Former Rage Against The Machine frontman Tom Morello has started his own record label, Firebrand Records. "The label gives you one-stop shopping for all your rebel-music needs," Morello told Rolling Stone. "It's the kind of label that I wish had existed my entire artistic life." Morello has released a digital sampler with a variety of different styles of music. More...
Peter Frampton has announced a new LP, which will include acoustic renditions of some of his favorite songs from earlier releases. "It's much more interesting than I thought it was going to be," Frampton tells Billboard. "I thought, 'Well, I'll just go into the studio and I'll whip off 10 or 11 of my songs just the way I wrote them.'" More...
Montgomery Gentry have been credited as pioneers of the current trend of slick male front men in country known as "bro country" and have opened up on the trend with Rolling Stone Country. In the interview the pair say they're totally fine if people want to say they started the trend. More...
Florence + the Machine have scored their first number one record after moving 137,000 units of How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful in its debut week. The LP bumped A$AP Rocky out of the one spot on the Billboard 200. "What Kind of Man," the lead single, peaked at number eight on the Alternative Songs chart, and number seven on Hot Rock Songs. More...
Killers singer Brandon Flowers has teamed up with Avicii for a new rendition of the track "The Days" from the Swedish DJ's 2014 LP. Flowers wrote the tune and the vocals were initially cut on the track by British pop star Robbie Williams. The release may come as no surprise to Killers fans. More...