Jay Z, Jack White and other Tidal superstars have been thanking their streaming service subscribers for their patronage in a unique way. In addition to offering high-quality audio and exclusive content, the rapper and the Lazaretto rocker have personally called subscribers to express their gratitude for signing up for the fledgling… Source: RollingStone Link: Jay Z, […]

“I think some people will love it and some people will hate it,” says Nanna Bryndis Hilmarsdottir, the lead singer for Of Monsters and Men. She’s talking about “Thousand Eyes,” one of her favorite songs on the Icelandic band’s forthcoming album, Beneath the Skin, an abrupt shift from the post-Mumford… Source: RollingStone Link: Of Monsters […]

“This is a story that is true, and false, and I don’t know which one it is,” says William Clark Green of “Ringling Road,” the debut single and title track of his third album. The 28-year-old singer-songwriter — riding a swell of buzz that extends from 2013’s Rose Queen and its… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear […]

Sam Smith had a Top Five hit in 2014 with “I’m Not the Only One,” from his multiple-Grammy-winning In the Lonely Hour album, and the Englishman’s fans are not the only ones benefiting from his soulful performance of the song. Young country superstar Hunter Hayes, who at 23 is a… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch Hunter […]

“I feel like we’ve been through puberty together,” said Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong toward the close of the band’s joyous, marathon show at Cleveland’s House of Blues last night. It was their first U.S. show in two years and much of the adoring throng was middle-aged guys and… Source: RollingStone Link: Green Day […]

Foo Fighters are issuing a collection of rare, early demos for Record Store Day tomorrow, but that’s not the release that Dave Grohl originally wanted to put out. His original idea was a live recording of the band’s first gig. This year marks the 20th anniversary of both the group’s debut album,… Source: RollingStone Link: Dave […]

It’s been a long and twisted road, but somehow the three snotty punks in Green Day – singer and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong, bassist Mike Dirnt and drummer Tré Cool – have made it from the cramped stage at Berkeley’s 924 Gilman Street to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The… Source: RollingStone Link: Time of […]

Serj Tankian and his fellow Armenian-American rockers in System of a Down have dedicated their current Wake Up the Souls tour toward raising awareness of the Armenian Genocide of 1915 and forcing Turkey to take accountability. As an extension of the Toxicity group’s current trek, Tankian and composer John Psathas have teamed up for… Source: RollingStone Link: Serj Tankian […]

Have you heard the one about Brad Paisley bringing six downright hilarious comedians to the Wild West Comedy Festival, held this week in Nashville? You might say it was like shooting fish in a barrel. And if you’re comic Jon Reep, you ask why you’d be shooting fish in a… Source: RollingStone Link: Brad Paisley […]

Mingiedi Mawangu, the founder of the influential “Congotronics” collective Konono Nº1, passed away Wednesday night in Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the band confirmed on Facebook. He was 85. No cause of death was given. “[Mawangu] founded Konono Nº1 in the 1960s and invented his own electrified likembe,… Source: RollingStone Link: Mingiedi Mawangu, […]