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Madonna's newly announced world tour will take her to one hallowed venue New York's Yankee Stadium The pop star who just performed at the Super Bowl will perform at the New York sporting landmark on September 6th The show will mark the fifth stop on the North American leg of her...

The backwoods Minnesota recording studio where Nirvana holed up to record their last album In Utero is being refurbished for a reopening after lying dormant for a year the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports John Kuker who established Seed Underbelly Studios in Minneapolis and opened branches in New York and Los Angeles...

Macy Gray is set to release Covered March 27 and the singer says this project is a long time coming "After my first record I wanted to do a covers album but I guess covers albums have kind of a stigma they’re not known to do very well and they’re designed...

The pop duo Karmin broke big last year with a string of clever immensely sassy covers of hits by acts such as Lil Wayne Nicki Minaj Foster the People Katy Perry Chris Brown Lady Antebellum and LMFAO Their videos became viral smashes on YouTube which led to several television appearances...

Metallica will bring the noise to Atlantic City this summer with the Orion Music + More Festival a weekend of music comedy and culture Set for June 23rd and 24th in the seaside New Jersey town the event will feature headlining sets from the band each evening during which they...

In this week's slate of Rolling Stone reviews Jody Rosen pans Madonna's "dashed off" new single "Give Me All Your Luvin'" on which the pop icon comes off like "a stressed-out party host" desperate to show her guests MIA and Nicki Minaj a good time Also Will Hermes says that...

This week's events at Carnegie Hall include concerts by The Carmina Burana Choral Project the string-pulling children of the Great Neck Music Conservatory Mario Prisuelos on piano and – somehow unbelievably – two performances by Jay-Z marking the first time a rapper has headlined the hallowed space Just as groundbreaking...

Call it Glee for grown-ups NBC’s new scripted series Smash peeks behind the Broadway curtain to reveal what it takes (hypothetically) to launch a musical based on the legendary Marilyn Monroe’s life The Peacock Network certainly Smash-ed us over the head with an unrelenting advertising campaign It seemed like everywhere I...

What is your favorite reality singing competition? It's entirely possible you wouldn't know off the top of your head anymore Is it that old war horse American Idol the brand new and soon-to-be-drastically-retooled X Factor or perhaps it's (God help you) The Singing Bee? Then again maybe it's The Voice...

Lana Del Rey will be putting off touring for the foreseeable future presumably to sharpen up her performance skills in the wake of harsh criticism for her appearance on Saturday Night Live According to the New York Post the singer was set to announce a 30-date theater tour in support...

Click to listen to Bonnie Raitt's 'Right Down The Line' On April 10th Bonnie Raitt will release her first album in seven years and it's the first on her newly minted label Redwing Records  The first single off the bluesy Slipstream is her reggae-inspired take on Gerry Rafferty's "Right Down The...

Click to listen to The White Rabbits' 'Temporary' "Temporary" the first single from White Rabbits' third album Milk Famous finds the Brooklyn band fusing a variety of intriguing textures to a tight ever-shifting groove that emphasizes a thick post-punk bass line The new album won't be in stores until March 6th...

This year's Academy Awards ceremony will skip performances of the songs nominated for Best Original Song a tradition of the annual telecast Deadline Hollywood reports that both Fox and Disney the studios behind the two nominated songs from Rio and The Muppets have formally protested the decision to drop musical...

Lady Gaga has revealed the stage plan for her forthcoming Born This Way Ball tour which is schedule to launch later this year and run through 2013 In a tweet posted at midnight last night the singer showed off a black and white drawing of the stage which includes a...

MIA will be forced to pay any fines imposed on NBC if the FCC decides to punish the network for airing footage of her flipping off the camera at Madonna's Super Bowl halftime performance According to TMZ's sources the rapper signed a contract with the NFL in which she agreed...

Madonna has announced a world tour in support of her new album MDNA The pop icon will kick off the tour with a concert in Tel Aviv Israel on May 29th and from there will move on Abu Dhabi and Istanbul before making her way through Europe She will eventually...

The Shins Following the release of the first single "Simple Song" from their upcoming studio album Port of Morrow (out March 20th) the Shins have announced a leg of US tour dates beginning on April 13th in Las Vegas This is a big move for the Shins finally making the...

Randy Travis was arrested early this morning in Sanger Texas after police found him in his truck apparently intoxicated in front of a Baptist church "An officer detected an odor of alcoholic beverage coming from the person and he noticed an open bottle of wine in the passenger side of...

Can Adele pull off a clean sweep? Will Kanye West win solo or with big bro Jay-Z? Our all-star panel – and a Las Vegas oddsmaker – break it down Panel of Experts Adam Lambert Common Mark Hoppus of Blink-182 producer-DJ Avicii and Kelly Clarkson Album of the Year 21Adele Wasting Light...

Former Cake drummer Peter McNeal has been hit with child molestation charges by Los Angeles police McNeal was busted in LA last month and released on $250000 bail On Friday the drummer appeared in court to hear a single felony count against him for oral copulation and sexual penetration of...