• Brad Paisley's 'Crushin It' Music Video Enlists Animated Carrie Underwood, Blake Shelton & More to Fight Crime

    Brad Paisley has formed his own Avengers of sorts, just in time to save the summer from massive, man-eating beer cans. Today (May 12), after weeks of teasing on social media, country music's most jovial performer released his new music video for "Crushin' It." And it's unlike anything you've ever seen before, featuring hand drawn caricatures of everyone from Carrie Underwood to Zac Brown Band to Blake Shelton as undercover country music superheroes.

  • Electric Forest Curator, Madison House Announces Canada Expansion

    As dance music continues to grow globally, so do the actors that are pushing out the music in new and innovative ways. Madison House, Inc, a well-respected booking and management agency, which represents artists across EDM, the jamband community and even some funk groups like Bassnectar, Keys N Krates, Black Tiger Sex Machine, Lotus, Twidle, The String Cheese Incident and Dumpstaphunk has announced that it will be expanding from its Boulder, Colorado offices to Toronto, Canada. The move comes as the Electric Forest curator looks to expand its operations booking its clients at shows and on tours throughout Canada. It is also actively seeking to add Canadian artists to already large roster.

  • Warner Music Group 2015 Q1 Earnings: Streaming Revenue Surpases Downloads

    As industry observers see the growing dominance of streaming, many have waited for the moment when it would become more important than digital downloads. Warner Music Group announced its first quarter earnings ending on March 31st and the main takeaway from their report was that streaming has at last surpassed downloads the primary source of revenue for the smallest of the three major labels.

  • Kendrick Lamar Named Generational Icon By California State Senate

    Good Kid Proud City. Kendrick Lamar was honored yesterday by the California State Senate, who named him the 35th Senate Districts Generational Icon. Fellow Compton native Senator Isadore Hall III presented Lamar with the honor and praised his rise from local rapper to global star. He commended his continued ties to his neighborhood and contributions to helping keep kids in school and off the streets.

  • ZHU 'Cocaine Model' Music Video: 'Faded' DJ Teases New Music

    Deep house sensation ZHU has unveiled the music video for his 2014 track "Cocaine Models." Taken from his 4-track Nightday EP, "Cocaine Models" did not get the same acclaim or fame as "Faded," which earned the mysterious producer a Grammy nod, but it sill has the same emotion found in his other tracks. The music video is an avant-garde interpretation of the song, directed by Zhu himself.

  • ASAP Rocky Shares Alternate 'A.L.L.A.' Cover, Featuring His Face With Yams' Birthmark

    Over the weekend, A$AP Rocky shared the cover art for his upcoming new album At.Long.Last.A$AP or A.L.L.A., which featured a trippy, distorted image of the late A$AP Yams' face, distinguishable by his birthmark and cross tattoo as a memorial for his fallen friend. However, it appears that cover isn't the only one. Late last night, the rapper posted to Instagram another black-and-white cover image, which features his face with Yams' birthmark in purple over it.

  • Taylor Swift Pens Letter To Fan Whose Mom Died: "You've Lived Through My Worst Fear"

    Taylor Swift is once again getting personal with fans. As previously reported, Swift recently revealed that her mother had been diagnosed with cancer. So when one of her Swifties wrote a note about how Swift's music got her through the death of her mother, the 1989 singer comforted her with a letter of her own, which is now going viral on Tumblr.

  • Sharon Robinson Discusses Solo Album 'Caffeine,' Leonard Cohen, and Starbucks Coffee [EXCLUSIVE CONTEST]

    Sharon Robinson has been in the music industry for a long time, songwriting for and performing with Leonard Cohen primarily, as well as Diana Ross, Patti LaBelle, Don Henley, Michael Bolton and others. It's only in the last decade that she's gotten around to building a solo portfolio however, which she adds to with 'Caffeine,' her 2015 release. She joined Music Times to discuss the big issues—ranging from unleashing yourself as a solo performer, to the positives and negatives of Starbucks coffee.
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