May 09, 2012

Mark Lanegan is one of music's most formidable frontmen.

May 09, 2012

‘From the Cheap Seats’ is a more memorable album than she’s letting on.

May 09, 2012

MORE talk, less ROCK! But who needs music when you have people talking about music? Those people include John Irving, Ira Glass, Regina Spektor, M. Ward, Mike Doughty and Edward Sharpe and...

May 07, 2012

Lead singer Alex Ebert on the Magnetic power of his large crew and their ‘more aggressive’ next album.

May 07, 2012

May 06, 2012

Director Kevin MacDonald finds humanizing, revealing and inspiring sides of the man.

May 06, 2012

Jason Pierce isn’t easy to track down, but at the last possible moment, Metro was able to talk to him about the recent release of his seventh album.

May 04, 2012

A first grade student at Aurora Elementary in Aurora, Colorado was slapped with a three-day suspension for sexual harassment after he recited a line from a LMFAO song.

May 04, 2012

After a three-year battle with cancer, Beastie Boys co-founder Adam Yauch has died at the age of 47.

May 03, 2012

In live performance, Doughty plays a number of his solo songs, reads passages from “The Book of Drugs” and answers audience questions.

May 02, 2012

He says he never planned to write songs for a living.

May 01, 2012

Andrew Bird on the late-night TV rounds, a potential new sound and his ‘solitary, antisocial leanings.’

April 30, 2012

After the massive hits on his debut, B.o.B. is primed for an easy smash of a follow-up, if he just follows the formula. But he probably doesn't even need to do that.

April 26, 2012

When interviewing Lower Dens in Austin, Texas, last month, the band's "Nootropics," which comes out Tuesday, had not leaked yet.

April 26, 2012

Eric Bachmann on transitioning from the croon he developed to ‘playing’ a snotty twentysomething again.

April 26, 2012

Believe it or not, indie rock existed well before the '90s.

April 24, 2012

Lead vocalist Arnel Pineda on his past hardships and meteoric rise to fame.

April 24, 2012

The band whose name sounds like the name of one guy is actually three guys who have helped write hit songs for Britney Spears and Bruno Mars.

April 23, 2012

"None of us wanted her to marry him," Jennifer Hudson said today in court as she took the stand to testify against her sister's husband, accused of murdering three of her family members.

April 23, 2012

First in a series of blog posts on Rethink Music, a music industry conference happening today and tomorrow in Boston

April 22, 2012

Where most music conferences like SXSW focus primarily on performance showcases, Rethink Music is an industry conference for the professionals.

April 20, 2012

Which one takes the gold as worst song in the history of the world: "Hot Problems" or "Friday"?

April 19, 2012

Though the singer who bested Bieber admits she, too, may have dissed herself in her teen years.

April 19, 2012

After some questionable remarks he made about President Obama, musician Ted Nugent has a date with the Secret Service, which is still sorting out its own Colombian hooker scandal.

April 18, 2012

Hard livin' and hard drinkin' band may have (gasp!) made a mature album.

April 18, 2012

As we remember Dick Clark, we honor him with a few of our favorite musical moments with the late "American Bandstand" host.

April 18, 2012

Just because JD McPherson's sound faithfully resurrects the earliest era of rock 'n' roll doesn't mean that he isn't interested in the decades of music that came after Little Richard.

April 17, 2012

Ernest Greene cites some unlikely influences for Washed Out, his mellow musical project.

April 16, 2012

This advancement in concert technology is both terrifying and exciting. I’m of the mind that any performance using a hologrammed artist should come with a few caveats.