Coachella’s opening weekend featured unexpected guests like Zack de la Rocha joining Run the Jewels, Haim performing alongside Jenny Lewis and Madonna making out with Drake, but the California fest’s second weekend had an even bigger surprise in store: Kanye West came out unannounced during the Weeknd’s late Saturday night slot. The… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch Kanye […]
When the 50th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards airs Sunday night on CBS from AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, there will be more than 7,000 workers behind the scenes trying to pull off a seamless show. Academy of Country Music CEO Bob Romeo gave Rolling Stone Country a private… Source: RollingStone Link: ACMs 2015: […]
“It’s like my record collection is actually sitting in this room,” Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong said midway through his acceptance speech at the 30th annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony. “The fact that I heard Patti Smith’s Horses as a kid, and now there you are… Source: RollingStone Link: Ringo Starr […]
Ever one to get by “With a Little Help From My Friends,” Ringo Starr was applauded by a stellar array of friends, colleagues and admirers Saturday night when he took the stage at Cleveland’s Public Hall to accept the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s Award for Musical Excellence from his former… Source: RollingStone Link: Read Ringo […]
Erudite and articulate as he unquestionably was, Lou Reed could also be a man of few words, depending on his mood. In 1996, when Reed was first inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Velvet Underground, he kept his acceptance speech as short and modest… Source: RollingStone Link: Read Laurie […]
In 1996, Lou Reed, John Cale and Moe Tucker performed “Last Night I Said Goodbye to My Friend” at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony in a poignant tribute to their late Velvet Underground cohort Sterling Morrison. Saturday night, however, it was Reed who was the subject of… Source: RollingStone Link: Karen O, […]
When it came to handing the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s Award for Musical Excellence out to Ringo Starr, there was certainly no one more appropriate for the task than Paul McCartney. Not only are the two men the sole surviving members of the Beatles — for whom they comprised… Source: RollingStone Link: 'Ringo Nailed […]
In 2002, Green Day attended their first Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction festivities as musical fill-ins for the Ramones, performing three of their songs in honor of the seminal New York punk band’s induction. On Saturday night, the multi-platinum East Bay pop-punks played three songs from their own catalog,… Source: RollingStone Link: Green Day […]
Friends, colleagues, poets, sometime label mates and full-time figureheads (and survivors) of one of New York City’s most vibrant and violent eras, Patti Smith and Lou Reed occupied a similar stratum of rock history. But Smith — who first met Reed during the Velvet Underground’s legendary 1970 stand at Max’s Kansas City… Source: RollingStone Link: Read Patti […]
“This is my last electric show I’m going to play in a long while,” White told the festival crowd. Source: Yahoo Music Link: Coachella 2015: Kanye West Joins The Weeknd, Jack White Delivers Scorching Set and Other Top Saturday Week-Two Moments