Furious 7, the seventh installment in the Fast & Furious saga, is now the king of both the box office and the Billboard 200 as the film’s soundtrack landed at Number One in its third week of release. Ignited by another million weekend and Wiz Khalifa’s “See You Again,”… Source: RollingStone Link: On the Charts: […]
The Rolling Stones tend to center their concerts around their vast catalog of hits, but Mick Jagger tells us that this summer’s tour will also highlight some lesser-known tunes from Sticky Fingers. Nothing is confirmed, but it seems quite possible they’re going to play “Sister Morphine” and “Moonlight Mile” for the first time… Source: RollingStone Link: Readers' Poll: […]
The acclaimed documentary Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck will premiere on HBO on May 4th, and in another sneak peek from the authorized film about the Nirvana singer, we’re shown footage of Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic performing for a crowd of two people in a living room. The clip also features… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch Nirvana […]
In 1955, an 18-year-old Waylon Jennings hosted a radio show on KZZN, a small station in his Littlefield, Texas, hometown. For nearly 35 minutes, the future Outlaw Country progenitor performed songs and traded stories with a group of local musicians in a loose guitar pull. Remarkably, the program was recorded… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear a […]
Not only has Smollett shined as an actor, but he’s also proven he’s a No. 1 singer, as the soundtrack for the show debuted in the top spot. Source: Yahoo Music Link: 'Empire's' Jussie Smollett Says He's Working on 'Personal Music'
Not every outlaw rides alone. On June 2nd, Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard will release Django and Jimmie, an album of country duets, cover songs and newly-penned originals. Recorded in less than a week, it’s the latest in a long line of collaborations by the two country legends, who first teamed up for… Source: RollingStone Link: Willie […]
Nile Rodgers knows how to work a crowd. The iconic songwriter-producer-guitarist transformed Jimmy Kimmel Live! into a disco on Tuesday with a boisterous performance of the new Chic single, “I’ll Be There.” Backed by trumpet blasts and a funky rhythm section, Rodgers used his distinctive rhythm guitar to anchor the exuberant… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch Nile […]
By Michael Roddy LONDON (Reuters) – The Royal Opera’s music director Antonio Pappano said modern composers were ill-served by “mathematician conductors” who fail to find emotion in the music. The comments appeared to be a pre-emptive defense for a new work by Austria’s Georg Friedrich Haas that is part of the 2015-16 program that the […]
Tegan and Sara’s unusually intense relationship with their fans was forged in the duo’s early days the old fashioned way: “We’d hang out all night talking to people,” Tegan Quin explains. “By the time we actually had real fans, that was how we thought you did a show.” So much of their own performances… Source: RollingStone Link: Dear Tegan […]
An instant standard, the late Percy Sledge’s debut single and greatest hit, “When a Man Loves a Woman,” has been covered again and again over the past half-century: as a heartsick country tune, as a schmaltzy torch song, as lighter-waving rock & roll, as a jazz instrumental and even as a… Source: RollingStone Link: 10 Best […]