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Romeo Santos has decided to change up his signature sound again by inviting Nicki Minaj and Drake to provide guest vocals on his upcoming sophomore effort, 'Formula, Vol. 2.'

Today is launch day for Beats Music, the new streaming music service for which Trent Reznor serves as creative chief. (Read our impressions of the app here.) The Nine Inch Nails frontman is doing his part to get people t...

Glass Hammer are preparing to release their 14th studio album Ode To Echo and leading light Steve Babb has told Prog the material focuses on 'some very dark ideas.'

When Ice Cube rapped, "Even saw the lights of the Goodyear Blimp / And it read, 'Ice Cube's a pimp,'" back in 1993, on his hit song 'It Was a Good Day,' he probably had no idea that years later his words would come true....

The La Scala Philharmonic orchestra will play the funeral march from Beethoven's No. 3 Symphony to an empty house in tribute to Claudio Abbado, the opera house's long-time musical director who died this week.

New York-based duo Timeflies continues to morph their music in interesting ways. After the more electro and dub-inspired sounds of their previous EPs Warning Signs & One Night, the duo returns with a more folk-inspired a...

Last year, the Chicago rapper-producer Tree — who’s given his hard, gnarled, singular sound the distinctive genre name soul-trap — gave us his messy but often brilliant mixtape Sunday School II: When Church Lets Ou...

LOS ANGELES - When the Grammy for album of the year is handed out on Sunday night, it could go to Taylor Swift, Kendrick Lamar, Daft Punk or Macklemore & Ryan Lewis.

German electronic star brings debut to UK

The film will be the first ever Tuareg-language film

Blur frontman's debut solo effort due for release in April     

Perhaps best known for his remix of Naught Boy's "La La La" with Tobtok last year, Oliver Nelson is back at it with a remix of Chromeo's "Night by Night" from their album Business Casual. If you can recall the 2011 origi...

The Columbus lo-fi pop-rockers Connections had a very busy 2013. In addition to being named one of our 40 Best New Bands and taking their exhilarating live show on the road with fellow Ohio indie-rock greats the Breeders...

In a trend where the words "deep" and "underground" are flung around with as much vigor as a hot potato, Kolour LTD - a Houston based, all vinyl label - keeps the real deal on its plate(s). Sinking deeply into the presse...

The songs we’ve heard so far from Eagulls have been ferociously shouted, violently deployed post-punk anthems — “Nerve Endings,” “Tough Luck,” and their cover of Killing Joke’s “Requiem” among them. The...

Despite being a professor at Rice University and the "King of the Trill," there's one title that Bun B has no interest in: mayor. The rapper spoke to MSNBC's Tamron Hall and shot down rumors that he's running for office ...

My Chemical Romance have announced the release of their greatest hits album, "May Death Never Stop You," with an appropriately macabre trailer.

What I like most about The M Machine: their ability to flawlessly execute hard electro with one song, then sing you to sleep with serenading melodies in another. For instance, last year saw them drop "Luma" on Metropolis...

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina, who were released from a Russian prison last month, will appear at an Amnesty International concert at Barclays Center on Feb. 5.     

Scandinavian producer duo Pegboard Nerds have truly made a name for themselves over the past few months, receiving huge responses for their bass-filled remixes of Krewella's "Live for the Night," Mat Zo's "Lucid Dreams,"...

Chart topper joins awards show line-up

Disclosure have always come across like two kids who, at the very least, understand rap — they sample J Dilla on their own “Grab Her!” — but we haven’t heard them move into straight-up rap production until now....