More than half a century after he wrote "The Sound of Silence," American singer Paul Simon says he is ready to hang up his guitar and stop making music. The folk star turned world music champion, whose US tour ends Friday, released his most recent album, "Stranger to Stranger" on June 3 to rave reviews. "It's an act of courage to let go," Simon told the newspaper.

Leave it to Japanese comedians Tomochika, Oniyakko Tsubaki, Naomi Watanabe and Shizuyo Yamasaki to show the world how to make a fantastic Ghostbusters music video.It’s a perfect mix of retro nostalgia, reboot call-outs and a healthy dose of "what the hell is going on?", set to the wonderful music of Ray Parker Jr.The best part is that it’s 100 percent Fall Out Boy-free.Enjoy.

The parties also are said to be looking at how to avoid future lawsuits.

On a worldwide basis, 63% of online adults listen to music streaming services on a monthly basis, with 10% of them taking up a paid option. Users in Asia Pacific and North America are most likely to pay for music streaming, according to data released June 28, 2016 by GlobalWebIndex. Internet users in Europe are currently least likely to use or pay for online music streaming services.

Our guide to this week's (and last week's) album releases also features the week's top new music videos from artists like Portishead, Aphex Twin, and ScHoolboy Q, plus brand new streaming music from Bat for Lashes, Thee Oh Sees, Rihanna, Maxwell, Devendra Banhart, and more. Read and Post Comments | Get the full article at Metacritic

Grant Park will heat up in late July for the 25th installment of Lollapalooza. Perry Farrell and Co. need to feed their somewhat captive audience of music lovers, and this year's food lineup features the debut of nine new vendors. The "Crack Pie" slices from Momofuku Milk Bar —a cult-favorite pastry that David Chang, Christina Tosi and Co. ship nationally— headline the list of new vendors.

“The ‘Famous’ video is one of the more disturbing ‘artistic’ efforts in recent memory,” the ‘Girls’ actress wrote.

The rapper said, “It’s a comment on fame.”

Celebrated Brazilian musician Gilberto Gil was released Friday from a Sao Paulo hospital where he was treated over the past week for kidney problems. Gil, 73, on his Instagram account posted a photo showing the rear of a car with the words "homeward bound" superimposed on the image, as he ended his stay at the Syrian Lebanese Hospital, where he was admitted last Thursday. Gil is undergoing monthly treatment for kidney ailments for an undetermined period, according to the G1 news website.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — What does it take to get an Oscar-nominated documentarian to direct a music video?

In terms of content, BitTorrent Now differs from the big names of the business with a catalog of music and videos mostly from independent artists, relatively unknown to the general public. Users can also purchase the content at any time.

Ralph Stanley, a patriarch of Appalachian music who with his brother Carter helped expand and popularize the genre that became known as bluegrass, died Thursday. Stanley was born and raised in southwest Virginia, a land of coal mines and deep forests where he and his brother formed the Stanley Brothers and their Clinch Mountain Boys in 1946. Heavily influenced by Grand Ole Opry star Bill Monroe, the brothers fused Monroe’s rapid rhythms with the mountain folk songs from groups such as the Carter Family, who hailed from this same rocky corner of Virginia.