• "John Lennon: The Bermuda Tapes” app now available

    Now this is a music experience app you haven't seen. You can simulate John Lennon's intimate six-day ocean voyage to Bermuda for $4.99. "John Lennon: The Bermuda Tapes" has music, photos, interviews and other interactive features, according to the Associated Press. On this trip Lennon took 6 months before he died, he was inspired to make new music again. Yoko Ono says that the experience he had on the trip "opened up a kind of frozen part of his soul and he started creating."

  • The Latin Grammys are next week, and Music Times picks its winners. Marc Anthony? Alejandro Sanz? Read on to find out!

    The Latin Grammys will broadcast from the Mandalay Bay resort in Las Vegas in one week, November 21. The awards ceremony, the biggest in the wide field of Latin music, offers an appropriately wide range of prizes. Performers across a number of genres will vie for 48 awards. The best part, however, is that the night's biggest prizes—Record of The Year, Song of The Year, and Album of The Year—each come with ten nominees, like the Oscar for Best Film, making for more excitement and suspense than the "regular" Grammys. Music Times is going to be so bold as to offer our predictions for each prize.

  • Angel Olsen's 'Burn Your Fire for No Witness' out February: Sneak peek with new song 'Forgiven/Forgotten'

    If you first heard Angel Olsen's full-length Halfway Home last year, it's probably still haunting you in the best way possible. Olsen warms up with achingly honest lyrics that tremble out of her-then holds back with a cooler, controlled voice. It's a trademark style as distinct as Joni Mitchell's voice. Olsen has just announced a new album due out February 18th, 2014, Burn Your Fire for No Witness. It will be under the indie rock label Jagjaguwar. A sneak peek at one of the new 11 songs, "Forgiven/Forgotten" already shows that she is going for more of a rock vibe than previous folk songs.

  • Damon Albarn, Brian Eno and Africa Express produce 'Maison Des Jeunes' showcasing music of Mali

    In case you haven't heard it from Lord Jamar recently, the roots of just about all Western music lies somewhere in Africa. That being said, listening to music produced by contemporary African performers can be an exciting shift from what you hear on typical Western radio. THAT being said, when the two sides combine, you get a musical supernova of sorts. Africa Express's forthcoming album Maison Des Jeunes promises to live up to our obviously excited description.
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