Minaj has revealed that filming sex scenes with Lil Wayne for her High School music video was weird as the rapper is like a "brother" to her.

The Metropolitan Museum Artists celebrated their 10th anniversary with a performance on Friday in the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium.

The punk-pop band's fourth LP 'Paramore' is set for official release on April 8

A new album by the virtuoso pedal steel guitarist, due out this summer, features guest appearances by Trombone Shorty and Carlos Santana.

Drake goes to the volleyball courts in his "5AM In Toronto" video. With the release of his third studio album, Nothing Was The Same, on the horizon (no official release date yet), we feel like Drake is probably trying to...

At the cavernous Masonic Hall within the Hollywood Forever Cemetery on Monday night, a secretive sextet of musicians called Rhye gathered before a group of seated, eerily silent worshipers. The hundreds of attendees were...

Today is the seventh instalment in our influencer series. We've teamed up with Wavo, the social network for music, to feature top 10 charts from artists and influencers from around the world. Curators are chosen based on...

Ladies and gentlemen, the Rolling Stones.

Justin Bieber has compared himself to rapper Jay-Z in refusing to address recent media reports about his behaviour, as the teenage pop heartthrob maintains he is "very much in control".

Jackson's family have taken concert promoters AEG to court for £26 billion

After a 12-show residency there last year, Mötley Crüe announced Tuesday that it would return to the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas for another dozen concerts this fall.

Chris Brown says he has had to "pull back" from social media, and stays off Twitter in an attempt to maintain his "sanity".

In the latest issue of GQ, writer Jessica Pressler followed the superstar Swedish DJ Avicii around for a few nights leading up to his New Year's Eve show. The result was a long profile that attempted to document what, ex...

iTunes' Official Music Charts for the week ending April 1, 2013

Crosby, Stills & Nash, Lucinda Williams, Ryan Adams, Rickie Lee Jones and former Eagles guitarist Don Felder top the list of musicians taking part in a benefit for Autism Speaks on April 13 at Club Nokia in Los Angeles. ...

The Jay-Z-led management company ventures into the world of professional athletes.

Justin Bieber pulled the BEST April Fools' Day prank on the paparazzi! Justin Bieber hasn't exactly seen eye-to-eye with the paparazzi lately, so who could blame him for wanting to give them a taste of their own medicine...