Converge and Cave In have a long “incestuous musical relationship,” as the latter’s singer-guitarist Steve Brodsky puts it. Growing up together in the Nineties New England metal/hardcore scene, the two outfits have shared band members and overlapped in supergroups like Old Man Gloom. Their latest crossover is Mutoid Man, a swaggering… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear Converge […]
The members of Royal Thunder jam amid kaleidoscopic colors, as a woman embarks on an abstract spiritual quest, in the group’s mysterious “Time Machine” video. Frontwoman Mlny Parsonz – whose impassioned yowls set the group’s dramatic and occasionally Zeppelin-esque riffs apart from other upstart psychedelic headbangers – underwent her own often-harrowing journey… Source: RollingStone Link: Royal Thunder's […]
Billy Bob Thornton is offering a bit of advice: always lie. Seated on a couch in Nashville’s historic RCA Studio A with his fellow Boxmasters — the rock-rockabilly-country group he formed in 2007 — Thornton is opening up about one of the key songs on the band’s new double album, Somewhere… Source: RollingStone Link: Billy Bob […]
When it comes to the hazards of indie-rock fame, Palma Violets singer Chilli Jesson doesn’t mince words. “You know those second albums with sausage-munching producers who pick indie bands signed to fucking major labels and charge them 200 grand?” he asks Rolling Stone, chuckling a bit at his own gale-force scorn…. Source: RollingStone Link: Palma Violets […]
Lindi Ortega is a big Jeff Bridges fan. She loves the Dude, Bridges’ hippie-go-lucky protagonist from The Big Lebowski, but it’s the twang, trials and tribulations of Bad Blake — the gone-to-seed country star in Crazy Heart, who dilutes his talent with a nightly wash of off-brand whiskey — that… Source: RollingStone Link: Lindi Ortega […]
Kris Kristofferson delivers a haunting, somber rendition of Tom Petty’s classic “Won’t Back Down” in the first-look promo trailer for History’s bloody new miniseries, Texas Rising. Backed by piano and a string section, Kristofferson’s weathered voice gives the song a whole new outlook, going from proud and optimistic to full of… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear […]
Zac Brown Band have revealed the new video for their latest chart-topping hit, “Homegrown,” and it takes its title literally. Over 1,000 fans submitted their own video clips for the project, creating a hodgepodge of home movies that showcase the joy of simple American living, just like the song glorifies. Brown and… Source: RollingStone Link: […]
The Beatles’ classic ballads will be the focus of an upcoming tribute album featuring acoustic Fab Four covers by artists like Jack Bruce, Heart’s Ann Wilson, Todd Rundgren and more. Keep Calm and Salute the Beatles, due out April 28th, will feature Bruce’s cover of “Eleanor Rigby,” recorded just prior to the Cream… Source: RollingStone Link: Jack Bruce, […]
It was almost too good to last: In October 2013, My Morning Jacket gathered to record their seventh album, in a hilltop mansion in Stinson Beach, the Northern California town where Jerry Garcia lived for years. The band would record during the day, then cook dinner together and walk on… Source: RollingStone Link: Remaking My […]
Update: The show has ended, but the concert can be replayed in the video above. System of a Down are descended from survivors of the Armenian genocide, and as a band, they have long sought to make people more aware of the massacres and deportations that killed over a million people and… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]