Rockers from bands including Pink Floyd, Radiohead, Snow Patrol have teamed up to help prevent any more bloodshed in Sudan. Drummers from the groups are taking part in the Beat for Peace campai...

Starpulse's Ashley Demma recently caught up with Snow Patrol drummer, Jonny Quinn, and the two talked about 'unsung heroes', influences, and what's next for the band... Starpulse: So you've been...

Video game players and music fans alike can now get closer to Band Hero's in-game playable character Taylor Swift than ever before, as they can perform as the music icon to her fan-favorite chart-t...

Pop sensation Lady Gaga has been crowned as Queen of the iPod age - she is the most downloaded artist in the history of Britain's official chart. In the five years since downloads were counted ...

Snow Patrol rocker Gary Lightbody has blasted the prison sentence handed to Scandinavian music pirates - insisting fans are welcome to download his songs for free. The four founders of websit...

The idea of mashing is synonymous with potatoes. However, there's another type of "mash-up" that has nothing to do with traditional cooking methods. The music mash-up is where two completely diff...

U2.com today confirms that the U2 360° Tour will open at the Nou Camp Stadium in Barcelona on 30th June. The U2 360° Tour is sponsored by BlackBerry® and is the band's first stadium outing since th...

Just in time for the Grammy Awards and Valentine's Day, J Records is releasing a deluxe edition of Leona Lewis' Spirit, the Grammy nominated, chart-topping, best-selling debut from one of the break...

Snow Patrol has just released the video for "Take Back The City," which is the first single from the album, A Hundred Million Suns, (out Oct 28) on Yahoo! Music today! Snow Patrol - "Take Ba...

Snow Patrol will release A Hundred Million Suns (Polydor/Fiction/Geffen Records) on October 28th 2008. The album is preceded by the fantastic single "Take Back The City", which comes with a video s...

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...

Canadian singer Leslie Feist is the winner of the Seventh Annual Shortlist Music Prize for her album The Reminder. Feist is the second female artist to win the prize, following Cat Power who won th...

On July 7, 2007, 150 musical acts performed at a series of worldwide concerts called Live Earth to raise awareness for the climate crisis and deliver a solutions-based message to a global audience....

On July 7, 2007, 150 musical acts performed at a series of worldwide concerts called Live Earth to raise awareness for the climate crisis and deliver a solutions-based message to a global audience....

R.E.M. will release a live CD/DVD, the first ever of their 27-year career, on Warner Bros. Records on October 16th, 2007. Titled R.E.M. Live, the 22-track audio and visual package captures singer M...

Athlete (Joel Pott, Carey Willetts, Tim Wanstall, and Stephen Roberts) started recording Beyond The Neighourhood in the summer of 2006 in their brand new studio in South London after a whirlwind ye...

A song Snow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody allowed singer Nicole Scherzinger to record for her debut album so moved the rocker's mom she burst into tears. Lightbody wrote Just Say Yes for T...

Snow Patrol rocker Tom Simpson has missed a second court appearance on charges of cocaine possession. The keyboard player was detained by police on July 7, just hours after performing at the London...

Former Bond girl Denise Richards is the spokesperson for a new pink lemonade-flavored energy drink, called Her. Proceeds from sales will go towards charities benefitting battered women and breast c...

Snow Patrol's keyboard player Tom Simpson performed with the band at Scotland's music festival T in the Park, despite his arrest on Saturday. It was thought Simpson would have to be replaced for th...

Snow Patrol keyboard player Tom Simpson was arrested on drugs charges on Saturday just hours after the band performed at Live Earth in London. Simpson was taken into custody at Northolt RAF b...

Snow Patrol front man Gary Lightbody has landed a new job as a radio DJ - and he's terrified. The Chasing Cars singer claims his guest stint on British radio station XFM next month, is akin to the ...

Sometimes the biggest bands in the world don't have to brag or posture. They just do the quiet work of honest musicians, traversing the globe and converting every last one of us, one show at a time...

LONDON (June 19, 2007) – Metallica, Kasabian, Pussycat Dolls, and Terra Naomi are the final acts to be added to the Live Earth London line-up performing at Wembley Stadium as part of the 24-hour, 7...

New York, NY—The new Editors album, An End Has A Start, is set for release through Epic/Fader Records on July 17. Recorded in Ireland at Grouse Lodge with the acclaimed Garrett 'Jacknife' Lee (Sno...

A massive statue of late rocker Jimi Hendrix is welcoming fans to this year's Isle of Wight Festival in England. The festival, which first launched in 1968 with Jefferson Airplane at the top of the...

Snow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody’s alcohol addiction nearly cost him his career. The Northern Irish rocker turned to the bottle during his early twenties, but ditched the drink before it took ov...

Green Day stunned America on the finale of talent show American Idol last night with a performance of John Lennon's Working Class Hero. The punk trio's surprise appearance on the hit show was stage...

R&B star Rihanna clinched a U.K. number one - and a space in the record books - when her new single "Umbrella" secured top spot in the charts on download sales alone. The singer is only the second ...

In an historic effort to mobilize activism around the human rights atrocities occurring in Darfur, Sudan, more than 50 international recording artists and over 30 record labels have united behind "...