In 1982, Willie Nelson released his version of “Always on My Mind,” the timeless ballad written by Wayne Carson, Johnny Christopher and Mark James and covered by everyone from Elvis Presley to the Pet Shop Boys. For the final video of his “Roots Sessions” series, Ray Scott gives the song… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch Ray […]
In 1973, just four years after Woodstock, the most iconic American music festival of its kind, country star Willie Nelson hosted his first-ever Fourth of July Picnic in Dripping Springs, Texas, just outside the state’s capital city of Austin. In 2015, for the first time in five years, the Independence… Source: RollingStone Link: Eric Church, […]
Last March, Swedish pop songwriter Tove Lo came to South by Southwest to perform her first U.S. shows. By the end of the year, she had released her debut album, Queen of the Clouds, and scored a Top Five hit with the conflicted, self-destructive “Habits.” Tove returned this year as one of the festival’s bigger names —… Source: RollingStone Link: Inside […]
“Festivals like to say that they’re diverse,” said particularly eclectic folk imagineer Rhiannon Giddens onstage at the fourth edition of Knoxville’s Big Ears Festival, “but this is a diverse festival.” In one evening at Big Ears 2015, you could see a full-bodied, often eerily precise Knoxville Symphony Orchestra interpreting Max Richter’s… Source: RollingStone Link: Big […]
Brooks & Dunn, the lauded country duo who called it quits in 2010, are reuniting for an organization that awarded them 27 trophies over the course of their 20-year career together. Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn, who pursued solo careers after their Last Rodeo tour wrapped nearly five years ago,… Source: RollingStone Link: Brooks & […]
Chaz Bundick has taken another unexpected detour with his fourth album, What For? The 10-track LP, the writer-producer’s latest under the Toro y Moi moniker, is full of fuzz-pedal guitars, soulful rhythms and classic rock chord changes — a change of pace from his previous forays into chillwave and funky… Source: RollingStone Link: Stream Toro […]
Brian Kelley may have been raised in the Sunshine State – and represent it as one half of Florida Georgia Line – but he grew up a fan of the Atlanta Braves, coming of age during the franchise’s heyday in the Nineties. He translated that fandom into a standout career… Source: RollingStone Link: MLB 2015: […]
Brandon Flowers has looked to the past in more ways than one for his new era. Along with an even heavier dose of New Wave influencing his solo single “Can’t Deny My Love,” the song’s video takes the singer and co-star Evan Rachel Wood back to the 19th century. According to DIY Magazine,… Source: RollingStone Link: See […]
“Let’s put it this way,” John Oates says, discussing how his approach to touring has changed over the past 40 years. “I still play music for free, but now you’ve gotta pay me to leave my house, sleep in a hotel and go on an airplane.” Last summer, the singer flew… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]
Do veteran electronic gnashers the Prodigy dare to drop an album in the Skrillex era? With their usual arsenal of Nirvana-esque riffs all but ineffective in a post-dubstep world, the resilient crew instead swerves hard into digital hardcore noise on their sixth album. They ignore modern EDM conventions almost completely… Source: RollingStone Link: The Day […]