Canada + country + Capital Hoedown? Good times to be had in Ottawa this August. Following the hugely successful first year of Capital Hoedown Showdown, OurStage.com and Capital Hoedown, Canada's biggest country music festival, are teaming up for another year to offer one undiscovered country artist

Like money in da Banks. Azealia Banks, that is. Interscope/Polydor recording artist Azealia Banks will release her EP 1991 digitally on May 29 with a physical version to follow on June 12. So you can pick your pleasure when it comes to this fierce and ferocious female rapper. Banks, the 20-year-old

On the eve of Memorial Day, a star-studded line-up will grace the stage for one of PBS' highest-rated programs, the National Memorial Day Concert. The multi award-winning television event has truly become an American tradition, honoring the service and sacrifice of all our men and women in uniform,

Friends - we hear the Friends theme song every time we think about this band- will drop Manifest! via Fat Possum on June 5. But to tide fans over, they unveiled the video for their new single "Mind Control" this week. Shot by Hiro Murai (St. Vincent, Scissor Sisters, Usher), the clip combines band

Passion Pit's new album Gossamer drops July 24 through Columbia. To give you a taste a few weeks early, the band has shared the track list. Track Listing: 1 Take a Walk 2 I'll Be Alright 3 Carried Away 4 Constant Conversations 5 Mirrored Sea 6 Cry Like a Ghost 7 On My Way 8 Hideaway 9 Two Veils to