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  • Mikal Cronin Announces Tour, with Opening Dates for Death Cab for Cutie

    Mikal Cronin has released his touring schedule for this Spring/Summer/Fall and he'll be spreading his time between headlining gigs, festival stops, and opening sets for performers including Death Cab For Cutie, Father John Misty and the Cairo Gang. The guitar-centric alt rocker will stay in Europe until early June before returning home to play festivals such as FYF Fest and Bumbershoot over the summer. His new album, 'MCIII,' was released last week.

  • New Docudrama 'Soaked In Bleach' Implies Kurt Cobain Murdered [TRAILER]

    Montage of Heck has been drawing rave reviews from fans and critics for its look into the introverted private life of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain...and now there's a new biopic forthcoming that suggests his 1994 suicide death was actually a murder. Soaked in Bleach will star Tyler Bryan as the vocalist, and Sarah Scott as wife Courtney Love.

  • Sharon Robinson Discusses Solo Album 'Caffeine,' Leonard Cohen, and Starbucks Coffee [EXCLUSIVE CONTEST]

    Sharon Robinson has been in the music industry for a long time, songwriting for and performing with Leonard Cohen primarily, as well as Diana Ross, Patti LaBelle, Don Henley, Michael Bolton and others. It's only in the last decade that she's gotten around to building a solo portfolio however, which she adds to with 'Caffeine,' her 2015 release. She joined Music Times to discuss the big issues—ranging from unleashing yourself as a solo performer, to the positives and negatives of Starbucks coffee.

  • Beijing Music Festivals Moved, Cancelled as Government Cracks Down

    Beijing, one of China's largest urban areas, has seen its host of music festivals across a number of genres drop as the authorities are making it almost impossible for large groups of people to gather for any reason. The cause for the cancellations isn't the usual paranoia from the government, but rather fear that potential disasters at such events could result in a black eye for the Central Government, which is located out of the city. Analysts have traced the crackdown to the New Year's event where 36 Shanghai citizens were killed in a stampede. President Xi Jinping ordered an investigation into culpability for the tragedy, and now no government official wants bad news coming to his desk.

  • Grammy Ceremony to Be Broadcast on Monday Night for First Time in 2016

    Things will be somewhat different for the Grammy Awards as the 58th annual showing of music's biggest night will take place on a Monday instead of the traditional Sunday evening, according to an announcement from CBS. This marks the first time in the show's history that the final ceremony will take place on a Monday.

  • Did Guns N' Roses Steal 'Sweet Child O' Mine' from Australian Crawl?

    Suggestions of plagiarism have skyrocketed in the lawsuit era, as Marvin Gaye's estate successfully sued Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams, and Sam Smith has willingly given Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne a cut of the songwriting credit for "Stay With Me" when the song was compared to their "I Won't Back Down." Now an Australian band is going way back in pointing out the similarities between one of its songs and the Guns N' Roses classic "Sweet Child O' Mine."

  • Renée Zellweger's Musician Beaus: Kenny Chesney, Jack White and More

    Taylor Swift has become well-known/notorious for her slew of big-name boyfriends, but one other celebrity has had her fair share of famous beaus: actress Reneé Zellweger. She's dated at least five prominent musicians, from Kenny Chesney to Jack White, and even married one. Check out the list of her famous musical beaus.

  • U2, Michael Buble, Jessie J and Other Celebrity Musicians Playing on Subways

    U2 cancelled its previously planned residency on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon after frontman Bono suffered a debilitating bicycle accident last year, however the band came back in a big way for several sketches on an episode last week. One featured the band, in disguise, playing its classic "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" in a subway station at Grand Central Station, one of the busiest transport hubs in New York City. Passerby didn't pay much heed until the band shed its costumes (which weren't very good to begin with) and played "Desire." U2 took part in a long musical tradition known as busking, or playing in a public space, generally for cash tips from those standing by (U2 didn't ask for money of course). They weren't the first major musical act to play in the subway...here are five other acts, from Avril Lavigne to Michael Buble who took to the underground.

  • Spotify Posts Biggest Revenues, Biggest Losses Ever During 2014

    Spotify continued to lose money during 2014, although financial analysts still suggest that this isn't necessarily a bad thing...yet. The Swedish streaming company had its highest revenues ever during the last financial year, yet it posted overall losses of more than $185 million. So what's the story?

  • Magic!, Kiesza and Death From Above 1979 Win at Canadian Radio Music Awards

    Magic! and its hit "Rude" has fallen far from the American Billboard Hot 100 at this point but at least one nation, Canada, hasn't forgotten the group. The reggae-influenced pop group took home three awards at the Canadian Radio Music Awards on Friday. The band won for Best New Group or Artist Adult Contemporary and Fans Choice, as well as SOCAN (Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada) Song of The Year for its single, which went to no. 1 up north (as well as in the United States).

  • Concert Cellphone Data: The New Way to Scout New Boyfriends/Girlfriends?

    Everyone knows that concertgoers spend an awful amount of time scanning their phones at live music events. Your correspondent might be a tad snobbish, but he would consider the total amount of time as "obnoxious." Ticketfly recently teamed up with Harris Poll to figure out just how long we're spending looking at our phone versus at the stage, and then what we're using that phone time for.

