Rock and roll hall of famers Elton John, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards all make the top 10 with Adele topping the young musicians list for the third year running. Source: Yahoo Music Link: Paul McCartney Tops U.K. Music Rich List With .1BN Fortune
The starting bid is set at $800,000. Source: Yahoo Music Link: 'Sound of Music' Drapery Costumes Headed to Auction
Plus a downtown hotel's restaurant switcheroo. Source: Yahoo Music Link: Arterra's New Chef and a Craft Beer & Music Fest in Vista
EDM and hip-hop’s most promising hitmakers are joining forces for Hard Summer’s 2015 line-up. With the Weekend and Jack Ü topping the list, the annual California festival, now in its eighth year, will also feature the Chemical Brothers, Schoolboy Q, ILoveMakonnen, Chromeo, Ratatat and DJ Mustard, among many others. Watch the… Source: RollingStone Link: The Weeknd, […]
A California appeals court has allowed Kanye West and Kim Kardashian’s lawsuit against YouTube’s co-founder to proceed. The rapper and reality star sued tech exec Chad Hurley after the former YouTube CEO leaked video footage of West’s surprise 2013 marriage proposal to Kardashian despite signing a confidentiality agreement. West’s elaborate proposal to Kardashian, her… Source: RollingStone Link: Kanye […]
The music industry landscape is constantly shifting as CD sales and downloads are being forced out by streams and YouTube views and a new report says that Spotify is worth more than every major label combined. Even the mediums in which artists are discovered are changing as, for the first time, a… Source: RollingStone Link: On the […]
This January, Nick Murphy, the twenty-something multi-instrumentalist and singer who performs as Chet Faker, had what he considers to be one of the strangest nights of the year. He managed to actually hang out with friends, obligation-free, in a city in which he wasn’t touring. The experience felt alien. “It was weird… Source: RollingStone Link: Chet […]
The Grateful Dead, along with special guest Trey Anastasio, will perform together one last time this summer at their Fare Thee Well concerts in Santa Clara, California and Chicago. All five shows sold out immediately, but if you were among the tens of thousands of fans who didn’t get tickets for the summer’s… Source: RollingStone Link: Grateful Dead […]
Leading up to working on a new Metallica LP, guitarist Kirk Hammett started the habit of recording his song ideas onto his iPhone. By a certain point, he’d amassed what he estimated to be 250 riffs, but then about six months ago – to use his words from a recent… Source: RollingStone Link: Kirk Hammett […]
On April 22nd, 1936, Glen Travis Campbell was born in the tiny Billstown community near Delight, Arkansas. Although he began his career as a bluegrass musician, he would go on, thanks to such crossover successes as “Galveston” and “By the Time I Get to Phoenix,” to become one of the… Source: RollingStone Link: Flashback: Glen […]