Kanye West Auditions For American Idol, Makes It Through To The Next Round

In a clip from the forthcoming American Idol season, Kanye West successfully auditions for the show. It helped that he rapped his hit “Gold...

Music-Loving Kid Secretly Tapes Disagreement With His Parents, And Turns It Into A Cartoon 30 Years Later

A young man's love of rock and roll told through secretly recorded conversations with his parents, and animates it 30 years later. Mike Cohen...

Mantinicus Island, Population 51, Has The Cutest Library You’ll See All Week

Photo by Eva Murray Mantinicus Island is a community off the coast of Maine, population 51. It sounds like the start of a Steven King...

The Official Top 40 Biggest Songs of 2015 revealed: Bruno Mars #1

It dominated the dancefloor throughout last year; and today OfficialCharts.com can reveal that Mark Ronson’s Uptown Funk is the biggest song of 2015. The track,...

Watch Mark Hamill Host The TV Network Premiere Of Star Wars In 1984

See? Even 30 years ago, Star Wars was a very big deal. In 1984, the story about the galaxy far, far away made its...

Webcasting Royalty Rates: Future Of Music Coaltion, SoundExchange, National Association of Broadcasters Comments

On December 15, 2015, the Copyright Royalty Board issued its decision establishing non-interactive webcasting royalty rates for sound recordings in the 2016-2020 period. These...

John Oliver Helps With Your Broken New Year’s Resolutions

Last Week Tonight host John Oliver helps you revise the New Year’s resolutions you’ve already failed to keep. https://youtu.be/pxM3tvHowaM

Auto Racer Chris Forsberg Sets Record For The Fastest Time To ‘Undecorate’ A Christmas Tree

Chris Forsberg undecorated a Christmas Tree in 2.70 seconds using his car. I was hoping this video wouldn't last 23 minutes of backstage footage...

Didn’t He Ramble? Glen Hansard discusses his new album with Q

On a flying visit to London, Glen Hansard, the singer-songwriter and actor (Once, The Commitments) talks with Paul Stokes about his latest solo album,...

Submissions Now Open for the 2016 CCMA Discovery Program

New year, new beginnings, new opportunities. 2016 marks the fourth year for the CCMA Discovery Program – a national initiative, developed to support Canadian country music...

2015 Canadian Albums By Genre In A Handy Pie Chart

Canadian Music Blog put together a pie chart of Canadian album releases by genre for 2015. I'm not sure where they got the amount...

Bill Gates Shares His Best Books Of 2015

Bill Gates shares his list of best books he read in 2015: “Eradication” by Nancy Leys Stepan, “Thing Explainer” by Randall Munroe, “Sustainable Materials...

Nirvana’s Krist Novoselic Talks Foo Fighters’ Success and Missing Kurt Cobain

In a new exclusive interview between Nirvana’s Krist Novoselic and SPIN founder Bob Guccione Jr., the bassist tries to speculate on what Nirvana might’ve...