Between summer’s 30 massive tours and 50 essential festivals, this season is shaping up to be a huge one for artists we love hitting the road and playing shows under the scorching sun. We’ll be capturing photos of the biggest sets and posting our best photos right here: Source: RollingStone Link: Hottest Live Photos of Summer 2015
Neil Young and his recent collaborators, Lukas and Micah Nelson — the sons of country great Willie Nelson — performed an acoustic rendition of their new protest song, “The Monsanto Years,” during an anti-GMO event in Maui this weekend, Stereogum reports. Just like the song — and forthcoming album of the same name —… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]
House was big at this year’s EDC festival in the Big Apple (well, technically New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium), but across all four stages, the boundaries between EDM’s big sub-genres felt particularly porous. Trance DJs spun hardstyle, dubstep crashed against hip-hop, house tracks vanished into dubstep-influenced drops and tens of thousands of fans moved… Source: RollingStone Link: 20 Best […]
The lineup for next month’s CMA Music Festival in Nashville just got an extra helping of superstar. Carrie Underwood announced today that she’ll be performing during the nightly concerts at LP Field. The “Something in the Water” singer will take the stage on Saturday evening, June 13th. The appearance doubles as an… Source: RollingStone Link: Carrie […]
When Michael Gira moved to New York, he was sick of L.A. punk. He had lived through the surge of ’77, but by the end of the decade, he says “its initial liberating violence was mitigated by the kind of fashion aspect and the way people would play the same… Source: RollingStone Link: Why Swans […]
Now that Luke Bryan has his own exhibit at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, fans can learn more about what helped shape his status as the face of today’s country. Some of his first instruments and even the first song he ever wrote are included in Luke Bryan: Dirt… Source: RollingStone Link: Luke […]
“Hello, I know you!” Merle Haggard says as he emerges from the bedroom of his tour bus. He’s talking to Willie Nelson, who’s sitting in the bus’s cramped front quarters. Standing nearby, Nelson’s wife, Annie, asks the pair if they’ll sign a couple of acoustic guitars for a charity run… Source: RollingStone Link: Willie Nelson […]
Joni Mitchell shrugged off the notion of indulging fame in an archival interview that PBS has animated as part of its ongoing Blank on Blank series. The folk singer discussed a wide range of topics in the chat, which music exec Joe Smith conducted in November 1986, including her immunity… Source: RollingStone Link: Joni Mitchell […]
A homicide probe into the death of B.B. King will be launched after two of the blues legend’s daughters accused his two closest aides, business manager LaVerne Toney and personal assistant Myron Johnson, of poisoning King prior to his May 14th death. In court documents released to The Associated Press, King’s… Source: RollingStone Link: B.B. King […]
Before Run the Jewels head out on a summer tour in support of their acclaimed second LP, El-P and Killer Mike hopped on the mic for the latest Jack Daniel’s Uncut Sessions. In this exclusive, unique performance, the duo, along with DJ Trackstar, deliver a biting rendition of the Run the Jewels bonus… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch Run […]