Beck gathered a solid troupe of friends together at London’s Barbican on July 4th for his first-ever full live performance of the material from his 2012 sheet music collection, Song Reader. As Pitchfork reports, Jarvis Cocker, Franz Ferdinand, Beth Orton, Charlotte Gainsbourg, James Yorkston, Joan Wasser (a.k.a. Joan as Police Woman), Villagers’ Conor J. O’Brien, the…

Justin Timberlake is doing more than just “bringing sexy back” with his racy new video for “Tunnel Vision,” a seven-minute epic featuring legions of undulating, nude models (that has already been compared to Robin Thicke’s similarly sexy “Blurred Lines”). However, while Thicke’s video was pulled from YouTube, available only directly on VEVO, Timberlake’s equally flesh-filled…

They’ve all contributed to cancer care fundraising album A World With Heroes, the brainchild of rock journalist Mitch Lafon, which will soon be released via a PledgeMusic campaign.   As the musicians emailed each other to discuss arrangements, they realised their belief in Kiss music – and particularly the band’s early 70s material – was…

Freddie Gibbs released his ESGN (Evil Seeds Grow Naturally) album last month, in part in order to reestablish his brand after a stint with Young Jeezy’s CTE Records. “I just need to set myself apart from Jeezy right now,” Freddie Gibbs says during a recent interview with the Murder Master Music Show of UGS Radio….

A look at key moments this past week in the wrongful death trial in Los Angeles between Michael Jackson’s mother, Katherine Jackson, and concert giant AEG Live LLC, and what is expected at court in the week ahead: THE CASE Jackson’s mother wants a jury to determine that the promoter of Jackson’s planned comeback concerts…