Rarely has “Your music put me to sleep” been viewed as a compliment, but that’s the goal of actor Jeff Bridges’ latest collection of songs. The actor’s new album Sleeping Tapes makes no qualms that its goal is to lull the listener to bed and features the actor’s spoken word pieces and guided…… Source: RollingStone Link: Jeff Bridges […]

In three months, it will have been 21 years since Kurt Cobain’s death, and you’d have thought there would be nothing left to say about the life and work of the late Nirvana frontman. But once you’ve seen Brett Morgen’s documentary, Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, you start to realize that…… Source: RollingStone Link: Sundance 2015: […]

Acclaimed bluegrass group the Lonesome River Band has had more rotating members than broken banjo strings in their 30-plus year career. But a reunion by key players Ronnie Bowman, Don Rigsby and Kenny Smith in 2010 yielded some of the band’s most vibrant music. Now those three musicians are carrying…… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear Ralph […]

Sam Smith’s smash “Stay With Me” helped him become the breakout male pop star of 2014, and with six Grammy nominations, he’s only gaining steam. Rolling Stone associate editor Patrick Doyle visited Smith in Atlanta and London – where just a couple of years ago the singer was working as a barback…… Source: RollingStone Link: The Liberation […]

Taylor Swift regularly invited a wide range of surprise all-star guests onstage during her Red world tour, including Carly Simon, Jennifer Lopez and Fall Out Boy’s Patrick Stump. As the tour wound down in London last February, she surprised fans by bringing out a relative unknown: British singer Sam Smith. Swift had…… Source: RollingStone Link: Taylor Swift […]

Sly Stone was awarded million after a Los Angeles Supreme Court jury found that the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer was cheated out of over a decade’s worth of royalties by his former manager and an entertainment lawyer. In the breach-of-contract lawsuit, Stone’s lawyers argued that Gerald “Jerry” Goldstein…… Source: RollingStone Link: Sly Stone Awarded […]

From the 1970s disco explosion to today’s EDM free-for-all, featured singers on dance tracks have become an increasingly frequent chart presence, with the guest spot often serving as an audition or promo for the singer’s subsequent solo turn. In honor of our Sam Smith cover story, here are 12 vocalists from dance…… Source: RollingStone Link: Sam Smith […]

Zac Brown Band will kick off the ninth season of acclaimed public television series, Live From the Artists Den, on Friday, January 30th, with a performance from legendary Forest Hills Stadium in Queens, New York. The Grammy-winning group delivers a hit-filled set that includes fan favorites “Jump Right In,” “Colder…… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch Zac […]

Dancing in clubs isn’t necessarily the first thing that comes to mind when most people think of Belle and Sebastian, the Scottish masters of wistful melody and wry lyrical asides. So it’s a bit of a surprise to hear lead singer Stuart Murdoch, calling from his Glasgow apartment on a…… Source: RollingStone Link: How Dance […]

One day after Blink-182’s Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker blasted founding member Tom DeLonge to Rolling Stone for being “ungrateful” and “disingenuous” over conflicting reports that he had left the band, the singer-guitarist issued an open letter to fans detailing his side of the story. “I love Blink and am incredibly grateful for…… Source: RollingStone Link: Blink-182's […]