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Lil B has been a cult hero since the glory days of MySpace. To many people, that's still all he is -- a stand-in for all the kids who yell "swag swag," for everyone who's still doing the cooking dance or signing their tw...

"At this truth we have arrived/God damn, it's great to be alive," U.K. folk rocker Frank Turner sings, catapulting lyrics that many singers would be embarrassed to read aloud, let alone sing, into a towering anthem. A fo...

"I'm not an outlaw country singer," Luke Bryan recently informed a journalist. No shit: He's a platinum-selling bro-country standard-bearer, a stadium-packing spring-break soundtracker, a good ol' boy you could bring hom...

Mac Miller displays his verbal dexterity and quirky creativity in "100 Grandkids," a track from his upcoming third LP, GO:OD AM, out September 18th via Warner Bros. Records/REMember Music. "Made a promise to my mama that...

As promised, Earl Sweatshirt has unveiled the music video of "Off Top," a short, tenacious cut off the Odd Future rapper's I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside. In the animated video, a cartoon Sweatshirt braves aggress...

A Freudian version of the opera, directed by Claus Guth, sees it as a meditation on the prisons we create for ourselves.

The upcoming Ghostbusters reboot has been shooting in Boston over the past two months, and The Boston Herald reports that Ozzy Osbourne may be making a guest appearance in the film. They say that he’ll be performing in...

Roman Totenberg's rare Stradivarius violin, stolen after a performance in 1980, was returned to the authorities this June.

He was rich long before Apple dropped $3.2 billion on him to buy Beats by Dre."I remember selling instrumentals off a beeper/Before the headphones or the speakers," Dre raps, reminiscing about bygone days, on "Talk About...

Beats By Dre and the Straight Outta Compton film created a genius idea of letting fans create their own version of the film’s logo via a jpg generator. But of course, social media users have been flipping it into sland...

Kendrick makes two guest appearances on the album, and appears to use both of them to go after Drake.

"What a voice that girl has, coming out of such a small person."

On Wednesday, DMN posted a letter Beatport sent to artists. The letter said Beatport needed to hold off on artist payments because of decisions made by... The post Beatport Somehow Didn’t Experience an Issue Paying the...

Due to phenomenal fan demand, Motorhead have announced a second London show at the Eventim Apollo.

The Spice Girls will reportedly embark on a world tour next year to celebrate 20 years since Wannabe.

Well, that was fast. The San Francisco 49ers have apparently had enough of Aldon Smith and his antics and don’t care how many sacks he gets a season. The organization just handed him his walking papers following his la...

Copyright law hits percussion -- and the music industry might never be the same.

The July 26 Sunday Arts&Style article "Why do pop singers keep releasing jazz standards? The results are mixed" confused the repertoire now generally known as the American songbook with jazz. They are not the same, but t...

The bands, on separate tours, epitomize two approaches to a genre.

The Mostly Mozart festival this week features George Benjamin's opera "Written on Skin" as well as performances of Bach, Beethoven and Mendelssohn.

Peter Bjorn And John hadn’t released any new music in four years until last April when they shared “High Up (Take Me To The Top,” a song that appeared on the INGRID Volym 2 compilation. The band still hasn’t give...

Sarah Jessica Parker, Samuel L. Jackson, Diane Sawyer, Charlie Rose, Busta Rhymes, Jason Bateman and Peter Dinklage gathered in NYC for the opening of Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical.