When he was a kid, after school Shane McAnally used to wander around the parking lot outside the clothing store his mother and grandmother owned and entertain himself by making up songs. “I must’ve looked like a little weirdo,” says the Texas native with a laugh, thinking back on his 9-year-old… Source: RollingStone Link: Songwriter Spotlight: […]

‘La Banda’ is from producers Simon Cowell and Haim Saban. Source: Yahoo Music Link: Ricky Martin Joins Univision Music Competition Show as Judge

Can David Letterman do it too? “You can, Dave! It’s in you! There’s a negro inside of you, Dave!” Source: Yahoo Music Link: Watch Will Smith Rap Along to His Own Entrance Music, 'Get Jiggy With It'

The company is moving onto the Sony Pictures Studios lot in Culver City during the next two years. Source: Yahoo Music Link: Sony Music to Exit Old CAA Building (Exclusive)

Police in Lantana, Florida have arrested Vanilla Ice for burglary. The “Ice Ice Baby” rapper allegedly stole household items from what appeared to be an abandoned home next to where he was renovating a home for his long-running reality-TV series The Vanilla Ice Project sometime last month, according to The… Source: RollingStone Link: Vanilla Ice […]

Early recordings of Jimi Hendrix when he was a guitarist in the R&B group Curtis Knight and the Squires will finally be released with the authorization of his estate’s Experience Hendrix LLC in a new collection titled You Can’t Use My Name: Curtis Knight & The Squires (featuring Jimi Hendrix) The… Source: RollingStone Link: Jimi Hendrix's […]

Pay to play: Kurt Cobain’s personal Seafirst BankCard Visa and “King of Clubs, Slot Club” card holder are headed to auction. The Nirvana frontman signed the card in blue ballpoint pen and apparently wrote what appears to be a phone number on the back of the card, which expired in February… Source: RollingStone Link: Kurt Cobain's […]

One member of Nicki Minaj’s touring crew was killed and another seriously injured early Wednesday morning following an altercation in Philadelphia, where rehearsals for Minaj’s upcoming trek were underway. “Two members of my team were stabbed last night in Philly. One was killed,” the rapper tweeted. “They had only been there… Source: RollingStone Link: Nicki Minaj […]

Last Wednesday, Courtney Love made her debut appearance on Empire as Elle Dallas, a fading star who had built Empire Entertainment as the first successful artist signed to the label. After taking on Al Green’s “Take Me to the River,” Rolling Stone has an exclusive clip of the singer’s next performance: an original, soulful song… Source: RollingStone Link: Exclusive: Watch […]

Drake’s surprise new mixtape If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late literally started from the bottom on its way here – Number One on the Billboard 200 – by going from not-even-existing to chart-topping over the course of just a few days. After it was unveiled in the late evening hours last Thursday,… Source: RollingStone Link: On the […]