YouTube Set To Release Live Streaming App

Facebook is getting headlines this week for upgrades to its live video app; now YouTube is throwing its hat into the ring with the new YouTube Connect, and while its still an industry leader in many ways, this new app may be too little too late. __________________________ Guest Post by…

15 Artists Eligible for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Next

AC/DC once sang, “It’s a long way to the top, if you want to rock and roll,” and that’s especially true if you want to join the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Aspiring artists must wait 25 years after the release of their first record — i.e., album, EP or…

Inside Paul Simon’s Genre-Bending New Album ‘Stranger to Stranger’

Paul Simon spent the past five years painstakingly crafting his new album Stranger to Stranger (out June 3rd), knowing he’d have to create something extraordinary if he wanted it to stand up to the best work from his past. “There are a lot of preconceptions [about my new work] because I have…

Flashback: The Grateful Dead and Neil Young Cover Bob Dylan

On October 25th, 1991, legendary San Francisco concert promoter Bill Graham was flying on a helicopter back from a Huey Lewis concert in Concord, California, when the chopper crashed into a high-voltage tower, killing him and everyone else on board imm…

Keith Urban, Jennifer Lopez, Harry Connick on End of ‘American Idol’

“Raise your hand if you were born after June 22, 2002,” shouts comedian Jay Flats as he warms up the American Idol audience. If you were, he notes, than American Idol is older than you.

It’s a not-so-subtle reminder that the vocal competition has be…