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Artists at a life drawing class at the New York Academy of Art were greeted by a naked Iggy Pop February 21st as the rocker was recruited by the Brooklyn Museum to serve as the class' nude model. Twenty-one artists, aged...

Ennio Morricone has won his first Academy Award for Best Original Score to Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight, 37 years after he was first nominated.

Iggy Pop is no stranger to getting naked on stage, but for a new art exhibition he stripped down in a different context. Last weekend, the Stooges frontman and rock legend was the guest model for a nude life drawing sess...

The band will be touring in support of their forthcoming album Gore.

Sam Smith "hated every moment" of his Academy Awards performance because he was so nervous.

Swans frontman Michael Gira was scheduled to play three shows in Australia this month beginning Saturday in Brisbane. Pitchfork reports that those dates are now canceled, though the European leg of Gira’s solo itinerar...

The former home of Freddie Mercury in Feltham, West London, will soon have a Blue Heritage Plaque.

Sam Smith performed his Oscar-nominated song, "Writing's On the Wall," tonight at the 88th Academy Awards. The track, which is up for Best Original Song and was co-written with Smith's longtime collaborator Jimmy Napes, ...

Adidas has taken the timeless cork heeled fashion trend and applied it to one of their most popular models.

A little under a year ago, the three members of RNDM - Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament, singer/songwriter Joseph Arthur and drummer Richard Stuverud - got together to began sketching out ideas for their new LP, Ghost Riding...

Fifty Shades of Grey might've cleaned up at the Razzies yesterday, but the soundtrack got some love at the Academy Awards, and the Weeknd was on hand to performed his Best Original Song-nominated track, "Earned It." Flan...

Following sets from Best Original Song nominees the Weeknd and Sam Smith, Dave Grohl made a special appearance at the 2016 Academy Awards, covering the Beatles' "Blackbird" during the show's In Memoriam segment. Performi...

R&B singer KeKe Palmer has delivered her own sizzling-hot dance video to Rihanna’s chart-topping smash “Work” featuring Drake.

A$AP Rocky was a guest on Tyler, The Creator’s GOLF Radio show recently, and while recounting a conversation between him and Tyler about copping a McLaren, Rocky launched into a dead-on Tyler impersonation. Tyler himse...

Joe Biden got the "Indiana Jones" treatment, while Richard Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries" was the "playoff" music and was heard a total of nine times.

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We’re about to begin March 2016, and if you’re a fan of electronic music, you may know that it’s the industry’s busiest and best time of year. Setting out to prove that true in this year is Andy MacDougall, follo...

DIIV with Tennis System and Summer Peaks February 27, 2016 Brick and Mortar Music Hall DIIV's first headline set of Noise Pop was a fight to the finish. The adversaries came early and often. Guitar and amplifier woes pla...

The Teklife DJ crew have announced Afterlife, a posthumous album by the late DJ Rashad. Afterlife collects collaborations between Rashad and some of group's best-known members, including DJ Spinn, DJ Manny, and DJ Taye. ...

Stop us if you’ve heard this before, Katt Williams was arrested today. The comedian with a penchant for drama allegedly 2-pieced a pool shop worker in Gainseville, Georgia. Reports TMZ: Police tell us Katt was arrested...

Various Artists, "God Don't Never Change -- The Songs of Blind Willie Johnson" (Alligator Records) …

For 10 years, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been essentially mute but broke that decade-long trend on Monday (Feb. 29). Justice Thomas shocked reporters and observers with the series of questions, of which wa...