• Manhattan Community Board to vote on 'Beastie Boys Square' intersection in the Lower East Side

    As previously reported, Brooklyn resident LeRoy McCarthy wrote a petition to name the intersection of Ludlow and Rivington streets in New York's Lower East Side after the Beastie Boys. Tomorrow evening, a community board in lower Manhattan will vote for the corner to be renamed "Beastie Boys Square." The area was chosen because the corner is featured on the cover of the hip-hop trio's groundbreaking 1989 album, Paul's Boutique.

  • Daft Punk, Mumford & Sons top year end vinyl sales charts

    Every news service has been eager to tell you that vinyl sales continued to show huge gains, even as CD sales and digital music sales slumped in the United States. Sales of the 12" format increased by 32 percent, jumping from about 4.5 million in sales during 2012 to 6 million units moved during 2013. One piece of information not being shared as readily: What performers are dominating the vinyl resurgence? Nielsen Soundscan recently released its list of the Top 10 bestselling vinyl records of 2013.

  • Beyoncé pens essay on gender inequality for 'The Shriver Report'

    Beyoncé has always been a champion for "woman-power" and expressing femininity, now the superstar has penned an essay for The Shriver Report: A Woman's Nation Pushes Back from the Brink, a 400-page comprehensive investigation into "the millions of women who are doing it all and barely scraping by, struggling to provide and parent in a nation that hasn't kept pace with the modern realities of their lives."

  • Oasis catalogue available on Spotify, Deezer, other streaming services

    Notice anything different when you turned on Spotify today? Of course you didn't. Nonetheless, a momentous breakthrough came for listeners, especially listeners of the British variety: Rockers Oasis finally made its catalogue available for the service. Fans can now check out classics such as Definitely Maybe and [What's The Story] Morning Glory.

  • U2 win Best Original Song at Golden Globes for 'Ordinary Love'

    The Golden Globes may be the award show best known for television and film trophies, but that doesn't mean music is completely out of the picture. Tonight (Jan. 12), among some of the biggest names in movie music, legendary rock band U2 took home the Golden Globe for Best Original Song for its contribution to the Nelson Mandela biopic "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom."
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