With Courtney Love’s opera debut scheduled for Thursday, the New York Times has premiered the singer’s performance of “All I Ever Wanted” from Todd Almond’s pop opera Kansas City Choir Boy. Accompanied by a cello and piano, Love sings, “Today I woke up to a phone call that I knew was coming /…… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]

After a pair of consecutive Number One love songs in 1979 — “She Believes in Me” and “You Decorated My Life” — Kenny Rogers released about the furthest thing possible from a sappy, soaring ode: the revenge story-song “Coward of the County.” Written by Roger Bowling and Billy Edd Wheeler, and…… Source: RollingStone Link: Flashback: […]

On New Year’s Eve, Kanye West and Paul McCartney dropped their collaboration “Only One,” an Auto-Tuned, Stevie-tinged meditation on parenthood that a spokesperson calls “the first publicly available recording from what has become a prolific musical collaboration between these two legendary artists.” Some folks — most likely joking — started posting variations of “Who…… Source: RollingStone Link: 14 […]

Arizona’s departing state superintendent of public education, John Huppenthal, spent his last day of work targeting the Tucson Unified School District for violating the state’s ban on ethnic studies, according to the Arizona Daily Star. In particular, the “notice of noncompliance” he sent the district’s superintendent, Dr. H.T. Sanchez, on January…… Source: RollingStone Link: Rage Against […]

Every time a Kanye West fan buys an iTunes download, concert ticket or T-shirt, posts on his Facebook page, follows him on Twitter, views a YouTube video or streams a song on Spotify, all those clicks become valuable marketing data — meticulously documented by his record company, Universal Music. For years,…… Source: RollingStone Link: Follow Kanye […]

For his next album, Scotty McCreery is ready to take his signature deep-barrel baritone down a more classically country road — because the “Feelin’ It” singer is hoping to feel a few less pop hooks and few more banjo strums in his evolving sound. “We just had the meeting with the…… Source: RollingStone Link: Scotty […]

All roads start somewhere — even roads that go on forever. For Robert Earl Keen, that origin point is bluegrass music. He grew up with the stuff, listening to singers like Jimmie Rodgers and flatpickers like Norman Blake during his early years in southeast Texas. Years later, when he launched his…… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear […]

2015 may not bring everything that Back to the Future II promised it would: flying cars, self-lacing shoes, we don’t see ’em happening over the next 12 months. But this year will definitely pack plenty of punch when it comes to cultural happenings. Mad Max will roar back out of…… Source: RollingStone Link: 2015 Preview: […]

“I love the way you hurt me,” Fall Out Boy frontman Patrick Stump sings on “Irresistible,” an arena-pop anthem about deadly love. The horn-driven track – included on the band’s upcoming sixth LP, American Beauty/American Psycho, out January 20th – hit the Internet on Monday and is available to stream below.  On the band’s…… Source: RollingStone Link: Fall […]

Old Dominion’s Matthew Ramsey, Trevor Rosen, Whit Sellers, Geoff Sprung and Brad Tursi pride themselves in their record-to-stage authenticity. The country-rockers all played on their self-titled EP, released in October, rather than hiring studio musicians. “We’ve had people tell us, ‘I really liked your show. You guys sound like a band.’…… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]