• Phoenix, Bill Murray Team to Cover Lost Beach Boys Tune 'Alone on Christmas Day' [LISTEN]

    Appearing in the freshly released Netflix special, 'A Very Murray Christmas,' Bill Murray and Phoenix combined their contrasting musical abilities to tackle a cover of a rare Beach Boys holiday tune, "Alone on Christmas Day." The track was originally written in 1979 for a Beach Boys Christmas LP, but was ultimately scrapped and never saw an actual release. A demo version of the track has been floating around as a bootleg for years.

  • Bill Murray Collaborates with Phoenix, Miley Cyrus, More in New Christmas Special Trailer [WATCH]

    Bill Murray is ringing in the holiday season with the Sofia Coppola-directed Christmas special A Very Murray Christmas airing on Netflix on November 4th. When Netflix announced the special back in May they called it an "homage to the classic variety show," which of course means the special boasts an all-star cast and lots of quirkiness. The new trailer dropped this week and with it came more glimpses of guest stars including including Miley Cyrus, Jenny Lewis, Phoenix, George Clooney, Amy Poehler, Michael Cera, Chris Rock, Jason Schwartzman, and Maya Rudolph among others.

  • Rihanna, Kanye West Perform 22-Song Set at Super Bowl Pre-Party in Phoenix [WATCH]

    Rihanna and Kanye West teamed up to perform a Super Bowl pre-party last night, Jan. 31, in Phoenix, Arizona, for an epic, 22-song set. While West performed his new Paul McCartney collaboration "Only One," the most recent track, "FourFive Seconds," which also features Rihanna, has yet to get its live debut. Celebrities like John Legend and 2 Chainz were in the audience for the show as well, "Billboard" noted.

  • 6 Bands Named After Styles of Music That They Don't Play

    It is pretty lame to name your band after the style of music you play — I'm looking at you, Metallica — but these six, including Daft Punk and Cap'n Jazz, bands did just the opposite: naming themselves after styles of music they do not play.

  • 12 Bands Named After Places They're Not From

    Thinking of a band name is difficult, but one of the laziest routes a band can take is naming itself after the place they come from. However, these twelve bands took a more interesting route and named themselves after places that they're not actually from.

  • 6 Pairs of Artists Who Were Childhood Friends

    Musicians often become friends through their professional lives, whether they're recording together or playing together, but some famous musicians were actually friends back before they ever became famous. Here are six pairs of artists who were childhood friends.

  • Liberation Music Sues Harvard Law Professor, Loses

    The first lesson in this story is that you should avoid engaging in lawsuits with professors from the Harvard School of Law. Many a recent President has graduated from that particular program, and with good reason. They know more about legal proceedings than we do. Liberation Music, the label for French alt-rockers Phoenix, did not take this into consideration, and is now paying for it.

  • Nicole Oran's 2013 Playlist: Jay Z, Daft Punk and Savages

    Music Times, like so many other music publications, was looking to publish a "Best of 2013" playlist. We met to discuss what such a playlist should include, and that's where we ran into trouble. We couldn't agree. Sometimes two of us just couldn't agree on whether the performer was amazing or terrible, and even when we agreed they were amazing, we couldn't agree on what track was most representative of their work. Hence it was decided that rather than try to agree (a seemingly impossible endeavor), everyone would get their own "favorites of 2013" playlist. We won't argue that these are necessarily the best tracks of the last year, but they're definitely songs that caught our respective attention and caused us to hit 'repeat" over and over and over again.

  • Disclosure and Chvrches Received Most Blog Mentions During 2013

    If you roll your eyes at the term "blogosphere," at least acknowledge the truth the music world on the internet is vastly different from real-life music. The most telling example is Hype Machine's yearly 'Music Blog Zeitgeist,' which counts down the Top 50 performers based on how often they're mentioned in over 820 prominent music blogs. Hint: Lady Gaga, Kanye West, Eminem, Jay Z and Katy Perry didn't make the list.
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