• 10th Annual A3C Festival Makes First Lineup Announcement

    A3C is celebrating its 10th anniversary, see who has been announced as the performing artist. The 10th anniversary of hip-hop's biggest festival is three months away and A3C has just made its first official artist announcement.
  • The Band Perry Helps Give Life to "Bright Eyes"

    The Band Perry stopped in for a visit last month at ACM Lifting Lives Music Camp in Nashville, Tennessee. The reigning ACM Vocal Group of the Year lead campers in a songwriting session, creating "Bright Eyes," an original song based on campers' personal experiences and inspirations.
  • Weird Al Parodies "Royals" In New Video "Foil" [WATCH]

    Today, Weird Al Yankovic shared the video for his new song "Foil," which parodies Lorde's massive hit single "Royals," Pitchfork reports. The video, which you can watch below, features Yankovic singing about wrapping up leftover food in aluminum foil before going off on a hilarious tangent in the song's second verse, which I won't spoil here. The video also features guest appearances by comedians Patton Oswalt, Tom Lennon, and Robert Ben Garant.
  • Pharrell Williams To Curate 'NBA 2K15' Soundtrack

    Pharrell is teaming up with Play Station for its 'NBA 2K15' soundtrack. Pharrell is absolutely everywhere these days. The producer-rapper-singer has had a hand in just about everything now days, and it doesn't look like he plans to slow up anytime soon.
  • Waka Flocka Flame Releases 'I Can't Rap Vol.1' Mixtape [LISTEN]

    Well, we didn't see this coming. Stream Waka Flocka Flame's new mixtape here. Well, we certainly didn't see this coming. Music Times recently reported that ATL rapper Waka Flocka Flame would be releasing an EDM album and his highly-anticipated Flockaveli 2 but he made no mention of dropping another mixtape.
  • Sia Tops Slow Week on Billboard 200, 'Frozen' and Sam Smith Wait in The Wings

    This week was a relatively slow one on the Billboard 200, which allowed Sia to take the top spot for the first time in her career. We don't mean to suggest she didn't earn it: 1000 Forms of Fear sold 52,000 copies, the songwriter's largest sales week to date. However that was also the smallest sales week for a no. 1 in more than two years.
  • 8 Albums Whose Closing Tracks Were Big Singles: Adele, Kanye West, And More

    As a general rule in pop music, an album's big single is usually placed towards the beginning, if not at the very top, of the tracklisting, with the album's last track reserved for something less pop friendly. However, these eight artists broke this trend by sticking huge singles at the very end of the album.