• Hangout Festival 2015: Day 1 Hightlights From Foo Fighters, Win Butler, Jenny Lewis & More [PHOTOS]

    The 2015 Hangout Music Festival kicked off Friday in Gulf Shores, Alabama, and today we bring you the highlights. We saw Trampled by Turtles, Jenny Lewis, Spoon, and Foo Fighters on the Hangout Stage; Joywave and Cold War Kids on the Palladia Stage; Charles Bradley & His Extraordinaires and Paramore on the Surf Stage; Halsey and Houndmouth on the BMI Stage; and Arcade Fire's Win Butler as DJ Windows 98 on the Salt Life Stage. Check back tomorrow for the best things we saw on Day 2!

  • 5 NFL Stars Gone Country: Terry Bradshaw, Troy Aikman and More

    Peyton Manning's Children's Hospital fundraiser took a fun turn last weekend when the Denver Broncos quarterback took the stage with headliner Dierks Bentley to perform a cover of Johnny Cash's "Folsom Prison Blues." Manning's musical dynamism was about as weak as you might expect, but as it was strictly for-the-kids, we'd be jerks to mock him for it. He wasn't the first NFL player to take a crack at country music however...in fact, players such as Hall of Famers Terry Bradshaw and Troy Aikman have done the deed in a more professional setting. Here are five country releases from acts that got their start on the gridiron.

  • Harry Shearer's Best Simpsons Songs, As Mr. Burns, Ned Flanders and More

    Harry Shearer announced today that after more than 25 years of voicing beloved characters on 'The Simpsons'—including Mr. Burns, Ned Flanders, Principal Skinner, Kent Brockman, and bus driver Otto—he would be leaving the show. The greatest animated show of all time—and what some may consider the greatest television show, period—has never been afraid to delve into musical numbers, so Music Times dug up six of the best songs performed by Shearer's characters across the program's run, including plays on Disney songs and Guns N' Roses classics.

  • Remembering Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys with No. 1 Hits

    Few modern country music fans remember the genre of country-western, and few are still familiar with the work of Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys. Wills, the "King of Western Swing," died 40 years ago on May 13, and Music Times is hoping to maintain his legacy by listing his six no. 1 singles from the US Country Charts for your consideration, including the 'New Spanish Two Step,' 'Sugar Moon' and more.

  • Ranking PMRC's 'Filthy 15': Madonna, Prince and More Get Dirty

    Tipper Gore and a group of other (socially) conservative and influential women gathered 30 years ago to organize the PMRC (or Parents Music Research Center) after listening to the travesty that was Prince's "Darling Nikki." That organization has become the face of the censorship movement in the United States, ruining good album artwork and antagonizing Eminem, Marilyn Manson, Frank Zappa and others for three decades now. When it formed, the group issued a list titled the "Filthy 15," listing tracks that it considered especially repulsive. Music Times is ranking those first 15 songs in terms of potential for wrecking lives.

  • Interview: Meghann Wright on Making It as a Musician, Warped Tour & her New Album 'Nothing Left to Lose'

    It's hard out there for career musicians, and that's something that singer-songwriter Meghann Wright knows all to well. A bluesy rocker from New York by way of every other genre on the planet and Hawaii, Wright knows the struggle is real. From the pain and passion in her lyricism to her musician community The City and The Heart, Wright is looking to alleviate the hardships of the world for those around her.
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