December 5, 2011 • Our list spans more than a dozen genres and includes artists well-known and brand-new, but every one opened our ears to something new. These are the albums that made us hand our ...

Lykke Li performs during the Lollapalooza Festival at Grant Park in Chicago on August 6th, 2011. Thanks to Bat for Lashes, Fever Ray, and Zola Jesus, the pagan chanteuse has emerged as a major force ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nielsen SoundScan, the entertainment industry's data information system that tracks unit point-of-purchase sales of recorded music product and Nielsen BDS, the music ...

In a stunning turnabout, Vivendi and its subsidiary Universal Music Group announced early Friday that it had signed with Citigroup a definitive agreement to buy EMI’s recorded music division for ...

How does the saying go? "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture." Overquoted, tossed off and attributed to the likes of Elvis Costello, Steve Martin and Frank Zappa, there might be ...

As with most years spent in New Orleans, 2011 was full of great live music, from big festivals to small clubs and everything in between. It’s tough to remember everything I saw with clarity (I ...

As the frontman of Scottish folk rock Stealers Wheel, Gerry Rafferty sang the immortal classic "Stuck In The Middle With You." The trippy song reached Number Six on the Billboard Hot 100, but many ...

The annual Music in the Parks series is something Andrew Ward of the Flint Institute of Music looks forward to each year. After 21 years, he said, Mary Margaret St. John’s vision of bringing music to ...