Reports peg the deal at $70 million. Source: Yahoo Music Link: Twitter Invests in Music Streaming Startup SoundCloud

Our guide to this week's (and last week's) album releases also features the week's top new music videos from artists like MØ, Dawn Richard, and Merchandise, plus brand new streaming music from Descendents, Sleigh Bells, DJ Shadow, case/lang/veirs, and more. Read and Post Comments | Get the full article at Metacritic Source: Yahoo Music Link: […]

A new feature film about the Rolling Stones is in the works. Exile on Main Street: A Season in Hell&nbspWith the Rolling Stones will be directed by Andy Goddard, who has helmed several episodes of PBS’s Downton Abbey. The film is currently looking to cast actors in the roles of Mick Jagger and… Source: RollingStone Link: Rolling Stones […]

Megadeth and Motley Crue were L.A. metal rivals during the Eighties, but time appears to have healed old wounds. Crue bassist Nikki Sixx joined Megadeth onstage June 11th at England’s Download Festival for a raucous cover of the Sex Pistols’ punk anthem “Anarchy in the U.K.,” Ultimate Classic Rock reports.  Fan-shot footage shows Sixx… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]

For the first time in two decades, a new camera has been created that uses the original Polaroid film. The I-1 instant camera exists due to the efforts of the Impossible Project, which has continued to produce self-developing film after Polaroid discontinued production of both the film and cameras nearly… Source: RollingStone Link: See Jack […]

Anybody who’s seen Red Hot Chili Peppers live knows how much they put into a show: Anthony Kiedis jumps and leaps while rapping and singing, Flea stomps around as he plays slap bass, Chad Smith becomes a drum dynamo and Josh Klinghoffer leans into his funky guitar lines. The physicality of… Source: RollingStone Link: See Red […]

Apple Music was supposed to be a streaming music titan, the Spotify killer the company needed. Instead it was just more or less Beats Music with a few different logos and a handful of tweaks. All that, however, is changing, as Apple is making a major bid for your eardrums. Source: Yahoo Music Link: Apple […]

Jake Owen had the perfect plan for beating traffic (and the heat) at CMA Music Fest: arrive by boat. The singer docked his custom-made speedboat just a couple of yards away from the stage at Nashville’s Riverfront Park where he kicked off “country music’s biggest party” with a free show. Clad… Source: RollingStone Link: See […]

Rae Sremmurd’s latest video for “Look Alive” features Khalif “Swae Lee” Brown and Aaquil “Slim Jimmi” Brown throwing down dance moves in the club. Nightlife vibes match the song’s buzz-enhancing instructions: “Kill this cup, not my vibe.” “Look Alive” was produced by Mike WiLL Made-It, the same producer behind Rae Sremmurd’s breakout singles, “No Flex… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]

Following the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir drew parallels Sunday between the anti-LGBT rhetoric of radical members of the Republican party and the language of terrorist groups like ISIS. Weir issued his remarks at this weekend’s Bonnaroo Festival, where he accepted the Les Paul Spirit Award for Innovation… Source: RollingStone Link: Bob […]