From her Smack DVD origins to her present day Rolling Stone cover status, Nicki Minaj has always matched her ferocious rhymes and larger-than-life persona with a sharp visual aesthetic. As she’s scaled the pop charts and become an icon, Minaj has turned into one of hip-hop’s most consistently entertaining video artists, filling…… Source: RollingStone Link: Vid It […]
When influential bluegrass fiddler Art Stamper died in 2005 at 71, the style of playing he popularized with the Stanley Brothers in the Fifties was already well established. The old-time mountain sounds of his native Kentucky, however, lost one of its greatest champions and historians. Fortunately, there is another: Art’s…… Source: RollingStone Link: Bluegrass Pioneer […]
Speaking out for the first time about the spate of police violence against unarmed black men this year, Nicki Minaj calls the unpunished killing of Staten Island man Eric Garner via a chokehold “sickening” in the new issue of Rolling Stone. “It’s sickening, and I’ve been reading so many people saying,…… Source: RollingStone Link: Nicki […]
Nicki Minaj just may be the hardest-working diva in show business. “I do everything myself,” she explains in Rolling Stone’s new cover story (on stands Friday), telling contributing editor Jonah Weiner about the exhausting process of getting her 15-minute Pinkprint movie to iTunes in time for release. “I’ve gone over all the…… Source: RollingStone Link: Nicki Minaj […]
John Oliver may not be the biggest fan of New Year’s Eve, and he’s definitely got a point about wasting December 31st by “having to stare at Ryan Seacrest for five solid minutes, waiting for him to tell you what the time is.” But fear not, revelers — Rolling Stone has…… Source: RollingStone Link: New Year's […]
In an age of surprise albums and lengthy hype-building mixtapes, Nicki Minaj embarked on a slow-burning campaign for her third album, The Pinkprint, which ended up encompassing nearly the entirety of 2014. From her first “album mode” surprise track in the final hours of 2013 forward, everything she released carried…… Source: RollingStone Link: 19 Nicki […]
It’s an agonizing task picking out Nicki Minaj’s 10 best one-liners – a lot like selecting hay from a haystack. Hell, on 2012’s “The Boys,” she crowns herself “Punchline queen, no boxer though,” and when inspired, she even bests Lil Wayne, her boss and mentor. There may not have been enough room…… Source: RollingStone Link: Gritty in […]
On December 30th at 7 p.m. local time, the members of Pussy Riot will head to Moscow’s Manezhka Square to lead a nighttime protest demanding an “an end to Vladimir Putin’s regime, which is one of the real evils of the world today,” the controversial punk outfit said in a statement……. Source: RollingStone Link: Pussy Riot […]
A long-lost duet from Texas singer-songwriter Joe Ely and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame vocalist Linda Ronstadt has been unearthed after more than 25 years. “Where Is My Love,” which Ely has been playing live for a number of years, was recorded with Ronstadt in a Los Angeles studio in…… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear an […]
Leonard Cohen’s return to the stage in 2008 after a 15-year absence remains one of the most impressive comebacks in music history. By the time he cut this new three-disc live album in September 2013, he had about 350 more shows under his belt. A great deal of the material…… Source: RollingStone Link: Live in […]