When Steve Earle sat for Rolling Stone Country’s cameras in Nashville, he performed two songs from his new blues album Terraplane: the free-and-easy “Ain’t Nobody’s Daddy Now,” which premiered last week, and the aching “You’re the Best Lover That I Ever Had,” debuting today. For “You’re the Best Lover,” Earle heralds… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]

“I haven’t felt like this in a long time,” Brandon Flowers says. It’s a few weeks before the release of the Killers frontman’s second solo album, The Desired Effect (due out May 18th), and he’s all revved up when he calls from his Las Vegas home. “I’m not even going… Source: RollingStone Link: Brandon Flowers […]

It’s 3 p.m. in Los Angeles, which means that Kurt Vile has just finished eating breakfast. When the beloved psych-rocker began working on his new album last year in Philadelphia, he wanted to reconsider the way he makes music and unlearn some of his acquired habits. This, it turned out, was… Source: RollingStone Link: How Kurt […]

Jimmy Fallon’s Lip Sync Battle, a Spike spinoff of The Tonight Show’s wildly popular segment where celebrities mime along to popular hits, premiered Thursday night with an epic showdown between Fallon and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. At stake: The championship LSB belt. The Rock, fresh off his fantastic turn as SNL host, opened… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]

In Tom DeLonge’s new video for “New World,” the former Blink-182 member shows just how hard he can rock without the aid of his old band. “New World” is the lead single off To the Stars, DeLonge’s debut solo album replete with new material and old Blink-182 demos. The video shows DeLonge alone… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]

Tidal’s key assets are the world’s biggest pop stars, including Jay Z, Beyonce, Madonna, Rihanna and Kanye West, and a set of principles that suggest artists should always receive proper compensation. But does the newly relaunched music-streaming service have anything else to compete with Spotify or Apple’s upcoming Beats Music? “If… Source: RollingStone Link: Would […]

The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers honors the old guard and the vanguard of pop. Source: Yahoo Music Link: ASCAP Pop Music Awards to Honor KISS, Doobie Brothers, St. Vincent

When Dan Deacon arrived in Baltimore a decade ago, he not only found the musical community he’d been missing in New York, he found his team, too: The hometown, hard-luck Orioles, then in the midst of a 14-year funk. Of course, with the arrival of new manager Buck Showalter during… Source: RollingStone Link: Dan Deacon […]

When Gene Simmons and WWE Studios announced they had teamed to make what they called “elevated” horror movies, the word “elevated” raised some eyebrows – and not in a Vincent Price kind of way. So Rolling Stone spoke with Kiss’ resident Demon to find out just what he meant. “It’s… Source: RollingStone Link: Kiss Singer […]

Last June, Sarah Jarosz found herself in the bathroom of the Sheridan Opera House in Telluride, Colorado, swapping songs with Sara Watkins and Aoife O’Donovan.  “It was very last minute,” says Jarosz, who’d come to Colorado that weekend to perform a solo set at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival. “The Punch Brothers were playing… Source: RollingStone Link: See […]