Nearly 600 miles separate Flint, Michigan, from Nashville, Tennessee. For Whitey Morgan, a honky-tonk hell-raiser who grew up in the shadow of Flint’s shuttered factory buildings, that distance might as well be 6,000 miles.  Large, bearded and barrel-chested, Morgan mixes the twang of his outlaw heroes with the blue-collar bombast of… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]

Last November, John Lennon’s Gretsch guitar, the instrument the rock legend used to record the Beatles’ 1966 classic “Paperback Writer,” hit the auction block, with TracksAuction, the company selling the instrument, calling it “the most significant of John’s guitars to come onto the market in the last 30 years.” Lennon’s cousin, David Birch, had… Source: RollingStone Link: John Lennon's […]

This May, the annual Red Bull Music Academy Festival will once again invade New York with a month’s worth of performances, conversations, parties, record fairs and other unique music-related events. George Clinton, A$AP Rocky and FKA twigs are among those who have scheduled events in association with the RBMA fest…. Source: RollingStone Link: George Clinton, […]

TV on the Radio, Tove Lo, the Zombies, Best Coast, Fetty Wap, Alex Winston and more will be performing at Rolling Stone Stage: Austin, our annual Texas throwdown, presented by Hyundai and Transitions Lenses.  On Tuesday, March 17th, Mellow Johnny’s Bike Shop will be transformed into an eclectic performance venue featuring… Source: RollingStone Link: Tove […]

For his forthcoming 35th studio album, Duets: Re-Working the Catalogue, Van Morrison is offering new takes on some of his lesser-known tracks going back to 1970’s “Lord, If I Ever Needed Someone.” “Irish Heartbeat,” the new recording of which can be heard below, originally appeared on Morrison’s 1983 Inarticulate Speech of… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear Van […]

The HBO documentary Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck is already drawing rave reviews on the film festival circuit, including sold-out showings at both Sundance and the True/False fests before its television premiere on May 4th. However, anticipation for the film’s soundtrack is about to hit fever pitch as director Brett Morgen revealed… Source: RollingStone Link: Unreleased Kurt […]

In the early hours of November 23rd, 2013, outlaw-country artist Wayne Mills and his friend, bar owner Chris Ferrell, became engaged in an altercation in Ferrell’s Nashville bar, the Pit and Barrel. It ended with Ferrell pulling a .22 pistol and firing three shots, one of which hit the journeyman… Source: RollingStone Link: Bar Owner […]

Twenty years after the release of 1995’s Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, Wu-Tang Clan member Raekwon is crowdfunding a film about his seminal, influential debut LP. The Purple Tape Files: The Documentary & Film will offer a retrospective look at the album and its impact on pop culture, using interviews with musicians, journalists and industry… Source: RollingStone Link: Raekwon Talks […]

F ifty years ago this May, Robert Hunter popped into a pizza parlor in Menlo Park, California, to see his friend Jerry Garcia play in his new electric band, the Warlocks. “They were good, just dandy,” recalls Hunter, sitting in the living room of his San Rafael, California, home. “It was… Source: RollingStone Link: Robert […]

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