The guitar resonates loudly in Rolling Stone Country’s spring installment of Artists You Need to Know. There’s a farm-girl-turned-country-rocker who would give Keith Urban a run for his money; a high-haired young gun on tour with Tim McGraw; a shredding Americana duo with a T Bone Burnett-produced debut; and a mother-and-son group —… Source: RollingStone Link: 10 New […]
On July 24th, two years and three months after the release of her critically lauded Like a Rose, Ashley Monroe will release her eagerly anticipated second album for Warner Music Nashville. Like her previous effort, which bowed in March 2013, Monroe’s new LP is produced by her close friend and mentor… Source: RollingStone Link: See […]
As Phil Rudd awaits sentencing for pleading guilty drugs and threatening to kill charges, the former AC/DC drummer is breaking his public silence. “I’ve seen the error of my ways,” he recently told Australia’s A Current Affair. “Onward and upward from here.” Regarding the charges to which he pleaded guilty, he… Source: RollingStone Link: AC/DC's […]
Noel Gallagher is never half as angry as it seems. The outlandish, outspoken former Oasis guitarist and current High Flying Birds frontman does seem to have an opinion — often loud and expletive-filled — on everything. But as he talks to Rolling Stone right before the start of High Flying Birds’ North American tour kickoff, his… Source: RollingStone Link: Noel Gallagher […]
When it came time to record his third album this spring, Frankie Ballard assembled a group of session aces and producer Marshall Altman and high-tailed it out of Nashville. Like a band of gypsies, they hit the open road, making specifically chosen pit stops on their way to El Paso,… Source: RollingStone Link: Frankie Ballard […]
“What is life?” asks Bethany Cosentino on “So Unaware.” For real, girl? Existential inquiry is an unexpected avenue for a songwriter who made her name with 2009’s “Sun Was High (So Was I)” and other beachy anthems about battling romantic blues with garage-pop melodies and bubblegum kush. On her band’s… Source: RollingStone Link: California Nights
Lauryn Hill has canceled her upcoming gig in Tel Aviv after facing a social media campaign demanding that the Fugees singer boycott her Israel concert over the country’s occupation of Palestine. In a statement, Hill said that she hoped to perform two shows in the region — one in Israel and… Source: RollingStone Link: Lauryn Hill […]
Disco’s elder statesman Giorgio Moroder dispenses sultry beats and profound advice in the new video for “Déjà Vu,” the title track from his forthcoming new album featuring Sia. Moroder makes several cameos in the new clip, appearing as a DJ, a janitor and most notably a driver trying to quell the nerves of a passenger… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]
We already knew that Jimmy Fallon and Jack Black can sing, but they took it to the Extreme on Monday's Tonight Show. VIDEO: Kristen Wiig shows up as Khaleesi on The Tonight Show Instead of just covering Extreme's 1990 classic "More Than Words," the duo went one step further and perfectly recreated the … Read […]
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute Gala (known to us civilians as the Met Ball) is an annual celebration of the intersection of fashion into high and low culture (and a major fundraiser for the museum: it raised $12 million last year, per The New York Times). This year’s theme was… Source: RollingStone Link: Met Ball […]