Lee Ann Womack visited the set of Conan Thursday evening — nearly 14 years to the day after her first appearance on Late Night With Conan O’Brien, where she sang “I Hope You Dance” — to rip through the title track of The Way I’m Livin’. Joining her were a group… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]
After Kendrick Lamar dropped his powerful new single “The Blacker the Berry,” it was revealed that Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon had annotated Lamar’s latest on the lyrics site Genius. A deeper look at Chabon’s Genius profile, where he posts using the name @Vanzorn – the pseudonym August Van Zorn is frequently employed by Chabon… Source: RollingStone Link: Michael Chabon […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Will Smith may be "Gettin' "Jiggy Wit It" again. He says he's hoping to return to hip-hop and never stopped recording privately. Source: Yahoo Music Link: Will Smith says he's got the music 'bug'
A native of Nutbush in west Tennessee’s cotton-rich Haywood County, Tina Tuner was born Anna Mae Bullock in 1939 and would go on to become a household name in the Sixties and Seventies, performing alongside her soon-to-be-ex-husband, Ike Turner. Her extraordinary career would send her to the pop charts and… Source: RollingStone Link: Flashback: Tina […]
Spending too much time decoding this 78-minute behemoth might break your brain. Lupe Fiasco’s fifth album is a swirl of double meanings, extended metaphors about yoga and math, and increasingly labyrinthine ways to say “I’m dope” (“Nerd gang, make Mandelbrot sets when we handshake”). Even on its surface, though, it’s… Source: RollingStone Link: Tetsuo & […]
A chart-topping smash in the U.K., this English singer-songwriter’s debut LP is a post-Spotify wonder, triangulating herky-jerky indie rock, the rustic strum of Lumineers-style folk and the blue-eyed R&B of his tourmate Sam Smith. George Ezra’s sound is omnivorous, and his swagger is decidedly modern, but the 21-year-old star has… Source: RollingStone Link: Wanted on […]
When Nashville’s leading ladies head to the Grammy Awards, it’s all frills without the fuss. Country transplant Michelle Branch does her own makeup, and nominated songwriter Natalie Hemby’s Grammy pre-party involves ironing her dress. Lee Ann Womack swaps jokes with her makeup artist, and Brandy Clark makes a dressing room… Source: RollingStone Link: Grammy Glam: […]
One week after setting chart history by joining an elite club where only Whitney Houston was the only other female member, Taylor Swift continued her Billboard 200 reign as her 1989 stayed at Number One for an 11th non-consecutive week. Swift’s fifth LP sold another 108,000 units in its 15th week on the charts. Since… Source: RollingStone Link: On […]
A previously unreleased version of the 1975 Led Zeppelin single “Trampled Under Foot,” titled “Brandy and Coke” when the band was still working out the song, is now streaming online (via Ultimate Classic Rock). The track, which features less guitar instrumentation and more vocal presence from Robert Plant, will be… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear Led […]
People who haven’t paid that much attention to Bob Dylan’s career often see him as a creature from the 1960s, the folk singer that plugged in and released “Like a Rolling Stone” before settling into a comfortable existence as an oldies act. His many fans know he continued churning out stunningly… Source: RollingStone Link: Readers' Poll: […]