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Ever since Rolling Stone published an article exploring Depeche Mode's influence on heavy metal earlier this year, people have been asking the group's frontman, Dave Gahan, how he feels about groups like Marilyn Manson a...

Founding member of Three 6 Mafia Koopsta Knicca has died at the age of 40 according to reports from Memphis newspaper The Commercial Appeal. Born Robert Phillips, the Memphis rapper passed away early Friday morning follo...

Eminem is changing lives this week. The rapper has became a hero to one of his youngest stans.

"The jukebox knows no shame," sings Toby Keith on the honky-tonk boilerplate "Haggard, Hank & Her" -- and that's good news for him. Keith's umpteenth studio LP is a 10-piece bucket of his signature country craftsmanship:...

A couple years ago, John Mayer was recording a solo album, trying to channel the Grateful Dead's sound. "You should have seen me some of those days," he says. "I was going behind the drums trying to do a loping drum beat...

Donnie Fritts, "Oh My Goodness" (Single Lock) …

Alain Johannes (formerly of Queens of the Stone Age) leads a supergroup of sorts called Ten Commandos, which also features Matt Cameron (Pearl Jam), Ben Shepherd (of Soundgarden), and Dimitri Coats (of OFF!). Today, they...

Willow Smith and Chance the Rapper discuss love of family and the definition of hustle.

Ryan Adams’ much-lauded take on Taylor Swift’s entire 1989 album was originally only released digitally, but now, according to the singer-songwriter’s PaxAm website, you can soon own it on CD and vinyl. But hold up...

Sony ATV, the famous music-publishing catalog that Michael Jackson bought in 1985 and used for decades as a financial lifeline, will soon be sold in full to the late singer's estate -- or the estate may sell its own half...

It's a tract of soft, floating vocals combined with a collage of sharp percussion for a decidedly clunking beat which also features the vocals of girlfriend and bandmate, Frankie Cosmos.

Despite coming out in October 2014, Taylor Swift’s massive pop statement 1989 will be eligible for the 2016 Grammys. And in a new Grammy Pro talk, billed as a “listening session” with the Nashville Chapter and the ...

Mrs. Zappa was a model and a performer before she became the manager of a career and guardian of an image.

Father John Misty is playing a show in Louisville, Kentucky later tonight, and, as Pitchfork points out, he stopped by local radio station 91.9 WFPK Radio Louisville to promote the concert, play a few songs, chat, and sh...

It's all going down Tuesday October 13 at the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas.

As I’m writing this, the most popular new video on the internet is “No Words,” from the culty rapper Hopsin. It’s snide, sneery satire of Auto-Tuned Atlanta codeine rap, and its whole idea is that rappers who wor...

5. Reggie Ossé @Combat_Jack Location: New York City Followers: 28.2 Reggie “Combat Jack” Ossé has owned the Hip-Hop podcast space with his The Combat Jack Show and brings along with his hosting duties a wealth of e...

Sometimes Grimes gets frustrated with the media for aggregating what she posts on her Tumblr, but in this case hopefully she appreciates the signal boost. She’s been extremely vocal about the importance of the upcoming...

Another week, another development in the ongoing saga of the notorious Pizza Rat here in New York. Today, New York Magazine reports that rats across the city are now vying for our measly online attention spans by fightin...

Eminem put his love for Tupac Shakur’s legacy on display earlier this year when he penned a heartfelt letter to the late rapper’s mother. The love didn’t stop there and for Paper magazine’s new “Nowstalgia” i...

Jadakiss never really left, but he’s back anyway with a new song called “Jason” and will be dropping a new album, Top 5 Dead Or Alive, before the year is out. The new cut will have Ruff Ryders fans smiling since it...

Raven-Symone has constantly maintained the position that Black Twitter hates her but what about the self-analysis of self-hatred? While clucking it up on ABC’s The View this morning, the 30-year-old former Cosby kid sh...