LSD, sexual exploits, family stability and psychedelic guitar telepathy: It’s all there in Netflix’s trailer for the upcoming documentary The Other One: The Long Strange Trip of Bob Weir, which surveys the life and career of the legendary Grateful Dead guitarist. “I’ve led a kind of unusual life,” Weir says in the above… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]
The Smashing Pumpkins and Marilyn Manson’s upcoming End Times tour will not only be an opportunity for fans to see the Nineties alt-rock giants together, but to contribute to a philanthropic effort. Corgan tells Rolling Stone that the duo will be teaming up with Easter Seals Dixon Center to raise awareness and “change the… Source: RollingStone Link: Billy Corgan […]
The top spot on the Billboard 200 is staying in the Southeast as the Alabama Shakes bequeathed the Number One spot to Georgia’s Zac Brown Band and their new album Jekyll + Hyde. The group’s fourth studio album sold 228,000 total units in its debut week on the Billboard 200, giving the band… Source: RollingStone Link: On the […]
Fresh from his appearance at California’s Stagecoach music festival, actor-singer Chris Carmack, who plays closeted gay country singer Will Lexington on ABC’s Nashville, has announced that he will release an EP this spring. Led by the new track, “Being Alone,” which is now available at iTunes, Carmack’s Pieces of You… Source: RollingStone Link: 'Nashville' Actor […]
Alan Thicke says the “Blurred Lines” copyright case, in which his son Robin’s 2013 hit was ruled to have ripped off Marvin Gaye’s 1977 classic “Got to Give It Up,” is “kind of a milestone litigation – and dangerous to the musical community.” The actor shared his thoughts Wednesday in an interview with Today,… Source: RollingStone Link: Alan […]
Yesterday may have been Cinco de Mayo, but that didn’t stop LiveNation from planting the flag for a new annual event: National Concert Day, a celebration of – and promotion for – the increasingly busy summer tour season. The company staked its claim with an afternoon show at New York City’s… Source: RollingStone Link: Kid Rock, […]
Whether she’s crooning a traditional country tune with George Jones, as on her 1988 single “If I Could Bottle This Up,” paying tribute to Dusty Springfield with the glorious Just a Little Lovin’ from 2008, or grooving on West Coast-inspired country-rock, as she does throughout the sensational, just-released LP, I… Source: RollingStone Link: Shelby Lynne […]
On Monday night’s episode of The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon, Jack Black and Jimmy Fallon recreated the video for “More Than Words,” the 1991 chart-topper by the Boston metallurgists Extreme. Black, inhabiting the role of Extreme vocalist Gary Cherone, and Fallon, playing guitarist Nuno Bettencourt, performed the stripped-down ballad in… Source: RollingStone Link: Extreme: Jimmy […]
Michael Jackson’s glove and George Harrison’s guitar star in an auction next week which could fetch up to $4 million. Julien’s Auctions will host its Music Icons sale on May 15-16 in New York. Among the music royalty items on sale are an American flag tank top worn by Madonna and a black crown worn […]
When David Letterman permanently signs off the airwaves later this month, it won’t just be the end of one of the greatest comedy institutions in TV history — it’ll also close out an amazing showcase for musical talent. Nearly every episode of NBC’s Late Night With David Letterman and CBS’s… Source: RollingStone Link: David Letterman's […]