Shortly after Taylor Swift confirmed her 12th album, The Life of a Showgirl, fans began to spot mysterious billboards in New York City and Nashville. The billboards directed listeners to a brand new ...

First impressions are everything. And with attention spans what they are, music artists don't have the luxury of eventually getting around to what they want to say. There's a good reason so many ...

Winning a Grammy Award is the highest honor in music, representing the gold standard of sonic excellence. But of the individual Grammy categories, none are quite as sought after as the "big four" – ...

Chicago punks LURK have a new album on the way (which “will be coming when the timing is better” on Pure Noise), but meanwhile they’ve prefaced it with the Pressure Points EP, featuring the new songs ...

Here’s a trivia question for you: Who was the first person to win the Grammy for Album of the Year? It was legendary composer Henry Mancini, who won for the soundtrack to the television show “Peter ...

The closing song on an album may be the most significantly placed track on an LP. Taking nothing away from the opening songs, there's something in both the summation and signs of things to come of the ...