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Keith Urban recently laid a big kiss on a Louisiana teacher during an interview prior to his New Orleans Jazz Fest set. The kiss came prior to Urban's rain-shortened set at the annual festival. Billboard reports that the singer performed impromptu versions of "Somebody Like You" and "Raise 'Em Up" before the Q&A portion of the show.
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Jason Michael Carroll has released the lyric video for "God Only Knows," the second track from his upcoming album. In a statement, Carroll said that he had another song in mind when he wrote it. "Do you remember the song, Bonnie Tyler's "Holding Out for a Hero"? One of the reasons I love it is because, when I was a kid . . ."
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Kanye West has announced via Twitter that he's changed the name of his upcoming album to Swish. He made the announcement on Sunday, May 3. "I'm changing my album name to SWISH," he wrote, later adding, "I might change it again but that's the name now." The Verge speculated that West may be just goofing on his fans and critics alike.
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Joni Mitchell will exit the hospital soon, according to several reports. The folk legend was said to be found unconscious in late March, but has been steadily improving since. Mitchell's website later denied that she was ever found unconscious, and offered an update on her health. "Joni is still in the hospital - but she comprehends, she's alert, and she has her full senses."
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The Foo Fighters have signed on for a headlining set at this year's upcoming Austin City Limits Festival. This year's event will bring over 140 acts to Austin, Texas' Zilker Park and is set to kick off over two weekends - October 2-4 and October 9-11. This year the Foos join an impressive lineup of fellow artists set to take the stage including Strokes.
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs singer Karen O has paid tribute to journalist Nellie Bly with a new song. The song was released to mark what would have been Bly's 151th birthday. The new song "Oh, Nellie" was penned by O especially for the Google Doodle.
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Eric Church says that there will be more acoustic shows coming up on his current tour and that he is looking forward to them. "We're opening [the new Ascend] Amphitheatre in Nashville [on July 30], and I'm going to do that by myself, solo acoustic," Church tells Rolling Stone Country. "So I'm going to start doing a little bit of that here and there when the situation calls for it."
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KISS have teamed up with the Scooby Doo crew for a new animated movie called Scooby-Doo! and Kiss: Rock and Roll Mystery. The cover art, just released, features the band in its traditional paint and garb, while Shaggy and Scooby play guitar and wear KISS-themed face paint. The film will be available on Blu-ray, DVD and digital HD on July 10 and will feature KISS members.
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The new director and stars to feature in the new Kinks biopic, You Really Got Me, have finally been announced. Julien Temple, most well known for directing the Sex Pistols mockumentary The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle, will helm the upcoming film. Johnny Flynn has been chosen to play Ray Davies.
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Courtney Love has released "Miss Narcissist," a cut set to be released as a seven-inch along with "Radio Killer." A digital version, however, is available now via SoundCloud. "Miss Narcissist, come on / Magnificent and obvious / Bless us with your presence / And your paranoia," Love sings on the blistering new track.
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Lynyrd Skynyrd have announced plans for the release of a guest-packed concert project, One More for the Fans, which was recorded last November at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta.
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Gloriana have revealed the official track list for their upcoming album Three, which will be released on June 2. Three features 12 songs, all produced by Grammy-winning producer Matt Serletic (Collective Soul, Matchbox Twenty, Cher).
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Trey Songz has released a new remix of Future's "Real Sisters," produced by Zaytoven. The track appears on Future's new mixtape Beast Mode. On the new cut, Songz raps about a variety of racy themes, including lovemaking with two women, girl-on-girl action and strippers.
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Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo teamed up earlier this month for a special cover tribute to Johnny Cash. The pair, who are married and have two daughters together, took the stage together at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium for the show to sing a mash-up of their signature hit "Heartbreaker" with Cash's classic "Ring of Fire."
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Sorry Queen fans, guitarist Brian May says that the band are not working on a new album because singer Adam Lambert "doesn't want to be with us all the time." "[A new album] is not coming along, no we're not doing that," May told Gigwise. "Not at the moment anyway, we might do. At the moment we're watching with interest while Adam pursues his solo career . . ."
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The costumes that Taylor Swift wears in the music video for "Bad Blood" came from a sex shop in L.A. According to the New York Post, Swift was loaned $13,000 worth of clothes from The Stockroom to fill out the wardrobe for the video. The items include the flesh colored latex dress worn by Swift, as well as the black latex blouse worn by Selena Gomez.
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Paul McCartney was joined by Foo Fighters fronter Dave Grohl for a rendition of "I Saw Her Standing There," during a gig at London's O2 Arena over the weekend. The cut came at the end of Macca's first encore and featured Grohl playing rhythm guitar and sharing a mic with the Beatles legend.
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Tamar Braxton has released her new single "If I Don't Have You," taken off of her upcoming fourth studio album Calling All Lovers. The soulful ballad was produced by Da Internz. Braxton's new album Calling All Lovers, the follow-up to 2013's Love and War, is due out July 31. Following the release of Calling All Lovers, Braxton will embark on a new tour.
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Jason Derulo and Jennifer Lopez has released their new collaborative track, "Try Me." "So try me in the morning," sings Derulo on the summer made track. "When the sun comes rising up." "Try me," responds Lopez, "in the afternoon, in the afternoon when you can't just get enough." Derulo clinches the conversation, singing, "Try me in the evening, satisfaction guaranteed."
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Chris Young says that his upcoming new record is a bit different from ones he has recorded in the past. He also says that there are some things on the album he has never done before. "There's a male/female duet on here, which is something I've never done before, with Cassadee Pope, that I think everybody is gonna be really excited about," Young shares.
