• Peter Gabriel, Serj Tankian Contribute to Gaza Benefit Album '2 Unite All'

    Legendary singer-songwriter Peter Gabriel and System of a Down frontman Serj Tankian have never shied away from political statements in their music, so it should come as no surprise that both artists have contributed songes to a new benefit compilation album titled "2 Unite All," which goes toward funding humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Gaza. According to radio.com, the album was produced by Project Peace on Earth and is currently available for purchase. "Helping to rebuild the lives of Palestinians in Gaza is a necessary and noble worldwide humanitarian prerogative that we must not shy away from," Tankian says about the album in a statement. "It's the least we can do for a people that have suffered under an occupation, embargo, and invasion." For the album, Tankian contributed a song titled "Spinning Mysteries at the Sacred Groove," which features Police drummer Stewart Copeland.
  • 9 Bands Whose Drummers Sing Lead

    When the lead singer of a band also plays an instrument, it is nearly always guitar or piano, and often bass guitar as well, but rarely do you see a lead singer playing drums. These nine bands, however, broke this trend by having their drummers sing lead on most of their songs, including The Band, The Eagles and more.
  • Avicii, Nicki Minaj, Lorde, And More Partner With Disney For Fantasia: Music Evolved Video Game [WATCH]

    A new video game from Disney called Fantasia: Music Evolved puts the power of composing music into gamers' hands. Based off the 1940 animated film Fantasia and built by Harmonix for Xbox One and Kinect for Xbox 630, the game is powered by motion control, where different body movements allow users to interact with the music. The game hosts more than 30 artists including Avicii, Peter Gabriel, Lady Gaga, Gorillaz, Queen, Sting, Lorde, Bruno Mars, Drake, The White Stripes, Nicki Minaj, Drake, The Flaming Lips, David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix, and the Who as well as Beethoven, Bach, Tchaikovsky, Vivaldi and other classical composers.
  • 7 Artists Who Gradually Became More Accessible

    While some artists throughout rock history gradually became stranger as their careers went on, including The Beatles and Radiohead, there are other artists who started off strange and inaccessible but eventually moved toward accessibility, whether it was due to pressure from their label or a legitimate desire to clean up their sound. Here are seven artists who became more accessible:
  • 30 Years After Single 'Purple Rain' by Prince: Music Times Looks at Colored Rains from Roy Orbison, Peter Gabriel and More

    As our own Joseph Degroot pointed out earlier this year, 2014 marks the 30th anniversary of Price's class album Purple Rain. The title song wasn't officially released until September 26 however, so upon its own birthday we decided to check out what other colors of rain were floating around in the songosphere. Naturally none of them live up to Prince's epic closing track but we decided to list what we found for you. Here they are, listed in the traditional color spectrum order.
  • 10 Best VMA Video Of The Year Winners Of All Time

    It's been thirty years since the very first Video Music Awards on MTV, which means thirty videos have been granted the award for Video of the Year. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the VMA's, here are the best of the best, the top 10 winners of the coveted Video of the Year award.
  • 7 Bands That Spawned Multiple Prominent Solo Careers

    Many bands would be lucky enough to have just one immensely talented artist to carry them to success, but these seven bands had two (or sometimes more) musicians in their ranks who would go on to achieve success on their own.
  • 21 Albums Known By Two (Or More) Different Names

    Though most albums are given official titles, sometimes these titled prove to inconvenient or confusing, which leads to fans referring to the album by another name entirely. Here are twenty-one albums known by at least two different names.
  • 12 Songs That Are Closely Associated With Certain Movies

    Ever since The Graduate in 1967, filmmakers have often used pre-existing pop songs to score their movies, and sometimes these songs end up working so well that it's difficult to separate the song from the movie. Here are twelve songs that are closely associated with movies.
  • 7 Artists With Multiple Self-Titled Albums

    Self-titled debut albums are pretty common in the music business, though these days it seems like artists are choosing to release their self-titled albums a little bit later in their careers (see: Beyonce, St. Vincent). However, some artists have chosen to do both: release a self-titled debut, as well as another self-titled album later on (and sometimes three of four). Here are seven artists with multiple self-titled albums.
  • 7 Artists Who Recruited Old Bandmates For Solo Albums

    When musicians leave their bands and go on to record solo albums, it seems like their former bandmates would be the last people they'd want to help out. However, these seven musicians actually recruited their old bandmates to perform on their solo albums.
  • 8 Classic Album Titles Taken from Song Lyrics

    Many of the greatest albums of all time have title tracks on them, or songs that the album is named after (London Calling, Highway 61 Revisited, etc.), but an even more interesting trend is naming the album after lyrics, rather than one of the songs. Here are eight classic albums that took their titles from the lyrics.
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