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Rapper Kevin Gates may be part of the hip-hop conversation for his bold raps, but he was the talk of social media for reasons outside of his music this week. On Thursday (Jan. 1) the Baton Rogue, La. native shared a vide...

Fleetwood Mac fans might want to make damn sure that they see them on their upcoming tour, as guitarist Lindsay Buckingham has suggested their next album and 2015 shows could well be their last. The band are currently ge...

Gwen Stefani and Pharrell Williams 'Shine', originally intended to soundtrack the new CGI verison of Paddington, has leaked online. Listen to it below. Clearly intended to replicate the huge success Pharrell enjoyed with...

Bono has had a roller coaster ride of a year between the (however troubled) release of Songs Of Innocence and the bicycle injury that left him largely incapacitated. He used some of his time recovering from the accident ...

The New York Philharmonic, led by Bramwell Tovey, was joined by Norm Lewis and Dianne Reeves for a program of Gershwin on New Year's Eve.

If your new year's resolution is to jog off those holiday pounds in an attempt to get summertime sexy, then you'll need the right footwear. Fortunately, with shoes like the Nike Flyknit Racer available, getting fit doesn...

Young Buck returns with a mission statement for 2015 on his latest freestyle track, ‘New Years Cake.’

A former Ku Klux Klan wizard has attacked hip-hop in a bizarre rant claiming that Minaj's entire success is down to a mass Jewish conspiracy. Deranged David Duke - who once ran for president - launched into an hour long ...

Bono has shared the potentially life-changing consequences of his bike accident in November.

Congrats are in order for Tank and his longtime girlfriend, Zena Foster. The couple welcomed their baby boy, Zion, on Jan. 1.

It may be 2015 but best buds Chris Brown and Tyga are channeling the ‘90’s in the new promotional photos for their forthcoming joint album, ‘Fan of a Fan.’

PJ Harvey is set to record her new album as a gallery installation in London, which will be open to public view throughout the entire process. The singer's ninth album will be made at Somerset House in London over four w...

Legendary engineer for The Beatles Glyn Johns, has slammed Let It Be as 'a bunch of garbage'. Writing in his new memoir, Sound Man, the acclaimed studio figure spoke of how he was disappointed with the material presented...

Zane Lowe has tipped the likes of Royal Blood, The 1975, Disclosure and Pendulum as acts that could step up as festival headliners in the future. The BBC Radio One DJ was speaking to Gigwise about the newer acts likely t...

Dollywood, the Tennessee theme park co-owned by Dolly Parton, is being sued after a woman fell headfirst off one of the rides. Tedi A Brown was riding the Waltzing Swinger in December 2013 when, according to the lawsuit,...

Turntablist DJ Qbert has created the first interactive DJ decks in an album cover thanks to Kickstarter. Watch a demonstration below. QBert’s Extraterrestria album features a set of working Bluetooth MIDI decks and con...

Teaming up with Young Thug was simultaneously the best and worst thing that could have happened to Rich Homie Quan. On the one hand, being part of the most exciting duo in mainstream rap has elevated his profile signific...

Madonna has been catching a lot of flack on Twitter today for a series of photos on her Instagram account. The photos depict lauded black civil rights leaders’ faces wrapped in wire, mimicking the album artwork for Reb...

Jeff Golub, the longtime jazz, blues and rock guitarist who played on albums by Rod Stewart and Billy Squier alongside his own solo work, died on Thursday at the age of 59, according to Jazz Times. While the exact cause ...

Selena Gomez recently posed for Instagram with her ankle showing at the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi — photographic proof that she violated the mosque’s strict dress code. The snapshot caused so much anger ...

Musicians discuss if suffering and world experience are needed to play pieces from Beethoven and other masterworks.

Two conductors, both leading German orchestras, have released sets of Brahms's symphonies within a year of each other. What's the difference?