Grimes on ‘Art Angels’ Follow-Up, Why She Loves Tool

Claire Boucher, a.k.a. Grimes, prides herself on being a one-woman show. She writes, produces, engineers and performs some of her generation’s most inventive indie pop – most recently Art Angels, which hit Number One on the Alternative album charts and shifted her from hazy synth-pop toward an off-kilter guitars-and-beats sound….

SoundCloud Integrates With Twitter Moments, Audio Cards

Now that SoundCloud has launched its long anticipated paid streaming music service, we expect to see a flood of innovation as it rushes to find its place in a crowded marketplace. First up, a more direct audio integration with Twitter. _____________________________________ SoundCloud today announced an integration with Twitter Moments via…

7 Promotional Stunts You Can Pull With Your Leftover CDs

While merch sales remain a strong source of revenue for artists, CDs no longer bring in the cash they once did. Still, compact discs can still serve a variety of valuable functions when it comes to marketing and promoting your band. ___________________________________ In this recent post on MusicThinkTank, Bjorgvin Benediktsson…

Listen to ‘Rolling Stone Music Now’ Podcast: Merle Haggard, Drake, More

The new episode of the Rolling Stone Music Now podcast is available now. Listen and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes, or check it out below.

This episode, we look back on the epic life and music of Merle Haggard, the only outlaw-country superstar who actually spent time in prison and rode the rails. Plus, we…