• 'Run the Jewels 2' Review: Spencer Tweedy Drops Expletive-Laden Praise for Hip-Hop's Hottest Album

    Spencer Tweedy — son of Wilco's Jeff — recently participated in a musicians-review-musicians project for The Talkhouse, dropping expletive-laden praise for hip-hop's hottest album.He chose to take a close look at Killer Mike and El-P's modern hip-hop classic "Run the Jewels 2," and if that sounds like an odd selection, the intro is an even bigger curveball."Neil Young is an out-of-touch motherf----r," the review begins.After some lengthy Young-centric misdirection, Tweedy arrives at his point: Run the Jewels is the antithesis to Young. They are actually edgy.

  • High-Quality Audio Service Tidal Enters the United States Market

    Audiophiles, rejoice! If you have been looking for an alternative to the average to low-quality sound being streamed by services like Spotify, Beats Music and YouTube, then a new audio service called Tidal is here for you. The service launched in the United States market last week as the first streaming service to offer only high-quality audio.Deezer Elite, which launched in the United States last month, offers high quality as part of its package, but you must be hooked up to Sonos to get the quality. Tidal streams high-fidelity lossless quality, which means it is at 1411 kilobytes per second. To put that in perspective, Spotify streams at 160 kbps for standard desktop and Web player users, iTunes downloads at 256 kbps and Beats Music at 320 kbps, widely considered to be the threshold for good quality for an MP3.Tidal has a library of 25 million songs, comparable to Spotify and Beats Music, and comes with a curation aspect as well. The service creates playlists and gives you recommendations from their editorial team. Not only do you get high-quality music, but you also get HD video for music videos as well.

  • Migos Share New Song 'Hit 'Em' from New Mixtape [LISTEN]

    Atlanta rap trio Migos are dropping their new mixtape "Rich N---a Timeline" today, but to stir up some last-minute excitement, they have shared one of the tape’s tracks, "Hit ‘Em," through Soundcloud, which you can check out below.The Deco-produced track features a sparse beat with some woozy synths and piano plinks, though Migos are the real stars here, showing off their impressive and hectic flows, which is a breath of fresh air amid all the rappers who insist on sluggsh, mumbled deliveries — hello, Chief Keef.

  • Garth Brooks Adds Tulsa to Never-Ending Comeback Tour [SCHEDULE]

    Garth Brooks's comeback arena tour will never, ever end.With the announcement of three Tulsa shows today, Nov. 5, Brooks has made it clear he intends on breaching every corner of the country before shutting the thing down.Texas is a likely next option, with two or three city stops there a definite possibility. That would take Garth into March, and then he still has the entire western United States to contend with before eventually tapping into the East Coast and finishing things up back in the South.Brooks will play the trio of Oklahoma shows — with more to come if those sell out — at the BOK Center from Jan. 15 to 17, with ticket prices sitting at $70.

  • Glen Hansard Announces US Tour Dates [FULL SCHEDULE]

    Glen Hansard just announced a 10-city U.S. tour for 2015.The 44-year-old "will be performing songs from throughout his career," a press release said.That includes his best-known work from the movie "Once" — "Falling Slowly," which won an Oscar — and other stints with The Frames and The Swell Seasons. Hansard also has a solo album — 2012's "Rhythm & Response" — to work from.According to "Consequence of Sound," Hansard's backing musicians will include bassist Brad Albetta (Rufus & Martha Wainwright), keyboardist Thomas Bartlett (Doveman, The National) and string musician Rob Moose (yMusic, Bon Iver).

  • T-Pain Drops the Autotune for New Track 'Let Me Through' Featuring Lil Wayne [LISTEN]

    Even though T-Pain recently proved to the world that he can in fact sing without the use of his signature Autotune —and quite well — he drops the singing entirely for his new track “Let Me Through,” which he raps his way through alongside none other than Lil Wayne, sans-Autotune. The track premiered on "Sway in the Morning" — which explains the annoying “Sway in the Morning Exclusive!” interjections throughout — and features some refreshingly minimal and unfussy electronic production.You can check out T-Pain and Lil Wayne’s “Let Me Through” here, via "Complex":“Let Me Through” is the just the latest in a long line of T-Pain/Lil Wayne collaborations, which includes hits such as “Can’t Believe It” and “Got Money.” It is not yet clear if this is a standalone single or if it will be included on T-Pain’s upcoming studio album "Stoicville: The Phoenix," which still has yet to be given a release date.

  • Smashing Pumpkins Share New Single 'One and All' from Upcoming Album 'Monuments to an Elegy' [LISTEN]

    In anticipation of their upcoming album "Monuments to an Elegy," The Smashing Pumpkins have shared another new single, titled "One and All," which you can check out below. Fans of the Pumpkins will not be disappointed, as the song has a darkly metallic quality reminiscent of their 1995 opus "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.""I basically sang the whole song the first time I wrote it," frontman Billy Corgan told "The Huffington Post" about "One and All." "It had written itself."

  • Taylor Swift Is the First Artist to Sell 1 Million Albums in 2014

    2014 has been a down year for record sales, and that is putting it lightly. While the industry has been moving toward streaming as computer technology heads up into the cloud, 2014 was poised to not have a platinum album released. In steps the music industry's pop/country queen bee Taylor Swift to the rescue, who not only beat expectations for what her first-week album sales would be with "1989," but absolutely crushed them. She is the first artist to sell 1 million albums in 2014.As per Swift, industry experts predicted she would move 650,000 copies in the first week, but she almost doubled that mark. According to "Billboard," she shot her way up to the top of the Billboard Top 200 chart with an astounding 1.287 million copies sold.
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