• Caribou Announces World Tour, North American Dates Starting in February [FULL SCHEDULE]

    Electronica band Caribou has announced a world tour for 2015 in support of their latest album "Our Love." Following January and February dates in Australia, Singapore, Taiwan and Japan, the Dan Snaith-fronted group will embark on a brief North American tour Feb. 26, hitting Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle and Vancouver. After a brief stint across Western Europe in mid-March, the band will return to North America April 11 for dates in Chicago, Minneapolis and various cities across central Canada. British electronic artist Koreless will be opening every show between Feb. 26 and March 14.You can check out Caribou's complete tour schedule here, via "Consequence of Sound":

  • Lorde, Diplo, Flume, Alt-J, Skrillex, Ben Folds & Others Attempt To Make The 'Hottest Hit 100 Record', Hilarity Ensues [WATCH]

    How many artists does it take to make a hit record? Triple J attempted to find out by getting 40 of the top 100 artists on their top 100 records countdown to come together and make a hit song. Triple J breakfast hosts enlisted 40 of the world's finest musicians to try and make this record from scratch and it didn't go so well. Even after gathering names like Lorde, Diplo, Skrillex, Flight Facilities, Flume, Ben Folds, Reggie Watts, Gotye, Kingswood, Alt-J, Disclosure, The Presets and of course Rick Atsley into one room, the group of artists were unable to get anything going.

  • Bon Iver's Justin Vernon To Curate Eaux Claires Music & Arts Festival With The National's Aaron Dessner

    Back in October, Bon Iver frontman Justin Vernon announced that he would be launching the Eaux Claires Music & Arts Festival in his hometown of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and today (Dec. 17), it was revealed that Vernon will be curating the festival himself along with The National guitarist Aaron Dessner. The festival will take place on July 17 and 18, with tickets going on sale tomorrow, Dec. 18, at noon CST.

  • Wiz Khalifa Samples Mac DeMarco For "Smoke Chambers" [LISTEN]

    asdEven though he has no upcoming album or mixtape projects that we know about, Wiz Khalifa keeps dropping new songs, his latest being the exceptionally trippy and laidback "Smoke Chambers," which you can check out below. The song heavily samples fellow stoner Mac DeMarco's synthpop number "Chamber of Reflection" from his latest album Salad Days, even keeping DeMarco's original "alone again" vocal hook, which ties in to Khalifa's theme of the alienation his fame has brought him. This is the sort of hazy production that Khalifa should be using more often.

  • Britney Spears Shows Off Hot New Body On Cover Of Women's Health Magazine, Talks Fitness Routine, Weight Struggle

    Britney Spears was known for having a killer body in the late '90s and early 2000s. But as she got older, keeping in shape became more of a struggle. She was constantly being judged on her body and pressured to lose weight, but after years of trial and error, she has finally found a routine that works for her. And she didn't just buy that body. She had to work, b*tch. She now looks better than ever on the cover of Women's Health. For those who think this is just Photoshop magic, the pop star proves her body is the real deal in a behind the scenes video of the shoot.

  • If Kim Kardashian Wants to Hang On to Kanye West, She Needs to Distance Herself from Her Family

    It is obvious that Kanye West fully expects to be the boss in his marriage to Kim Kardashian. It is almost like he purposely keeps her working so she does not have much free time to even contemplate doing anything he would not approve of. That is not an accident, either. West likes to float around Paris without a care in the world, but you better believe he needs to know exactly where his wife is at all times. When West decides to spend quality time together, he also expects Kardashian to drop everything for him, and that is starting to cause some conflict between the couple. She may be willing to let go of some friendships, but Kim Kardashian's sisters are still a priority and it is beginning to tick her husband off.Last weekend, Kourtney Kardashian delivered her third child and Kim was totally on board to help with her sister's little ones. In fact, she posted a play date photo on Instagram of Kourtney's kids and little North West heading to Disney on Ice.Helping out family is perfectly normal, but not in West's world. According to a report by Hollywood Life, he is jealous of all the attention Kourtney's new baby has brought because it is disrupting his plans.

  • Sony Email Leak: Snapchat Reportedly Wanted to Start a Record Label

    The Sony hack has been devastating for one of the biggest media conglomerates in the world and all its affiliated artists and companies. The latest leak details plans by Snapchat to start its own label as a joint venture with Sony. A leaked email from Snapchat CEO Michael Lynton reveals the company's plans to start a music platform of its own because "every music service in the market is s--t."View the full email from Lynton below, via "Billboard":"Michael,"I was only able to see Evan for about 30 minutes yesterday but that was enough time for him to express his thoughts and leave us with some things to think about if there is going to a music play within Snapchat. He didn't end up showing some of the developments in the platform that may benefit music but referenced them in the discussion. First, he thinks every music service in the market is s--t and he wants to be a curator. He doesn't want to build a music service but he would like to have a record label so he could focus on the artists that he wants to use the platform to promote. He also wants to participate in the upside that he will create by promoting them on the platform. He later backed off a bit from being a record label to maybe testing the concept first. Obviously he doesn't understand some of the important nuances around the business about what rights a record label does and does not have."I appreciate the introduction. I am going to go back to my team with some of these concepts and see if we can get creative in how we could get something to work here that is in the direction of Evan's vision and get him more exposed to what we can bring to Snapchat. We have a lot of ideas of our own but I don't think Evan will engage in our ideas until we try to move something forward that he wants to accomplish."Please let me know if you want to disc [sic]"

  • After 5 Years in Captivity, Cuba Has Released American Contractor Alan Gross in a Prisoner Swap

    Just a few short weeks after learning that the United States launched a failed attempt to rescue one of our hostages, Luke Somers, who was being held in Yemen, we are now hearing of another hostage who has been released. Alan Gross, 65, was working as a U.S. contractor in Cuba in 2009 when he was arrested for bringing telecommunications devices into the country. He was later convicted and sentenced to 15 years in prison, but as of this morning, Dec. 17, Gross is on a plane bound for Washington, D.C.According to ABC News, Gross has been in poor health for some time and has refused medical care. Gross is said to now be blind in one eye, suffering from arthritis in one hip and nearly toothless. He was also staging a hunger strike, which he promised would ultimately lead to his death if he was not released this year. In exchange for Gross, the U.S. has agreed to hand over three Cuban agents who were convicted of espionage back in the 1990s. Sources say all three have been housed at a federal medical facility in North Carolina.

  • U.S. and Cuba on Verge of Monumental Diplomacy Shift: Get To Know These Great Cuban Musicians and Stay Ahead of The Curve

    Things are looking up for relations between the United States and Cuba: Alan Gross, an American citizen who was imprisoned on the island for five years, returned home this morning. That was followed by a phone discussion between President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro, which marked the first official talks between leadership of the two countries since 1959. Big things could be on the horizon in terms of "normalizing" the diplomatic ties between the two nations. Music Times has prepared a brief look at some of Cuba's brightest modern stars so you can get comfortable with the country's bustling music scene before your (hopefully soon) trip to Havana.
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