Rockers Metallica have launched their own music festival. The Orion Music + More event will be staged at Bader Field in New Jersey on June 23rd - 24th and the band will headline. A post on the ...

Formed just over a year ago, Yuck is a quartet, but sometimes a band of five. Daniel and Max are from London. Mariko is from Hiroshima. Jonny is from New Jersey. Daniel's sister Ilana joins in...

Ok, friends we need to have a talk. Everyone has their own musical preferences. There are those people who are all country, those who are everything EXCEPT country, those who like "alternative," an...

Multiple Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter Norah Jones has announced the title and release date of her upcoming album, "The Fall", her fourth studio album which will be released by EMI's B...

Jack Black's raucous rock duo Tenacious D will replace the Beastie Boys on the bill for the upcoming Outside Lands festival. The San Francisco, California event was one of many the Beastie Boys...

Atlantic recording group Death Cab for Cutie has unveiled a must-see new video for "Grapevine Fires," one of the stand-out tracks on their RIAA gold certified Grammy nominated Narrow Stairs. ...

The organizers of Record Store Day have been happily overwhelmed by a steady flurry of support and activity from artists, record labels and retailers wishing to participate in the annual event in s...

Atlantic Records has announced the upcoming release of "OMFGG – Original Music Featured On Gossip Girl No. 1," the first companion soundtrack to the hit CW series, Gossip Girl. The album fea...

Canadian quartet Pilot Speed have entered Sweet Tea Studios in Oxford, Mississippi with legendary producer Dennis Herring to record the follow-up to the band's Into The West (2006). The prior albu...

Counting Crows were the first band in the O2 Wireless Festival's 4-year history to perform in front of a sell-out crowd in London's Hyde Park. Following this achievement, Live Nation is proud to pr...

Harmonix, the world’s premier music video game company, and MTV Games, a division of Viacom’s MTV Networks, along with marketing and distribution partner Electronic Arts Inc., today revealed at the...

It's been a long wait for the fans of R.E.M. Not so much to see their band play live, but to grab hold of such a high quality piece of work as this year's "Accelerate." Not since the early nineti...

This time of year is consumed with unanswered questions in a myriad of fields. Who will be the Democratic nominee? Who will win the NBA's MVP award? When will The Office come back? I feel that it i...

The 2000s will most likely be remembered for the dispersion of culture throughout a variety of media outlets. Because there are so many different places to take in entertainment, there are likewise...

R.E.M. -- which is singer Michael Stipe, guitarist Peter Buck, and bassist Mike Mills -- are counting down the time to the release of Accelerate, their 14th studio album, on a website, www.ninetyni...

The Flaming Lips will premiere their long-awaited Christmas On Mars movie at the Sasquatch! Festival in Washington in May. The band will also perform at the weekend event, which will be head...

When I first comprised this list, I had all the usual suspects: Thriller, Closer, Daydream Nation, Purple Rain - you know, the albums you see on every other top 10 list for the 80s. I got abo...

On March 25, Counting Crows will release their fifth studio album (and their first in five years), Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings, on Geffen/Interscope. "Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings"...

On February 19, 2008, ATO Records will release Golden Delicious, the new album from singer/songwriter Mike Doughty. Doughty and GRAMMY-winning producer Dan Wilson worked with Doughty's touring band...

Johnny Marr has dropped the biggest hint yet his band The Smiths could reform. Guitarist Marr, who currently tours with rockers Modest Mouse, has previously played down rumors of a reunion for the ...

Veteran rockers Pearl Jam turned political during their closing set at U.S. music festival Lollapalooza on Sunday, launching a blistering attack on oil giant BP and calling for an end to the war in...

Modest Mouse front man Isaac Brock blames a pre-show concoction of coffee and whiskey he drank to soothe a sore throat for his recent chest-slashing stage antics. The singer stunned band mates and ...

The summer's two-day Virgin Festival in Baltimore, Maryland is all about big reunions - The Police will join the Smashing Pumpkins as headliners. The Police have just announced they'll close the fi...

Former The Smiths star Johnny Marr has designed a new line of limited-edition charity sneakers. Only 216 pairs of the sports shoes will be manufactured and available at select stores in America a...

Modest Mouse star Eric Judy has gone missing, prompting fans to fear he's quit the cult indie group. A mystery illness forced Judy to pull out of a concert in Minneapolis in April, and he hasn't be...

Cake formed in Sacramento, California in 1991. The band quickly became a hot item in the downtown club and cafe scene, then went on to gain a steady following in San Francisco's Bay Area. Lead sing...

Tickets are now officially on sale for Lollapalooza 2007, August 3-5 in Chicago’s Grant Park. Among the 120-plus artists are behemoths Pearl Jam — in their sole U.S. show this year — as well as Daf...

British rock bands try to copy The Beatles, because as a nation they have never got over the Fab Four's split, according to rocker Johnny Marr. The Modest Mouse guitarist was previously co-founder ...

Former Smiths star Johnny Marr has given his new group, Modest Mouse, a boost - he's helped them land their first number one album in the US. The cult indie group's We Were Dead Before The Shi...

Rockers the All-American Rejects are to be honored with the Vanguard Award at the upcoming ASCAP Pop Music Awards after scoring the most-played tunes of 2006. The band's principal songwriters ...