The French electronic duo, recognized for their space-age helmets as much as for hits like “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger” and “One More Time,” returned Tuesday with Random Access Memories, their hotly anticipated fourth studio album. The record comes eight years after the pair’s last studio release, Human After All, in which time the duo of Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo also composed the score to 2010’s Tron: Legacy.
Like a baby that doesn’t want to be born, the American iteration of X Factor has made its creator suffer through endless agonies, disappointments and false alarms.
The pregnant pause is over: Beyonce has a new song out.
The pop superstar on Tuesday dropped "Grown Woman," a feisty tribal beat-driven track co-written by The-Dream and produced by Timbaland. It’s full of an energy that'll inevitably draw comparisons with "Single Ladies."
Is Will Smith getting back into music? Maybe! According to an interview with HipHollywood.com, Smith said it's been none other than Kanye West who's been encouraging him to.
Country Music Hall of Famer George Strait achieved an unprecedented milestone Monday, becoming the first music artist to notch 60 No. 1 singles in his career.
Strait’s “Give It All We Got Tonight,” off his latest album, Love Is Everything, was named the week’s most-played song on country radio by Mediabase, a music industry service that monitors radio station airplay in North America.
Doors co-founder Ray Manzarek passed away today in Rosenheim, Germany, at the RoMed Clinic. He had been battling bile duct cancer. Manzarek was 74.
The keyboardist, whose snaky Vox organ solos were as much a part of The Doors’ sound as Jim Morrison’s Beat poet vocals, Robbie Krieger’s psychedelic blues guitar and John Densmore’s jazzy drum work, met Morrison while they both attended UCLA’s film school in the early ‘60s.
Romanthony, the gifted house music producer whose vocals on Daft Punk's 2001 smash "One More Time" are familiar to dance music lovers around the world, has died at 46.
The sad news comes at a celebratory time for the French band, as the retro-futurist sounds of its duet-heavy Random Access Memories take summer by storm. The new album is on track to sell 300,000 copies in its first week.
Jay-Z has denied reports his wife Beyonce is pregnant with their second child, according to radio station Hot 97.
DJ Old Man Ebro said on the air Monday that he had emailed the rap mogul with his congratulations over the weekend, and "he hit me back and said it's not true." He quoted Jay-Z as saying: "It's not true. The news is worse than blogs."
The scene backstage at the Billboard Music Awards was wall-to-wall stars as music luminaries -- and their ginormous posses -- crowded into the narrow hallways of Las Vegas’ MGM Grand Arena on Sunday night.
Interscope Records and Beats Electronics founder Jimmy Iovine received an honorary degree from the University of Southern California during the school's Friday graduation ceremony, where he also delivered a speech and brought out surprise guest Dr. Dre.
Kanye West returned to Saturday Night Live to perform two new songs on the same day that details about his forthcoming album were teased.
On the Ben Affleck-hosted season 38 SNL finale, the artist played new tracks "Black Skinhead" and "New Slaves" as strobe lights flashed and signs with phrases like "Not for Sale" played in the background.
Country icon George Strait is heading for a No. 2 debut on the Billboard 200 chart next week with his new album, Love Is Everything. Meanwhile, Demi Lovato's fourth studio effort, Demi, is aiming for a No. 3 bow. According to industry sources, the albums are projected to sell about 120,000 and 110,000, respectively, by the end of the tracking week on Sunday, May 19.
