• Eli Young Band's House Party

    When most people throw a house party, guests arrive in small groups and top out at 25 to 30 people. When Eli Young Band throws a house party, people arrive by the carload and the numbers soar into the thousands.

  • Arcade Fire, Bon Iver To Play Basketball For Charity In Montreal

    If there's anything that Arcade Fire frontman Win Butler loves more than music, it's basketball (and since he's about nine feet tall, he's pretty good at it, too). Over the last few years, Butler has hosted the annual Pop vs. Jock basketball game in Montreal, in which musicians play against college basketball players for charity. Exclaim reports that this year's Pop vs. Jock game will take place on Sept. 20 during the Pop Montreal festival, and in addition to Butler and his brother Will, some of the other participating musicians include Bon Iver frontman Justin Vernon and Strokes bassist Nikolai Fraiture.

  • Kanye West Nearly Had David Lynch Direct One Of His Videos

    Kanye West's Yeezus was easily one of the darkest and most challenging albums to ever come from a major label, so who better to direct one of the album's music videos than the master of surreal nightmares, David Lynch? Apparently, this dream collaboration nearly happened, as Lynch revealed in an interview with The Daily Beast.

  • Bruce Springsteen's 'Outlaw Pete' Inspires Children's Book

    Bruce Springsteen has sung about hundreds of great characters in his songs throughout the years, and some of them have even inspired works of film (see: Sean Penn's 1991 directorial debut The Indian Runner, which was based on Springsteen's "Highway Patrolman"). Now, one of Springsteen's songs has inspired, of all things, a children's book.

  • Sting Offering Chance To Work On His Italian Farm, For A Fee

    How many of you have ever dreamed of working on a farm in the Italian countryside? Well, you're in luck (assuming you said yes to that question), because Sting wants to make your dreams come true. According to Telegraph, the former Police frontman is offering tourists the chance to pick grapes and olives from his estate in Tuscany, and all they have to do is pay him €262, or roughly $345.

  • Sam Hunt Hits the Opry Stage

    Last week, newcomer and Georgia native Sam Hunt made his Grand Ole Opry debut, sharing the stage with Carrie Underwood, Craig Morgan, Del McCoury Band, Joel Crouse, Mark Chesnutt, Terri Clark and Trace Adkins.

  • U.S. Open: LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy Is Making Music From Tennis Data [WATCH]

    DJ, producer, and electronic music wizard James Murphy hasn't released any original music since he disbanded his beloved dance act LCD Soundsystem back in 2011 (with the exception of the Converse-commissioned Gorillaz/Andre 3000 collaborative single "DoYaThing" in 2012), but his new project comes pretty close. As reported by Self-Titled, Murphy is currently working with IBM developer Patrick Gunderson on the U.S. Open Sessions project, in which raw data gathered from tennis matches at the U.S. Open is being turned into algorithms to create musical compositions.

  • Chase Rice Goes to #1

    Chase Rice's 'Ignite the Night' sold over 44,000 copies its first week and came in at #1 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart.

  • Weezer Teases Best Coast Collaboration 'Go Away' [LISTEN]

    Continuing the lengthy hype-build for their upcoming album Everything Will Be Alright In The End, Weezer has shared a teaser of their collaboration with Best Coast's Bethany Costentino, titled "Go Away," which you can check out below.
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