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We’ve already gotten a few tastes of Big Sean‘s new album, Dark Sky Paradise (due next week, 2/24, via G.O.O.D. Music/Def Jam), and now he’s just given us two more songs…

You probably know by now that Kanye West and Paul McCartney have teamed up not only once but twice this year, most recently for the Rihanna collaboration, “FourFiveSeconds” (also featuring Ty Dolla $ign and Dirty Projectors frontman Dave Longstreth)…

The 87th Annual Academy Award nominations are out and Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s flashy Birdman leads the charge with nine nominations, followed by WWII drama The Imitation Game (8), Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper (7) and Richard Linklater’s Boyhood (6)…

New Orleans Jazz Fest, which has much more than just jazz, returns this year for two weeks, April 24-26 and April 30-May 3. The lineup includes Elton John, The Who, Jimmy Buffett, Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga, No Doubt, Pitbul…

It’s awards season and this morning the 2015 The Golden Globes nominations were released and there are a few familiar names in the two music categories: Lana Del Rey: “Big Eyes” (Big Eyes) John Legend, Common: “Glory” (Selma) Patti Smith, Lenny Kaye: “Mercy Is” (Noah) Greg Kurstin, Sia Furler, Will Gluck: “Opportunity” (Annie) Lorde: “Yellow Flicker Beat” (The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1)And Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, working again with David Fincher this time for Gone Girl, is among the nominees in the Best Original Score category:Alexandre Desplat: The Imitation Game Jóhann Jóhannsson: The Theory of Everything Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross: Gone Girl Antonio Sanchez: Birdman Hans Zimmer: InterstellarAmong the non-music nominees, Iñárritu’s Birdman led with seven nominations, and HBO’s True Detective and FX’s Fargo (both in the mini-series category) led in television with four and five nominations, respectively…

This year, the 2015 Grammy nominations are being revealed gradually on CBS This Morning. A few categories have already been announced, with a lot more on the way, and we’ll have to wait for tonight’s A Very Grammy Christmas special to find out the Album of the Year nominees…

Tickets for the Elvis Costello & The Roots show at The Capitol Theatre go on sale today at noon. Tickets for the Schoolboy Q show at Best Buy Theater go on sale today at noon…

Paul McCartney at Barclays Center in 2013 (more by Greg Cristman) We already knew that Daft Punk would be performing at the 56th Grammy Awards ceremony and that they’re bringing Stevie Wonder, Pharrell and Nile Rodgers with them, and now the Grammy performances have gotten even more excit…

Black Keys at Central Park in 2012 (more by Dana (distortion) Yavin) The Super Bowl weekend concerts in NYC keep coming. After already announcing Red Hot Chili Peppers at Barclays Center, Foo FIghters on the Bud Light Hotel cruise, The Roots on that same cruise, and others, three more concerts, billed as The Evenings With Legends, were announced today…

NPR Music posted their 50 Favorite Albums of 2013, and as usual it included a lot of classical, jazz, world music, but also many of the indie/pop/rap/metal that shows up on these lists like Bill Callahan, Blood Orange, Chance the Rapper, Deafheaven, Flaming Lips, Haim, James Blake, Kanye West, Laura Marling, Run the Jewels, Sky Ferreira, Waxahatchee and more…