CHICAGO (AP) — Organizers of Lollapalooza say they are reopening the music festival after the threat of a storm prompted them to evacuate attendees. Source: Yahoo Music Link: Chicago's Lollapalooza resumes after storm evacuation

Lollapalooza was briefly evacuated Sunday afternoon after unexpected thunderstorms swept into the Chicago area, bringing severe weather to Grant Park. “Lollapalooza officials are continuing to coordinate with the Chicago Office of Emergency Management and Communications (OEMC) to monitor weather conditions and determine when the park is safe for festival-goers to… Source: RollingStone Link: Lollapalooza Briefly […]

David Byrne has penned an op-ed calling for more transparency between the streaming services, the record labels and artists. Writing in the New York Times, the former Talking Heads singer seems more accepting of streaming than many of his musical peers – it “saved a record industry that piracy had gutted” –… Source: RollingStone Link: David Byrne […]

Billy Joel will permanently close out New York’s famed Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum with a concert Tuesday night, but the Piano Man singer, a Long Island icon himself, has state lawmakers split over a bill that would name a nearby street after him. Plans to rename a stretch of Route 107 in Hicksville, New… Source: RollingStone Link: New York […]

Dave Grohl has promised to bring the Foo Fighters to Cesena, Italy after a video showing 1,000 Italian musicians performing the group’s “Learn to Fly” in unison went viral. 350 guitarists, 250 singers, 250 drummers and 150 bassists all banded together for the Cesena spectacle, which already racked up over 15 million… Source: RollingStone Link: Foo Fighters […]

The NY-based indie pop band, which played the music fest for the first time, sat down with us to talk sharing clothes and crossing the ultimate dream off their bucket list. Source: Yahoo Music Link: MisterWives Had the "Best Day Ever" at Lollapalooza

The rumors are true: Dr. Dre will release a new album in the near future. The rapper took to his Beats 1 radio show The Pharmacy to confirm reports of a Straight Outta Compton soundtrack produced by Dre as well as additional details regarding Dre’s first LP since 1999’s 2001. During Saturday’s “Countdown… Source: RollingStone Link: Dr. Dre […]

Paul McCartney served as Lollapalooza’s headliner Friday night in Chicago, and the former Beatle had a special guest in the store to help him out during the encore: Alabama Shakes’ Brittany Howard, who joined McCartney for a rousing rendition of “Get Back.” The Sound & Color band had performed at the Chicago fest… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch Paul […]

Andre 3000 has been cast in the upcoming second season of the ABC drama American Crime. On the anthology series, the Outkast rapper will play Michael Lacroix, a prominent Midwest architect whose son gets embroiled in a scandal at an elite private school, The Hollywood Reporter writes. The drama’s second season will… Source: RollingStone Link: Andre 3000 […]

Kendrick Lamar has dropped the new music video for “For Free? (Interlude),” a jazzy, Last Poets-inspired cut off the rapper’s acclaimed To Pimp a Butterfly. Clocking in at just over two minutes, Lamar furiously packs plenty of amusing moments in this Joe Weil and the Little Homies-directed video as Lamar chases a… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch Kendrick […]