How The Music Media’s Top Web Presences Stack Up Against Each Other

Billboard has more Facebook likes than Pitchfork, NPR Music, Dancing Astronaut, PopCrush, Spin, NME, Stereogum and dozens of other trendy sites combined!

Submit Your Mid-’90s Flaming Lips Photos

The Flaming Lips have been digging through the Clouds Taste Metallic vaults, performing songs from that album in concert that they haven’t played in years (or ever), filming fans’ recollections of the era, re-releasing the period’s B-sides on vinyl for the first time, reaching out to old acquaintances, and so on. Now they need your help…

SUNBEARS’ Jonathan Berlin on Playing Telluride with Johnnyswim, Being Inspired By Janelle Monáe and Meeting Ed Helms

The 42nd Telluride Bluegrass Festival featured four days of ace pickers – Ry Cooder, Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn, Punch Brothers, Greensky Bluegrass – at 8,750′ high. Held annually the third weekend of June, SUNBEARS!’ Jonathan Berlin tells us all about this year’s festivities.

The Week That Was – Social Network Music Trends For the Week Ending June 20, 2015

Topics and trends musicians’ posted about this week on social media including Beck, Bonnaroo, The Donald, The Pope, #InstaPride, #RachelDolezal and #CharlestonMassacre.

The Many Albums Beck’s Been Working On: Beck’s Collaborating with Nile Rodgers, Recorded “Another” “Morning Phase”

Among the several unreleased recording projects Beck’s worked on in the past few years: another album’s worth of material in the vein of “Morning Phase” that’s already recorded, and sessions with Pharrell that may never be finished….

Beck will record with Nile Rodgers this summer.