Over the past two years, Rhiannon Giddens has become one of the most promising voices in American roots music. The frontwoman for adventurous string-band trio the Carolina Chocolate Drops, she’s taken show-stealing turns on T Bone Burnett-helmed projects like last year’s New Basement Tapes, doing retooled Bob Dylan tunes alongside… Source: RollingStone Link: Tomorrow Is […]
It’s been 14 years since “Thong Song” Lothario Sisqó released an album — he’s kind of like D’Angelo, if everyone forgot to remember he was gone. In the intervening years, Sisqó has released a couple of albums with his Nineties R&B group Dru Hill and appeared on shows like Celebrity Big… Source: RollingStone Link: Last Dragon
Singer-songwriter Josh Tillman debuted “Bored in the U.S.A.” — a highlight of his ornate second LP as Father John Misty — on Letterman with a Celine Dion-worthy string orchestra, a wayward laugh track and prankster soulfulness. “Save me, white Jesus. . . . /They gave me a useless education/And a subprime loan on a Craftsman home,”… Source: RollingStone Link: I Love […]
The Replacements’ unlikely reunion will stretch into 2015 as Paul Westerberg, Tommy Stinson and company have plotted a 13-date month-long Back By Unpopular Demand tour kicking off April 9th at Seattle’s Paramount Theatre. The jaunt also features an April 13th gig at San Francisco’s Masonic and an April 16th stop at Los… Source: RollingStone Link: Replacements […]
Last night, after the 57th annual Grammy Awards came to a close in a sea of Prince cameos and Kanye West rants, Old Crow Medicine Show split into two groups. Most of the guys wanted to celebrate their newest award — a golden gramophone in honor of 2014’s Remedy, which… Source: RollingStone Link: Old Crow […]
A supergroup featuring members of Tool, Mastodon and Off! have united to form a new band, Legend of the Seagullmen. The cinematic-sounding hard rockers, consisting of Mastodon vocalist-guitarist Brent Hinds, Tool drummer Danny Carey and Off! and Burning Brides guitarist Dimitri Coats, among others, have been recording with film director… Source: RollingStone Link: Tool, Mastodon […]
In August 2006, Sleater-Kinney said farewell to their loyal fans with a scorching show in their Portland hometown. Nine years later, they finally took the stage again in the Northwest, this time headlining Spokane’s Knitting Factory in Washington. Last night at the trio’s anticipated comeback gig, the group — singer-guitarists Carrie Brownstein and… Source: RollingStone Link: Backstage at […]
For a songwriter, you know you’ve made it if you’re invited to John Prine’s annual Christmas party, and thus also to become a member of his “family.” Each year, the legendary singer-songwriter gathers some of Nashville’s finest pickers and singers, collectively known as the Whole Damn Family, to ring in… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch Kacey […]
Last night as the 2015 Grammy broadcast stretched across three and a half hours, TV viewers saw massive performances from Kanye West, Rihanna, Sia and Pharrell (among others: the show featured 23 sets). The folks lucky enough to be seated in the Staples Center caught even more of the action, but Rolling Stone got the ultimate view… Source: RollingStone Link: Behind the […]
Joni Mitchell recounted the circumstances that led her to wear blackface and become “the black guy in front” on the cover of her 1977 album, Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter, in a new interview with New York. “I was being butchered by a dentist who was capping my teeth — and he… Source: RollingStone Link: Joni […]