• Electric Zoo 2013 Death; Drug Dealer Enters Guilty Plea

    Electric Zoo its return in 2015 after two very tumultuous years that saw the festival get cut short twice. Now it appears the tragedy of 2013 has just about received some closure. The man who sold the bad batch of molly to one festival attendee, Jeffrey Russ, which resulted in his death, has plead guilty on one count of conspiring to distribute narcotics.

  • R. Kelly Shares New Track "Back Up" Featuring Shawnna [LISTEN]

    R&B legend R. Kelly has shared a cool new track titled "Back Up," featuring a guest verse from fellow Chicago native Shawnna, which you can check out here. Other than the chorus hook, the song sees Kelly taking a break from singing to try his hand at rapping, and he's not bad, but the real draw of this track is the weird production, which lays a sinister, moaning beat underneath the verses.

  • Hardwell Releases 'United We Are' Tracklist; Collaborations With Tiësto, W&W, Mr. Probz & Jason Derulo Included

    Hardwell's has revealed the tracklist for his highly anticipated debut album, "United We Are." The two-time voted number one DJ in the world, according to DJ Mag readers, has been discussing this album for the better part of two years and he recently announced that it would arrive in stores on January 20th. Details about potential collaborations and tracks to be featured on the album have leaked out slowly, but no definitive tracklist has been released until now. At first glance, the album will have 14 tracks and will have featured artists like Jason Derulo, Tiësto, Mr. Probz and W&W.

  • T-Pain Shares Behind-The-Scenes Footage In New 'Keep On' Music Video [WATCH]

    T-Pain continues to build up the anticipation for his upcoming album "Stoicville" by sharing the music video for a new track titled "Keep On," which you can check out below. The Sam King-directed clip features a ton of live performance footage along with some behind-the-scenes material, including the fateful day when T-Pain cut off his iconic dreads in favor of his current, close-cut look. Though the sprawling track doesn't do away entirely with T-Pain's signature Auto-Tune, his use of the effect in this song is much smoother than on his past hits, allowing his natural voice to shine through.

  • Electric Zoo 2015 Dates Announced; Festival to be "Transformed"

    Electric Zoo, despite all of its mishaps and bad fortune, keeps on getting up after all of the haymakers the world throws at it. One has to admire the resiliency that the festival has shown. Even after two years of last minute cancellations, the festival is set to come back in 2015 for its 7th year. Today, it announced the dates for the upcoming festival, taking place as it normally does, over Labor Day weekend, from Sept. 4 to Sept. 6.

  • BPM Festival 2015 Phase Two Lineup, Showcases, Venues Announced; Âme, John Wink, Oliver $ & More Added

    BPM Festival's huge lineup just got even bigger. The Mexican 10-day festival getaway for underground dance music fans, has announced the second phase of the lineup that will be flying in this upcoming January, as well as the venues and showcases that will be hosting the parties from sun up to sun up each day. Situated on the blinding white beaches of Playa Del Carmen in Mexico, BPM Festival will occur over ten days from Jan. 9 to 18 next year. It has added well over a hundred names to the already stacked lineup, including Doorly, Amtrac, Âme, Danny Tenaglia, Harry Romero, Josh Wink, Marco Bailey, Mark Farina, Martin Buttrich, Oliver $, Noir, Nicolar Matar, Route 94, Steve Bug and so many more.

  • Johnny Depp and Aerosmith's Joe Perry Team Up for Chuck Berry's 'Run Run Rudolph' [WATCH]

    Joe Perry released a four-song EP of holiday tunes last week that feature guitar work by actor Johnny Depp, who's been known to jam with the pros from time to time. The Aerosmith guitarist dropped a video today (December 11) for his rendition of Chuck Berry's amped-up classic "Run Run Rudolph." Perry's axe work is awesome, as usually, but where's Steven Tyler when you need him?

  • Diplo Remixes Ty Dolla $ign's "Stand For" With Members of Grizzly Bear, Vampire Weekend [LISTEN]

    Last month, Los Angeles rapper Ty Dolla $ign shared his Diplo-produced track, "Stand For," and today Diplo has shared a radical remix of the song featuring two of Brooklyn indie rock's biggest stars: Ed Droste of Grizzly Bear and Rostam Batmanglij of Vampire Weekend. The track has been re-titled "Long Way Home" and replaces Ty's verses with Droste's gorgeous vocals, as well as some other embellishments from Batmanglij. "[I]t's about time that indie rock acts started to co-opt rap beats!," Diplo said in the song's original Soundcloud description.

  • "Lena Dunham" Rap Trio Hand Job Academy Dish On The Story Behind The Song, Their Name And More

    Last month we shared a video (filmed by Taylor Swift) of Lena Dunham dancing along to a song named after her by the all-girl Brooklyn rap trio Hand Job Academy. Although the song isn't actually about the GIRLS creator, it references her in the hook and on the line "finna let it all hang out, Lena Dunham." The video for the song also features a parody the text from Dunham's book cover for her biography Not That Kind Of Girl, switching out "a young women tell you want she's 'learned'" for "a bad b*tch tells you what she's 'learned." Music Times caught up with the women behind the Dunham-approved track, Clara Bizna$$, Uncle Meg, and Ash Wednesday. Here's what they had to say:

  • Marilyn Manson Explains Involvement in Lana Del Rey Rape Video

    Last month, a mysterious video by horror director Eli Roth titled "Sturmgruppe 2013 Reel" surfaced online and featured scenes of Lana Del Rey being raped intercut with images of Marilyn Manson. Though Manson's representatives immediately denied that the shock-rock singer had anything to do with the video, Manson himself has now come forward and explained how the disturbing video came to fruition."It was not meant to be a Marilyn Manson video," Manson told "NME." "The editor of the company that put it out was somebody who's edited my videos. That video was something that was done with a camera that Eli, who's my friend, and I both wanted to test out, so I let him test it out."[W]hat they filmed was put in context seemingly as if it were a Marilyn Manson video," he continued, "and that was in no way the intention."Although the video that leaked online was not meant to be a Marilyn Manson video, Manson did want to make a music video with Roth and Del Rey, though it proved too difficult to organize."Eli and I wanted to do a music video with her," Manson explained, "but she was being such a problem, for me personally, although I still respect her, I'm friends with her. I just left, I was tired, I was not willing to make that part of the video. Eli and I originally had intentions of making a video with her, but that is not the intention that is represented in that film clip because that is not what I filmed, not for my video."
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