You don’t mess with a country outlaw… especially when he’s packing. Related: Flashback: Watch a Johnny Cash Christmas Clip From 1978 On December 19, 1985 — almost 30 years to the date after the release of “Folsom Prison Blues,” during which Johnny Cash’s character shoots a man in Reno just to watch…… Source: RollingStone Link: […]
Nobody expected the Decemberists, the theatrically-minded indie-folk band from Portland, Oregon, to ever hit Number One on the Billboard album chart. So what did they do after their sixth LP, 2011’s The King Is Dead, made it all the way to the top? They took four years to release its…… Source: RollingStone Link: YA Books, […]
The Foo Fighters’ latest stop on the Sonic Highways promotional tour brought them to The Tonight Show where they delivered a smashing, Herculean performance of album closer, “I Am a River.” The track starts out small, with frontman Dave Grohl crooning a tale of finding salvation underground, while he and guitarists Pat Smear and…… Source: RollingStone Link: See […]
During the early months of 2014, Garth Brooks dusted off his Stetson — or, as he’s more prone to wearing these days, his Garth-branded baseball cap — and launched the biggest comeback the country-music industry has seen in years. Technically, though, the guy came out of retirement nearly a decade ago. After spending…… Source: RollingStone Link: […]
One week after wrapping up a string of shared shows in the Southwest, Jenny Lewis and Ryan Adams teamed up again last night, when both songwriters hit the stage during an episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live. Lewis was the show’s musical guest, in her last gig of a busy year…… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch Jenny […]
It has been awhile since my last broadcast: Deadlines, shows, roadwork, and, sadly, obituaries got in the way. They also had a big impact on the records that have filled the last weeks of this year: Pink Floyd’s tribute to their late keyboard player Richard Wright; U2’s controversial gift to…… Source: RollingStone Link: Fricke's Picks […]
A long-in-development Hip Hop Hall of Fame and Museum hopes to raise million to open its first-ever location and a Youth Media Education center in Harlem. To get there, it has announced an initial 0,000 Matching Challenge Grant to kick off a new IndieGoGo campaign. If raised, the million dollars would allow the…… Source: RollingStone Link: Hip-Hop Hall […]
Perennial metal boogieman Marilyn Manson presents a new kind of nightmare in the video for his gothy dance single “Deep Six,” which will appear on his upcoming record The Pale Emperor. Rather than revisit the neo-Bosch grotesqueries or salacious drug orgies of past videos, the singer enlisted surrealist visual artist…… Source: RollingStone Link: See Marilyn […]
From the first time the Charlie Daniels staged his Volunteer Jam concert event in Nashville in October 1974, the caliber of talent and number of surprise performers kept fans returning year after year. To commemorate the legendary concert’s 40th anniversary, the star-studded event returns to Music City on August 12, 2015,…… Source: RollingStone Link: Charlie […]
In 2014, Ed Sheeran, Pharrell, Sam Smith and Nick Jonas dabbled in R&B crossovers; Lana Del Rey and Charli XCX flipped the bad-girl script; and Lorde didn’t release an album, but put forth her vision through EDM producers. Off the Top 40, were clutch of women whose versions of “pop” were singular…… Source: RollingStone Link: 20 Best […]