Music News
Q-Tip Ignites Insightful Conversation About Hip-Hop's Roots With Iggy Azalea
The Boombox - 21 Dec 2014 07:24
It seems that everyone has an opinion about Iggy Azalea who has been criticized by a number of people, particularly Azealia Banks, for her misappropriation of hip-hop culture. Q-Tip took to Twitter on Saturday (Dec. 20) ...
Taylor Swift's '1989' Set for Sixth Week at No. 1 on Billboard 200
Hollywood Reporter - 21 Dec 2014 08:09
Nicki Minaj's album is also likely to make this week's top 10
Ariana Grande: Xmas is about family
Music News - 21 Dec 2014 18:30
Ariana Grande is excited to have time off with her family over the festive season.
Madonna's 'Rebel Heart' beats big
Music News - 21 Dec 2014 14:13
Madonna's Beyonce-like stealth Rebel Heart release has jumped to an immediate number one on iTunes charts in 36 countries.
Frank Sinatra app to kicks off Sinatra 100 celebration
Music News - 21 Dec 2014 04:00
Throughout 2015, one of the world's most beloved entertainment icons of all time, Frank Sinatra, will be celebrated around the world with
Nine Hip-Hop Experts Share Memories of DMX's '...And Then There Was X' Album
The Boombox - 21 Dec 2014 23:47
In honor of the 15th anniversary of DMX's third album, '...And Then There Was X,' The Boombox gives nine hip-hop experts the chance to share their thoughts on the 1999 project.
Mel B 'delays eye op'
Music News - 21 Dec 2014 07:45
Mel B has apparently postponed an operation for a corneal transplant.
Madonna Addresses Demo Leaks, Talks "Crazy" Sony Hack: The Net "Is a Double-Edged Sword"
Hollywood Reporter - 22 Dec 2014 01:59
"It's crazy times" the queen of pop tells Billboard
Music Review: Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band Roar Into the Garden
The New York Times - 22 Dec 2014 01:54
Mr. Seger, an exponent of soulful rock since the 1960s, played his hits and other songs that gently blended politics with the personal.
Lance Bass Is Married: Get The Details
Hollywood Reporter - 22 Dec 2014 01:28
The former boy band member tied the knot with Michael Turchin in L.A.
Unlucky In Love, 13 Albums That Deserved More In 2014
The 405 - 22 Dec 2014 01:15
Every year the music press falls over itself to bet on 'ones to watch', they're either safe bets with an album that's already been bandied around and guaranteed Q1 marketing spend, or they are an artist that has been mut...
Hear the title track from Melrose Zee's new 'Palisades' EP
Ear Milk - 21 Dec 2014 22:53
Melrose Zee is a producer with a sound that mixes the old with the new; on his new Palisades EP he takes the bright, pixelated sounds of artists like Rustie and Lone and then filters them back through a more classic hip-...
Watch One Direction Bring Intimate 'Four' Tracks to 'SNL'
Rolling Stone - 21 Dec 2014 19:09
It's still too early to say that One Direction have joined the ranks of Alec Baldwin and Christopher Walken as Saturday Night Live mainstays, but the British pop quintet are quickly becoming an annual tradition on SNL. F...
Nicki Minaj and Ex-Boyfriend Safaree Samuels Exchange Heated Words On Twitter
The Boombox - 22 Dec 2014 01:42
After recently ending their 12-year relationship, Nicki Minaj and her ex-boyfriend Safaree “Scaff Beezy” Samuels weren’t feeling each other and went on Twitter to vent about their bad breakup on Saturday (Dec. 21)....
Q-Tip Enlightens Iggy Azalea on the History of Hip-Hop
SPIN - 22 Dec 2014 00:56
If you haven't been following the long-simmering Twitter spat between two of the year's most outspoken rappers Iggy Azalea and Azealia Banks, well you honestly haven't missed too much...
'Rebel Heart': Madonna Reveals the Story Behind Six Surprise Songs
Rolling Stone - 22 Dec 2014 00:36
For the past year, Madonna has been updating fans on the progress of her 13th studio album through Instagram posts picturing collaborators (Nicki Minaj, Avicii, Diplo) and inspirations (children in Malawi, Miley Cyrus, p...
Citizens bring in the New Year with "Lighten Up" [Video]
Ear Milk - 22 Dec 2014 00:05
British indie-rock quartet Citizens have released their new music video for "Lighten Up" to prepare for a full-length album due to drop in the spring. And in some ways it feels like one big celebration to usher in the ne...
Paul Stanley's Long-Lost Folgers Commercial Resurfaces
Rolling Stone - 22 Dec 2014 00:01
Kiss recently announced plans to collaborate with J-pop group Momoiro Clover Z on a new track called "Yume no Ukiyo ni Saitemina," but that's somehow only the second-strangest Kiss news you'll read today. Back in 2000, g...
Adult Swim's 'Black Dynamite' Plans Police Brutality Musical With Tyler, the Creator, Erykah Badu
SPIN - 21 Dec 2014 23:33
Over the course of its two seasons, Adult Swim's blaxploitation parody Black Dynamite has occasionally enlisted some pretty special guests (including an inspired casting this season of
Washington National Opera's tuneful 'Little Prince' pleases kids -- or does it?
Washington Post - 21 Dec 2014 23:32
People like to go to live shows over the holidays, and they like to take children to them. The opera world would very much like to participate in this. Yet it comes up, time and again, against the question of what consti...
Kullkid samples Marvin Gaye in "Let's Love Baby"
Ear Milk - 21 Dec 2014 23:27
Kullkid deserves more attention. It's been over 2 years since the French Alps native dropped his instant classic remix of Bon Iver's "Flume" and he certainly has the talent to break through to the next echelon of dance m...
Chase Rice brings bro-country to the Fillmore Silver Spring
Washington Post - 21 Dec 2014 23:07
This thing, bro-country, what is it?Here's a start. It's an electronically fortified, pitch-corrected pastiche of everything suburban whites have listened to since roughly 1987, from Bon Jovi to Matchbox 20 to pop-rap.