  • Bow Wow Quits Cash Money, Heads to Snoop Dogg and Jermaine Dupri

    Yet another rapper is leaving Cash Money Records, as Bow Wow declared this week that he'll be heading back to work with Snoop Dogg and Jermaine Dupri instead of Bryan "Birdman" Williams. The performer, formerly known as Lil Bow Wow, says that everything is cool between himself and the label's boss...but is it?

  • Ed Sheeran Unveils Family Videos in 'Photograph' Video [WATCH]

    Ed Sheeran did more than just provide snapshots of his life for the "Photograph" music video...he went ahead and added full video clips. Although most will find the footage of the English pop star to be adorable, some might complain that the media form contradicts the name of the song. If you realize that video is just a quickly-running stream of photographs, it works out. We swear.

  • 'Trouble in Paradise': Bruce Springsteen, Loretta Lynch Tackle Theme

    Tony Bennett went to no. 1 on the UK charts on this date 60 years ago with his performance of "Stranger in Paradise," an adaptation from the musical Kismet. The vocalist had recorded it more than two years earlier and and it took more than two years of climbing before it got to the top. Although "Stranger In Paradise" may have been one of the most successful songs about things in paradise, more performers have opted for the theme of "Trouble In Paradise," possible referencing the 1932 film classic by the same name. Check out five instances where musical performers—from Loretta Lynn to Bruce Springsteen and Huey Lewis—released songs titled "Trouble In Paradise," with none of them borrowing lyrics.

  • 'Bailando' and More: 7 Biggest Hits for Enrique Iglesias' 40th Birthday

    Happy Birthday to Enrique Iglesias, a pop star who has entered the Hot 100 Top 10 numerous times—as well as topping the US Latin charts 24 times—with hit singles such as "Hero," "Bailamos" and "I Like It." Music Times is celebrating four decade of the younger Iglesias by counting down his most successful singles on the Hot 100.

  • Two Steps From Hell Bring Action Film Business to Billboard 200 with 'Battlecry'

    Society always celebrates the records that top the Billboard 200 album chart. Back of The Billboards is a Music Times weekly segment that looks at the opposite end: the new record that finished closest to the back of the Billboard 200 for the previous week. We hope to give a fighting chance to the bands you haven't heard of. This week we look at soundtrack pros Two Steps From Hell and their newest collection of action-adventure music, 'Battlecry.'

  • Hip-Hop Rules Spotify, Thanks to Drake, Kendrick, and Wiz Khalifa

    If you were streaming music during 2014, there's a decent chance you were listening to hip-hop, as a Buzzfeed report indicates that the genre was the most popular on the audio service last year. Reports indicate that more than 29 percent of music streamed via Spotify came from a rapper, thanks to Drake, Kendrick Lamar, J. Cole and more.

  • Will Britney Spears Premiere 'Pretty Girls' Live Upon Vegas Return Tonight?

    Britney Spears announced last week that she'd have to cancel several of her Las Vegas residency shows as the result of an ankle injury suffered while performing, but it looks like that decision was premature: The pop star revealed that she'll be back at the Planet Hollywood Resort tonight, Friday May 8.

  • Mystery Woman in Pulp's 'Common People' Married to Greek Finance Minister?

    Pulp's alt-classic "Common People" has always left people wondering if frontman Jarvis Cocker was inspired by true events when he wrote the tale of a girl who came from money that asked him to teach her about life outside the bourgeois. A Greek newspaper says that the answer is yes, and that the woman is Danae Stratou, the wife of Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis.

  • Ciara, Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes and Jessica Simpson: Musicians Dating The NFL

    The recently revealed relationship between "Goodies" vocalist Ciara and Seattle Seahawks QB Russell Wilson has been the hottest item on the celebrity relationship radar this week. It got us tabloid-consuming news-hounds at Music Times wondering what other music stars have dated NFL players in the past, and no, we're not counting Kim Kardashian-Miles Austin. That said, other big names including Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes and Jessica Simpson have courted professional football talent.

  • Justin Timberlake, Ludacris, Jimmy Buffett: Best Musician's Restaurants

    Arcade Fire's first couple Win Butler and Régine Chassagne announced this week that they would become the next musical act to enter the dining business with Agrikol, a Haitian restaurant in the band's hometown of Montreal. The space will also offer Haitian music and visual arts as part of the experience. The couple obviously has a culinary interest in the Caribbean nation, as Butler's special blend from La Colombe Coffee also featured beans from the country. Let's hope that their business doesn't bite the dust like Britney Spears and Flava Flav's attempts, and instead is a success, much like these restaurants run by Justin Timberlake, Jimmy Buffett and more.

  • San Francisco Protects Music Venues from Noise Complaints with New Law

    Music venues is crowded parts of San Francisco can breathe a sigh of relief after the city enacted new legislation to help protect venues from lawsuits regarding noise complaints. Concert spaces such as Dogpatch, Upper Market and The Mission have been hit with lawsuits tied to noise levels in recent years, and not entirely at any fault of their own.

  • Nina Simone's Catalogue A Catch-22 for Sony Music, Estate, Lawyers

    Nina Simone's legacy will be coming to the silver screen soon enough in the form of a new documentary, but who truly controls her musical heritage has been the subject of lawsuits for decades, and the legal battles between Sony Entertainment, the vocalist's estate, not to mention several previous managers/lawyers have only gotten more confusing.
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