Mickey Guyton’s career strategy was born of humility. After juggling college with two part-time jobs in Los Angeles, she moved to Nashville in 2011 to pursue her country music dreams — just like practically half the city’s transplants. So the fact that she scored a record deal fairly quickly out… Source: RollingStone Link: Mickey Guyton's […]
Though the EDM festival scene continues to bloom, Miami’s Ultra Music Festival remains the ultimate destination, 16 years since its inception. For the 2015 edition, the organizers have crowd-pleasing down to a science: Pretty much every Vegas-level resident you can think of is booked on the main stage and carefully themed smaller stages appeal to other big-room… Source: RollingStone Link: Ultra Music […]
Former Joy Division bassist Peter Hook will revisit the band’s entire catalog when he and his band the Light perform both of Joy Division’s classic albums – 1979’s Unknown Pleasures and 1980’s Closer – among other songs at a charity gig May 18th at the Christ Church in Macclesfield, England, the town… Source: RollingStone Link: Peter Hook […]
“I’m just a horse with no name,” sings Laura Marling on “Warrior” — slyly invoking the 1970s soft-rock hit by America while conjuring a wanderer on an English moor, and teasing a “horse”/”whore” play on words while telling her errant knight to please dismount. It’s a flash of lyrical left hooks… Source: RollingStone Link: Short Movie
Courtney Barnett is only on her first proper album, but she’s already setting herself apart as one of the sharpest, most original songwriters around — at any level, in any genre. The Australian singer-guitarist, 27, is a self-strafing humorist à la Lena Dunham who’s also a Dylan-style word ninja, spooling out… Source: RollingStone Link: Sometimes I […]
The duets album is often a stroke session that involves a minimum of thought — but not for Van Morrison. Duets is as cantankerous and eccentric as any of the man’s other projects. Rather than just bring in a few glossy names to decorate his greatest hits, he digs up deep… Source: RollingStone Link: Duets: Re-Working […]
YouTube on Monday premiered videos from 14 musicians as it tried a new, virtual-only format for the second edition of its music awards. The giant video-sharing site had searched for a new approach after a mixed reaction to its inaugural event in 2013, which featured a livestreamed show from New York that appeared aimed at […]
YouTube on Monday premiered videos from 14 musicians as it tried a new, virtual-only format for the second edition of its music awards. The giant video-sharing site had searched for a new approach after a mixed reaction to its inaugural event in 2013, which featured a livestreamed show from New York that appeared aimed at […]
David Crosby hit a jogger at 55 miles per hour – the posted speed limit – while driving in Santa Ynez, California, according to KEYT. Emergency responders airlifted 46-year-old victim Jose Jiminez, who suffered multiple fractures, abrasions and lacerations, to a hospital. His injuries are reportedly not life-threatening. The incident took… Source: RollingStone Link: David Crosby […]
Travis Barker knew he’d be performing at WWE’s WrestleMania with Skylar Grey and Kid Ink for a while now – he’s even mentioned it in previous interviews – but he was never really clear what he’d be performing. Until this morning, that is. “I just got the music that I’m playing!”… Source: RollingStone Link: Travis […]