CORAL GABLES, Florida (AP) — Romeo Santos and Enrique Iglesias swept the Billboard Latin Music Awards, but Jennifer Lopez may have stolen the show. Source: Yahoo Music Link: Romeo Santos and Enrique Iglesias sweep Latin music awards
Music streaming service Grooveshark has ceased operation. The now-inactive site merely displays a message from the company, noting that a settlement agreement with major labels progressed the immediate shutdown. According to Exclaim, Grooveshark — which launched in 2007 — had been served with a $17 billion lawsuit in 2011 from a… Source: RollingStone Link: Grooveshark […]
The late Ben E. King lives in the popular imagination for a handful of circa-1960 songs – the Drifters’ “There Goes My Baby” and “Save the Last Dance for Me,” his solo records “Stand By Me” and “Spanish Harlem” – and not a lot else. But he was a hugely… Source: RollingStone Link: Beyond 'Stand […]
Ben E. King, who passed away on April 30th after a brief illness, will forever be linked to his 1961 classic “Stand By Me.” The former Drifters singer wrote the tune with Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, and it became such an iconic work that it eclipsed nearly everything else from… Source: RollingStone Link: Ben E. […]
UPDATE: In an interview with Bedford + Bowery, Montage of Heck director Brett Morgen revealed that a Kurt Cobain solo album will be released this summer. “The album of home recordings will feel like you’re kind of hanging out with Kurt Cobain on a hot summer day in Olympia, Washington as he… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch Courtney […]
It was 48 years ago today (May 1st) that Tim McGraw was born in Delhi, Louisiana. While his father, baseball All-Star Tug McGraw, traveled the country as a relief pitcher for the New York Mets and the Philadelphia Phillies, McGraw spent his childhood in the small Louisiana farm town of… Source: RollingStone Link: Flashback: Tim […]
Levi Lennox, a young British hip-hop producer, makes a lot more music than his pop-star clients such as Wiz Khalifa, YG and ex-One Direction singer Zayn Malik will ever use. So he turns over many of his unreleased instrumentals to a new record label, Block, which slaps new vocals on them… Source: RollingStone Link: Selling In: […]
Daisy, a 17-year-old Soul Train veteran, was excited that her favorite group, the Dramatics, was about to tape a set for the show. But the identity of the guest artist, Ben E. King, had her confused. “I don’t know him. What’s he sing?” she asked. Duane, her 19-year-old friend, guessed… Source: RollingStone Link: Ben E. […]
All year long, Miranda Lambert has been working a cover of the Dixie Chicks’ “Cowboy Take Me Away” into her set, whipping up a makeshift girl group with help from whomever happens to be part of the Certified Platinum Tour that night. Some evenings, she’s joined by backup singer Carolyn Dawn Johnson… Source: RollingStone Link: Miranda […]
In Chris Stapleton’s new song, “Nobody to Blame,” the narrator’s wife shreds their wedding photo, breaks his fishing rods, burns his guitar and pours his good whiskey down the drain. “Turned my life into this country song,” he sings, mocking his own misery. In the real world, Stapleton’s reputation as a… Source: RollingStone Link: Chris […]