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Filed under: News , Exclusive , The Hit List PA The music industry has been in a financial free-fall since the turn of the millennium, which has forced many a musician to look into alternative ways to pay for their drugs. One of these ways is to throw their famous name behind some pretty weird products. Most recently, Courtney Love , who hasn't managed her portion of Nirvana 's royalties particularly well , appeared in [...]

Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , RPM , News Today, Oh Boy! , New Music , New Releases , EDM Getty Images Electric Daisy Carnival NY has announced its second annual festival lineup, which features everyone from 12th Planet, Adam F and Afrojack to Calvin Harris , Carl Cox, Eric Prydz, La Roux , Loco Dice, Mark Knight, Richie Hawtin , Steve Angello [...]

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Filed under: News , Exclusive Tara Novak London-based independent label Xtra Mile Recordings is heading to North America after a decade in business, bringing an excellent roster of rock acts to our shores. To commemorate this milestone, folk/punk rocker and Xtra Mile artist Frank Turner has graciously written about his favorite 10 albums from the label (which happens to be run by his manager, Charlie Caplowe). To sweeten the pot, Xtra Mile is offering a free [...]

Filed under: News , Exclusive Warner Canada With the release of their fourth album Pedestrian Verse in February, Scottish indie rockers Frightened Rabbit made a definitive statement that they're in charge of their destiny. The band approached their fourth proper album in a whole new direction -- as a band . "We thought that it was the right time for the band to do something like that [...]

Filed under: News , RPM , New Music Daft Punk Disco pioneer Giorgio Moroder appears in the latest music doc from The Creators Project , discussing the early days of dance music and the significance of Daft Punk 's forthcoming album, Random Access Memories . The eight minute doc delves into the 72-year-old Donna Summer producer's introduction to the Moog synthesizer, club music, and why dance is [...]

Filed under: Exclusive , RPM , New Music , RPM MP3 of the Day David Burlacu Artist: AM & Shawn Lee Hails From: L.A. and London Song: "Steppin' Out" (Joe Jackson Cover) Album: La Musique Numerique Sounds Like: Phoenix , Rhye In Their [...]

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Filed under: Concerts and Tours , New Music , Exclusive , Q + A Universal If one woman embodies the pop-star prototype of the '80s, it would be Madonna. But one would be foolish to not also acknowledge that Belinda Carlisle 's influence is right up there with Madge's. Alongside guitarists Jane Weidlin and Charlotte Caffey, bassist Kathy Valentine and drummer Gina Schock, Carlisle had multpile hits with the Go-Gos , including "We [...]

Filed under: News , Exclusive , New Music , New Releases , Q + A Mark Metcalfe, Getty When the Flaming Lips played Spinner's free NXNE show in Toronto before 30,000 odd fans last summer, little did we know that it would be the last time the Lips would play their famously celebratory streamers-lasers-stage-props live show in North America. Following a subsequent Australian tour, Wayne Coyne and [...]

Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Music Appreciation Don Emmert, AFP The Rolling Stones today confirmed details of their North American "50 And Counting" arena trek which will kick off sometime in early May in Los Angeles depending on the availability of the Staples Center and potential conflict with the National Hockey League playoffs. The band are also returning to Hyde Park, site of their famous 1969 free concert days after Brian [...]

Filed under: News , RPM , EDM Ture Lillegraven / GQ Swedish EDM megastar Avicii was recently featured in GQ , receiving a somewhat less-than-flattering profile in the magazine, and now he's posted a response, claiming reporter Jessica Pressler "failed miserably" in her portrayal of him. The 23-year-old "Levels" producer, who began making tracks in his bedroom in 2008, makes disparaging statements about his craft in the feature, allegedly stating "I'm [...]

Filed under: 47 Second Review Blue Horizon Having made their name anachronistically singing songs about the Vietnam War, Austin-via-Altamont band the Black Angels continue to show little inclination to acknowledge music made after 1973 on fourth album Indigo Meadow . Much of the band's wall of noise bombast has been swapped out for shorter organ-led bursts this time around, but amphetamine-edgy reimaginings of the Poppy Family's "Where Evil Grows" persist on "Black Isn't Black" and "Evil [...]

Filed under: News , Exclusive , New Music Mike Coppola, Getty Some folks have been quick to label British musician Kate Nash 's recent leap from bubblegum pop to punk rock as a riot grrrl transformation. And while her latest release Girl Talk may share a message of female empowerment with acts like Bikini Kill and Sleater-Kinney , Nash wouldn't necessarily put that label on her current sound. [...]

Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , New Music , Exclusive Josh Darr Trevor Powers didn't have the faintest idea where he was when he woke up from a nap in the band van when Spinner called him between recent shows. Powers -- who performs under the stage moniker Youth Lagoon -- went from the frigid plains of Montana to Salt Lake City to Colorado then Brooklyn over the course of nine days, [...]

Filed under: Exclusive , RPM , Q + A Instagram Hailing from Los Angeles, Jerome LOL and Groundislava are internet-based producers and longtime friends who make awesome and sad music. Wedidit Collective 's Groundislava, born Jasper Patterson, is known for endorsing vaporizers , a popular marijuana smoking apparatus, and E-cigarettes. Body High co-founder Jerome LOL, aka Jerome Potter, "lives on [...]

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Filed under: News , I Fought the Law Christopher Polk, Getty Prince and Vivendi SA have settled a lawsuit filed by a perfume and cosmetics manufacturer who accused the musician and his then-label (Universal Music Group) of breaching a contract to promote two products. According to Bloomberg, Revelations Perfume and Cosmetics, a company based in Pennsylvania, sued the musician and UMG in New York State Supreme Court in November 2008, seeking [...]

Filed under: News , Politics as Usual Garbage Facebook Garbage interrupted their concert Saturday night in Detroit to allow one man to propose to his boyfriend onstage. As shown on YouTube , singer Shirley Manson stopped the concert Saturday night at Detroit's Majestic Theater and brought out two men named Dominic and Scott to the stage. In the video Manson is showing holding Dominic and thanking him [...]

Filed under: News , Exclusive , RPM , New Music , New Releases , RPM MP3 of the Day Harm Coolen Artist: Weval Hails From: Amsterdam Song: "Out of the Game" Album: Half Age Sounds Like: Radiohead In Their Words: [...]

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Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News Today, Oh Boy! AP, Getty Baldwin Talks to Thom Yorke: Since the end of NBC's "30 Rock," actor par excellence, Alec Baldwin, has found a new gig: Hosting WNYC's "Here's the Thing." The latest episode features Radiohead and Atoms for Peace frontman Thom Yorke. It's pretty amazing that these two physically opposite humans had an hour-long conversation together. [ Stereogum ] [...]

Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Holy Hell , News Today, Oh Boy! , Music Appreciation Getty | AFP There were an unusual number of major music stories announced today ranging from Bruce Springsteen and AC/DC joining forces during an Australian show to Thom Yorke and Ted Nugent working on a musical adaptation of a children's book. With April 1 marking the [...]

Filed under: News AP Photo, Heritage Auctions A signed copy of the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album was auctioned off at $290,500, nearly 10 times the estimated price. According to a WENN report, the album was expected to sell for $110,000 during a pre-sale bidding a week before the Heritage Auction in Dallas, Texas , but ended up being sold for much more on Saturday (March 30). Before [...]