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DJ Ashba was reportedly involved in a fight over Memorial Day weekend caused by his smoking an e-cigarette. TMZ has video of the incident, which purports to show Ashba getting into it with a fellow audience member during Romeo Santos' May 24 performance at the Axis at Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino.
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Kendrick Lamar stopped by The Ellen DeGeneres Show for a performance of "These Walls," the latest single from his second album, To Pimp A Butterfly. During the interview portion of the show King Kendrick talked about his recent collab with Taylor Swift on the remix to her song "Bad Blood." "I've always been a fan of hers and she was a fan of my music," he said.
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Laura Bell Bundy has released the music video for "I Am What I Am," a clip filmed in Switzerland and inspired by the classic film The Sound of Music. "There is not another place in nature I feel more connected to my higher source than in the mountains," Bundy said in a statement. Bundy's latest album, Another Piece of Me, is due June 9 via Big Machine Records.
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Jane's Addiction have signed on to headline this year's upcoming Fun Fun Fun fest. The event is scheduled to take place in Austin, Texas between November 6 and 8 at the Auditorium Shores venue. The lineup will also include headlining sets from D'Angelo and the Vanguard, Gogol Bordello and the Wu-Tang Clan.
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An online petition started by Nicki Minaj fans protesting Iggy Azalea's Billboard Music Awards win for Top Rap Song have gained 20,000 signatures. The group of fans, who launched the petition via Change.org, argue that Azalea's "Fancy" was released on February 17, nearly a month before the eligibility date of March 14, 2014.
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Miranda Lambert has been confirmed as the headliner of the first ever NiFi Festival at Kentucky Speedway in Sparta, Kentucky. The fest, featuring three stages and plenty of country's top acts, goes down from August 28-30. Other artists scheduled include Hank Williams Jr., Brantley Gilbert, Jake Owen, Trace Adkins, Joe Nichols and Sara Evans.
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Paramore rocker Hayley Williams has stood her ground in defense of her position as an outspoken feminist. She posted a statement to her official Tumblr page as a response to some critics that find Paramore's biggest hit "Misery Business" lacking in feminist ideals.
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Drake is reportedly in talks with Apple for a $19 million deal with Apple that would make the MC a guest DJ on iTunes Radio amongst other things. News of the potential deal comes via the New York Post, which says that he could be just one of several big name acts set join Apple for their new Apple Music subscription service.
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Gene Simmons has revealed that he fell in love with Diana Ross while still in a relationship with Cher in the 1980s. He said that he broke Cher's heart when he fell in love with her best friend after she suggested he met up with the singer to get tips on choosing her Christmas present.
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Erykah Badu has hilariously laughed off rumors that she is currently pregnant. Rumors of Badu's possible pregnancy began this week with a number of different websites posting pictures of Badu wearing a crop top at a live show and pointing to what appeared to be a larger stomach. "No, just fat," the singer humorously wrote on Twitter in response to the rumors.
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Mariah Carey has released a new music video for "Infinity," taken off of her greatest hits album #1 to Infinity. In the Brett Ratner-directed clip, which was shot at her show at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Mariah looks for love via the Match.com dating app on her phone, a dating site she joined to help launch the new single and video.
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Lady Antebellum, Sam Hunt and Hunter Hayes teamed up for a cover of Aerosmith's "Walk This Way" in order to officially kick off the Wheels Up Tour. For the new version, Hayes takes on lead guitar while Hunt joins Lady A on lead vocals. Hunt even censored some of Steven Tyler's risqu
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David Bowie may be planning to hit the studio for a new album soon, according to Hannibal showrunner Bryan Fuller. The television exec let the news slip during a recent interview with the blog Den of Geek after he was asked if Bowie would ever make an appearance on his show.
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Just in case there was anything you ever wanted to know about Mariah Carey, Buzzfeed has you covered as the singer recently shared 40 Things You Need To Know About Her. "I've been blessed and had so many moments," she said of her favorite moment of her career. "It definitely has to do with the Lambilys."
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Weezer and Alice In Chains are among a slate of new musicians whose songs will be included in the upcoming new video game Guitar Hero Live. Weezer's "Buddy Holly" and AIC's "Stone" are two of the latest songs to be added to the game. The game is set to be released this fall.
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A Gibson acoustic guitar once owned by John Lennon, and thought to be lost, will be auctioned in Beverly Hills in November. The Gibson J-160-E was used by Lennon on many early Beatles recordings. Darren Julien, owner of Julien's Auctions, called the guitar "one of biggest finds in music history," remarking that its sale could top the record of $965,000.
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David Gilmour says that his upcoming album will be called Rattle That Lock. The Pink Floyd guitarist dished during a discussion in which he and his wife and collaborator Polly Sampson participated at the 2015 Borris House Festival of Writing and Ideas in Ireland. According to Sampson, the theme of the album is "'Carpe Diem' . . . seize every moment . . ."
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Drake took the stage at the launch event for Apple's new streaming service, Apple Music, at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco on Monday. Drizzy told the audience that the launch coincides nicely with the launch of his upcoming album. "As I'm working tirelessly on this next album, this comes at the perfect time for me," said Drake.
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The Rolling Stones are set to reissue 12x5, Let It Bleed and Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out as part of a limited art collection. The packages include a clear-vinyl edition of the LP and a one-of-a-kind framed lithograph of the LP's cover. "When the print run is made, that's it," said Denny Somach, litho producer. "No more are made."
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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.
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