How does one recognize Bob Dylan for his prolific music career that has endured for more than 50 years? Certainly Dylan has received his share of accolades, but the people at ClickHole (a website owned and operated by The Onion) have decided Dylan needs a good night’s sleep. As such, the site has launched a…

The city of Cesena in Italy recently staged a 1,000-member band playing a cover of the Foo Fighters’ “Learn to Fly.” A video of the performance was uploaded to YouTube and quickly went viral, garnering more than 15 million views in three days. Among the viewers was Foo Fighters’ frontman Dave Grohl, who was so…

Video has emerged of Dawes frontman Taylor Goldsmith leading an all-star group of musicians in a Bob Dylan tribute jam this past Sunday at the Newport Folk Festival on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Dylan famously “going electric” at the festival. Among those joining Goldsmith were Robyn Hitchcock, Hozier, Gillian Welch, David Rawlings, and members of First Aid Kit and the Preservation…

You don’t often find Cher, Ariana Grande, MC Hammer, Ricky Martin, and Stryker all expressing similar views, but one man has united them: Minnesota dentist Walter Palmer, who’s sparked cries of outrage from musicians among many others for his killing of an African lion named Cecil. (Billboard) can’t believe this man counted it as valor to lure #CecilTheLion out of his…

Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp, and Dave Matthews will welcome an all-star lineup to Farm Aid’s 30th anniversary concert on Sept. 19 in Chicago. Among the other big names: Imagine Dragons, Jack Johnson, Old Crow Medicine Show, and Mavis Staples. (Billboard) On Sunday, police in Renville County, Minnesota, arrested Puddle of Mudd singer Wes Scantlin after he forced them to give chase at speeds…

Venture capitalist Roger McNamee probably thought he was being clever when he and bandmate Jason Crosby decided to call their classic rock cover band the Doobie Decibel System. However, the Doobie Brothers are unamused and have sued the Doobie Decibel System for “willful intent to trade on” their “fame and reputation, or to cause confusion, or to cause mistake,…

Prince‘s band 3RDEYEGIRL have revealed, in a BBC interview, that Prince’s recent song “HARDROCKLOVER” is the first single from a new studio album. The Hit & Run Album, named after Prince’s one-city-at-a-time tours, will be released by the end of 2015, the band said. In addition to “HARDROCKLOVER,” the album will also include a version of “1,000 Hugs…

In the new movie Ricki and the Flash, written by Diablo Cody and directed by Jonathan Demme (Stop Making Sense), Meryl Streep plays a rock star who reunites with her family. In the movie, she sings songs by Bruce Springsteen (“My Love Will Not Let You Down”), Tom Petty (“American Girl”), and Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs (“Wooly Bully”) in addition to “Cold…

James Blake has confirmed that both Justin Vernon and Kanye West will appear on his new album Radio Silence. Previously, Blake and Vernon joined forces on the song “Fall Creek Boys Choir” on Blake’s 2011 EP Enough Thunder. (Pitchfork) Justin Lowe, guitarist and co-founder of local band After the Burial, has died at age 32. Lowe apparently fell from a bridge…

An all-star group of musicians will perform a special orchestrated rendition of Big Star‘s 1978 album Third (later reissued as Sister Lovers) at First Avenue on Sept. 30. The musicians—including Big Star member Jody Stephens, Mike Mills (R.E.M.), and Chris Stamey (the dB’s)—first reconstructed the album’s intricate arrangements in 2010, and have been performing the album at venues around…