To get into the right mindset to record his forthcoming solo album Call the Comet, Johnny Marr and his band spent nine months holed up in a dark studio above an old factory in his hometown of Manchester, England. “We brought a bunch of old projectors and lights and gadgets …

In June 2012, Nora Vasconcellos quit her day job, packed her bags, grabbed her skateboard and took a 71-hour train ride from Pembroke, Massachusetts to California. It was a leap of faith, setting aside fears and facing her anxiety to pursue a life in skateboarding. In less than five years, …

A companion album to HBO’s upcoming documentaryElvis Presley: The Searcherfeatures his hits, as well as some different versions of his best-known songs. One of the more notable rarities is an alternate take of “Suspicious Minds” – the 18th and final Number One single of theKing’s career. Where the single version …

Scream, the beloved Washington D.C. hardcore band that once featured a young Dave Grohl, will reissue their fourth album, No More Censorship, April 27th via Southern Lord. Retitled NMC17 (No More Censorship), the 12-track reissue is available to pre-order digitally, on CD and silver vinyl. The physical versions boast new …

On Tuesday night’s episode of The Voice, contestants Dallas Caroline and Spensha Baker went head to head in the Battle Rounds, performing Maren Morris’ chart-topping Hero cut “I Could Use a Love Song.” The two traded verses throughout their performance, as is typical of the show’s battles, capably making their …

Ahead of the 53rd Academy of Country Music Awards telecast on April 15th, the winners in the new artist category have been revealed, and their respective victories mark the first-ever ACM wins for all three. Midland are the New Vocal Group of the Year, while Brett Young has been selected …

The day after an ex-student walked on to their campus with an AR-15 and murdered 17 people, a group of Marjory Stoneman Douglas high schoolers got together to plan a march against gun violence. Less than six weeks later, the idea has swelled in size and scope: as many 500,000 …

Shawn Mendes battles anxiety and loneliness in his new power ballad, “In My Blood.” Mendes charts a course from victim to victory on his latest single. The opening of the song is soft and despairing: “Laying on the bathroom floor, feeling nothing/ I’m overwhelmed and insecure, give me something,” Mendes …

Donald Trump‘s presidential campaign hired American data-analysis firm Cambridge Analytica and its London-based parent company Strategic Communications Laboratories to gather data from over 50 million Facebook profiles to predict the behavior of American voters, according to investigations by The New York Timesand The Guardian. Over the weekend, Christopher Wylie, a …

Jay-Z‘s Roc Nation has thrown their support behind a new app that aims to reduce incarceration and recidivism in the criminal justice system. Promise, an app co-founded by social entrepreneur and former Prince manager Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, hopes “to create a sustainable and scalable program that will reduce the number of …