You only live one time, so Migos offer a straightforward strategy for getting the most out of your days on Earth: Avoid repetition. The Atlanta trio affirm that the first cut is the deepest, the first chain is the brightest and first party is the most turnt. Their case adds… Source: RollingStone Link: "One Time"
Indie folk auteur Sufjan Stevens is already a master at musical vulnerability, but on the first single off his upcoming album Carrie & Lowell — named for his mother and stepfather — Stevens finds a strikingly fresh way to rip open his wounds for the world. On the atmospheric “No Shade in… Source: RollingStone Link: "No Shade […]
Ryan Culwell grew up in the Texas panhandle, a windswept place filled with oil fields and open plains. It was there, surrounded by flatlands stretched to the horizon, that he began writing his own songs, looking to better understand the spirit and sparseness of his home by setting it to… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear Texas […]
In 1968, country singer Tammy Wynette was on a hot streak that began two years earlier with “Your Good Girl’s Gonna Go Bad.” The first of her Number One singles, “I Don’t Wanna Play House,” topped the country chart in ’67, followed by “Take Me to Your World,” “D-I-V-O-R-C-E” and… Source: RollingStone Link: Flashback: Lyle […]
The video for U2’s new Songs of Innocence single, “Every Breaking Wave,” dramatizes the wave of violence that swept Northern Ireland in the Eighties. Belfast-born filmmaker Aoife McArdle made the clip using footage from her 13-minute short film, Every Breaking Wave (streaming below), which came out earlier this month and… Source: RollingStone Link: U2 Relive […]
Through a fluke, a joint concert between Kanye West and Rihanna seems to have been confirmed. Live Nation in Finland recently posted a show billed to “Kanye & Rihanna,” set to take place on July 25th in Tallinn, Estonia; the on-sale date was listed as March 5th. A user on the… Source: RollingStone Link: Kanye West, […]
Tyler Farr, whose debut album Redneck Crazy spawned two hits, the Top Five title track and its moody follow-up “Whiskey in My Water,” has set April 28th as the release date for his next album. Produced by Jim Catino and Julian King, who were also at Crazy’s helm, the new… Source: RollingStone Link: Tyler Farr […]
In 1983, music icons like Michael Jackson, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson and Diana Ross came together for Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever, a live NBC special that celebrated the 25th year of that legendary label. Now an updated version of the program will air Saturday, February 28th at 8 p.m. EST… Source: RollingStone Link: 'Motown 25' […]
Every New Year’s Eve for the past five years, Boston-based country-rockabilly throwbacks Girls Guns and Glory have been honoring their hero Hank Williams with a string of tribute shows around the anniversary of his death. This week, the band releases one of those concerts on the live album Girls Guns and Glory Presents:… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear Girls […]
Tonight at 8 o’clock, a new Smithsonian Channel documentary tracks the life and influence of Huddie Ledbetter, the folk and blues singer best known as Lead Belly. Over the course of an hour, Legend of Lead Belly travels from his birth in the late 1880s through his 1949 death, covering… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch the […]