For the fifth installment of Kiss’ annual Kiss Kruise, the hard rock legends will perform their classic 1975 live LP, Alive!, in its entirety. According to the event’s website, the band will play the album during the Kiss Kruise V indoor show, which will take fans back to “the golden age when…… Source: RollingStone Link: Kiss Prep […]
1. Parquet Courts, Sunbathing AnimalToo many excellent albums this year for a mere Top 10 — 2014 was the kind of music year where I’d wake up in the morning already excited about the first song I was going to play. And it was usually one of these Parquet Courts…… Source: RollingStone Link: Rob Sheffield's […]
Sony/ATV Music Publishing’s assets include the Beatles catalog Source: Yahoo Music Link: Sony Reportedly Considering Sale of Music Publishing Division
When producer and Kanye West collaborator Malik Yusef was 10, he would collect and recycle empty cans with his unemployed father to help pay for “food, lights and heat” for his family. While his early green efforts were more financially driven than altruistically motivated, they began an environmentalist streak that continued…… Source: RollingStone Link: Common, Ne-Yo […]
At various points in Father John Misty’s musical account of his honeymoon, the eccentric folk-rocker and his newlywed celebrate “satanic Christmas Eve,” “lift up your wedding dress someone was probably murdered in” and ruminate on how “dating for 20 years just feels pretty civilian.” Playing out like one long, stream-of-consciousness…… Source: RollingStone Link: Chateau Lobby […]
Alas, poor Colin Meloy. Cursed with a photographic memory, post-collegiate vocabulary and melancholy disposition, he must relive his life’s every insecurity in Dickensian six-minute indie-folk ballads. His latest single with the Decemberists finds the singer meditating on an unrequited teenage love he had for a downright stubborn, “sibylline” would-be paramour……. Source: RollingStone Link: Lake Song
Paul McCartney has lived through plenty of cultural changes – including, it seems, an era in which video games have soundtracks written by legendary former Beatles. This song for the new game Destiny is a gently ringing paean to human possibility and discovery recorded with a massive orchestra that comes…… Source: RollingStone Link: Hope for […]
It’s a quarter after one, Blake’s a little drunk and with nothing on TV, the reigning CMA Male Vocalist of the Year decides to see if an old flame is willing to partake in the year’s most emotionally devastating booty call. On his previous Monroe duet, “You Ain’t Dolly (And…… Source: RollingStone Link: Lonely Tonight
Hip-hop legends get together to vent their rage, clear their heads and wonder what’s next after a year that seemed to offer gut-punch after gut-punch of good old-fashioned American brutality. Chuck D is righteously stentorian as he declares, “We are the ones with childhood dreams/But adulthood brings nightmares and screams,” and…… Source: RollingStone Link: The People
Today saw a happy ending to a story that’s galvanized passionate responses from musicians the likes of Paul McCartney and Dave Grohl — the fight to save Nashville’s RCA Studio A. According to the Nashville Scene, Curb Records founder Mike Curb has teamed up with Tennessee philanthropists Chuck Elcan and…… Source: RollingStone Link: Historic RCA […]