May the Fourth Be With You: Broadway’s smash, Tony Awards-dominating musical Hamilton celebrated the unofficial Star Wars holiday Wednesday during the show’s daily #Ham4Ham performance by having creator Lin-Manuel Miranda and The Force Awakens director J.J, Abrams deliver a live rendition of “Jabba Flow,” the song they worked on together for the sci-fi… Source: RollingStone Link: See Lin-Manuel […]

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Thousands of Congolese attended the funeral Wednesday of Papa Wemba, a musician known around the world as the king of Congolese rumba. Source: Yahoo Music Link: Congo buries its king of rumba, world music star Papa Wemba

Dan + Shay have released the video for their song “Already Ready” from their forthcoming album Obsessed. The song is available as an instant download (along with their current single “From the Ground Up”) with pre-orders of the album, which is set for release on June 3rd. Styled like a sexy,… Source: RollingStone Link: See […]

Blink-182 rolled out their song song “Bored to Death” earlier this week along with dates for a massive summer tour. It will be most people’s first chance to see them with Alkaline Trio’s Matt Skiba, who has replaced Tom DeLonge on guitar and vocals. The group hasn’t played with DeLonge since… Source: RollingStone Link: Readers' Poll: […]

Producer AraabMuzik will release his first new album in five years this summer with the arrival of Dreamworld. The album features contributions from Baauer, Raiche and !llmind. Dreamworld continues AraabMuzik’s exploration of EDM and hip-hop while incorporating other genres like grime, future bass and more. The new record follows a pair of 2015 EPs, the EDM-minded… Source: RollingStone Link: AraabMuzik […]

On Monday night, 61-year-old baker Herman Hayes pulled an all-nighter making doughnuts. What is typically a prosaic job has become, for Hayes, more than just a profession. One day later, Hayes will, after years of delays and setbacks, open Dilla’s Delights, a doughnut shop he’s spearheading in honor of his late… Source: RollingStone Link: Dilla's Delights: […]

By 1973, singer-songwriter Kris Kristofferson had also starred in a handful of feature film roles, playing outlaw Billy the Kid in Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, which also featured Bob Dylan. That same year, just after her 14th birthday, Marie Osmond, of the performing Osmond clan, launched her recording career,… Source: RollingStone Link: Flashback: See […]

Woody Allen’s new film Café Society is scheduled to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on May 11th. The 80-year-old filmmaker gave a rare interview where he discussed his marriage, his choice for president and his upcoming Amazon series starring Miley Cyrus. Allen revealed how he first met the Dead Petz singer, to The Hollywood… Source: RollingStone Link: Why Woody […]

Actor Joe Manganiello (Magic Mike, Sabotage) is producing a film with his company 359 Inc. about rock legends the Smiths, Pitchfork reports. The film, called Shoplifters of the World, is inspired by Smiths legend of a crazed fan holding a Denver radio station staff hostage demanding the station play only Smiths songs.  The film will take place in 1987, when the band announced… Source: RollingStone Link: Joe […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — It could be Woodstock 47 years later, only the drug of choice might be antacid, not that other stuff, at an October concert featuring some of the greatest rock acts of the preceding generation. Source: Yahoo Music Link: Stones, Dylan, McCartney, others to play Coachella in fall