• Bobby Shmurda Reportedly Will Still Face Brooklyn Gun Charge From June 2014 Incident

    Brooklyn rapper Bobby Shmurda, born Ackquille Pollard, is being thrown back into the fire just after it appeared the "Hot N***a" rapper had caught a break. A few days ago, it was reported and confirmed by Shmurda's attorney Howard Greenberg that Pollard would have one of the gun charges against him dismissed. According to a report in "XXL," which spoke to Kait Cornell of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor's Office, this was only temporary and the charges are now being brought up in the larger narcotics case from a June 2014 incident.

  • Violinist Rachel Barton Pine Talks Mozart Concertos with Neville Marriner and St. Martin, Overcoming Childhood Poverty and Adult Tragedy, How to Play Your Own Cadenzas

    No, Rachel Barton Pine is not a stranger to Mozart. In fact, you may even call her an expert. On January 13, for Avie Records, the acclaimed violinist released 'Mozart: Complete Violin Concertos and the Sinfonia Concertante K364'--accompanied by Sir Neville Marriner's Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields. Ever the scholar, and well before any mics were placed, Pine spent a lot of time reading, listening and absorbing as much as she could about that celebrated son of Leopold

  • Tomorrowland 2015 Announces Two More Headliners: Avicii Set To Perform

    Another day, another round of Tomorrowland lineup announcements. The last two days saw the ID&T festival announce that the Belgian National Orchestra, renamed the "Symphony Of Unity" and a Sven Vath led vinyl-only stage. Now the Belgium based festival has announced two solo artists who will be performing in 2015. In two twitter posts, Tomorrowland has invited Swedish superstar Avicii and German underground giant Solomun to perform on Friday, July 24th.

  • Björk Discusses 'Vulnicura' Leak, Says She Wanted To "Get It Out Of The Way" [LISTEN]

    Like so many big albums these days, Björk's latest album Vulnicura was subjected to a leak last week, two months before its official release date. Instead of flipping out Madonna-style, however, Björk responded to the Vulnicura leak by officially releasing the album herself online, and in a new interview with BBC Radio 1 (via NME), the Icelandic singer opens up about her decision to release it early.

  • Tiësto To Design Mask for New York Rangers' Henrik Lundqvist MSG Series 'The Mask'

    The New York Rangers and MSG have teamed up with Henrik Lundqvist to present a new interview series titled "The Mask with Henrik Lundqvist" where The King (the nickname for Henrik) sits down with legends in their respective field to have a one-on-one interview and the guest will give the Ranger goalie a mask to be worn at some point during the season. The 5-part series will feature Dutch DJ, Tiësto, decorated Nascar driver Jeff Gordon, tennis champion John McEnroe, award-winning actor Michael J Fox and celebrity chef Mario Batali.

  • 'American Idol' Season 14 Recap & Review: San Francisco Shows Off Some Fun Personalities

    American Idol bounced back last Thursday (Jan. 22) in New Orleans, Harry Connick Jr.'s hometown, after a lackluster episode in Minneapolis. For the final audition week, Ryan Seacrest, Jennifer Lopez, Keith Urban and Connick sorted through talent in San Francisco. The City by the Bay's first episode was decent (still better than Minneapolis), but Idol probably saved the best auditions for tomorrow (Jan. 29). The talent and the singing styles were varied, which added to the episode's success.

  • Neko Case Announces North American Tour, Reissue of 'Fox Confessor Brings The Flood' [FULL SCHEDULE]

    Alt-country singer-songwriter and New Pornographers member Neko Case has announced a reissue of her 2006 album Fox Confessor Brings The Flood for Record Store Day 2015, which falls on April 18 this year. According to Pitchfork, the album will be released through Anti- Records on limited edition red vinyl. In support of the reissue, Case has announced a brief run of North American tour dates for April, which will kick off on April 12 in Bend, Oregon, and take Case mostly around her native Northwest before finishing up in St. Paul, Minnesota on April 25.

  • Is Aphex Twin Releasing Hours of Unreleased Music on Soundcloud?

    Who doesn't love a good old-fashioned mystery? We know Aphex Twin loves them. Over the past few days, hours of mysterious music has been uploaded to a couple of different soundcloud accounts that appear to be under the guise of Aphex Twin, but no one is totally certain. Richard James has not confirmed or denied the whole affair, though he is pretty tightlipped about most things that aren't technology.

  • Charli XCX Records Japanese Versions of 'Boom Clap,' 'Break The Rules' [LISTEN]

    Even though Charli XCX's great new album Sucker was released in the United States on Dec. 15, it doesn't come out in Japan until Feb. 8 for whatever reason. As a special treat for her Japanese fans who have been forced to wait so long on the album (the ones who haven't illegally downloaded it, anyway), XCX has recorded Japanese versions of two of the album's singles as bonus tracks: "Boom Clap" and "Break The Rules," which you can check out below. In true J-Pop fashion, these versions find XCX singing mostly in Japanese, but switching over to English for some key phrases (apparently there's no Japanese translation for "boom clap").

  • Jodi Arias Trial: Defense Has Rested in Penalty Phase

    Jodi Arias' defense team has done everything that they can to spare her life during the penalty phase of her trial and they have already rested their case. The prosecution will be up next to try and convince the Phoenix jury that she deserves the death penalty for killing Travis Alexander back in 2008. Her sentencing retrial began back in October because jurors were deadlocked the first time around. Prosecutors are hoping that Arias' punishment fits the crime and this doesn't end the same way that the first penalty phase trial did.
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