• Tom Morello wants to be modern Jimi Hendrix with upcoming solo album

    Tom Morello has announced plans to make a solo album when the current Bruce Springsteen tour ends in March, and no, he doesn't mean another LP as his folk rock alias The Nightwatchman. The guitarist said that he had never sung while playing an electric guitar until he played "The Ghost of Tom Joad" with Springsteen during 2008, and more than five years of performing with the legend was enough to inspire an electric-solo album.

  • Harvard research indicates epilepsy treatment might allow adults to reach 'absolute pitch'

    Living in New York City, we know many who've come here to break it big on Broadway and are willing to do almost anything to get that big break...including unhealthy behaviors. We're not sure this announcement is going to help, but a Harvard professor has declared his belief that taking pills meant to treat epilepsy can help perfect the human singing voice.

  • Milli Vanilli and Wagner provide inspiration for experimental opera 'WOW'

    The best part about contemporary opera is that it incorporates relatively modern events into the plot lines. Relatively modern, as several experimental individuals are looking to prove, includes notorious '90s pop icons Milli Vanilli. Did you say "wow"? What a funny coincidence. WOW is also the title of the opera.

  • BBC’s Sound of 2014 winner is Sam Smith

    This year the winner of BBC's Sound of 2014 is the singer-songwriter and Disclosure member, Sam Smith. He is scheduled to release his debut LP in May. This year's runner up is UK pop/R&B singer Ella Eyre. The shortlist also includes L.A. singer-songwriter Banks, SBTRKT singer Sampha and UK blues artist George Ezra.

  • Strata Records master tapes subject of crowdsourcing campaign to save them

    Detroit was a hopping place to be a recording artist during the '60s. Of course there was Motown -which still gets all of the attention- but other labels turned out various records across a wide range of genres. Among those labels was Strata, an imprint specializing in jazz that only turned out 10 albums during its short existence. Despite its relatively low output and lack of "big-name" performers, Strata's collection is praised by jazz fans. Now the master copies of those albums are in danger of being lost.

  • Watch Lea Michele's 'Cannonball' music video

    Lea Michele recently teased her 'Cannonball' music video on Instagram, but now the full Vimeo music video is here to watch below. The song is the first single off of her first solo studio album, Louder, which we reviewed here on Music Times.
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