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  • Mikal Cronin Announces Tour, with Opening Dates for Death Cab for Cutie, Father John Misty

    Mikal Cronin has released his touring schedule for this Spring/Summer/Fall and he'll be spreading his time between headlining gigs, festival stops, and opening sets for performers including Death Cab For Cutie, Father John Misty and the Cairo Gang. The guitar-centric alt rocker will stay in Europe until early June before returning home to play festivals such as FYF Fest and Bumbershoot over the summer. His new album, 'MCIII,' was released last week.

  • New Docudrama 'Soaked In Bleach' Implies Kurt Cobain Murdered [TRAILER]

    Montage of Heck has been drawing rave reviews from fans and critics for its look into the introverted private life of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain...and now there's a new biopic forthcoming that suggests his 1994 suicide death was actually a murder. Soaked in Bleach will star Tyler Bryan as the vocalist, and Sarah Scott as wife Courtney Love.

  • Sharon Robinson Discusses Solo Album 'Caffeine,' Leonard Cohen, and Starbucks Coffee [EXCLUSIVE CONTEST]

    Sharon Robinson has been in the music industry for a long time, songwriting for and performing with Leonard Cohen primarily, as well as Diana Ross, Patti LaBelle, Don Henley, Michael Bolton and others. It's only in the last decade that she's gotten around to building a solo portfolio however, which she adds to with 'Caffeine,' her 2015 release. She joined Music Times to discuss the big issues—ranging from unleashing yourself as a solo performer, to the positives and negatives of Starbucks coffee.

  • Beijing Music Festivals Moved, Cancelled as Government Cracks Down

    Beijing, one of China's largest urban areas, has seen its host of music festivals across a number of genres drop as the authorities are making it almost impossible for large groups of people to gather for any reason. The cause for the cancellations isn't the usual paranoia from the government, but rather fear that potential disasters at such events could result in a black eye for the Central Government, which is located out of the city. Analysts have traced the crackdown to the New Year's event where 36 Shanghai citizens were killed in a stampede. President Xi Jinping ordered an investigation into culpability for the tragedy, and now no government official wants bad news coming to his desk.

  • Grammy Ceremony to Be Broadcast on Monday Night for First Time in 2016

    Things will be somewhat different for the Grammy Awards as the 58th annual showing of music's biggest night will take place on a Monday instead of the traditional Sunday evening, according to an announcement from CBS. This marks the first time in the show's history that the final ceremony will take place on a Monday.

  • Did Guns N' Roses Steal 'Sweet Child O' Mine' from Australian Crawl?

    Suggestions of plagiarism have skyrocketed in the lawsuit era, as Marvin Gaye's estate successfully sued Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams, and Sam Smith has willingly given Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne a cut of the songwriting credit for "Stay With Me" when the song was compared to their "I Won't Back Down." Now an Australian band is going way back in pointing out the similarities between one of its songs and the Guns N' Roses classic "Sweet Child O' Mine."

  • Renée Zellweger's Musician Beaus: Kenny Chesney, Jack White and More

    Taylor Swift has become well-known/notorious for her slew of big-name boyfriends, but one other celebrity has had her fair share of famous beaus: actress Reneé Zellweger. She's dated at least five prominent musicians, from Kenny Chesney to Jack White, and even married one. Check out the list of her famous musical beaus.

  • U2, Michael Buble, Jessie J and Other Celebrity Musicians Playing on Subways

    U2 cancelled its previously planned residency on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon after frontman Bono suffered a debilitating bicycle accident last year, however the band came back in a big way for several sketches on an episode last week. One featured the band, in disguise, playing its classic "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" in a subway station at Grand Central Station, one of the busiest transport hubs in New York City. Passerby didn't pay much heed until the band shed its costumes (which weren't very good to begin with) and played "Desire." U2 took part in a long musical tradition known as busking, or playing in a public space, generally for cash tips from those standing by (U2 didn't ask for money of course). They weren't the first major musical act to play in the subway...here are five other acts, from Avril Lavigne to Michael Buble who took to the underground.

  • Spotify Posts Biggest Revenues, Biggest Losses Ever During 2014

    Spotify continued to lose money during 2014, although financial analysts still suggest that this isn't necessarily a bad thing...yet. The Swedish streaming company had its highest revenues ever during the last financial year, yet it posted overall losses of more than $185 million. So what's the story?

  • Magic!, Kiesza and Death From Above 1979 Win at Canadian Radio Music Awards

    Magic! and its hit "Rude" has fallen far from the American Billboard Hot 100 at this point but at least one nation, Canada, hasn't forgotten the group. The reggae-influenced pop group took home three awards at the Canadian Radio Music Awards on Friday. The band won for Best New Group or Artist Adult Contemporary and Fans Choice, as well as SOCAN (Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada) Song of The Year for its single, which went to no. 1 up north (as well as in the United States).

  • Concert Cellphone Usage Data: The Newest Way to Scout New Boyfriends/Girlfriends?

    Everyone knows that concertgoers spend an awful amount of time scanning their phones at live music events. Your correspondent might be a tad snobbish, but he would consider the total amount of time as "obnoxious." Ticketfly recently teamed up with Harris Poll to figure out just how long we're spending looking at our phone versus at the stage, and then what we're using that phone time for.
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