Tonight, I'm joined by the incomparable singer-songwriter James Taylor for the first of a two-night conversation. Taylor's first studio album in thirteen years, Before This World features ten tracks with guest appearances by Sting and Yo-Yo Ma.With a music career spanning over four decades, Taylor has sold over 100 million albums and earned… Source: Yahoo […]

Florence and the Machine picked a surprising song to cover during a recent BBC session: “Where Are Ü Now,” a tune made by Jack Ü producers Skrillex and Diplo and sung by Justin Bieber (via Pitchfork). Where the original is an echoey, Auto-Tuned synthesized pop song, Florence Welch and her bandmates opt… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear Florence […]

It’s 109 degrees in Las Vegas as Rod Stewart lands at McCarran Airport in a private jet, three hours before his show at Caesars Palace. After taking off from an airfield near his home in Beverly Hills, Stewart spent the 45-minute flight nibbling tea sandwiches, inhaling steam from a humidifier to… Source: RollingStone Link: How Rod […]

This past March marked the 50th anniversary of Bob Dylan’s landmark album Bringing It All Back Home, which contained his first electric recordings and the singles “Subterranean Homesick Blues” and “Maggie’s Farm.” Its album cover featured an intriguing photo, taken by Daniel Kramer, of the singer-songwriter holding a cat as… Source: RollingStone Link: See How […]

Tom Waits gave a wide-ranging, bizarre interview around the release of his 1988 album Big Time, and now PBS has animated it as part of its imaginative Blank on Blank series. Topics in the chat included the singer-songwriter’s habit of laughing in inappropriate situations, the moles that reportedly live under Stonehenge, the… Source: RollingStone Link: Tom Waits […]

Twenty years after Jagged Little Pill turned Alanis Morissette into one of the Nineties’ most brutally honest voices, the singer-songwriter is dusting off her once-buried demos for part of the soon-to-be-released 1995 LP’s four-disc collector’s edition, out October 30th. Listen to one of those bonus tracks, “Closer Than You Might… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear a […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — If you're planning to look up Usher, Luke Bryan or producer Armin van Buuren on the Web, take heed. Source: Yahoo Music Link: Musicians Armin van Buuren, Luke Bryan most dangerous online

Lady Gaga will be honored as 2015 Woman of the Year. Source: Yahoo Music Link: Lifetime to Televise Billboard Women in Music Event

Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor will be joining the cult-hit TV series Doctor Who in a unique way, providing the monstrous scream of a new alien warlord called Fisher King, according to the BBC. “We needed an awesome roar for the Fisher King,” Doctor Who producer Derek Ritchie told the British news… Source: RollingStone Link: Slipknot […]

Tom DeLonge is continuing to grow his Poet Anderson franchise with a forthcoming short film, with Tyler Posey, star of MTV’s Teen Wolf, playing the titular character. “[The upcoming film] is a brief and modest look into the mythology of the Poet Anderson Universe,” DeLonge told The L.A. Times. “Meant to… Source: RollingStone Link: Tom […]