Front and Center, which has delivered a series of first-rate live music performances on Public Television since 2012, first joined in partnership with the Country Music Association last year for a pair of episodes spotlighting the long-running CMA Songwriters Series. Adding another pair of specials to their upcoming season, Front… Source: RollingStone Link: See Brandy […]
Rihanna doesn’t break the fourth wall. Last night at the iHeartRadio Music Awards in Los Angeles, the Unapologetic singer debuted her new single, “Bitch Better Have My Money,” and did it in true Rihanna fashion — with knee-high boots, a giant green fur coat and a full-scale replica helicopter looming behind… Source: RollingStone Link: IHeartRadio Music […]
“We all agree that there should be more women in country music,” Miranda Lambert proudly announced at the beginning of her encore Saturday night at Madison Square Garden. “And we also all really miss the Dixie Chicks.” Then, with help from opening act Ashley Monroe and backup singer Gwen Sebastian,… Source: RollingStone Link: Miranda Lambert […]
A group of boys play in a rocky desert and bang a drum in the video for Smashing Pumpkins’ “Drum + Fife” – a cut off their recent Monuments to an Elegy – but the fun ends when land mines start exploding around them. Frontman Billy Corgan’s wistful chorus, “I will… Source: RollingStone Link: Smashing Pumpkins […]
“I think people are tired of the bullshit and are ready for the real substance,” says John Osborne, in between sips of a beer at Nashville’s Pinewood Social, overlooking both a scrapyard and the Cumberland River. He and brother T.J., who make up the rootsy duo Brothers Osborne, are holding… Source: RollingStone Link: Brothers Osborne […]
The 2015 iHeartRadio Music Awards promised there would be “unexpected collaborations” between the marquee artists attending the Los Angeles event, and the ceremony didn’t disappoint as Taylor Swift joined Madonna for an acoustic rendition of the Rebel Heart singer’s new single “Ghosttown.” After the huge spectacles Madonna brought to her Grammy and (ill-fated) Brit Awards performances… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]
Capping three evening pairings with Willie Nelson at WhiteWater Amphitheater on Saturday, 15 minutes outside the Central Texas river-tubing paradise of New Braunfels, Merle Haggard thought the audience wasn’t being responsive enough to his “we don’t smoke marijuana in Muskogee” line, so he tried it again. A minute or so… Source: RollingStone Link: Willie Nelson […]
Mr. SexyBack said he wasn't always one of the cool kids. Source: Yahoo Music Link: Timberlake offers positive words at iHeartRadio Music Awards
Last December, Killer Mike and author Erik Nielson teamed to pen an op-ed examining how the criminal justice system often employs rap lyrics as a means to convict suspects. The Run the Jewels rapper’s first column focused on the case of Anthony Elonis, and now in their latest op-ed for Vox that examines hip-hop’s “poetic (in)justice,”… Source: RollingStone Link: Killer Mike: […]
Coachella and Lollapalooza are among the growing number of music festivals to ban selfie sticks from the concert grounds. On a list of prohibited items on the Lollapalooza site, the fest states they’ve outlawed “GoPro attachments like sticks, selfie sticks & monopods,” while Coachella similarly frowns upon “selfie sticks /… Source: RollingStone Link: Coachella, Lollapalooza […]