• Eight Totally Bizarre Guitar Solos: Led Zeppelin, Neil Young, and more

    The most renowned guitar solos in rock history are soaring and highly melodic, like David Gilmour’s ethereal passages in “Comfortably Numb,” or the epic guitar duel between Don Felder and Joe Walsh at the end of “Hotel California”. These eight solos listed here are way too strange to ever get such recognition, but they’re definitely worth checking out anyway.

  • Seven Albums Hated by the People Who Made Them: R.E.M., the Beatles, and more

    Musicians have a very unusual relationship with the songs they write. Just like an actor doesn't sit around watching his or her own movies all day (hopefully), a musician doesn't listen to their own albums very often, for various reasons. They could simply be tired of hearing the songs, or maybe they're self-conscious, but sometimes an artist genuinely dislikes their own work. Here are seven albums aren't very well liked by the people who made them.

  • Next week is National Karaoke Week: What are Americans' favorite singalong tracks? [LIST]

    Everything has its own day nowadays, but some things, such as karaoke, get a whole freakin' week. The third week of April is apparently National Karaoke Week. The event, supposedly not invented by Smule, was celebrated by Smule, which used data from its Sing! Karaoke app to determine the most popular karaoke tracks in existence. The app's more than 150 million users generated this Top 10:

  • Snoop Dogg lends voice to 'Call Of Duty: Ghost' [WATCH]

    Snoop Dogg is no stranger to the world of voice acting, especially when it comes to video games. The rapper has lent his voice to games including Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Madden NFL 12, Need For Speed: Underground 2, and Grand Turismo 3: A-Spec. Now he can add Call of Duty: Ghosts to that list.

  • Raekwon claims RZA has 'compromised' Wu-Tang Clan with 'mediocre' music

    RZA and Raekwon have been publicly feuding over the direction of Wu-Tang Clan's 20th anniversary album, A Better Tomorrow, ever since it was announced. Now, it appears that the feud is in full force as Raekwon told Rolling Stone that Wu-Tang has been "compromised" by RZA's creative direction, which he calls "mediocre" and out of touch.

  • First Detroit Electronic Music Festival cancelled, already rescheduled for 2015

    A pair of electronic music events have been cancelled in Detroit, although it doesn't seem like too much work was put into getting them off the ground at all. The Detroit Electronic Music Festival and the Federation of Electronic Music Technology, two festivals planned for July 4th weekend in coordination with each other was called off via an alert on the events' mutual website.

  • Sky Ferreria addresses 'I Blame Myself' music video controversy amongst racism claims

    Yesterday (April 16), indie pop singer Sky Ferreira released her latest music video/advertisement hybrid for the track "I Blame Myself." Of course, the music video -- which largely features a tough Ferreira commanding the streets with an all male, all African-American gang in tow before getting arrested -- has not been without controversy.

  • South Korean shipwreck brings music, film and sporting events to a halt

    South Korea deserves credit for the value that it allots to human life. It's tough for a nation to bounce back from any tragedy as devastating as the sinking of the Sewol, a cruise ship, off the coast of the country. The boat carried 485 passengers, including 325 high school students. The country may be hindering its peoples' ability to cope with the pressure put on citizens to remain glum.
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