• Tom Morello wants to be modern Jimi Hendrix with upcoming solo album

    Tom Morello has announced plans to make a solo album when the current Bruce Springsteen tour ends in March, and no, he doesn't mean another LP as his folk rock alias The Nightwatchman. The guitarist said that he had never sung while playing an electric guitar until he played "The Ghost of Tom Joad" with Springsteen during 2008, and more than five years of performing with the legend was enough to inspire an electric-solo album.

  • Red Bull Music Academy to release documentary and book about making music

    Red Bull Music Academy is releasing a new documentary and book to celebrate its 15th anniversary, according to SPIN. The documentary, What Difference Does It Make? A Film About Making Music, "explores the challenges that a life in music can bring," the RBMA website explains. It "delves deeply into the many challenges, stages of development and triumphs that musicians experience ... [and] it seeks to go beyond just music, and ask questions about life itself."

  • Harvard research indicates epilepsy treatment might allow adults to reach 'absolute pitch'

    Living in New York City, we know many who've come here to break it big on Broadway and are willing to do almost anything to get that big break...including unhealthy behaviors. We're not sure this announcement is going to help, but a Harvard professor has declared his belief that taking pills meant to treat epilepsy can help perfect the human singing voice.

  • Brit Awards announce 2014 nominees including One Direction, Justin Timberlake, Katy Perry [Full List]

    Awards Season has officially begun. The Grammys are just weeks away, and now the nominees for the 2014 Brit Awards have been announces. At the top of the list are two British acts, Disclosure (collaborator Sam Smith just won BBC's Sound of 2014) and Bastille, who have four nominations each. Despite not being up for any Grammy nominations (likely due to not being eligible this year), One Direction has been nominated as well for British Single and British Group.

  • Milli Vanilli and Wagner provide inspiration for experimental opera 'WOW'

    The best part about contemporary opera is that it incorporates relatively modern events into the plot lines. Relatively modern, as several experimental individuals are looking to prove, includes notorious '90s pop icons Milli Vanilli. Did you say "wow"? What a funny coincidence. WOW is also the title of the opera.

  • BBC’s Sound of 2014 winner is Sam Smith

    This year the winner of BBC's Sound of 2014 is the singer-songwriter and Disclosure member, Sam Smith. He is scheduled to release his debut LP in May. This year's runner up is UK pop/R&B singer Ella Eyre. The shortlist also includes L.A. singer-songwriter Banks, SBTRKT singer Sampha and UK blues artist George Ezra.

  • Strata Records master tapes subject of crowdsourcing campaign to save them

    Detroit was a hopping place to be a recording artist during the '60s. Of course there was Motown -which still gets all of the attention- but other labels turned out various records across a wide range of genres. Among those labels was Strata, an imprint specializing in jazz that only turned out 10 albums during its short existence. Despite its relatively low output and lack of "big-name" performers, Strata's collection is praised by jazz fans. Now the master copies of those albums are in danger of being lost.
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