Paul McCartney’s childhood home in Liverpool, England is expected to sell for at least £100,000 (approximately 4,000) when it goes to auction at 7 p.m. GMT today, February 26th, The Guardian reports. Fittingly, the auction will take place at the famed Cavern Club where the Beatles played some of their earliest gigs. International bidders,… Source: RollingStone Link: Paul […]
Nothing ever happens on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, a place where corners have long been dominated by several varieties of frozen yogurt shops and a Banksy lives under plexiglass. Even Seinfeld, its number-one cultural landmark, famously called itself “a show about nothing.” And so it’s appropriate that Wale – whose… Source: RollingStone Link: Wale Previews […]
For most of Sam Hunt’s life, the Georgia-born country singer was better known for his arm than his voice. As a teenager in Cedartown, Georgia – the home of an adulterous sharecropper’s daughter in an early Waylon Jennings murder ballad – his quarterback skills earned him a High School Heisman nomination,… Source: RollingStone Link: Sam Hunt: […]
When Sundy Best released their latest album Salvation City in December, the propulsive “Do You Wanna Go” immediately stood out as a single, especially to Sirius/XM country station the Highway. The jangling Tom Petty-like track is currently in the channel’s rotation. To match the vibrancy of “Do You Wanna Go,” the… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch Sundy […]
Wynonna Judd has taken part in the recording of a song paying tribute to murdered former Marine Chris Kyle and his friend, Chris Littlefield. Judd joins the Pete Scobell Band on “Hearts I Leave Behind,” a track penned by famed Nashville songwriter Travis Meadows. Earlier this week, a guilty verdict was… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear […]
“It’ll be a battle to be match fit for May 14th,” Bono confesses, referring to the opening date in Vancouver of U2’s impending tour. Asked to describe the state of his health after the bicycle accident in New York last November that left him with multiple injuries, including a facial fracture,… Source: RollingStone Link: U2's Last […]
Former Pearl Jam drummer Dave Abbruzzese, who was behind the kit for band’s 1993 album Vs. and 1994 LP Vitalogy, has two warrants out for his arrest in Denton, Texas: Possession of a controlled substance and failure to appear on a manufacture or delivery of substance charge. The news was first reported by… Source: RollingStone Link: Former Pearl […]
Competing music streaming services are beginning to discover that the best way to get consumers to sign up and to start paying a monthly subscription is to offer a free tier, too. On Wednesday, Google announced that Google Play Music subscribers can now upload and store 50,000 tracks to the cloud free of charge that […]
Years ago, before American society had achieved full pornofication, the raciest image in a teenager’s room might be an album cover. And many musicians (and record-company art departments) had figured out that an easy way to goose sales was to slap a photo of a half-naked girl on the cover,… Source: RollingStone Link: As Nasty […]
On a night where Garth Brooks was playing a small yet passionate club show across town, a pair of dad jeans and some ratty wigs was the hottest ticket in Nashville. To kick off Country Radio Seminar week, the annual gathering of radio execs and programmers in Music City, Dierks Bentley assembled… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch Miranda […]