(Atticus Ross and Trent Reznor. Photo: Reuters/Mike Blake) “Wow. Is this really happening?” Trent Reznor asked during his acceptance speech at last night’s Academy Awards Ceremony. The co-creator for Best Original Score for The Social Network, and frontman for Nine Inch Nails, is now credited with a different surname: Mr. Academy Award Winner, Trent Reznor. [...]

Rick Rizzo & Tara Key Rick Rizzo and Tara Key have collaborated on their first album in about 10 years. It must have been worth the wait for the Chicago and New York-based musicians, respectively. Double Star is an intriguing album full of dreamlike instrumentals that invites close listening. Double Star, limited to 500 copies [...]

  Grace Potter and The Nocturnals at The Cannery Ballroom, Nashville, TN, February 24, 2011. All photos by Dylon Walker. Grace Potter tore things up in Nashville last week, during her first ever sold-out show at the Cannery Ballroom. The fiery singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist led her band through a raucous set that weaved songs from [...]

Suze Rotolo, Bob Dylan’s girlfriend from the early ’60s who appears on the album cover for The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, died on February 24 at the age of 67. The cause was lung cancer. Rotolo, an artist and social activist, dated Dylan for four years. Dylan wrote some of his most enduring songs, including “Don’t [...]

Animal Collective performing at the Henry Miller Library in Big Sur, California. Photo courtesy of ames sf. There’s an inherent irony when you think about the fact that the more that people sit in front of computers virtually connecting with each other, the more they will connect in the real world. But that’s exactly what [...]

The alt country queen still has the gift.

“We Belong Together” presents a more universal theme than Newman’s typically character-specific songs.

When she’s not pursuing her Ph.D at USC, Naomi Greenwald is working hard on her music career. The singer-songwriter’s debut album, Darkbloom, was produced by Dave Trumfio (Wilco, OK Go, Built To Spill), and has earned her a truck load of praise from publications in the know. We talked to the Pennsylvania native about working [...]

“It’s so sexy to be living in America” sounds like a Top 40 hook, but it comes straight from the fun-loving Worcester, Massachusetts songwriter Dom. Dom – real name, Dominic – and his band (also named Dom), play fuzzy, hooky surf-rock that borrows the lo-fi laptop beats of chillwave, but, as Dom joked to NME [...]

Josh Kelley is living the good life. His family unit is strong (Kelley and his wife, actress Katherine Heigl, are enamored with their newly adopted daughter, Naleigh, and Kelley’s younger brother Charles is tearing up the charts in Lady Antebellum), and his country music career is in full swing. Kelley’s “Georgia Clay,” co-written with his [...]

Tom Waits announced via Twitter today that he is hard at work on his next studio album, the followup to his 2006 compilation Orphans: Brawlers & Bastards. Details are scarce, but expect songs about down-and-out roustabouts and oddball characters, sung in a sandpapery voice scarred by whiskey and cigarettes, naturally. Waits will be inducted into [...]

Topspin Media, one of the biggest players in direct-to-fan marketing, has announced that their platform will be open to the public in March 2011. Topspin is an e-commerce platform and software company that has been used by many record labels and artist managers to track various marketing campaigns. Most common among Topspin’s offerings is the [...]