Sia

The spring 2016 edition of Boston Calling happens May 27-29. For a small festival (with no overlapping sets), Boston Calling continues to bring in some pretty huge names, and this one’s got Sia, Disclosure and Robyn headlining, plus Odesza, Sufjan Stevens, Haim, Miike Snow, Janelle Monae, Courtney Barnett, The Front Bottoms, Charles Bradley, Vince Staples, Battles, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Christine and the Queens, festival curator Aaron Dessner (of The National) playing a set with Li…

Sia has begun announcing what will be her first shows in five years, including Coachella and Flow Festival, which will support her new album This Is Acting (due January 29…

We already knew Guns N Roses (Axl and Slash included) and LCD Soundsystem would be reuniting for Coachella 2016, and now the full lineu…

Synth legend Giorgio Moroder‘s new album, Déjà Vu, is out June 16 and features guest appearances and others. You can get a taste of the whole thing via a five-minute “megamix” video featuring a couple of dancers…

View image | gettyimages.com The Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary was a spectacle, bringing together most of the show’s famous cast, guest hosts, and favorite musical guests for a three-and-a-half hour extravaganza (with commercials, and not counting the extra hour of red carpet interviews that started an hour earlier on NBC)…

So far this year, Kanye West has released the Paul McCartney collaboration “Only One,” the Macca/Rihanna collab, “FourFiveSeconds,” and earlier today at the fashion show for his new Adidas shoe (part of the ongoing NY Fashion Week) he debuted another new song, “Wolves,” featuring Sia, Vic Mensa and production and Sinjin Hawke…

The Village Voice‘s annual Pazz + Jop music critics poll is out. While the poll comes out a lot earlier than it used to when Robert Christgau helmed it, it’s still late enough to give every album released in 2014 a chance…

Gorilla vs Bear posted their lists of their favorite albums (35) and songs (100) of 2014. Though the albums list does have some of the stuff you always see (like The War On Drugs), it’s mostly got a lot of unique choices like Recycle Culture, Korallreven, Yumi Zouma, Beverly, Panda Bear‘s EP and more, and the #1 is pretty unique too…

The FADER always has some year-end coverage, but for the past 15 years they didn’t publish a ranked year-end list. This year however, they ranked their 116 favorite songs of 2014 (find out why) and it’s a diverse list that manages to sing the praises of iLoveMakonnen, Tinashe, Alex G, Florida Georgia Line, Enrique Iglesias, Bleachers, Ricky Eat Acid, YG, Toni Braxton & Babyface, Nothing, Grimes, Parquet Courts, Run the Jewels and Grouper all in the same damn list…

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…