• Paul McCartney, Lenny Kravitz, Ringo Starr and More Respond to Joe Cocker's Death on Twitter

    Soulful rock icon Joe Cocker died yesterday, Dec. 22, at the age of 70. The singer had been battling lung cancer. Tributes began flooding in from Cocker's contemporaries: Paul McCartney, The Doobie Brothers and Ringo Starr all paid their respects on Twitter. Some of today's artists like Lupe Fiasco, Lady Antebellum and Lenny Kravitz also showed love for the legendary performer.McCartney recalled Cocker's brilliance on The Beatles's "With a Little Help from My Friends," which the singer recorded in the late 1960s and eventually became the theme song for "The Wonder Years":"It's really sad to hear about Joe's passing. He was a lovely northern lad who I loved a lot and like many people I loved his singing. I was especially pleased when he decided to cover 'With a Little Help from My Friends' and I remember him and Denny Cordell coming round to the studio in Saville Row and playing me what they'd recorded and it was just mind blowing, totally turned the song into a soul anthem and I was forever grateful to him for doing that."
  • WATCH: Nick Jonas Performs "I'll Be Home for Christmas" Sadly in a New York City Park

    If you're feeling a little bummed out leading up to the holidays and maybe you won't be able to make it home to see your family, don't watch this new Nick Jonas music video. Yesterday (Dec. 22), the "Jealous" singer got a little melancholy before Christmas and recorded and released a somber black and white music video of "I'll Be Home for Christmas" on his Facebook page.
  • Kendrick Lamar's TDE Label Announces Free Holiday Concert, Toy Giveaway In Los Angeles Projects Today

    Top Dawg Entertainment (TDE) is giving back this holiday season with the gift of music (and more)! The label — home to Kendrick Lamar, Schoolboy Q, Jay Rock, Ab-Soul, SZA, and Isaiah Rashad — has partnered with Nickerson Garden Projects to donate toys, shoes, and more along with a free concert today (Dec. 23) starting at noon. The even is free and open to the public, so if you're in the Los Angeles area, head there between 12 p.m. and 4 p.m.
  • One Direction, Jimmy Fallon & The Roots Get Festive with "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" on Classroom Instruments [WATCH]

    One Direction may not be coming to your town until 2015, but Santa Claus' worldwide tour is later this week (Dec. 25). To help make Directioners and fans of The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon aware that Santa is, in fact, coming to town, the "Night Changes" band teamed up with Fallon and The Roots last night (Dec. 22) to play, you guessed it, "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" on classroom instruments.
  • Iggy Azalea Responds To Q-Tip's History Lesson; Lupe Fiasco & Azealia Banks Counter

    The hip-hop family is not a happy bunch during this holiday season. Practically on Christmas Eve, Iggy Azalea and her many detractors are still waging their war of words on social media. The most poignant salvo came from hip-hop legend, A Tribe Called Quest member, Q-Tip who gave Azalea a brief history of hip hop in 140 character intervals. Will.i.am and Lupe Fiasco also came out in support of the "Fancy" rapper and her craft.
  • Zedd Buys New $3.9 Million L.A. Mansion [PHOTOS]

    Zedd is steadily climbing that list as well, having earned $21 million over the same period. With this new cash, the "Stay The Night" producer has bought a massive mansion in Hollywood Hills for a paltry $3.9 million.The 3,443 square foot compound has 4 bedrooms to host any of his various guests, five bathrooms, a full security system to protect against people stealing his music and a heated salt water pool because going to the ocean is so difficult when you are in Los Angeles.
  • Live Stream Skrillex's OWSLA Holiday Party On Twitch Featuring Valentino Khan & Vindata [WATCH]

    OWSLA is streaming their holiday party on Twitch tonight staring at 10 p.m. PST. Host and label founder Skrillex will have guests Valentino Khan and Vindata, two of his two biggest new stars he has been fostering on OWSLA. No telling what will happen at the party, but you can expect to see some pretty crazy things with Skrillex, Valentino Khan's mustache and Vindata. There will surely be plenty of special guests coming to party with OWSLA, possibly the "Recess" DJ's partner in crime Diplo for their duo Jack Ü and plenty of others around in the Los Angeles area where the OWSLA offices are based.
  • Irving Azoff Lawyer For Pharrell, The Eagles, John Legend, Delivers $1 Billion Ultimatum To YouTube

    Irving Azoff, head of Global Music Rights, which manages the performance rights for Pharrell Williams, John Lennon, The Eagles, Ryan Tedder and others, has fired a warning shot at YouTube. A very large warning shot to the tune of $1 billion according to The Hollywood Reporter. Azoff has informed YouTube that it no longer has the rights to the 20,000-song catalog possessed by Global Music Rights, notably with the coming launch of YouTube's streaming service to try and complete with Spotify and Pandora. However, as one might expect, Google is not going to give in to Azoff.