Torres’ Sprinter is one of the strongest indie-rock releases of the spring, but it might never have happened if it weren’t for the late Ray Bradbury. A little over a year ago, the 24-year-old artist, whose real name is Mackenzie Scott, was battling a serious case of writer’s block after… Source: RollingStone Link: How Torres' […]
Jon Stewart is approaching the end of his iconic Daily Show run, and he’s already planned his next move – with Willie Nelson. “When I’m done with this damn thing, I’m gonna come and…ride around on [your] bus,” Stewart told the country legend during an interview from Tuesday’s episode. The… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch Willie […]
As the son of Rhett Akins, a highly successful Nashville singer and songwriter, 25-year-old Thomas Rhett was steeped in country music. But one of his formative influences came from a different world. “When I was in sixth, seventh, eighth grade, Usher was so huge for me,” says Rhett, who mixed… Source: RollingStone Link: Thomas Rhett: […]
A quarter century of legal mania over the famed singer takes an explosive turn. Source: Yahoo Music Link: Nina Simone's Songs in Limbo as Sony Music Battles Family Over Secret Deal
The annual gala returns to ABC on May 17 and will be held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Source: Yahoo Music Link: Billboard Music Awards: Taraji P. Henson, Laverne Cox, 'Entourage' Cast Among Presenters
If anyone is ever going to compile and release a Let It Be box set, there’s going to be an absolutely insane amount of material to work with. Beyond the Let It Be movie that remains stubbornly out of print, there’s more than 100 hours of film from the album sessions…. Source: RollingStone Link: Flashback: Beatles […]
Kellie Pickler may have started her career in the most modern of ways — becoming an overnight star on American Idol — but the North Carolina Native continues to prove she’s got the heart and performing chops of an old school country star. Her recent Grand Ole Opry performance of the… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]
Sometime in the mid-Eighties, Nashville-based music publisher Don Tolle was having lunch with his business partner, singer-songwriter Tony Arata, when Arata brought up a song that he was in the process of composing. To Tolle, it was unusual because his friend didn’t normally mention unfinished works. But this one was… Source: RollingStone Link: 'The Dance' […]
Karen O paid tribute to Nellie Bly with a quaint, endearing song that accompanies today’s Google Doodle celebrating what would have been the 151st birthday of the pioneering investigative journalist, adventurer, industrialist, inventor and activist. Katy Wu’s animation chronicles Bly’s remarkable career, which began when she wrote a fierce retort, published under the pen… Source: RollingStone Link: Karen […]
Tegan and Sara, Metric, Fucked Up, Metz, Cadence Weapon, Lights and more will contribute music and avatars to a new arcade-style indie music game titled LOUD on Planet X. The game, which also features original scores written by Fucked Up’s Mike Haliechuk and Jonah Falco and Broken Social Scene’s Brendan… Source: RollingStone Link: Tegan and […]