Sara Bareilles

This letter, signed by a ton of artists and pictured above, is set to appear in an ad in Billboard:We are big fans of Pandora. That’s why we helped give the company a discount on rates for the past decade…

Heliotropes at Cake Shop earlier this month (more by Amanda Hatfield) As tends to happen around Halloween, we’ve been getting a handful of thematically appropriate cover songs surfacing today, and this one comes from Heliotropes, who offer their take on “I Walked With A Zombie” by Roky Erickson and the Aliens…

Arcade Fire @ Obama Staff Ball (more by Bao Nguyen) A list of celebrities, reportedly created’s campaign, sent out on December 5, and acquired by the Tennessean (PDF HERE), is being passed around the internet…

A little after 1 p.m., the Parkway was already jammed with people who had come from near and far for the Fourth of July celebration in Philadelphia – and it stayed that way well into the night as the Roots repeatedly rocked the stage, and Earth, Wind & Fire’s Philip Bailey hit some stratospheric high notes…

The Roots at Prospect Park in 2010 (more by David Andrako) Although musical options in NYC are limited on the 4th of July, you could head to Philly for the Philly Fourth of July Jam…

The 10th Anniversary ACL Festival line-up is on the books. Stevie Wonder, Arcade Fire, Kanye West, Coldplay, My Morning Jacket, Fleet Foxes, Alison Krauss and Union Station, Nas & Damian “Jr Gong” Marley and Cee Lo top the bill of the over 130 bands…

Seeing the decline in recorded music revenues, ticket prices soared. We can blame Live Nation, but let’s first and foremost blame the acts…

Lilith Fair, which has been dormant since 1999, will reform this year for a North American tour this summer. Exact dates and venues are forthcoming, but the ongoing list of confirmed acts is impressive (though they won’t all play every city)…

After meeting his biological father for the first time, GE powerhouse Jack Donaghy discovered his dad, professor Milton Greene, needed a kidney…