• Disclosure, Chvrches, other alternative acts top Hype Machine's 'Most Blogged' list

    If you roll your eyes at the term "blogosphere," at least acknowledge the truth the music world on the internet is vastly different from real-life music. The most telling example is Hype Machine's yearly 'Music Blog Zeitgeist,' which counts down the Top 50 performers based on how often they're mentioned in over 820 prominent music blogs. Hint: Lady Gaga, Kanye West, Eminem, Jay Z and Katy Perry didn't make the list.
  • Drake sued by Chicago promoter over cancelled shows

    Drake may soon discover that one of the downsides that comes with a meteoric rise in popularity is the need for better bookkeeping. A Chicago concert promoter is suing the rapper and his OVO Touring company, alleging that they made off with more than $200,000 without staging a show at all.
  • 12 Days of Christmas: 11 Best Versions of 'Sleigh Ride'

    For day two, we'll continue the countdown to the happiest day of the year with the classical wintery piece "Sleigh Ride." Originally composed by Leroy Anderson in 1946 recorded as an orchestral piece, complete with horse clop sound effects and that wonderous "clap!", the song first got a classical recording in 1950. The year before, 1949, the song was given the vocal treatment the followingyear by The Andrews Sister. Though not technically a Christmas song, it's hard not to associate this snowy track with the holiday season.
  • Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' 'Thrift Shop' is the No. 1 song on the 2013 Billboard Hot 100, beating 'Blurred Lines,' 'Radioactive'

    The end of 2013 is coming ever nearer, and while every publication is listing off its best songs and albums of the year, there's only one true mark of the biggest track of 2013: the people and, thus, the Billboard charts. Today (Dec. 13) the sales-tracker released the list of the top Hot 100 songs of the year. With a mere 11 songs hitting No. 1 this year, what track took the year's top spot?
  • Joey Jordison leaves Slipknot, band vows to continue working on new music

    A surprising block has appeared in the road on the way to a new Slipknot album. It was announced via the band's website that drummer Joey Jordison had left the group for "personal reasons." Jordison was one of the founding members of the band, and has long been regarded as one of the better drummers in mainstream metal.
  • Kenny Chesney goes reggae on new Wailers' collaboration song 'Spread the Love' [LISTEN]

    Country superstar Kenny Chesney has joined forces with the legendary reggae group the Wailers on the new song "Spread the Love." According to Rolling Stone, the song was written for charity with the proceeds from all sales going directly to the Spread the Love Fund, which provides prosthetic limbs and post-prosthetic care to victims who were injured in the Boston Marathon bombing.