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New Julius Caesar Film In The Works

Warner Bros. has acquired a pitch for an epic retelling of the story of the most famous Roman emperor, Julius Caesar, Deadline reports....  read more

Live From Bonnaroo: Sharon Van Etten

Sharon Van Etten talks about her first Bonnaroo experience, working with Aaron Dessner and how Leonard Cohen inspired one of her newest songs.  read more

Sade: Soldier of Love

Sade Adu battles her heart on band’s sixth album It’s been a decade since R&B mainstay Sade—the band fronted by namesake Sade Adu—dropped its last album, Lovers Rock, and before that the band took eight years off between releases. In pop time, that’s several generations. The lengthy interval hasn’t dampened the group’s appeal; it’s made it seem even more mysterious and alluring. If the band was more prolific, the music might be more mundane, and the spell would be broken....  read more

Matisyahu: Light

Lion from Zion, or lyin' from Zion? Two writers face off...  read more

Jay-Z Reportedly Close To Deal With Sony

It looks like the Roc Boy is heading to Sony. Following his split with Def Jam last week, Jay-Z is apparently on the verge of signing a deal that will bring the highly anticipated Blueprint 3 and future recordings to Sony's Epic Records....  read more

Ben Folds: Ben Folds Presents: University A Cappella!

Ben Folds returns with an entourage—they intonate their voices...  read more

Matisyahu to turn on the Light April 21

It's been a long three years with the absence of enigmatic and genre bending Matisyahu. Since his 2006 Grammy-nominated Youth dropped, the Hasidic-Jew-turned-reggae-star has taken his time crafting Light, his newest album set to be released by Epic on April 21....  read more

Indigo Girls to launch record imprint

After 10 albums with major labels (nine with Epic, one on Hollywood), the Indigo Girls will launch their own imprint, called IG Recordings, through Vanguard Records. The launch of the imprint coincides with the release of their next full-length, Poseidon And The Bitter Bug, on March 24. ...  read more

Ben Folds: Way To Normal

Ben Folds may have named his third solo LP...  read more

Love As Laughter: Holy

Isaac Brock’s high-school pal and first vanity label signing neither modest nor mousyExcept for a few of you, the name Sam Jayne probably has no special meaning. Some may recognize him as ex-leader of Olympia-based indie noiseniks Lync, as one of Modest Mouse frontman Isaac Brock’s oldest friends, or even as the cousin of late Alice in Chains singer Layne Staley. But most are unaware that Jayne is now six full-length albums into his career as frontman for the indescribably psychedelic Love as Laughter—and that’s a shame, one that his quartet’s latest offering, Holy, aims to correct. Jayne’s music is...  read more