Idolator — RiRi continues to slay the charts. more info

Rolling Stone — Paul McCartney's One on One Tour has been packed with surprises since its Fresno launch on April 13th, with the singer performing tracks like the Beatles' "A Hard Day's Night" and "Love Me Do" for the first time as a solo artist. McCartney's Seattle... more info

NME — The pair teamed up for 'Helter Skelter' in Seattle on Sunday night (April 17) more info

Roadrunner - Blabbermouth — METALLICA's co-manager Peter Mensch is one of a number of music industry players who have commented on the growing fight between record labels and YouTube, calling on the Google-owned video site to hand over more revenue to rights holders. "YouTube,... more info

Rolling Stone — Balancing old and new-school soul with Bruno Mars panache, this Danish singer's debut is a fine argument for pop optimism. His string-buoyed hit "7 Years" collapses Joni Mitchell's "The Circle Game" into the Beatles' "When I'm Sixty-Four" for a life-... more info

Roadrunner - Blabbermouth — "Tooth, Beak & Claw", a brand new song from Swedish metallers AVATAR, can be streamed below. The track is taken from the band's new concept album, "Feathers & Flesh", which will be released on Friday, May 13 via Another Century in Europe and Enterta... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — There seems to be no end to the stories of how the Beatles impacted people across the globe, a fact that about 13,000 fans were reminded of in two key moments during the opening night of Paul McCartney’s new world tour.Performing for the first time... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — There seems to be no end to the stories of how the Beatles impacted people across the globe, a fact that about 13,000 fans were reminded of in two key moments during the opening night of Paul McCartney’s new world tour.Performing for the first time... more info

Guardian Music — (Community Music)Since restyling himself as charismatic bandleader Edward Sharpe, Alex Ebert has enjoyed considerable success – most notably with raucous 2009 single Home, on which he and now-departed vocalist Jade Castrinos sang about their feelin... more info

Stereogum — Paul McCartney has never done a live solo version of “A Hard Day’s Night,” the title track from the Beatles’ third album … until now. It had been 51 years since the Beatles last performed the song as a full quartet just a year after its ini... more info