Paul McCartney has penned seven or eight new songs for an upcoming animated feature he’s producing titled High in the Clouds, based on the children’s book McCartney co-authored in 2005. News of McCartney’s new music comes in a Deadline story about a troubled production company called RGH Entertainment that’s been tasked with creating… Source: RollingStone Link: Paul McCartney […]
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Grateful Dead, the band’s surviving “core four” members will reunite for five concerts in Chicago and Santa Clara, California, starting in late June. But as contributing editor David Browne reports in the magazine’s eye-opening cover story (on newsstands this Friday), the road to… Source: RollingStone Link: The Grateful […]
During Jerry Garcia’s lifetime, the Grateful Dead had a special bond with New York City — so much so that, last week, Bob Weir, Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart (along with Garcia’s daughter, Trixie) attended a ceremony that inducted the Dead into Madison Square Garden’s Walk of Fame to commemorate… Source: RollingStone Link: Bob Weir […]
The Grateful Dead’s run of final “Fare Thee Well” shows in June and July will feature the surviving longtime members of the band alongside no shortage of musical assistants — including Phish’s Trey Anastasio, journeyman keyboardist Jeff Chimenti and veteran Dead moonlighter Bruce Hornsby. It’s worth noting that the Dead have had… Source: RollingStone Link: 11 Greatest […]
The original lineup of Nineties alt-rock heroes Veruca Salt have delivered two new songs, “Laughing In the Sugar Bowl” and “The Gospel According to Saint Me,” off their upcoming album Ghost Notes, their new LP and first together since 1997. The album arrives July 10th via El Camino Records. While “Laughing In the Sugar Bowl” could have… Source: RollingStone Link: Veruca […]
Country star and expert guitar shredder Brad Paisley gets the honor of opening for the legendary Rolling Stones when their summer stadium tour stops in Nashville. Taking place June 17th at Music City’s LP Field, the show is part of the Stones’ 15-city Zip Code North American Tour. Paisley made the… Source: RollingStone Link: Brad […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Taylor Swift kick-started the Billboard Music Awards and boosted ABC in the television ratings, too. Source: Yahoo Music Link: ABC has strong week thanks to Swift, Billboard music awards
Performance artist Marina Abramović, whose 2010 installation The Artist Is Present inspired Jay Z’s 2013 music video Picasso Baby: A Performance Art Film, revealed that she is now angry with the way the collaboration turned out. “I am very pissed by this, since he adapted my work only under one… Source: RollingStone Link: Jay Z […]
Florence and the Machine jump giddily between melodramatic bombast and dance floor exhalation on “Delilah,” a new song from their upcoming third album, How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful. Driven, as always, by Florence Welch’s incomparable voice, “Delilah” begins sparsely with the singer’s multi-tracked call-and-response vocals sailing atop a simple piano and… Source: RollingStone Link: Florence […]
Leon Redbone, the quixotic, nasally singer known for idiosyncratically performing ragtime and Tin Pan Alley–style songs, has announced his retirement from both recording and making public performances. A rep explained that the singer’s health “has been a matter of concern for some time” and that “it has become too challenging for… Source: RollingStone Link: Leon Redbone […]