During a recent trip to New York, EDM duo Krewella made a pit stop to get a set of matching tattoos. The sisters received their latest ink from Keith “Bang Bang” McCurdy, a tattoo artist whose handiwork is featured on everyone from Rihanna to Justin Bieber. Jahan and Yasmine Yousaf came… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]

Tair, Liron and Tagel Haim — better known as Israeli group A-Wa —have fashioned a blend of darbuka drums, catchy harmonies and hip-hop electronics that deftly and happily transcends the complicated history of Arab-Jewish relations in their home country. With the help of producer Tomer Yosef of Balkan Beat Box, the… Source: RollingStone Link: A-Wa: The […]

A slew of Broadway stars will perform a benefit concert in honor of the victims of the Orlando nightclub massacre July 25th at Orlando’s Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, The Associated Press reports. “From Broadway With Love: A Benefit Concert For Orlando” will feature performances from Brian Stokes Mitchell, Norbert Leo Butz, Kelli… Source: RollingStone Link: Broadway […]

Dolly Parton has released the track listing and cover art [below] for her upcoming LP, Pure & Simple, an album that will take her right back to where it all began for the budding superstar nearly 50 years ago. In 1967, after a brief stint with Monument Records, Parton signed… Source: RollingStone Link: Dolly Parton […]

Before you declare some other dancehall-inflected track as the Song of the Summer, get yourself to a Matoma playlist. As temperatures rise, the Trondheim, Norway-based artist is ready to provide the next evolution of tropical house. The twentysomething born Tom Lagergren has married a fuzzy, chilled-out four-on-the-floor with a love… Source: RollingStone Link: Meet Matoma, […]

By Alexis Akwagyiram LAGOS (Reuters) – Each night as darkness descends on Lagos, Nigeria's commercial capital, sweat-drenched young men and women descend on the megacity's numerous nightclubs to dance to the latest hit songs. Much like the famous "Nollywood" film industry, music is now big business in Africa's most populous nation. The music industry's revenue […]

Wavves are heading on tour this month, but not everyone is “welcome at a Wavves show.” As Pitchfork reports, in a letter posted to Twitter on Wednesday, Wavves’ Nathan Williams wrote that he needed “to make clear” that racists, homophobes, misogynists and Trump supporters are not among those invited to attend their concerts. While… Source: RollingStone Link: Wavves: […]

The music major responds that the suggestion of antitrust violations are “nothing but speculation and conjecture” and pretext for avoiding $17 million claims plus allegations of fraud. Source: Yahoo Music Link: Sony Music Investigated by Rdio for Alleged Collusion in Streaming Music

Even though it hit the mainstream officially in the mid-Nineties, pop-punk began bubbling up in the Seventies in various forms. Four decades later, it’s still one of the most predominant and popular rock genres, still soundtracking new generations of teenagers fed up with suburban life, heartbreak and parents who just… Source: RollingStone Link: Readers' Poll: […]

My Morning Jacket’s Jim James and Alabama Shakes’ Brittany Howard have united for a sprawling reinterpretation of Backstreet Boys’ 1999 teen-pop anthem “I Want It That Way.” The cover unites the singers’ polar opposite voices – James’ high quiver and Howard’s deep croon– over string orchestrations and acoustic guitars, building to a minor-key… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear Jim […]