(Reuters) – Pop star Taylor Swift said she would put her latest hit album "1989" on Apple Music, days after Apple Inc did an about-face, agreeing to pay artists during a free trial of its new streaming music service. Apple on Monday bowed to pressure from Swift and some independent music groups and labels after […]

On February 17th, an unidentified woman stormed into an exhibition of T-shirts at the Canterbury Museum in Christchurch, New Zealand, and proceeded to black out the Perspex barrier covering one of the displays with spray paint. The subject of her ire? The most controversial T-shirt in rock history. It’s been 22… Source: RollingStone Link: The […]

Taylor Swift will stream her album 1989 on Apple Music — “and happily so” — following a brief, but effective, public back-and-forth with the tech giant about properly paying artists. “In case you’re wondering if this is some exclusive deal like you’ve seen Apple do with other artists, it’s not,” Swift tweeted. “This is simply the first… Source: RollingStone Link: Taylor […]

“This is simply the first time it’s felt right in my gut to stream my album.” Source: Yahoo Music Link: Taylor Swift Agrees to Put Album on Apple Music: "Thank You for Your Change of Heart"

Each year, more than 2.5 million girls and young women compete in over 100,000 U.S. beauty pageants. Not among them? Kacey Musgraves, apparently. “I ain’t pageant material,” she sings during the title track of her sophomore album, Pageant Material, which hit stores this week. Yesterday, the singer-songwriter debuted the funny,… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch Kacey […]

The Grateful Dead will issue CDs and video of their upcoming “Fare Thee Well” concerts under the title Fare Thee Well: Celebrating 50 Years of the Grateful Dead this fall. The concerts, scheduled to take place over July 3rd, 4th and 5th at Chicago’s Soldier Field, will find the band’s surviving… Source: RollingStone Link: Grateful Dead […]

Billie Joe Armstrong and Norah Jones performed a surprise set comprising their entire 2013 Everly Brothers tribute album, Foreverly, at the intimate Bowery Electric in New York City Wednesday night. Despite never touring behind the LP, Jones and Armstrong sounded perfectly at ease throughout opener “Roving Gambler,” available to watch above. Both strummed… Source: RollingStone Link: Billie […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Taylor Swift is letting Apple Music stream her "1989" album — the only streaming service allowed to do so. Source: Yahoo Music Link: Taylor Swift will allow Apple Music to stream '1989' album

“This is simply the first time it’s felt right…to stream my album,” she wrote. Source: Yahoo Music Link: Taylor Swift Will Stream '1989' On Apple Music

With their Number One single, “Smoke,” still camping out in the upper reaches of the country charts, A Thousand Horses have begun throwing their weight behind a new song. Last night, the group took to Jimmy Kimmel Live! for the TV premiere of “(This Ain’t No) Drunk Dial,”  another mid-tempo power ballad from… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch A […]