Snoop Dogg takes off to a retro-futuristic paradise packed with life’s finest, freshest things in the new video for “Peaches N Cream,” the Pharrell-produced, Charlie Wilson-assisted first single from his upcoming LP, Bush. Both Wilson and Pharrell — donning yet another towering hat — join Snoop in this magical land built out… Source: RollingStone Link: Snoop […]

When synth-pop trailblazers Depeche Mode put out their darkly hued seventh album, Violator, a quarter of a century ago, it was an event. The Beatles may have had Beatlemania, but the group had their own bloodthirsty zombie horde willing to crush anything standing between them and their favorite band. One day after… Source: RollingStone Link: Black Celebration: […]

When Randy Travis released “I Told You So” from his 1987 album Always & Forever, it quickly became a landmark song for his career. Though the single had humble beginnings — first sung in clubs and recorded under Travis’s stage name “Randy Ray” — it went on to reach platinum… Source: RollingStone Link: Flashback: Watch […]

The long-in-the-works Janis Joplin biopic starring Amy Adams, Get It While You Can, has hit yet another developmental snag: The film’s producers, LKL Productions and the Switzerland-based Silver Reel, have sued writer-producer Ron Terry, his affiliated companies and the investment company Chesterton Capital, claiming the latter three have breached the… Source: RollingStone Link: Janis Joplin […]

We’re just one month away from the annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony. Every living artist entering the institution — a list that includes Green Day, Joan Jett and Bill Withers — is likely to be on hand, and they’re going to be joined by Paul McCartney, Dave Grohl, Stevie Wonder,… Source: RollingStone Link: Rock and […]

For the first time since being hit with a .3 million verdict in the “Blurred Lines” trial, Pharrell Williams has opened up about his thoughts regarding the court’s decision to award the Marvin Gaye estate for similarities based on inspiration and not replication. “The verdict handicaps any creator out there who is making something… Source: RollingStone Link: Pharrell […]

For 38 nights last fall, Dwight Yoakam brought his rhinestone-bedazzled honky-tonk show to arenas for the first time in more than a decade — but instead of headlining, Yoakam was the opening act on Eric Church’s Outsiders tour. “A lot of the audience was new to anything older than three or… Source: RollingStone Link: Dwight Yoakam […]

Hashtag this one Portrait of the Artist as a Manchild in the Land of Broken Promises. Thanks to D’Angelo’s Black Messiah and Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly, 2015 will be remembered as the year radical Black politics and for-real Black music resurged in tandem to converge on the nation’s… Source: RollingStone Link: To Pimp […]

My Morning Jacket have shared a trippy, oceanic trailer for their seventh studio album, The Waterfall. The two-minute clip, available above, shows the veteran rock quintet recording the 10-track LP at the idyllic Panoramic House studio at Northern California’s Stinson Beach. “We hope you enjoy this peek under the waterfall,” the… Source: RollingStone Link: My Morning […]

Following news that an “authorized” biopic about soul singer Sam Cooke and the strange circumstances surrounding his 1964 death was on the way, members of the Cooke family – including his younger brother L.C. Cooke – have since denied involvement in the project. The Cooke family, in association with ABKCO Films, were… Source: RollingStone Link: Sam Cooke's […]