Lucinda Williams presented the 2014 Americana Honors and Awards’ trophy for Album of the Year to Jason Isbell, deeming his Southeastern LP “stupendous and beautiful” as he walked to the stage to accept. This year, she finds herself on the other end of the category, as her critically-acclaimed Down Where the… Source: RollingStone Link: 2015 Americana […]
Though they sometimes playfully struggled to get the actual message across, Ozzy Osbourne, Anthony Kiedis, Moby and more have teamed up for a silly video promoting Animals Asia’s campaign to raise awareness of moon, sun and brown bears in Asia that are caged and farmed for their bile. Kiedis starts the clip in classic… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]
Founding Slipknot bassist and songwriter Paul Gray died five years ago on May 24th, and the group’s frontman, Corey Taylor, is still paying his respects. “There’s not a day that goes by that I don’t think about him,” the masked singer recently told Kerrang! (via Blabbermouth), in a tribute feature to… Source: RollingStone Link: Slipknot's Corey […]
Playing the CMT Next Women of Country Tour stop in Nashville — her first-ever headlining gig in her adopted hometown — was a surreal experience for Kelsea Ballerini. Tuesday’s show came less than a week before her debut album, The First Time, hits stores (on May 18th). “I heard people sing [the… Source: RollingStone Link: See […]
This weekend, Anna Kendrick and Rebel Wilson return to the screen as two members of the Bellas, a projectile-vomiting, wardrobe-malfunctioning crew of a cappella underdogs. The original Pitch Perfect – a Bring It On for theater kids – found the Bellas competing against teams from other universities, but the sequel provides them… Source: RollingStone Link: Pentatonix: Can […]
Faith No More returned to television for the first time in 20 years Wednesday night, setting up shop at The Tonight Show for a performance of “Superhero” off their upcoming comeback record, Sol Invictus. The beloved Nineties metal contrarians injected their performance with goofy new age spiritualism, donning all white outfits and arranging… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]
Dave Mustaine has steered Megadeth through more than its fair share of lineup changes over the course of its three-decades-plus lifespan. And yet, these last six months have been particularly topsy-turvy in the singer-guitarist’s world, even by his band’s high standards. In November 2014, drummer Shawn Drover, who had been with… Source: RollingStone Link: Dave Mustaine […]
It’s a gray afternoon in March, and all three members of the hip-hop group 3 Problems are in a courthouse in downtown St. Louis. Each is 18 years old. Two of them walk free: James Johnson, from Ferguson, and Taylor Merriweather, from the adjacent city of Jennings. The third, Terrell… Source: RollingStone Link: Hot Rhymes […]
Miley Cyrus and the Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne debuted a new track, “Tiger Dreams” — a potential cut from their upcoming collaborative album — during the Adult Swim upfronts at New York City’s Terminal 5 Wednesday night. The spacey, slow-burning track boasted plenty of the Lips’ trademark pop-psychedelia, a mold Cyrus easily slid… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]
In August 1968, Barret Hanson – the musician and DJ best known as Dr. Demento – reviewed Life, Sly and the Family Stone’s third album, for Rolling Stone. Here, he wrote, the band emerged as a “revolutionary force” and greatly improved on their 1967 debut, which had been released less… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear Sly […]