Aretha Franklin Cancels June Dates Due to Health Problems

Aretha Franklin Cancels June Dates Due to Health Problems

Franklin was scheduled to perform in Ottawa, Canada on June 26 and in Montreal on June 29. The cancellations come after she was already forced to pull out of two performances this month to undergo “treatment” for an unspecified medical condition. Franklin is still expected to perform in Clarkston, Mich., but now on July 27 rather than June 22.   read more

Watch Portugal. The Man's New Video for "Atomic Man"

Watch Portugal. The Man's New Video for "Atomic Man"

A third sneak peak of Portugal. The Man’s new album Evil Friends came out today in the form of the creepy (yet mesmerizingly beautiful) video for ‘Atomic Man’.  read more

Arctic Monkeys Premiere New Song "Do I Wanna Know?" Live

Arctic Monkeys Premiere New Song "Do I Wanna Know?" Live

Displaying some rock 'n' roll swagger, here's the latest from Arctic Monkeys.  read more

Watch The National On The Colbert Report

Watch The National On The Colbert Report

Matt Berninger sat down with Stephen Colbert for an interview covering everything from chili-topped spaghetti to the band's questionable hipness (It's harder to be hip when you're "not that far from a hip replacement" remarked Colbert). Afterwards, The National performed two tracks from Trouble Will Find Me, including "Graceless" and the web-exclusive "Sea of Troubles".  read more

Watch Jennifer Aniston, Jason Sudeikis in the We're the Millers Trailer

Watch Jennifer Aniston, Jason Sudeikis in the <i>We're the Millers</i> Trailer

New Line's latest comedic creation is the story of a small-time drug dealer (Sudeikis) who is hired to smuggle a "smidge" of pot across the border from Mexico into the U.S. and creates a made-up family to try and fake out border patrol. He enlists a stripper, Rose, as his wife (Aniston), and a neighbor boy (Will Poulter) and homeless teen (Emma Roberts) as his two children. The movie also stars Ed Helms and Nick Offerman, and is directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber (Dodgeball).   read more

Listen to a New Track From Broken Social Scene

Listen to a New Track From Broken Social Scene

Toronto’s Arts & Crafts are celebrating their tenth anniversary with X, a compilation of collaborations from various artists on the label. The album will feature tracks from Stars, Feist, Ra Ra Riot and “Days Of The Kid” by Broken Social Scene and Years....  read more

Daft Punk Announces Plans For Random Access Memories Remixes

Daft Punk Announces Plans For <i>Random Access Memories</i> Remixes

Bangalter and Guy-Manuel joined BBC1's Peter Tong to discuss some of the process behind the creation of Random Access Memories and naturally, the topic of remixes poked its way into the conversation. The duo expressed their excitement at working with live musicians for their latest album, but will return back to their sample based roots to revamp select tracks from Random Access Memories.   read more

Brandi Carlile Announces Summer Tour Dates

Brandi Carlile Announces Summer Tour Dates

Singer/songwriter Brandi Carlile will hit the road on her "Hard Way Home Summer Convoy" beginning in Hampton Beach, N.H. on June 13.   read more

Watch a Trailer for the Springsteen & I Documentary

Watch a Trailer for the <i>Springsteen & I</i> Documentary

Springsteen & I is an upcoming documentary, inspired by Youtube's Life In A Day project, in which fan submitted photos and videos are compiled to create a comprehensive snapshot of the beautiful connection between individuals and music.  read more

The Roots' Philadelphia Mural to be Unveiled May 31

The Roots' Philadelphia Mural to be Unveiled May 31

The ceremony will take place at 11:30 a.m. at the World Communications Charter School and will feature an appearance from The Roots themselves.   read more

Washed Out Announces New Album Paracosm

Washed Out Announces New Album <i>Paracosm</i>

In anticipation of the forthcoming album release, watch a trailer with stunning kaleidoscopic visuals from Washed Out that seems to promise a similar vast atmospheric experience to Within and Without, but a cleaner and simpler production than that of his first album.   read more

Linklater Hoping to Shoot Dazed and Confused Sequel This Fall

Linklater Hoping to Shoot <i>Dazed and Confused</i> Sequel This Fall

The director hinted at the news in his Reddit AMA.  read more

Paul McCartney Writes to Russian Officials in Support of Pussy Riot

Paul McCartney Writes to Russian Officials in Support of Pussy Riot

Paul McCartney has written a handwritten letter to Russian officials in Berezniki, asking them to consider the repercussions of not allowing Alyokhina and fellow bandmate Nadezhda Tolokonnikova access to their parole meetings.   read more

Watch Julia Stiles in Caveman's Disturbing New "In the City" Video

Watch Julia Stiles in Caveman's Disturbing New "In the City" Video

The four-minute music video stars Julia Stiles and Fran Kranz as a young couple on their first trip to New York City. They begin the stay very much in love, enjoying all of the magic of the bright lights and beautiful scenery, but when a troublesome bellhop gets involved, things start to get a little bloody.   read more

Listen to a Previously Unreleased Cass McCombs Track "Three Men Sitting On A Hollow Log"

Listen to a Previously Unreleased Cass McCombs Track "Three Men Sitting On A Hollow Log"

McCombs released two incredible albums, Wit's End and Humor Risk that were vastly different in tone. It was a massive undertaking that paid off brilliantly, but since 2011 we've only been given sporadic one-offs to quell the wait for another album. That's where "Three Men Sitting On A Hollow Log" comes in.  read more

The Lonely Island Gets Schooled on New Single "Semicolon"

The Lonely Island Gets Schooled on New Single "Semicolon"

For their fourth installment of the #WACKWEDNESDAY series, The Lonely Island has released a new song titled “Semicolon.”  read more

Ricky Gervais' Derek Receives Netflix Release Date

Ricky Gervais' <i>Derek</i> Receives Netflix Release Date

Ricky Gervais directed, wrote, produced and starred in Derek alongside Karl Pilkington and Kerry Godliman. While the series has already ordered a second season for U.K. viewers on Channel 4, the first seven episodes of the show are set to debut on Netflix for U.S. and International viewers on Sept. 12.  read more

Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros Release "Better Days" Single

Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros Release "Better Days" Single

The track is the lead single off the band's upcoming self-titled album, which lead singer Alex Ebert called, “the rawest, most liberated, most rambunctious stuff we’ve done.”  read more

Pussy Riot Member Goes on Hunger Strike in Prison

Pussy Riot Member Goes on Hunger Strike in Prison

Maria Alyokhina, a member of Moscow punk band Pussy Riot, has declared a hunger strike after a judge prohibited her attendance at a court hearing where she was seeking release on parole.  read more

Watch John Fogerty Perform "Mystic Highway" on Letterman

Watch John Fogerty Perform "Mystic Highway" on <i>Letterman</i>

John Fogerty rocked through a country and gospel-inspired performance of "Mystic Highway," the new single off of his upcoming album, Wrote a Song For Everyone, last night on the Late Show with David Letterman.  read more

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