“There are a few ways you can look at it,” Dave Grohl says of In Utero, the last studio album he made as the drummer in Nirvana and the group’s back-to-punk triumph after its 1991 multi-platinum monster, Nevermind. “You can describe it as a remarkable achievement.” He pauses. “You can also remember it as a…

Back when the Internet first became “a thing,” a lot of musicians instinctively understood that the music business — with its good aspects, its bad aspects and its absolutely awful aspects — was going to change forever. What a lot of us didn’t anticipate was that these changes would still be playing out almost two…

Chicago rapper Kanye West has become increasingly known for his ventures outside of music. He broke into the world of high fashion with his first womenswear collection in 2011, has met the needs of sneaker heads worldwide with his Air Yeezys and recently sold out of his collection with A.P.C. in a matter of hours. During…

In 1917, the Wisconsin Chair Company opened a record label called Paramount Records. Their approach to the record business was the kitchen-sink kind: In the name of selling as much as possible, while spending as little as possible, they pressed and shipped thousands of 78-RPM records from top-tier musicians, as well as anyone who threw…

Soon after Drake released “Wu-Tang Forever,” a selection off the Toronto rapper’s new album, Nothing was the Same, Inspectah Deck tweeted his support for the song. However, once he heard the actual recording, Deck changed his opinion, saying that the song should not be titled “Wu-Tang Forever.” Deck recently spoke with HipHopDX about the song and…

When Toby Keith records a song titled “Weed With Willie,” we get the joke immediately. Willie Nelson’s marijuana usage is, by now, both legendary and widely viewed as kind of a quirkily adorable habit for an 80-year-old country singer whose own titles include “Roll Me Up And Smoke Me When I Die.” Lately, however, drug…

Though raised in a destructive household, introduced to fame as preteen and surrounding himself with party people like Paris Hilton, Backstreet Boys member Nick Carter takes full responsibility for his problems. He says he was naïve, didn’t know what to do during touring downtime, and just “doing like the Russians” while in Russia. He even pokes…

Last night Moby debuted his 11th studio album, Innocents, at a listening party in Los Angeles, at the Sonos Studio gallery space. “It’s got a whole bunch of weird collaborations,” he told us as a glamorous crowd started to arrive. “Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips, and Mark Lanegan, and Cold Specks, who was born…

It’s the middle of the afternoon when we arrive at the tiny family apartment in a working-class neighborhood of Tunis. Um Ahmed cracks open the door when we arrive, ushers us in and quickly slams the door shut. She then closes a second steel gate, which she had installed after her son, Ahmed, was arrested….

Four days after a September 20th launch, Apple has announced that more than 11 million unique listeners have already tuned into iTunes Radio. The most listened to song was “Hold On, We’re Going Home” by Drake. Wall Street punished competitor Pandora, sending it’s stock down 10.11% to $24.26. Apple stock rose 5% to $490.64….