• Paul McCartney Calls College Courses on The Beatles 'Ridiculous Yet Flattering,' Urges People to Listen, Not Study

    Colleges across the country offer a variety of courses that focus on specific genres of music or musicians who had an enormous impact on history. The Beatles are one of those acts that can be studied at different campuses across the world. Paul McCartney has mixed feelings about this. He revealed in a Q&A recently that John Lennon, George Harrison, Ringo Starr and himself never actually studied the music they loved. They just listened and played what felt right to them."For me it's ridiculous, and yet very flattering," McCartney said when asked how he felt about Beatles courses. "Ridiculous because we [The Beatles] never studied anything, we just loved our popular music: Elvis, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Fats Domino, etc. And it wasn't a case of 'studying' it. I think for us, we'd have felt it would have ruined it to study it."The band members studied by listening to the music: That was all they needed."We wanted to make our own minds up just by listening to it. So our study was listening. But to be told — as I was years ago now — that The Beatles were in my kid's history books? That was like, 'What?! Unbelievable, man!' Can you imagine when we were at school, finding yourself in a history book?" he added.

  • Music Times 25 Best Songs of 2014: Taylor Swift, Kendrick Lamar, Hozier, St. Vincent & More

    2014 was the year of a thousand controversies: Taylor Swift pulled all of her music from Spotify, Sun Kil Moon started a feud with The War On Drugs, Jack White accused The Black Keys of ripping him off (again), and almost nobody went platinum. When you put all of that aside, however, what you're left with is a bunch of incredible songs, which is really what it's all about. Here are the 25 best songs from 2014, as determined by Music Times writers Ryan Book, Caitlin Carter, Joey DeGroot, Kyle Dowling, and Carolyn Menyes.

  • Did FOX, 'Empire' Rip Off 50 Cent? 'In Da Club' Rapper Thinks So

    Have you seen those ads for the new FOX series "Empire" yet? 50 Cent has and he's pissed. The 'Get Rich or Die Tryin' rapper and actor has a financial stake and role in the show "POWER," and he thinks the marketing campaign for "Empire" -- which features Terrence Howard and Taraji P. Henson -- is a little too similar to what "POWER" has used.

  • Skrillex Delivers Inspirational Speech at Solaris Festival on Future of EDM [WATCH]

    Sonny Moore, known to most as Skrillex, has always been one who preaches about the positivity found in dance music, even when he was enemy No. 1 for many dubstep fans as he first became popular. The star DJ and producer performed at the Solaris Festival in Toronto, Canada, and turned down the music to give an inspiring speech on love and acceptance and his vision for dance music in 2015.The speech comes at a fitting time, since there had been a brawl in the crowd the night before at the same festival. Solaris Festival hosted disc jockeys like Kaskade, Skrillex, Boys Noize, Tchami and Adventure Club over the two-day event this past weekend.He will be performing on New Year's Eve at Madison Square Garden alongside Diplo, which you will be able to stream live into your living room.Watch the full video and read the transcript of what was said, since the audio is not that great, via "YourEDM."

  • Spinnin' Records Teases 2015 Plans with New Mix Featuring Martin Solveig, Oliver Heldens and More [LISTEN]

    Dutch dance music label Spinnin' Records has become one of the largest independent electronic labels in the world and has used its growing influence to help define trends within the genre. It is the label home for DJs like Martin Garrix, Oliver Heldens, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, DVBBS, R3hab, Nervo and more. It is the parent label for Sander van Doorn's Doorn Records, Afrojack's Wall Recordings, Tiësto's Musical Freedom and Showtek's Skint Records, in addition its own specialized sub-labels.The record label has released its 2015 outlook in a 73-minute mix that features 34 unreleased songs from various artists on its roster. Each song is given about a two-minute preview and maybe half have the artists or track names confirmed. The rest are IDs and just rumored titles at this point, including some of Garrix's unreleased tracks, but have some level of logic to them.Stream the mix below on Spinnin''s SoundCloud page and check out the rumored tracklist, via "YourEDM."
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