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Artists often talk about how having children changes their lives, but Ciara started gestating her sixth album just three weeks before the birth of her first child. She took a break after her son arrived, but wanted to ge...

We’re very nearly a third of the way through 2015 already, and as legions of astute commenters have continually pointed out, it’s been a hell of a year for new music. The 5 Best Songs below prove it further. From all...

Sure Knight was ordered to stand trial for murder and attempted murder charges during a preliminary hearing in Los Angeles on Thursday (April 16).

Metal legends Slayer rumble back to life with the release of the band's latest track, 'When the Stillness Comes.'

Between headlining Coachella and keeping his faithfuls waiting with baited breath for his Views From the 6 album, Drake recently solidified his run as the hottest rapper in the game with a sneaker drop. It's not just any...

Despite only releasing his fourth album a few months ago, it's now been revealed that Drake is working on its follow-up, which includes a collaboration with Beyonce. Though Drake considers his February release, If You're...

Mumford & Sons have announced that their new album Wilder Mind will be played on vinyl at selected music shops around the world as part of Record Store Day tomorrow (Saturday 18 April, 2015). The band's third LP isn't du...

Frank Turner has wholeheartedly rejected Gene Simmons' assertion that rock is dead, telling Gigwise, "No Gene Simmons - your imagination is dead." Speaking to Gigwise ahead of his 1,629th gig (yes, he keeps count) the si...

The Hot 100's new leader is the 10th to have made it all the way to the top after starting at the anchor spot.

EDM and hip-hop are the driving forces behind this Midwestern music festival happening in Somerset, Wisconsin.

Fall Out Boy have dropped the music video for their surf-rock-inspired, Munsters theme-sampling American Beauty/American Psycho track "Uma Thurman." In the clip, we follow Sarah - who previously "won" Fall Out Boy's cont...

Serj Tankian and his fellow Armenian-American rockers in System of a Down have dedicated their current Wake Up the Souls tour toward raising awareness of the Armenian Genocide of 1915 and forcing Turkey to take accountab...

New York City is thriving incubator for great rock bands to grow, find their voice and flourish. With so many venues like Rockwood Music Hall, Knitting Factory, Mercury Lounge, and Pianos - there is never a shortage of p...

"This is the meat of what I do," Van Morrison says of his new record, Duets: Re-Working the Catalogue. "I like working with challenges. And I like working with other singers." Morrison, 69, resurrects deep tracks from al...

It's been three-and-a-half years since Black Sabbath announced they would record their first album since 1978 and nearly as long since they decided to move on without founding drummer Bill Ward. In 2012, Ward released a ...

Father John Misty -- who put out one of SPIN‘s favorite records of the year in January, I Love You, Honeybear -- has just released a Record Store Day exclusive titled, rather ingeniously, “I Loved You, Honeybee.” I...

Mad Decent Block Party has released a 2015 lineup that includes some of the most popular artists in rap and EDM. When the "block party" began, the now-annual festival was exactly that: a small, neighborhood event held ou...

Tidal's new interim CEO is Peter Tonstad ­ a former CEO of parent company Aspiro Group.

Record Store Day is tomorrow, and to help boost awareness for the red heart-shaped 7″ from Father John Misty that will be available tomorrow, Sub Pop just released the audio. The alternate version of his latest album�...

The hundreds of thousands of hacked Sony emails leaked by Wikileaks this week include one describing Harry Styles as "adorably slow" and another showing that Sony's co-chairman Amy Pascal doesn't know who Rita Ora is. Pa...

New releases from Jidenna, Chastity Belt, Sicko Mobb and Mickey Guyton.

Ms. Clyne is the subject of the Miller Theater's final Composers Portrait of the season on Thursday.