• New Year's Day 2015 Hangover Playlist: Beck, Iron & Wine, John Mayer and More to Cure that Headache

    Sooo, about last night. Yeesh. It was New Year's Eve, and if you weren't one of the million people in Times Square and were out celebrating like us here at Music Times, well, maybe today isn't going so well for you. Introducing, the 2015 Music Times Hangover playlist. Sit back, drink a lot of water, pop an Aspirin and check out our list of soothing songs below. We can't guarantee that it's going to cure everything that ails you, but it's not going to hurt, right?

  • Ferguson Protesters Pepper-Sprayed After Infiltrating STL Police Headquarters

    We may have closed the book on 2014, but that does not mean the tension between Ferguson, Missouri, protesters and St. Louis, Missouri, police officers is over — not by any means. Instead, a group of 75 protesters proved last night, Dec. 31, 2014, that the racially charged divide is going to be an issue that follows us into this new year, 2015. The protesters served a literal eviction notice to St. Louis police officers late last night and many found themselves either pepper-sprayed or arrested.As part of their "March to the Arch" protest, several members of the group purposely went into the lobby of STL police headquarters and then proceeded to read off a list of demands and they posted hundreds of eviction notices on the outside of the building for alleged police brutality. Nineteen protesters were eventually arrested, primarily because they were laying in the middle of the road blocking the flow of traffic. The group had originally intended to occupy the area of the headquarters for four hours to commemorate how long Michael Brown lied dead in the street after being shot by Darren Wilson.

  • Garth Brooks Going Big during Record-Breaking 'Today Show' Appearance January 8; Does Performer Have Big Tour Plans to Announce?

    Garth Brooks had a fairly accomplished 2014: He released a new album, Man Against Machine—which we suspect may have gone platinum...if only his website would report digital sales for the album—and he also set personal concert sales records at nearly every venue he visited during the tour supporting that album. Now he'll start off 2015 with a bang, scheduled to appear on the Today Show on January 8, which itself will be of note because he's due to appear throughout the entirety of the four-hour program.

  • Sarah Jessica Parker Reteaming with HBO for New 'Divorce' Comedy

    Is it time for Sarah Jessica Parker to return to the small screen on a regular basis? Well, 10 years after the popular "Sex and the City" ended its six-year run on HBO, Parker is ready to do television again. She is also close to inking a new deal that would bring her back to HBO, the pay channel that was home to "SATC."The show that has sparked Parker's interest in returning to television is a comedy called Divorce. According to "The Hollywood Reporter":"'Divorce' centers on a middle-aged woman (Parker), who, influenced by her two recently single friends, impulsively brings up the idea of divorce with her husband but then can't decide whether to actually go through with it — until her husband discovers the affair she's been having and calls the marriage off."Parker would not only star in the potential half-hour show, but she would also serve as an executive producer alongside Sharon Horgan, Paul Simms, Alison Benson and Aaron Kaplan. The project itself must be well-done for Parker to even consider doing it because, inevitably, her potential work here would be compared to that of "SATC."

  • Founder and Artistic Director Dame Fanny Waterman Stepping Down after 53 Years with Leeds International Piano Competition

    The Leeds International Piano Competition will look at least a little different during 2016. After this year's event during August and September, Dame Fanny Waterman will be stepping down from her traditional role as the artistic director for the music contest. She and her husband Geoffrey de Keyser, as well as accomplished pianist Marion Thorpe, founded the Leeds Competition during 1961. Although her husband died during 2001, she has maintained her role in the competition and will serve one last time during 2015. She is 94 years old.

  • Despite Big Sales Years for Taylor Swift and 'Frozen,' Album Sales Still Down 11 Percent during 2014; Downloads Also Down 9 Percent

    Earlier this week we got the exciting news that Taylor Swift and 1989 had passed the Frozen Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to become the bestselling album of 2014. Both albums went well beyond triple-platinum status during their 2014 sales runs and it seems Swift's most recent album will be one of the bestselling albums of the decade, if not the sole best selling record, but the time it's done. But now it's time to take the facts into consideration: Album sales as a whole were down by more than 11 percent during 2014.

  • The Hollywood Reporter's Best Music Books of 2014: Nonfiction(?) on The Rolling Stones, Aerosmith, Billy Joel, Fleetwood Mac and More

    Happy New Year! If you're anything like us, you've about had enough of every website publishing its own Top 10 of everything for the year and of certain Sirius stations playing the same countdowns every day during your commute and watering down an otherwise diverse channel. The Hollywood Reporter has down the unthinkable and published a list of the best books (?!?) of the year, all of which deal with the topic of music. Check out a brief summary below and then head to your local library or bookstore.

  • Scott Disick Bought Bachelor Pad Worth $4 Million as Rumors of Split from Kourtney Kardashian Intensify

    Is "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" Scott Disick about to launch a new career as a house-flipper? That is what he is claiming after purchasing a Beverly Hills mansion worth an estimated $3.69 million. Since every other business venture Disick has tried to launch — probably for the benefit of reality TV cameras — has been short lived, it is more than a little hard to imagine that Kourtney Kardashian's baby daddy is serious about this.What seems a little more realistic is the possibility of this house being Disick's new crash pad when his relationship with Kardashian is a mess, which is usually. We already know that he partied heavily all the way through Kardashian's third pregnancy and she was posting a lot of things online that seemed to hint that a split was imminent before giving birth to baby boy Reign Aston last month. A few days after having their third child, Disick turned up wasted at a Hollywood lingerie party, proving that a new baby was not going to alter his ways.So the question, then, is whether or not Kardashian has decided to take care of the kids herself and has kicked her man to the curb yet again.

  • Iggy Azalea Confirms TMJ Diagnosis but Don't Worry: Emcee Will Enter Studio Next Week for 'The New Classic' Follow-Up

    Some viewers of Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve may have noticed that Iggy Azalea was acting somewhat peculiarly as she performed "Fancy" with Charlie XCX: She was dressed rather conservatively. This had nothing to do with a more interesting tweet she sent out early in the day where she confirmed that she had been diagnosed with temporomandibular joint dysfunction, or TMJ (she also announced she's working on a new album but we'll get to the good news later).

  • Jennifer Aniston Ignores the Rumors: 'We Know Our Truth'

    It seems like Jennifer Aniston has gone through a major transformation, one not limited to the big screen. Sure, her performance in the indie flick "Cake" has won critical acclaim and the best actress nominations keep rolling in, but have you noticed how different Aniston sounds in her interviews? She has spent the last few months heavily promoting a few projects and her whole demeanor seems different. Gone is that sad creature whom Brad Pitt left and what has replaced her is a strong, centered woman, one who does not care about what the tabloids have to say about her.Aniston sat for an interview with "CBS Sunday Morning" that will air this weekend, and in it she addresses her attitude shift when it comes to dealing with the overzealous press."I think I used to ... really, there was a period where I was hell-bent on saying, 'That's not true, that's not right, that's not fair.' And now I just think you have to let it roll off your back, and you realize, I think everyone knows it's all B.S. and like soap opera on paper. The main thing is to try to just keep refocusing back on what you know is true and what makes you guys happy and, you know, we know what our truth is. That's all just static," explained the actress.Before her recent media blitz, Aniston was plagued by rumors that she and fiance Justin Theroux have pulled the plug on their extended romance. Now after listening to this newly evolved woman, it seems more likely that she and Theroux have figured out how to make things actually work while under the celebrity spotlight and it might include keeping things extremely private.
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