Longtime U2 tour manager Dennis Sheehan died Tuesday night in West Hollywood. The band confirmed his death via its website. He was on tour with the group in Los Angeles, where U2 was about to kick off a five-night residency. Variety reports Sheehan suffered a heart attack. He was 68. “We’ve lost… Source: RollingStone Link: U2 […]
Wu-Tang Clan mastermind RZA and rapper Azealia Banks are teaming for the upcoming musical drama Coco. RZA will direct the Lionsgate/Codeblack Films feature, which stars Banks as a “twentysomething female rapper named Coco.” The Brooklyn-set film – which co-stars Common, Jill Scott and Lorraine Toussaint – has already begun shooting in New York. In… Source: RollingStone Link: RZA […]
It had been nearly 20 years since jazz legend Ornette Coleman released a studio album when a new LP donning the saxophonist’s name titled New Vocabulary arrived quietly in 2014. A year later, Coleman has filed a federal lawsuit against Antibalas’ Jordan McLean and drummer Amir Ziv for releasing New Vocabulary… Source: RollingStone Link: Ornette Coleman […]
In the five years since Broadway veteran Laura Bell Bundy broke into country music’s Top Five with her album Achin’ and Shakin’, fans of the Kentucky native have seen her in various acting roles, from Anger Management to How I Met Your Mother, but hadn’t heard much about her music…. Source: RollingStone Link: See Laura […]
As detailed in Rolling Stone cover story, the Grateful Dead are preparing to officially call it quits after 50 years with their series of Fare Thee Well shows. Their absence will end a legacy that continues to span rock, pop, folk, jam and avant-garde music. We asked a diverse spectrum of artists — from their… Source: RollingStone Link: My Favorite […]
5 Seconds of Summer may be young, but they’re already used to playing huge arenas filled with screaming girls. They opened for One Direction on two different international tours, becoming stars before they even released their self-titled debut. After prepping with a handful of theater dates, the under-21 quartet is now… Source: RollingStone Link: 5 Seconds […]
Years before reinventing herself as one of indie-rock’s most respected songwriters, Jenny Lewis was a child actress – appearing in a number of films (Pleasantville) and TV shows (Roseanne). In a playful nod to her cinematic past, the musician has directed a video for her soulful single “She’s Not Me,” recruiting friends… Source: RollingStone Link: Jenny Lewis […]
Last week, with a summer-long tour on the horizon and a Dave Cobb-produced album, 3, due out June 9th, HoneyHoney headed to Colorado to rehearse, refresh and prepare for the months ahead. “We’re in Denver,” Suzanne Santo announces one morning, while bandmate Ben Jaffe bangs around the kitchen behind her, heating up… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]
Blink-182’s public and acrimonious split from Tom DeLonge appears to be inching toward an amicable resolution as bassist-vocalist Mark Hoppus revealed in a new interview that the band have almost legally cut ties with the soon-to-be-ex-guitarist. “We are right now going through what so far has been a friendly divorce with our former… Source: RollingStone Link: Blink-182 Inch […]
In 1953, two years before future country superstar Reba McEntire was born, songwriters Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster penned a tune that would later top both the pop and country charts, and be recorded by scores of artists along the way. “Secret Love” was written for inclusion in the… Source: RollingStone Link: Flashback: Watch […]