Two months ago, NASA compiled decades’ worth of sound samples and placed them on SoundCloud to create a library filled with space noises, rockets launching and transmissions between “Houston” and the astronauts. The NASA SoundCloud library even gathers historic moments in interstellar travel, including President John F. Kennedy’s speech promising, “We choose to…… Source: RollingStone Link: NASA Samples […]

Craig Wayne Boyd’s baby isn’t the only one sporting a smile this week.  Just thirteen days after winning the seventh season of The Voice, the 35-year-old Nashville transplant sits at the top of the country charts with “My Baby’s Got a Smile on Her Face.” The newly-released single is only the second…… Source: RollingStone Link: Craig […]

R.I.P. to the iPod — long live the boombox! Twenty-fourteen was a mighty year for the cassette, as these humble yet sturdy little sonic contraptions just kept rolling along. Who knew the cassette would outlive the iPod, just as it’s outlived so many other pricey gadgets invented to replace it?…… Source: RollingStone Link: 10 Best […]

Paul McCartney understands the Beatles’ overwhelming impact on music history, but he’s still blown away by the band’s presence in literal history books used in school classrooms. “To be told – as I was years ago now – that the Beatles were in my kid’s history books? That was like ‘What?! Unbelievable,…… Source: RollingStone Link: Paul McCartney […]

“It takes a lot of balls to cover a whole Beatles record,” Tommy Stinson joked Sunday night at Brooklyn Bowl, dropping by the venue to join Deer Tick at the third of their six 10th anniversary shows. On Friday, the Providence band had covered NRBQ’s Tiddlywinks with Marshall Crenshaw and Jana Hunter;…… Source: RollingStone Link: Deer Tick […]

Nash Icon’s latest signing is one of the most iconic vocalists of her time. Martina McBride has officially joined the new label, which is a co-venture between Big Machine Label Group and Cumulus Media. McBride has some old friends at her new company. She teamed with sister imprint, Republic Nashville, for…… Source: RollingStone Link: Martina […]

The Outlaw Movement — it’s not just for country anymore. On February 24th, pianist and composer Erik Deutsch will release Outlaw Jazz, an eight-song collection of country-influenced psychedelic jazz. Deutsch, who has collaborated frequently with Shooter Jennings, notably on Jennings’ 2012 Family Man album, recruited the son of Waylon Jennings…… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear Shooter […]

You’ve seen what the Rolling Stone editors loved in 2014 — but what about some of our favorite artists and comedians? We grilled the ladies of Broad City, Bleachers’ Jack Antonoff, St. Vincent and more stars, asking for the the musicians, TV shows, movies and artists that inspired them most this…… Source: RollingStone Link: The Best […]

On the fringes of 2014, Ben Frost made suffocating electronic noise that was greeted like an expressionist rock records, trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith continued his role as jazz’s longform boundary pusher and Stine Janvin Motland made electric improv without holding an instrument in her hands. … Source: RollingStone Link: 20 Best Avant Albums of 2014

In 2014, music videos became increasingly prominent, not just on YouTube (where the most popular entry on our list has nearly 400 million views) and television (where a handful of networks keep them in rotation) but in the world at large, integrated into advertisements, social media and live events. Artists…… Source: RollingStone Link: 10 Best […]