“Me and Killer Mike have been waiting for the right time to drop this,” El-P tweeted before sharing Run the Jewels’ new animated lyric video for their Boots-assisted cut “Early.” “Then we realized that it is (sadly) always the right time.” Related: Run the Jewels: How 2014’s Brashest Duo Came Back Like the video for… Source: RollingStone Link: […]

This is the big sound,” says the Edge. He rattles a basement rehearsal space with three monster chords from a vintage Epiphone Casino guitar, dunked in distortion so ferocious that his black baseball cap seems in danger of flying off. Bono is right beside him, listening hard, squinting at the… Source: RollingStone Link: U2: Trying […]

Yemen, torn apart by civil war and brimming with Islamist sentiment, hardly seems like a place where hip-hop, that most American of inventions, could blossom. Yet it has, as Adam Sjöberg’s new documentary Shake the Dust shows, capturing children and young men bounding up mountains pocked with cobblestones in Sana’a,… Source: RollingStone Link: Nas Produced […]

Dancing With the Stars standouts Derek and Julianne Hough brought their sibling rivalry to the stage on Thursday’s installment of Lip Sync Battle, showcasing their choreography chops while making each other deeply uncomfortable. For the first round, Derek gave a spirited rendition of Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’ “Can’t Hold Us,” making host… Source: RollingStone Link: See […]

“People shouldn’t expect a prison record,” Lamb of God frontman Randy Blythe says of the group’s upcoming LP, VII: Sturm und Drang. “But I write about things that affect me very deeply. And going to prison in a foreign country and being charged with manslaughter will affect you – trust… Source: RollingStone Link: Inside Lamb […]

Guitarist Eric Clapton remembered the B.B. King album that inspired him as a young musician and Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton recalled the thrill of performing with the “King of Blues.” Musicians, politicians and blues lovers around the world on Friday expressed sorrow over the death of the blues legend on Thursday night at […]

Maybe it was his Mississippi roots, or perhaps it was his way with a lyric, but whatever the reason, B.B. King, who died Thursday at age 89, had a certain affinity for country music and country songwriting. Over his career, he played with country pickers from Willie Nelson to Marty Stuart,… Source: RollingStone Link: B.B. King's […]

President Barack Obama has penned a touching tribute to B.B. King, the legendary bluesman who died last night at age 89. “The blues has lost its king, and America has lost a legend,” the President wrote on the White House’s Facebook. “B.B. King was born a sharecropper’s son in Mississippi, came of age in Memphis,… Source: RollingStone Link: President […]

It was on the 2011 CMA Awards red carpet that Laura Bell Bundy was gushing about a new album she had almost finished, the follow-up to her stellar country debut, 2010’s Achin’ and Shakin’. Now, three and a half years later, the new music is finally seeing the light of… Source: RollingStone Link: Laura Bell […]

LAS VEGAS (AP) — B.B. King believed anyone could play the blues, and that "as long as people have problems, the blues can never die." Source: Yahoo Music Link: 'Blues can never die': B.B. King reigned but music lives on