Sondre Lerche’s new music video a quick clip for his forthcoming album’s opener and lead single finds the singer at a backyard party Where the other guests seem content to chat and sip their drinks the Norweigan transplant turns up dancing – flailing – to the music and making a… Source    

This past Saturday night at Bonnaroo Jack White electrified a crowd of over 70000 with an incredible two-and-a-half hour 26-song set list that covered all corners of his career from the White Stripes and Raconteurs to Dead Weather and new LP Lazaretto (By comparison Kanye West the previous night’s headliner… Source    

Amnesty International’s Belgian office has a new campaign that shows celebrities and dignitaries including Karl Lagerfeld and the Dalai Lama covered in bruises and scars to illustrate its new slogan “Torture a man and he will tell you anything” Notable among them is Stooges frontman Iggy Pop whose left eye… Source    

The Country Music Association has teamed up with Public Television’s concert program Front and Center to bring a little more twang to the lauded performance show’s fall lineup Lady Antebellum and Dierks Bentley will kick off the ongoing partnership with two separate specials leading into the broadcast of the 48th… Source    

Outkast’s summer reunion run will continue with a headlining gig at the Voodoo Music and Arts Experience in New Orleans The Foo Fighters Skrillex and Arctic Monkeys join the hip-hop duo at the top of the characteristically diverse bill for this year’s festival which will take place in New Orleans’ City Park from October 31st… […]

An explicit 30-second clip of the video for “Do What U Want” Lady Gaga’s Artpop duet with R Kelly has surfaced online via TMZ Last year photographer Terry Richardson who shot Miley Cyrus’s nudity-saturated “Wrecking Ball” clip masterminded the video – the making of which was documented in a BitTorrent… Source    

In the summer of 1974 Crosby Stills Nash & Young reunited after a four-year break to launch one of the biggest rock tours ever attempted at that point in time “There was just so much money on the table” says David Crosby “and there were sharks all around” There were… Source    

Emperor Palpatine finally has the crushing electro entrance theme he always deserved Rave veteran Moby and Brazilian newcomer Darth & Vader have teamed up for “Death Star” cramming tight synth stabs theatrical strings and plenty of vicious effects into a breakneck five-minute jam for their debut collaboration on Steve Aoki’s Dim Mak label 30 Greatest […]

D’Angelo will release a new album this year and embark on an international tour sometime in October his manager Kevin Liles insisted in a new interview with Billboard Find Out Where D’Angelo’s ‘Voodoo’ Ranks on Our List of the 100 Best Albums of the 2000s D’Angelo’s collaborators have teased the long-awaited follow-up… Source    

At last September’s Americana Music Honors & Awards Shovels & Rope were the night’s Cinderella story winning Emerging Artist of the Year and Song of the Year for their Dylan-esque “Birmingham” Almost a year later the duo will release their second album Swimmin’ Time on August 26th with a tour… Source