East meets west on this latest from French Montana, as the Khloe’s estranged Coke Boy links up with YG for “Don’t Panic.” As expected though, YG and DJ Mustard beats go hand in hand as you’ll hear a moment. No official word on where this lands, but that shouldn’t stop you from enjoying a great…

Thom Yorke has announced a new album today, Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes, which is available right now. You can buy the digital album as a $6 bittorrent bundle, or get the deluxe vinyl + digital version for £30….

Lorde has curated the soundtrack for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1, the second-to-last installment of the hit film series. Now, she’s released her song from the soundtrack, “Yellow Flicker Beat”….

The hot streak of Jason Iley‘s Sony U.K. just got hotter, with Columbia accounting for a 45% chart share of this week’s U.K. Top 10, including its half of the debuting Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga duets album, although the Official Charts Company credits the release solely to Interscope. The outright Columbia bow is from…

When Andre Harrell first met Sean Combs, the future Puff Daddy was but a wide-eyed intern at Uptown Records, the urban label Bronx native Harrell, 55, founded in 1983 that launched future R&B/hip-hop queen Mary J. Blige. Thirty years later, it was Combs who hired his former mentor to help him run fledgling cable TV…

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While it’s been eight years since Fergie‘s triple-platinum debut album The Dutchess hit the scene, and three years since, her latest musical release dates back to 2010, when she dropped The Beginning with Black Eyed Peas. This week, the singer has unleashed “L.A. Love (La La),” the first single from her yet-to-be-titled sophomore album. As…

Major label offers to airbrush new products into old music videos. Product placement in music videos has reached new heights of contrivance in the past few years, ranging from the passably inventive (Lady Gaga’s Coca-Cola hair rollers in ‘Telephone’) to the terminally lame (Britney’s PlentyOfFish.com endorsement in ‘Hold It Against Me’). All of that is…

Music producer Phil Spector has reportedly not spoken in nine months as he battles illness in prison, where he is serving a 19 year sentence for murder. Spector was jailed in 2009 and is currently serving his time at the California Health Care Facility in Stockton, California where his situation is described as “very dangerous.”…

Shazam’s Peter Szabo on the Top Songs of the Season–and Where They’re Going Ah, the fall. The fiery tones of changing leaves. The bubbling laughter of children in the pumpkin patch. The aromatic tang of freshly milled cider. You can add to these hallmarks of the season Shazam‘s top 5 songs to look out for…