• Watch Yoko Ono dance with Beastie Boys, Questlove, Reggie Watts and more in 'Bad Dancer' Video

    Yoko Ono shared her video for "Bad Dancer" today off her latest album Take Me to The Land of Hell. Beastie Boys' Ad-Rock and Mike D (the track's producers) make an appearance as well as Questlove, Reggie Watts, soul singer Roberta Flack, Das Racist's Heems and Deerhoof's Greg Saunier, This American Life host Ira Glass, Cibo Matto's Yuka Honda and Miho Hatori, among others.

  • Sting and Paul Simon to appear on North American tour together

    Sting and Paul Simon will be stage mates on an upcoming North American tour during which they will perform several of their greatest hits individually and as a duo, according to the New York Times. Eighteen dates have been scheduled so far from Feb. 8 through March 16 with more dates to be announced.

  • Morrissey Autobiography Audiobook to be read by David Morrissey

    Musician Morrissey's "Autobiography" has already topped the book charts and become one of the fastest-selling memoirs of all time, according to the Guardian. Now they are reporting an audiobook will be released as well, read by another Morrissey. English actor David Morrissey is set to be the voice behind the book. You know him from AMC's Walking Dead and movies such as The Other Boleyn Girl.

  • Download Festival announces Avenged Sevenfold and Rob Zombie as first round of headliners

    The first headliners for next year's Download Festival have been announced: Avenged Sevenfold and Rob Zombie. Download, held every year in Donington Park, England, is one of the largest rock-oriented music festivals in the world (we're talking heavy rock here...not the same scene as the average alt-rock based American festival). It's a three day affair, but A7X and Zombie have been the only acts announced thus far.

  • YouTube Music Awards Recap

    There's something raw and real about a YouTube video that you don't see on a music video traditionally fit for television. In line with this spirit, the YouTube Music Awards were not what you would expect to see on the real tube. Actor and musician Jason Schwartzman (Coconut Records) co-hosted with comedian and musician Reggie Watts. The hosting was pretty much completely unscripted. Winners included Eminem, Taylor Swift and Lindsey Stirling. Lady Gaga and Tyler the Creator performed.

  • iTunes Radio could be the solution to "loudness wars" ruining recorded music

    You've undoubtedly heard a member of the older generation complaining that the music you buy today just doesn't sound as good as it did way back when. They could be referring to newfangled genres such as dubstep, but they could also be referring to the audio quality as well. The sound quality of new music (regardless of whether you've bought the mp3, CD or vinyl version) is not up to snuff with the glory days of recorded music. This is because of "the loudness wars."
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