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Legendary US punk band, Dead Kennedys, have announced a string of UK and EU headline tour dates for June 2015.

There’s no question that Drake’s mixtape, 'If You're Reading This It's Too Late,' is one of the hottest releases of the past week. Apparently, one fan loved the project so much that he decided to get a tattoo of the ...

It was a pretty feelings-heavy episode.

Gore died of cancer on Monday.

Passion Pit have announced the details for the new album Kindred, the synthpop band's first LP since 2012's Gossamer. In addition to revealing that the 1o-track Kindred would arrive on April 21st and that pre-orders will...

Gore died of cancer in Manhattan.

On this week’s episode, Empire, Fox’s ridiculously popular rap-industry soap opera, features the show’s Lyon brothers, Hakeem and Jamal, getting together to flip Dire Straits’ “Money For Nothing” into rap&B g...

Despite the playful cynicism in the band's onstage rhetoric, Shinies' debut is a collective of ruminative reverb drenched 'slacker pop'.

By Kevin Rutherford -OK, as Rachel Dratch as Debbie Downer so aptly pointed out, musical numbers starting off an episode of SNL can definitely leave one wanting a lot more; generally speaking, they’re not great. But gi...

In a move that will surely get even more articles written about him, Jack White has posted an open letter on his website addressing “journalists and other people looking for drama or a diva” in response to all of the...

The Grammys' Songs in the Key of Life - An All-Star Salute to Stevie Wonder will air on CBS February 16th, and before the tribute concert is broadcast, the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer chatted with AP about the star-studd...

CBS reports that Lesley Gore, the singer and songwriter who scored a string of enormous hits in the early ’60s and who helped define the way that melodramatic teenage pop could sound, has died. Her longtime partner con...

It's the end of the world as Ariana Grande knows it and she feels fine in the new music video for My Everything's "One Last Time." Set in the moments before the Apocalypse and borrowing from those fashionable single-came...

UK house music veteran Mark Knight has returned to his own Toolroom Records for a release this week that is a reminder for us as to how he has maintained his career as a respectable artist. Ironing Man / Feel Good Now ha...

Lesley Gore, the singer of Sixties hits like "It's My Party," "Judy's Turn to Cry" and "You Don't Own Me," passed away today at a New York City hospital following a bout with cancer. Gore was 68. "She was a wonderful hum...

Of the eight films nominated for Best Picture at the 2015 Oscars, only one was a blockbuster. In case you missed some of them, here's our take on all of them.

Amber Rose is famous for showing off her curvaceous body on social media, but recently she found herself in a Twitter beef with Khloe Kardashian on Monday (Feb. 16).

I got this track from live electronic duo Sistine Criminals from a friend of a friend, who also happens to be a member of their cult following in NYC. When I looked into them more, I started thinking about what an intere...

Hundred Waters refined their delicate, electronic take on folk music on last year’s The Moon Rang Like a Bell, and to follow that up the Florida group are releasing a remix of the entire album featuring versions from a...

Entertainment law developments including an appeal concerning Ray Charles songs and a guilty plea from a Megupload computer programmer.

NYC Duo Housing Corp have us reminiscing of 1999 with their latest rework of Montell Jordan's classic "Get It On Tonight". Injecting a new house vibe into the original, the pair make it a modern day tune ready for prime ...

Ah, the never-ending string of Grammys-related-content has not come to an end yet, and since whenever Kanye West does anything it becomes a cultural focal point, the latest dispatch involves him again, too. Yes, Kanye pr...