Chromewaves Forget Foster the People, Young the Giant and Portugal, the Man. Indie folk-rock outfit Dry the River invented having "the" in the middle of your three-word band name. "We just came up with something that was totally different, and now everyone's doing it. We invented it. We invented it, and now everyone's stolen it," frontman ...

Columbia Records English indie pop duo the Ting Tings hit the jackpot with their 2008 Grammy-nominated and ironically-titled debut record We Started Nothing. The album went double platinum in their homeland and led to four years of struggling not to succumb to mainstream pressures -- including a scrapped radio-ready album attempt in 2010. ...

AOL An Englishman may have won the lottery when he unknowingly bought what seems to be one of Andy Warhol's earliest art pieces at a garage sale in Las Vegas. The piece, now estimated to be worth over $2 Million, was sold to UK business man Andy Fields for a mere $5 by a man whose aunt used to babysit Warhol as a kid. It was hidden behind ...

Paul Swanson / Red Bull Spinner joined forces with the Red Bull Music Academy and Young Lions Music Club for the Artist Select Series at Toronto live music hotspot The Garrison during CMW's Canadian Music Fest. The first two nights were curated and hosted, respectively, by Canadian rapper Shad and Junior Boys' Jeremy Greenspan. (Watch video ...

Chris Strong Chicago indie-rock trio Empires are back and grittier than ever. The band's EP Can't Steal Your Heart Away is out Tuesday (March 27) and serves as a teaser of what's to come in June when they release their third full-length, Garage Hymns. Title track Can't Steal Your Heart Away is the raucous opening number (and proclaimed ...

The Weeknd | Jeremy Rose Before the 'e' had been dropped, the Weeknd wasn't just Canadian sensation Abel Tesfaye's mysterious moniker. It was a 'dark R&B' duo involving him and Canadian producer Jeremy Rose (who says he came up with the name, sans alternate spelling). Speaking to Vice, Rose says he was pushed out of the group by Tesfaye ...

Getty Images for The Recording A Neil Young's reunion with his old pals in Crazy Horse earlier this year has culminated in a new album, 'Americana,' to be released on June 5 in the U.S., reports Rolling Stone. 'Americana' is the first album that Young has recorded with the band since 2003's 'Greendale.' It also marks the first time the ...