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Soundgarden received their first Grammy nomination in 1990, and finally won in 1994, taking home trophies for Best Metal Performance for Spoonman and Best Hard Rock performance for Black Hole Sun. La…

Take a Daytrip is the present and Octavian is the future or, at least, he should be. On their new collaboration, the two meet: Take a Daytrip, the producing duo responsible for the chart hurricane k…

Deer Tick have announced tour dates in support of Mayonnaise , their forthcoming compilation album comprising covers, outtakes, alternate takes and new originals. The 17-date tour begins April and in…

Little Big Town will welcome in the new year with Nightfall , the multi-award-winning quartets ninth studio album and the follow-up to 2017s The Breaker . In advance of the forthcoming LP, the group …

The management company that looks after dance music supremos Calvin Harris and Tisto has fully acquired the firm that represents Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith. Three Six Zero, which runs offices …

Just ahead of her performance on the 61st Grammy Awards, Kacey Musgraves released the new video for Rainbow. Penned by Musgraves,Natalie Hemby and Shane McAnally, the song appears on Musgraves Grammy…

Chris Cornells friends and family offered up many heartfelt tributes at Los Angeles Forum Wednesday night, but the one that captured his essence best improbably came from Jack Black. Sometimes Chris …

When indie luminary Manu Chao first released his 1998 debut, Clandestino and the song of the same title he sought to humanize the millions of migrants, survivors of civil war and poverty, hustling …

Damon Albarn may have called off potential Gorillaz projects for the foreseeable future, but he hasnt slowed down making music with his numerous other bands. The songwriters latest venture is reviv…

Drive-By Truckers leaders Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley will play several shows without their trusty backing band in April and May. The Dimmer Twins, named in homage to Glimmer Twins Mick Jagger and…

Singer-songwriter-guitarist Jedd Hughes has released the new song Back to You, a wistful, acoustic guitar-driven number from his upcoming album West . Built around Hughes intricate fingerstyle progre…

Quirky, catchy melodies have always been Pixies calling card and on Beneath the Eyrie, their third post-reunion album, the alt-rock icons indulge everything from jaunty, old-timey Kurt Weill oom-pah…

Thrash metal band Megadeth will be reissuing three of their late-era albums this summer. The Grammy-winning group, who have been recording for 36 years, will be re-releasing three records from later …

Michelle Lewis and Kay Hanley, two songwriters who double as the executive directors of advocacy group Songwriters of North America, describe their roles as first responders to a fire, their organiza…

Coheed and Cambria showcase the mundanity and exhilaration of touring life with their new video for The Pavilion (A Long Way Back). The black-and-white clip opens with frontman Claudio Sanchez handin…

For years, critics, listeners, and fans have asked the same snide question: What does DJ Khaled actually do? No one really wanted to know the answer, because the answer was always beside the point. I…

Arcade Fire turn the classic Disney tune Baby Mine into a swooning indie-rock gem for Tim Burtons upcoming live-action remake of Dumbo , out March 29th. Peppering the tender lullaby with an array of …

Reggae stalwarts Toots and the Maytals stopped by Spotifys studios in New York to record a session that included their clever interpretation of John Denvers classic, Take Me Home, Country Roads, as w…

Diplo is the latest musician to share his take on Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus Old Town Road. Diplos heart-racing rendition of the track comes in celebration of his Stagecoach afterparty Sunday nigh…

Tim McGraw is collaborating with Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential historian Jon Meacham on a new book about the music that shaped the United States. Titled Songs of America: Patriotism, Protest, a…